John Schlesinger
Fifty years on, this film is still the Sunday Bloody Sunday best | Rachel Cooke
A poster of John Schlesinger’s seminal movie made a perfect anniversary present
Rachel Cooke
02, May, 2021 @6:30 AM
Midnight Cowboy review – a still potent stew of 60s sleaze
Fifty years on, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman’s squabbling amid the squalor of low-rent New York remains a heartbreaking triumph
Peter Bradshaw
12, Sep, 2019 @2:00 PM
Midnight Cowboy at 50: why the X-rated best picture winner endures
The unlikely buddy drama, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, remains a compelling study of poverty and loneliness
Scott Tobias
24, May, 2019 @6:00 AM
Tony Garnett: The backstreet abortion that destroyed my family
Cathy Come Home and Kes producer Tony Garnett is behind much of Britain’s best screen drama since the mid-60s. Only recently did the truth hit home – the secret of his success came from the traumatic loss of both parents when he was five, after a botched abortion
Joanna Moorhead
02, Jul, 2016 @5:00 AM
Stanley Kubrick ruined my childhood: my mum, the Hollywood publicist
Simon Booker recalls his unconventional upbringing with his mother who was a glamorous film publicist in the Mad Men era
Simon Booker
25, Jun, 2016 @5:00 AM
Frozen in time: Julie Christie in the supermarket queue, June 1965
In the year the actor’s celebrity went stratospheric, Julie Christie could be found looking bored at the checkout
Alex Clark
17, Apr, 2016 @7:00 AM
Why film editor Jim Clark was Hollywood’s greatest repairman
He completely recut Midnight Cowboy, won an Oscar for The Killing Fields and worked on James Bond. William Boyd remembers the film editor they called Dr Clark, because he could make sick movies well again
William Boyd
18, Mar, 2016 @9:00 AM
Carol named best LGBT film of all time
Todd Haynes’ lesbian love story, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, tops poll of more than 100 experts
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
15, Mar, 2016 @10:34 AM
Jim Clark obituary
Film editor who won an Oscar for his work on The Killing Fields
Ronald Bergan
13, Mar, 2016 @4:43 PM
After Oscars faux pas, Dustin Lance Black tells Sam Smith to stop texting Tom Daley
Black, who won the best original screenplay prize in 2009 for Milk, has berated Smith for claiming to be the first opening gay Oscar winner – and told him to stop contacting his fiance
Ben Child
29, Feb, 2016 @10:10 AM
John Schlesinger's very old London Waterloo
As the capital’s busiest railway station struggles to cope with soaring passenger demands, a classic 1961 documentary transports us to a very different city
Dave Hill
14, Nov, 2015 @7:58 PM
Alan Bennett: ‘I didn’t see the point of coming out'
Socialist, royalist, show-off, shy ... in life and in his fiction, Alan Bennett is a bundle of contradictions. He talks about the ‘totalitarian’ Tories, why he doesn’t go to the theatre, and a lifetime of being contrary
Charlotte Higgins
31, Oct, 2015 @8:00 AM
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