Stanley Kubrick

Steve Coogan to star in Armando Iannucci’s Dr Strangelove play

Coogan will follow in Peter Sellers’ footsteps to play multiple roles in stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical war film

Chris Wiegand

26, Sep, 2023 @10:02 AM

Armando Iannucci to adapt Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr Strangelove for stage

The Thick of It creator will collaborate with actor Sean Foley on first authorised adaptation of director’s 1964 apocalyptic comedy

Dahaba Ali Hussen

15, Jul, 2023 @12:49 PM

What links Cate Blanchett’s new film Tár to Sissy Spacek and hot sauce?

A composer and conductor opens the door to Loretta Lynn, Wings of Desire and classic 90s rock from Goo Goo Dolls

Larry Ryan

07, Jan, 2023 @1:00 PM

The top 100 films… and what they say about our changing society

Offbeat British directors defying realist expectations fare well in poll, but Hitchcock dominates

Vanessa Thorpe

03, Dec, 2022 @6:39 PM

Leon Vitali obituary

British actor who went on to work for the film director Stanley Kubrick as an assistant, casting adviser and ‘sort of gatekeeper’

Ryan Gilbey

28, Aug, 2022 @4:24 PM

Martha Marcy May Marlene to Persuasion: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Elizabeth Olsen makes her escape from a sinister cult, while Dakota Johnson frocks up for a trip to Austenland

Simon Wardell

15, Jul, 2022 @8:00 AM

Lolita at 60: Stanley Kubrick’s daring drama is a deft tightrope act

The first, and greatest, adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s troubling 1955 novel still possesses a strange and unnerving power

Jesse Hassenger

13, Jun, 2022 @5:19 AM

Colin Cantwell obituary

Artist and designer who created spaceships, stations and vehicles, including the X-wing starfighter, for the Star Wars films

Anthony Hayward

02, Jun, 2022 @1:47 PM

Colin Cantwell, Star Wars designer behind the X-Wing and Death Star, dies aged 90

The creator behind several iconic Star Wars ships also worked on 2001: A Space Odyssey and assisted in broadcasting the 1969 moon landing

Sian Cain and agencies

23, May, 2022 @2:15 AM

Douglas Trumbull obituary

Visual effects artist and director known for his innovative work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner

Ryan Gilbey

11, Feb, 2022 @12:27 PM

A Clockwork Orange at 50: Stanley Kubrick’s biggest, boldest provocation

The controversial 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s button-pushing novel remains both utterly repellent and utterly compelling

Scott Tobias

19, Dec, 2021 @7:03 AM

AI at 20: Spielberg’s misunderstood epic remains his darkest movie yet

The odd combination of Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg brings a unique quality to this heartbreaking story of a robot in search of love