Baroness Thatcher's tale prompted an oddly persistent squalling from the benches. Her fellow mothers were far more intrigued

If I'm one of Thatcher's children, born as I was in 1980, what's Kitty? Her grandchild?

Kitty's contemporaries, more grandchildren of Thatcher, were certainly not interested in hearing about the trials and tribulations of...

Jump out of the Phone Booth and into the ATM booth ... there's plenty of room to watch the trailer (and don't forget your anorak)

There are few things that suit thrillers more than claustrophobia. Think Funny Games, set mostly inside a single house. Or Devil, set inside a lift. Or Buried, set inside a coffin. Or Phone Booth, set inside... actually,...

David Cameron is set to call for UK lottery funding to go to films with big box-office potential. But what will that mean for small-scale, independent cinema?

The plans to overhaul public funding of British cinema, which David Cameron will announce later today during a visit to Pinewood studios, has so far drawn divided reactions.

According to early...

Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani in talks for movie that may also draw from lives of Bill Clinton and Silvio Berlusconi

Abel Ferrara, the iconoclastic director of Bad Lieutenant and The King of New York, is working on a film about political sex scandals partly inspired by the one that engulfed Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International...

Paul Macinnes continues our writer's favourite film series with the movie that left him chilled and overwhelmed – Roman Polanski's detective tale that exploded the genre conventions
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Chinatown is a detective story. It's set...

Daniel Craig is currently between Bonds, and heading up a Stieg Larsson adaptation. But, he tells Ryan Gilbey, he's itching to get back on her majesty's secret service

The surprise upon meeting Daniel Craig is his gentleness. It isn't that you expect him to be scarred and basted and bleeding, as he is throughout much of Casino Royale and Quantum of...

Nokia-shot feature film about little girl who won't talk will get a theatrical release in time for Oscars race

The first feature film shot entirely on a smartphone will have its theatrical premiere in Los Angeles on 16 December.

Olive, billed as a film about "a little girl who transforms the lives of three people without speaking one word", was...

Video: Martin Scorsese talks to Henry Barnes about his enthusiasm for 3D and why he's glad to have finally made a film his daughter can watch

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In our writers' favourite film series, Simon Hattenstone finds real meaning in Ken Loach's film about a boy and a kestrel
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We didn't come from a very filmy family. I'd only seen two movies before Kes. One was The Poseidon Adventure – all I c...

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