JD Salinger’s secret life exposed in new documentary
Film promising revelations about reclusive Catcher in the Rye author has been snapped up by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein
The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution
How did JMW Turner make such fine sunsets? With science and an eye for all that was going on around him
Oliver Stone: How America went wrong
What if US history had followed a different path? There’d have been no cold war, no Vietnam and no Afghanistan, as controversial director Oliver Stone aims to show in his new 10-part television study
The Gatekeepers
Dror Mareh manages to get remarkable access to the former heads of Israel’s internal security agency – but are they giving us more half-truths?
Jon Stewart takes break from The Daily Show to make directorial debut
US presenter is to make Rosewater, an adaptation of BBC reporter’s memoir about being tortured in Iran
David Attenborough: ‘I wouldn’t be prepared to sit on an egg’
Britain’s most famous naturalist talks about filming penguins in 3D, what a penguin might taste like – and why you can’t use them to de-ice your windscreen
Room 237 proves you can never get too much of The Shining
Rewatching Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic brings new insights every time
Room 237
Rodney Ascher’s essay on interpretative theories about The Shining raises interesting ideas about film-viewing
Inside Room 237
The Shining has both terrified and puzzled fans since its release in 1980. Now a documentary explores the many mysteries of Stanley Kubrick’s psycho-horror
Film Review: Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007
Several 007s shed some light on the backstage tension in a lively documentary marking 50 years of Bond films, writes Philip French
Sushi, Salzgitter und Hagen Stehr
Sushi und Salzgitter – wie geht das zusammen? Auf den ersten Blick gar nicht: ein spezielles Restaurant, das kalten, rohen Fisch serviert, …
Martin Scorsese plans Roger Ebert documentary
Scorsese has optioned Ebert’s book Life Itself: A Memoir, which follows the American film critic’s public triumphs and personal struggles
Rewind TV: Parade’s End; The Last Weekend;
Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall are extraordinary in Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Parade’s End
Film Review: Undefeated
There’s a bit too much Coach, and not enough of the players, in this Oscar-winning documentary about high-school American football
Björk and David Attenborough team up for music documentary
Icelandic singer and British naturalist to explore the evolution of music, in film to be shown on Channel 4
Swandown: Two men in a pedalo
Cocking a snook at the Olympic torch procession two men have plotted their own epic journey – along the waterways from Hastings to east London in a giant fibreglass swan
