Casablanca

Casablanca at 80: a golden age classic that remains impossible to resist
The involving and affecting romantic thriller is a sterling example of collaboration and how the studio system can often excel
Scott Tobias
26, Nov, 2022 @6:27 AM

Filmmakers told to ditch sex scenes to protect actors from coronavirus
Updated guidance suggests directors take inspiration from classic films made when sex on screen was prohibited
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
20, Aug, 2020 @7:00 AM

From Fight Club to Brief Encounter: how self-isolation would change classic films
It’s now difficult to watch movies without worrying about the two-metre rule – here are the retrospective plot changes required to mean old movies pass muster
Stuart Heritage
24, Mar, 2020 @4:16 PM

Cinematic smackers: the most significant kisses in film history
From rapture in Casablanca to a Corleone death sentence, here are the movies’ key lip-locks ahead of international kissing day
Stephen Brown
12, Apr, 2019 @10:25 AM

The nine greatest best picture winners at the Oscars
As the awards celebrate their ninth decade, we look back on the times the Academy got it right when it came to the biggest prize
Wendy Ide
17, Feb, 2019 @12:00 PM

A complacent Hollywood ignored rightwing radicalism – now movies need to tell the truth
Blockbuster superheroes and cartoons won’t save us – we need real stories on screen
Paul Mason
14, Nov, 2016 @6:27 PM

Casablanca actor Madeleine LeBeau dies in Spain aged 92
French film star fled Nazis with husband Marcel Dalio, who co-starred with her in famous 1942 movie set in occupied Morocco
Ruth McKee
15, May, 2016 @4:34 PM

We’ll always have Leicester (as Bogart nearly said to Bergman) | Peter Bradshaw
Never mind Jane Austen and her sensitive romantic dialogue. My favourite love scenes are where ordinary lines are drenched in love – and part of an affair
Peter Bradshaw
12, Feb, 2016 @5:12 PM

Readers recommend: songs that stick it to the man | Peter Kimpton
Whether about rebels or rebellious in style, lyrics or subject, the only request here is to suggest songs that challenge authority in the workplace or beyond
Peter Kimpton
03, Dec, 2015 @8:00 PM

Cinema Ritrovato: Hudson, Bergman, Keaton – a feast of film under Italian skies
From 2001: A Space Odyssey to the silent era via Casablanca, Bologna’s ‘found cinema’ festival serves up a magnificent range of classic and rarely seen movies
Pamela Hutchinson
06, Jul, 2015 @12:23 PM

Don't look away now: the crucial movie moments you can't afford to miss
A phone call meant I wasn’t present for Jurassic World’s important foreshadowed GM-shark. So what other pivotal scenes in potential masterpieces have trips to the loo led me to overlook?
Joe Queenan
03, Jul, 2015 @10:15 AM

Wizard of Oz is most influential Hollywood film
Judy Garland’s 1939 musical tops academic study’s list of films of cultural significance, with Star Wars in second and Psycho in third
Andrew Pulver
20, Jan, 2015 @8:45 AM
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