Arts & Culture: Film
In film
Lights! Camera! Fiction!
- By Chris Weitz
- 08 May
A hundred years ago the job of screenwriter didn't exist in the early film business; today the script is the keystone of all movie production. The Hollywood screenwriter and director Chris Weitz reviews a history of the trade
Don't look now
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 01 May
A gender-bending teen drama plays with the viewer's role as voyeur
XXY (15)
dir: Lucía Puenzo
Promises, promises
- By Lynsey Hanley
- 24 April
A set of documentary films from 1930 to 1950 shows a Britain in which equality is so near as to feel within grasp. Nostalgia is hard to avoid
Children of the revolution
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 24 April
A minimalist animation sheds light on the muddle of modern Iran
Persepolis (12A)
dirs: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
A dangerous experiment
- By Rachel Cooke
- 24 April
This appalling documentary was exploitative and irresponsible
The Doctor Who Hears Voices Channel 4
Strikes on film
- By Daniel Trilling
- 24 April
As part of our focus on the labour movement and May Day, Daniel Trilling looks at the way movies have portrayed industrial action
Feature
It's just me, myself and I
Morgan Spurlock's documentary is a masterclass in vain, glib navel-gazing
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (12A)dir: Morgan Spurlock
More in film
Happy days
- By Rebecca Davies
- 17 April 2008
An incorrigible state of bliss
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 17 April 2008
Death by "dramedy"
- By Rachel Cooke
- 17 April 2008
Who's the daddy?
- By Stephen Armstrong
- 10 April 2008
Lock up your darlings
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 10 April 2008
No laughing matter
- By Rachel Cooke
- 10 April 2008
Physical education
- By Alice O'Keeffe
- 03 April 2008
