Some actors have a distinctive screen presence. The ability to send a chill down your spine with just a look or a few carefully chosen …

Olivier Assayas has always been a writer and director overflowing with ideas. Since his directorial debut Disorder in 1986, the Frenchman has consistently produced challenging …

When it comes to actors with a huge presence, Charles Laughton was unmistakably a heavyweight. Theatrically trained, the West End led to Broadway and then …

I don’t think any modern director has painted a portrait of a living Hell quite so starkly and disquietingly as Aleksei German. His final film, …

Whilst cinema and theatre have often been pitted as ardent foes, the big screen owes the stage a debt of honour. So many of the …

Robert Siodmak was just one of many film directors and actors who fled to America to escape the tyranny of Hitler’s Germany. This migration included …

For almost two decades, between the beginning of the 1940s and the end of the 1950s, film noir played an integral role in Hollywood’s output. …

The end of World War II marked the start of a boom time for the United States of America. In the period leading up to …

Although his star has been on the wane over the past couple of decades, Ingmar Bergman is without doubt one of the most important film-makers …

Whilst the country found itself in a deep depression after defeat in World War II and subsequent occupation, the 1950s is considered to be the …