Film history

A century of Hollywood’s spectacular flops

23 November 2024 9:00 am

From D.W. Griffiths’s 1916 epic Intolerance to Tom Hooper’s hilariously misjudged Cats, 26 films provide cautionary examples of mega-budget hubris

Too much sound and fury in Christopher Nolan’s movies

31 October 2020 9:00 am

In 2006 the director Christopher Nolan filmed an adaptation of one of my novels, written a decade and a half…

A boy named Marion: John Wayne pictured on the set of Stagecoach (1939)

John Wayne, accidental cowboy

26 July 2014 9:00 am

I’m not making a picture [The Green Berets] about Vietnam, I’m making a picture about good against bad. I happen…

L'Enfant Sauvage

Francois Truffaut, by Anne Gillian - review

31 August 2013 9:00 am

Almost 30 years after his death, François Truffaut remains a vital presence in the cinema. Terrence Malick and Wes Anderson…