In the director's chair: Terence Davies, director of Of Time and the City

The Liverpool premiere of Of Time and the City revealed a film rooted in the tradition of British documentary film-making but as unashamedly personal as one expects from this director, says Scott Anthony

Peter Bradshaw: Listening to Britten at the Proms sent me back to Davies's film Of Time and the City, via Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise and an intriguing theory about music and sexuality

He is our greatest living film-maker. But the fact that, at 62, Terence Davies has only four films to his name is a national disgrace

Terence Davies' new film features a bored 1950s wife who leaves her husband after some earth-moving illicit sex. It's how he wishes he'd lived his life, finds Stuart Jeffries

Danny Boyle returns to our chair to tell Jason Solomons about his career post-Oscar, including 127 Hours, his work on a new theatre version of Frankenstein and the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games

The Bend It Like Beckham director talks to Jason Solomons about her new comedy and why she'll keep making 'glass half full' films

The man behind Quantum of Solace, Monster's Ball, Stranger than Fiction and The Kite Runner talks to Jason Solomons about confused heroes in a shifting landscape