Articles

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Articles

A wartime heroine on the Soviet screen: The Cranes Are Flying

A week of decisions in Too Big to Fail

A year on the cascina: the clogs that cost a family its home

Aamir Khan and the Chinese market for Indian film

Action Comics #1: an anthology built in a hurry

Admired, not embraced: how critics split over The Hours

Alfred Abel and the art of restraint

Altman and the Wild West show that could not separate image from reality

An actor who directed himself: the dual career of Vadim Glowna

An America learned from the movies

An unfinished script and a lost actor: the making of Gladiator

An unscripted film and the story behind its title

Anthony Holden: a writer who worked across print, broadcast and screen

Authentic locations and lone consciences in the films of Fred Zinnemann

Avildsen: the underdog director and the films he lost

Banned, Then Cleared: The Tin Drum's Fight With Censors

Barton Fink: written as an escape from Miller's Crossing

Before Pirates: the long apprenticeship of Keira Knightley

Behind the camera in the Second World War

Behind the camera: Jersey Films and the films DeVito directed

Between the Treaty of Madrid and the screenplay

Beyond Harry Potter: the stage and screen choices of Daniel Radcliffe

Bill Murray and the turn from comedy to drama

Blowup and the mystery that is never solved

Brad Pitt as a producer: the Plan B Entertainment years

Budget discipline and a near cast revolt behind M*A*S*H

Building the world of UI: production claims and a divided reception

Carl Koch behind the camera: from museum films to Renoir

Carlton Cuse and the Lost showrunning partnership beyond the broadcast hour

Casting the horses of The Black Stallion

Cleese as a polymath of British comedy

Cleopatra and the making of a media spectacle

Courteney Cox behind the camera: Coquette Productions and a producing career

Danny Boyle and the writers behind his films

Dead Man: Blake's poetry, borrowed names and the character of Nobody

Devilman: how a toned-down anime became an anti-war manga

Directing Yol from a prison cell

Dogme 1, the Handycam and a disputed true story behind The Celebration

Eight nights and cold feet: how ABC scheduled Roots

Elia Kazan: the actors director and the 1952 testimony

Emmy Rossum: from the Metropolitan Opera chorus to the director's chair

Fairy tale and horror as political argument

Faust as the last film in Sokurov's series on power

Film theme songs as the bridge between Will Smith's screen and music careers

Filming from the point of view of the disease

Five years as an assistant director: how Kurosawa learned the whole of filmmaking

Five years on the page: how the screenplay of Sense and Sensibility was built

Forgotten Silver: the film pioneer who never existed

Four episodes on who carries out an execution

Four years, a cancellation and a revival: how Sandakozhi 2 reached the screen

Budget discipline and a near cast revolt behind MAS*H