“Is Paris burning?” barked Hitler down the telephone to General Dietrich von Choltitz in August 1944, as the Allies pressed into France...

As the Cold War entered its twilight and Gorbachev’s glasnost began to thaw decades of ideological frost, Australian director Fred...

I have never cared for Robert Ludlum’s airport reads. While the Bourne trilogy promised glimpses into the shadowy world of the terrorist...

Ritual has often met raw political calculation in the cloistered opulence of the Vatican. The death of a pope is not merely an occasion...

By the mid-1970s, the audacious William Friedkin had already made two signature American films of the decade - The French Connection...

U.S. actor Richard Chamberlain, who passed away recently at 90, will forever be remembered as television’s dashing Dr. Kildare and his...

Gene Hackman, who has died aged 95 under mysterious circumstances, was an actor of such unassuming brilliance that it is easy to take for...

Few novelists have eluded the grasp of cinema quite like Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). His works famously teem with psychological...

1974 was a banner year for cinema, a time when screens were graced with films of exceptional variety and brilliance, from ‘The Godfather...

Yes, this is the film where the climactic choice boils down to cutting the red wire or the blue one. Fifty years ago, director Richard...

50 years since its release, Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’ (1974) remains a masterclass in paranoia, a film whose prescient...

In the sweep of 20th-century Hollywood epics, few have slipped so quietly into obscurity as Anthony Mann’s ‘The Fall of the Roman Empire’...

A perfect film? Well, as near as one, and certainly the one film to rival any of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest, director Carol Reed’s ‘The...