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Articles

The role Tom Selleck passed on for Magnum, P.I.

The Royal Command Performance that capped The Good Life

The salary that moved Hollywood's price list

The script Stallone would not sell without himself in it

The secret interview that proved Fidel Castro was alive

The songs Antonioni left out of Zabriskie Point

The songwriters behind Ethel Merman and the film role she lost

The spy and detective parodies behind Inspector Gadget

The studio worm doubt and the MTV Unplugged reply

The Titanium Behind the Title, and How Critics Met Titane

The wrist radio and the gadget path of Dick Tracy

Three families and a recurring Rolex

Three films, one expensive failure: Diana Ross on screen

Three people in one office: how Yes Minister was built

Three prosecutions, one assassination and the long road through the courts

Til Schweiger as a self-producing German comedy filmmaker

Tokyo Ghoul: from one manga to a multimedia franchise

Tom Cruise and the move from leading man to producer

Twin films: when studios avoid the clash

Two actors, two methods: how Scarecrow was made and received

Two crimes and a string quartet in First Name: Carmen

Two cycles of Shakespeare's kings on British television

Two minor characters, a coin that always lands heads and the problem of filming a stage play

Two sorts of truth: how The Crown defends and answers for its inventions

Two thousand cuts: how Requiem for a Dream was edited and rated

Two tracks: how American Pie grew from four films to nine

Two ways of filming a musical tragedy

Two Women: how a casting change led to an Oscar

Viridiana: banned at home, honored abroad

Voice, language and silence in A City of Sadness

Waiting for the tools: how Cameron paced film technology

Water polo, a repertory of actors and a Rome cinema of his own

What the Bechdel test was never meant to prove

Where Brick Heck came from

Where Glory departs from the record of the 54th Massachusetts

Where the film departs from the record

Who added the frame story to Caligari?

Who inspired Pong, and what the Magnavox lawsuit settled

Who owned Kong: licences and lawsuits in the King Kong franchise

Who owns a Muppet: how the franchise was divided

Who panicked: the 1938 broadcast, the newspapers and the numbers

Who wrote Lawrence of Arabia: Robert Bolt and the Michael Wilson credit dispute

Whose picture was The Third Man? Reed, Greene, Welles and Selznick

Why A Man and a Woman changes film stock, and what Lelouch said about it

Why Chaplin helped found United Artists to keep control of his films

Why Critics Kept Calling Nanook of the North One of the Best Documentaries Ever Made

Why film adaptations change their source: fidelity, elision and invention

Why Orbit Decided Who Could Broadcast by Satellite

Why the Camera Obscura Has No Single Birth Date

Why the film ends in a bank