Kathryn Bigelow
The best New Year’s Eve scenes – ranked
We trawl acres of celluloid for the best New Year’s Eves, from romcoms and musicals to gangster flicks and comedies, from parties-for-two to hellishly elaborate dance sequences
Stuart Heritage
29, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM
If you watch only one film … the greatest movies by the greatest directors
Some directors come with such huge back catalogues that it can be hard to know where to start. Enter our film critics, who suggest the best routes in to the works of some of our most prolific film-makers
Peter Bradshaw, Simran Hans, Catherine Bray and Danny Leigh
09, Jul, 2022 @11:00 AM
Women Make Film review – an epic trip through cinema's undiscovered world
Mark Cousins’s 14-hour documentary gives a voice to film-makers excluded from the cultural conversation
Wendy Ide
16, May, 2020 @2:00 PM
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema review – paean to neglected talent | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Film-maker and historian of the movies Mark Cousins’ 14-hour survey of amazing but overlooked auteurs is a marvel of passionate cinephilia
Peter Bradshaw
14, May, 2020 @7:00 AM
What do female film-makers have to say about male stories?
The directors celebrated in a new season at the Barbican – focusing on films about men, made by women – on turning the traditional gaze on its head
Ann Lee
19, Feb, 2020 @12:37 PM
How long can this nonsense of the Oscars failing to nominate female directors go on? | Ellen E Jones
This year’s Academy Awards show that diversity drives will only get us so far. Filmgoers and the industry must question what makes a film award-worthy
Ellen E Jones
14, Jan, 2020 @4:55 PM
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
Bigelow? Tarantino? Nolan? You share your picks for a Bond director
Our writer picked five possible Bond 25 directors after Danny Boyle left the project and you responded with a long list of alternative picks
Guardian readers
23, Aug, 2018 @7:00 AM
From Hidden to In the Mood for Love: why the 2000s are my favourite film decade | Peter Bradshaw
Featuring Coen brothers masterpieces and an astonishing run by Michael Haneke, this was the decade in which film rediscovered its history – and explored its future – thanks to digital technology
Peter Bradshaw
26, Mar, 2018 @5:00 AM
Timely honour goes to great pioneer for women in film | Rebecca Nicholson
Dorothy Arzner was a major director in the 30s. Where are all the women who ought to have followed in her steps?
Rebecca Nicholson
04, Mar, 2018 @12:01 AM
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
And the winner isn't: the Oscar-aiming films that stumbled this year
While The Shape of Water, Dunkirk and Three Billboards might have impressed voters, other starry prospects haven’t been so lucky
Benjamin Lee
24, Jan, 2018 @3:00 PM
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