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From ARTS Mar 8, 2013

Overtaken by the future

It rarely takes long for the newfangled to become the new normal

Daniel Craig and Ola Rapace in 'Skyfall'

©2102 Danjaq From ARTS Oct 25, 2012

Solemn Bond’s reborn identity

This week’s new film releases: ‘Skyfall’, ‘Elena’, ‘Sister’, ‘Room 237’ and ‘Halloween’

From ARTS Oct 5, 2012

London Film Festival

With new films by Michael Winterbottom, Martin McDonagh and Deepa Mehta, the London Film Festival offers reasons to be fearful and cheerful

From ARTS May 3, 2012

Løve story with a touch of Rohmer

This week’s films reviewed: ‘Goodbye First Love’, ‘Le Quai des Brumes’, ‘Angel and Tony’, ‘Monsieur Lazhar’, ‘Safe’ and ‘American Reunion’

Nigel Andrews An interview with film-maker Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Great moment is far from Close

©Getty From ARTS Apr 14, 2012

Stillman after all these years

As Whit Stillman Month begins in New York City, the film director talks about his delightfully fresh new project

©Graham Jepson/Writer Pictures Apr 7, 2012

The joys of being up close and personal

Public events like literary festivals offer a sense of intimacy and human connection that cannot be replicated on digital platforms

From ARTS Mar 30, 2012

Nostalgia really is what it used to be

‘Mad Men’ allows us both to patronise the past and to long for its simplicities

©Chris Gibbions From ARTS Mar 23, 2012

In thrall to the power of personalities

When we watch TV programmes, we do so as part of a crowd that uniformly defers to a person of perceived authority

©Dave Williams From ARTS Mar 16, 2012

Imperial measurements

Jeremy Paxman approaches imperialism from a sensible, modern perspective, using British traits to denounce other British traits

From ARTS Mar 9, 2012

Scientists, vampires and other heliophobes

It would be wonderful if history programmes concentrated on everyday phenomena

From ARTS Mar 2, 2012

Marriages put to work

Achieving the right balance between work and life is hard in every television marriage

From ARTS Feb 17, 2012

Beneath the skins of the fathers

Recent TV programmes about men and childcare are not showing the full picture

From ARTS Feb 10, 2012

East End promise, safely delivered

‘Call the Midwife’ wants to portray the London area’s past as truly in the past and ripe for heart-warming reminiscence

From ARTS Feb 3, 2012

The world as seen from England

However seductive we may find France or Spain or Italy, they must finally be deemed baffling

From ARTS Jan 27, 2012

Typically English, basically American

John McKay’s film ‘We’ll Take Manhattan’ tells the story of English photographer David Bailey’s struggle to be accepted

From ARTS Jan 20, 2012

Something rotten in France – and Denmark

Jonathan Meades’s show sought to expose ‘les trente glorieuses’ as a period of amnesia and hypocrisy

From ARTS Jan 13, 2012

Desperate to be more than housewives

Womankind hasn’t received especially enlightened or flattering treatment on screen

From ARTS Jan 6, 2012