Arts & Culture: Film
Lead Feature
Too posh for popcorn
Independent cinemas once provided affordable art for all. Now, a growing number offer audiences a luxury experience
In film
Peaks and troughs
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 28 August
Superb cinematic technique lightens this gruelling tale of hostile mountain life
Times and Winds (15)
dir: Reha Erdem
Space for oddities
- By Owen Van Spall
- 21 August
A carefully catalogued archive of Stanley Kubrick's possessions offers an insight into the director's painstaking methods
Short, sweet and pricey
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 21 August
A pleasantly trivial doodle of boyhood friendship in gritty north London
Somers Town (12A)
dir: Shane Meadows
Hancock's two and a half hours
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 14 August
A talented Russian creates suspense, but doesn't know what to do with it
The Banishment (12A) dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Lucky man
- By Alex Cox
- 07 August
Clint Eastwood is acclaimed for his work as both an actor and a director, but the Hollywood star owes everything to the genius of his mentor Sergio Leone
Feature
Outmoded behaviour
Two period dramas rich in detail, but not so good at characterisation
The Duchess (12A)
dir: Saul Dibb
Angel (15)
dir: François Ozon
More in film
Shallow, botched, insidious
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 07 August 2008
PR scum are human, too
- By Neil Norman
- 07 August 2008
A history of violence
- By Damian Platt
- 31 July 2008
The joke is on us
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 31 July 2008
Edinburgh, open city
- 24 July 2008
The way I see it: Hana Makhmalbaf
- 24 July 2008
Dark was the knight, cold was the clown
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 24 July 2008
