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Films: March 12

Mar 10, 2010 3:13pm

Nigel Andrews reviews Martin Scorsese's 'Shutter Island'; Niels Arden Oplev's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'; Bernard Rose's 'The Kreutzer Sonata'; Banksy's 'Exit through the Gift Shop'; Paul Greengrass's 'Green Zone'; and Lasse Hallström's 'Hachi: A Dog's Tale'...

The yin and yang of film

Mar 8, 2010 6:48pm

James Cameron's 'Avatar' and Kathryn Bigelow's 'The Hurt Locker' were as far apart as Jupiter and Earth and this was a paradigmatic prizefight from the first, writes Nigel Andrews...

The new red carpet economy

Mar 8, 2010 6:33pm

Couture houses reap rewards at events such as the Oscars as designers create one-off bespoke dresses for celebrities seen by millions of viewers...

Top Oscars go to Iraq war drama 'Hurt Locker'

Mar 7, 2010 10:56pm

James Cameron's Avatar loses out to a gritty Iraq war drama in the 82nd Academy Awards as The Hurt Locker scoops six Oscars, including best picture and best director for Kathryn Bigelow...

Film releases: March 5

Mar 3, 2010 12:53pm

Nigel Andrews reviews Tim Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland', Scott Stewart's 'Legion', Mia Hansen-Love's 'Father of My Children', Atom Egoyan's 'Chloe' and Neil Jordan's 'Ondine'...

Exit Miss Arty, in a sulk

Feb 26, 2010 2:10pm

'Designing Women', a 1948 film newly available on DVD, presents the debate between art and design in an amusing and pointed way, writes Peter Aspden...

Film releases: February 26

Feb 24, 2010 2:46pm

Nigel Andrews reviews Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story', Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 'Micmacs', Kirk Jones's 'Everybody's Fine', Tom Vaughan's 'Extraordinary Measures', and Pierre Morel's 'From Paris with Love'...

Berlin Film Festival: the winners

Feb 21, 2010 2:31pm

The six-year-old hero in top prize winner 'Honey' is seldom heard, but it doesn't stop the fantastic eloquence of Bora Altas's performance, writes Nigel Andrews...

The best of the Berlin Film Festival

Feb 20, 2010 8:48am

The movies at the 60th Berlinale have almost all been watchable, but the Golden Bear still has no favourite, writes Nigel Andrews...

Prime minister's question time

Feb 19, 2010 4:47pm

A growing school of thought has it that making comedy, satire and celebrity from politics and politicians is the way to engage us with the public sphere, says John Lloyd...

Hollywood's golden talent agents

Feb 19, 2010 8:16am

It is actors' faces that appear on the billboards but agents are the oil that make the entertainment industry's engine run smoothly, writes Matthew Garrahan...

Lunch with the FT: Shah Rukh Khan

Feb 19, 2010 8:14am

The king of Bollywood who smiles from billboards and cinema screens across India talks about his unusually sensitive new film 'My Name is Khan' and how he manages stardom...

Film releases: February 19

Feb 17, 2010 2:55pm

Leo Robson reviews Michael Hoffman's 'The Last Station', Scott Cooper's 'Crazy Heart', Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones', Lucrecia Martel's 'The Headless Woman', and Raoul Ruiz's 'A Closed Book'...

Apple for the teacher: the BBC in a class of its own

Feb 12, 2010 4:37pm

When it comes to documentaries and current affairs shows, the BBC reigns more or less alone. And John Lloyd says this is not good...

Film releases: February 12

Feb 10, 2010 12:51pm

Nigel Andrews reviews Tom Ford's 'A Single Man'; Joe Johnston's 'The Wolfman'; Hayao Miyazaki's 'Ponyo'; Chris Columbus's 'Percy Walker and the Lightning Thief'; Robert Kenner's 'Food, Inc'; and Garry Marshall's 'Valentine's Day'...