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Articles

Ken Ralston: from effects cameraman to supervisor

Kevin Costner and the director's gamble

Kevin Spacey and ten years at the Old Vic

Language, reciprocity and an unanswered question in Anatomy of a Fall

Last made, second in the trilogy: how Veronika Voss was built

Late roles and a gracious Oscar speech

Life Is Beautiful: a Holocaust comedy and its reception

Live television and the roles James Dean left open in Paul Newman's early career

Liza Minnelli on screen, from The Sterile Cuckoo to Arthur

Long takes, a Ferrari and a divided response

Looking into the lens: close-ups, casting and influence in the films of Jonathan Demme

Love against the odds in the films of Frank Borzage

Made in Secret, Without a Permit

Made without a studio, judged harshly at home

Madonna on screen: hits, a documentary record and a turn behind the camera

Making and releasing Almodóvar's English-language debut

Making Daughters of the Dust: Gullah speech and a story told out of order

Making the cosmos from milk, dye and smoke

Manic intensity and the roles that tested it

Marleen Gorris: from a divisive debut to an Oscar

Masato Harada: from American correspondent to director and translator

Matthew Broderick: from the Neil Simon stage to Ferris Bueller

Metropolis and the search for its lost original cut

Michel Audiard's credits: the directors he wrote for and the years he directed

Natural light, magic hour and a shared camera credit

Near misses before the breakout: Jim Carrey in Toronto and Hollywood

Nicolas Cage: a borrowed stage name, a cult film and a style of his own naming

Norman J. Warren: refusing to be typecast, then waiting for horror

Obscenity trials, lab seizures and the films Kenneth Anger lost

One day on every screen: the release experiment behind A Field in England

One essay for five students: how The Breakfast Club answers its own assignment

One film in three frame shapes

One film, many versions: censorship and national labels around Lust, Caution

One film, two readings of its ending

One mythology, three series: how The X-Files franchise spread and where it thinned out

Pacino behind the camera: the films he directed and paid for

Peaky Blinders: a Birmingham gang drama that follows the interwar calendar

Pinned signal, dreamt script and a long afterlife

Playtone and the long-form television of Tom Hanks

Point Blank: a dream, a ghost and a scene rewritten in rehearsal

Postman Pat: a writer, a valley and a character he did not own

Prize winner and provocation: how Deprisa, deprisa was received

Protection, empowerment and critique: the traditions inside media literacy

Puppets, a barn and a fox brush: Peter Firmin beyond Smallfilms

Ralph Fiennes as a film director

Rebuilding Warsaw in Potsdam and Praga: how The Pianist was cast, filmed and played

Red Sorghum: color, an unseen narrator and a turning point for Chinese cinema

Robert De Niro as a producer and festival founder in Tribeca

Robert Mitchum and RKO: a contract star on loan

Ruffalo and the research behind his portraits of real people