Fish Tank

‘I kept saying – don’t worry Luma, we see you’: Andrea Arnold on her four years filming a cow

The Oscar-winning director’s new documentary explores warmth, joy and anger through the eyes of a farmyard animal. She reveals what it taught her about life

Simon Hattenstone

06, Jan, 2022 @6:00 AM

Beyond Ken Loach: where have the social-realists in cinema gone?

The director has unleashed his latest broadside against Broken Britain. But with escapist cinema on the rise, can the genre survive?

Steve Rose

28, Oct, 2019 @9:00 AM

The 100 best films of the 21st century

Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

Cage fights, chat shows, train platforms: the strangest places films have found their stars

Looking to cast a new film sensation? Then visit a prison, look at Instagram or head to a station. Because that’s where these future stars were hanging out

Graeme Virtue

08, Nov, 2017 @11:26 AM

Andrea Arnold: ‘I always aim to get under the belly of a place’

Director Andrea Arnold talks about her new movie, American Honey, which stars Shia LaBeouf and explores the US phenomenon of ‘mag crews’ – rootless young outsiders who rove the midwest selling magazine subscriptions

Sean O'Hagan

09, Oct, 2016 @7:30 AM

Catch Me Daddy: Robbie Ryan on capturing Yorkshire's beauty and brutality

One of the finest cinematographers working in British film talks to us about his latest project, the gripping Yorkshire-Asian noir Catch Me Daddy

Tom Horan

27, Feb, 2015 @1:00 PM

Clip joint: housing estates

Join Guardian reader Charles Graham-Dixon and suggest your picks of the best film scenes set on housing estates

Charles Graham-Dixon

24, Nov, 2014 @3:52 PM

Anne-Marie Duff and Andy Serkis triumph at Evening Standard film awards

Anne-Marie Duff and Andy Serkis carry off acting prizes as Fish Tank wins best film at the Evening Standard film awards

Ben Child

09, Feb, 2010 @11:50 AM

A vision of hope for Essex | Sam Tarry

Sam Tarry: Andrea Arnold's film Fish Tank, which was shot where I grew up, carries a social message that bears repeating

Sam Tarry

18, Sep, 2009 @2:30 PM

Fish Tank | Film review

Andrea Arnold's latest offering is a bleak glimpse of life on a housing estate. Still, hope – and the fine performances – shine through, says Philip French

Philip French

12, Sep, 2009 @11:06 PM

Fish Tank | Film review

With a terrific performance by debutant Katie Jarvis, this gritty Essex drama shows that director Andrea Arnold is Ken Loach's natural successor, says Peter Bradshaw

Peter Bradshaw

10, Sep, 2009 @10:00 PM