Phantom Thread

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

Beef broth and body shaming: the punk drama about why Empress Elisabeth was the Meghan Markle of her time

Director Marie Kreutzer talks about her latest film, which aims to portray a complex female character – whose story resonates with modern pressures on royal women under the glare of media scrutiny

Cath Clarke

01, Dec, 2022 @3:00 PM

Is the devil really Prada? An uneasy history of fashion as cinema's punchbag

Slaxx, a new indie horror-satire about a pair of murderous jeans, is the latest film to turn fashion into a baddie. The Guardian’s film critic thinks it is time to change the story

Peter Bradshaw

25, Mar, 2021 @9:03 AM

Lesley Manville: ‘I want to go dancing and drink too much – and I’m over 60’

The Bafta nominee has been discovered by Hollywood after 47 years as an actor. She talks about ageism, losing her anonymity and spa trips with her Mum co-stars

Paula Cocozza

13, May, 2019 @12:18 PM

The 50 best films of 2018 in the UK: No 2 – Phantom Thread

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, and Daniel Day-Lewis’s swansong, could have been a self-indulgent apologia for tortured male genius – but instead turned its rich observational powers on the trials of new relationships

Benjamin Lee

20, Dec, 2018 @6:00 AM

On my radar: Mary Anne Hobbs’s cultural highlights

The BBC 6 Music DJ on the beauty of a Berlin recording studio, Daniel Day-Lewis and the art that held up the Haçienda nightclub

16, Dec, 2018 @10:00 AM

And the 2018 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw's films of the year

Guardian Film’s official best of the year list – voted for by a panel of reviewers, writers and editors - is into the final furlong. Meanwhile, here are our chief critic’s personal picks

Peter Bradshaw

10, Dec, 2018 @10:08 AM

You make me sick! Why film’s fondness for food poisoning takes the biscuit

From blockbusters such as Ocean’s 8 to serious cinema such as Phantom Thread, Hollywood has a long tradition of treating the spiking of victuals as fair game

Anne Billson

05, Jul, 2018 @3:00 PM

No sex please we’re British: exploring On Chesil Beach's chaste state of mind

Repressed, stiff-upper-lipped Englishness is en vogue again. But should we be encouraging it?

Steve Rose

07, May, 2018 @10:00 AM

'The hardest member of Radiohead? Ed's probably tasty' – Jonny Greenwood answers readers' questions

Fresh from an Oscar nomination for Phantom Thread and with Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here in cinemas, the film composer and Radiohead guitarist discusses his two-pronged career

Guardian film

14, Mar, 2018 @4:12 PM