Features
150 hours and counting: the world's longest film goes on
It began as 205 seconds of simplicity – and grew into a celluloid behemoth. Genevieve Roberts on the 'Cinematon'
Inside Features
On the agenda: Harry Brown; Radley; Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre; Masterchef; Ctrl.Alt.Shift
Sunday, 8 November 2009
You've got to ask yourself, 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, you should – the vigilantes are back...
Michael Haneke: Bleak house
Saturday, 7 November 2009
Audiences going to see films directed by this studious Austrian have learnt to brace themselves. His latest may be the most unsettling of the lot
Carey Mulligan's in a class of her own
Friday, 6 November 2009
Carey Mulligan received rave reviews for her role in An Education. Next up is Wall Street 2 for Oliver Stone, and Jim Sheridan's Brothers. James Mottram talks to Britain's fastest-rising star
Doha Tribeca Film Festival - Full of Eastern promise
Friday, 6 November 2009
New York's hippest festival has a glitzy new sister event in Qatar, where Hollywood royalty such as Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro met the hottest new Arabian talent. Kaleem Aftab reports from the Doha Tribeca Film Festival
The DIY movie boom
Friday, 6 November 2009
As The Independent and Sky Movies offer you a chance to make your own indie movie, James Mottram looks at the UK's best, on show at the British Independent Film Awards
Exclusive Trailer: Award winning Japanese film ‘Departures’
Friday, 6 November 2009
The latest film from acclaimed Japanese director Yojiro Takita beat off stiff competition earlier this year to take the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Bollywood podcast: Salman Khan & Asin
Thursday, 5 November 2009
After two decades of loving him on screen and most recently, wondering how on Earth his pecs managed to grow so big, it was lovely to finally meet Salman Khan in the flesh! He stars with last week's podcast star, Ajay Devgan in London Dreams (Studio 18) which is out now.
Hollywood's next big thing
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Guy Adams: Obese, pregnant teenagers are rarely the subject of hit movies – but the US has a heavyweight new star
Scrooge in 3D
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Fiction's most famous miser is back on the big screen in Robert Zemeckis's animated re-creation of A Christmas Carol. The director tells Guy Adams of his lifelong ambition to film the Dickens tale
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FIVE BEST FILMS
An Education, 12A
Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard and Alfred Molina star in this adaptation of a Lynn Barber essay from Granta magazine about the relationship between a precociously clever 16-year-old and an older man in the Sixties.
Nationwide
Bright Star. PG
Jane Campion’s film is a wistful and melancholic account of the unconsummated romance between the poet John Keats and his neighbour Fanny Brawne. Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish star.
Nationwide
Fish Tank, 15
In her first film, Katie Jarvis gives a fabulously sullen performance as Mia, a hostile teenager stuck in high-rise, low-income Britain. She lends a human vitality to a film of bleak, impersonal spaces.
Nationwide
Citizen Kane, U
Orson Welles's masterpiece looks even better in this cleaned-up digital print, which shows off the wonderful clarity and detail of Gregg Toland's 'deep focus' camerawork, bolstering the complexities of the story with new layers of feeling.
Limited release
Up, U
Pixar’s latest animation is imbued with texture, detail, warm humour and physics-defying action sequences, and has a genuinely touching story about old age and new beginnings.
Nationwide