Frank Capra
Sure, Frank Capra made great movies – but he relied on Robert Riskin’s brilliant scripts | Letter
Letters: Riskin’s magic makes It Happened One Night – and many of the director’s ‘Capra-corn’ classics, writes Bruce Henstell
06, Mar, 2024 @5:53 PM
It Happened One Night at 90: the greatest romantic comedy ever made?
Frank Capra’s 1934 charmer helped to set the foundation for the genre with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert bickering and flirting their way into film history
Jesse Hassenger
23, Feb, 2024 @8:16 AM
In 1924, cinema was hailed as an agent of world peace. Has it failed?
A century ago, the new artform was welcomed as an harbinger of universal harmony. Although it’s been pressed into service for darker aims since, some of that utopian spirit survives
Henry Roberts
23, Jan, 2024 @8:08 AM
Vote with your feet: film, music, art and more to engage you politically
From the heroic Mr Smith using political institutions to clear his name to Naomi Klein’s exposé of the sharp end of globalisation, our critics choose political cultural works that inspire
Peter Bradshaw, Jonathan Jones, Alim Kheraj, Steven Poole and Kate Wyver
24, Jan, 2022 @10:00 AM
Books and films censored under Franco still circulating in Spain
Dictator who died in 1975 stamped out mention of Spanish civil war, sexuality and anti-Catholic views
Ashifa Kassam in Madrid
29, Dec, 2021 @7:31 PM
Want horror for Halloween? Critics pick music, books, games and more to help
From a creepy Hollywood comedy to trick or treat for gamers, Guardian critics suggest their cultural classics
Peter Bradshaw, Alison Flood, Keza MacDonald, Phil Harrison and Jenessa Williams
31, Oct, 2021 @10:00 AM
Why do artists like the Pogues and Frank Capra have a special Christmas pedestal? | Rick Burin
Fairytale of New York and It’s a Wonderful Life evoke a unique and persistent magic, says writer Rick Burin
Rick Burin
29, Nov, 2020 @1:00 PM
Paul McCartney writes first musical, stage version of It's a Wonderful Life
Former Beatle is to write songs for Frank Capra’s ‘universal story’, working with Lee Hall, author of Billy Elliot
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
17, Jul, 2019 @11:05 PM
From femme fatale to cattle rancher: how Barbara Stanwyck bucked convention
Her versatility made her a star of Hollywood’s golden age, but Stanwyck’s best characters were always fighters who, like herself, had tasted life’s bitterness
Pamela Hutchinson
18, Jan, 2019 @10:57 AM
It’s a Wonderful Life review – Capra's Christmas cracker shines anew
A crisis in housing, a racist ruling class and a struggle against a hideous ego-plutocrat who names everything after himself – this 1946 classic still resonates
Peter Bradshaw
14, Dec, 2018 @3:00 PM
Who is the best Oscar-winning director of all time?
Capra? Coppola? Bigelow? Our chief film critic crowns one of five nominees the Oscar of Oscars champion – and reveals who you picked as your winner
Peter Bradshaw
31, Jan, 2018 @2:17 PM
Post-Brexit passport-free access to language and culture | Letters
Brief letters: Wales | Specs scenes | Obscure ingredients | Hyperemesis gravidarum | Theresa May
Letters
05, Sep, 2017 @4:50 PM
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