Brief encounter
How do you follow a film like Shoah? The nine-hour Holocaust documentary, released in 1985 after 11 years of work…
Revolutionary road
Cairo is deceptively calm, says Egyptian film-maker Mohamed Diab. ‘People were so scared from the fighting in the streets that…
His dark materials
The enticingly subversive films of Paul Verhoeven were very tempting to me as a schoolboy. When I hit 14, the…
