Andrew Petrie

Occupational hazards

13 March 2014 3:00 pm

Roberto Rossellini shot his neorealist landmark Rome, Open City while the war still raged and rubble littered the freshly liberated…

Occupational hazards

13 March 2014 3:00 pm

Roberto Rossellini shot his neorealist landmark Rome, Open City while the war still raged and rubble littered the freshly liberated…

At home with the president

5 September 2013 1:00 pm

The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…

At home with the president

5 September 2013 1:00 pm

The most paranoid of presidents, Richard Nixon must have been feeling unwell when he allowed three of his closest aides…

Carry on up the jungle

13 June 2013 1:00 pm

‘I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble.’ Not my words, Mr Speaker,…

Carry on up the jungle

13 June 2013 1:00 pm

‘I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble.’ Not my words, Mr Speaker,…

The Stamp of quality

16 May 2013 1:00 pm

If ever a director’s decision to cast an actor based solely on looks could be excused, it would be Pier…

The Stamp of quality

16 May 2013 1:00 pm

If ever a director’s decision to cast an actor based solely on looks could be excused, it would be Pier…

The shock of the old

24 January 2013 2:00 pm

New Yorker music critic Alex Ross published The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century five years ago, earning…

The shock of the old

24 January 2013 2:00 pm

New Yorker music critic Alex Ross published The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century five years ago, earning…

London pride

8 November 2012 2:00 pm

The trend for documentary portraits of individual cities assembled from archive footage continues with Julien Temple’s London: The Modern Babylon,…

London pride

8 November 2012 2:00 pm

The trend for documentary portraits of individual cities assembled from archive footage continues with Julien Temple’s London: The Modern Babylon,…

From our own correspondent

7 July 2012 4:00 pm

‘Interviewing Afghan warlords is always something of a delicate dance,’ writes roving BBC reporter Nick Bryant in Confessions from Correspondentland…