Books & arts
28 March 2018
Cinema | The British Film Festival has been an unexpected hit with Australian audiences
Books & arts
4 September 2017
How did film-makers resolve the paradox of creating complex feature films during a period of total war?
Books & arts
11 August 2017
Cinema | Two undemanding but shrewdly written films have hidden depths
Books & arts
25 May 2017
Cinema | The Sense of an Ending reveals another way of translating fiction onto the screen
Books & arts
20 March 2017
Out of the unpromising material of local government, Winifred Holtby created a fine novel that went on to be filmed three times
Books & arts
8 February 2017
Cinema | Kenneth Lonergan’s latest film steers clear of sentimentality and easy comedy
Books & arts
22 January 2017
Cinema | Like all good comedy, The Edge of Seventeen takes its job very seriously
Books & arts
23 December 2016
Cinema | Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion captures Emily Dickinson in a rich social setting
Books & arts
3 August 2016
Brian McFarlane reviews Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship
Books & arts
22 July 2016
Books | This collaborative account shows how films, almost miraculously, get to the screen, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
3 May 2016
Cinema | Has any other film resonated across the decades in so many cultural fields? Brian McFarlane investigates the Brief Encounter phenomenon
Books & arts
20 April 2016
Books | Helen Simonson offers a panoramic yet finely detailed view of a society heading for upheaval, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
15 December 2015
Cinema | Suffragette seems doubly overdue, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
5 November 2015
Books | An enormous number of talented actors and directors have taken on this most difficult of theatrical challenges, writes Brian McFarlane, and a new book…
Essays & reportage
21 August 2015
Twenty great British films? Brian McFarlane explains how he chose them, and looks at one old and one new
Books & arts
12 August 2015
Books | The best-ever account of an Australian director? Brian McFarlane reviews Jane Freebury’s survey of the director’s eclectic career
Books & arts
25 May 2015
Books | David Thomson’s exploration of acting is never less than gripping, writes Brian McFarlane. But his implied question never quite gets answered
Books & arts
19 May 2015
Extract | After decades of stage and screen success, John McCallum and Googie Withers struck out in new directions in the late 1960s, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
1 April 2015
Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth, now in its second screen version, recounts a remarkable life amid the upheavals of a century ago, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
27 January 2015
Books | Steven Pinker’s latest book treads a fine line supremely well, says Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
20 December 2014
Books | Brian McFarlane finds a collection of essays by Tim Parks about books and writing well worth finishing
Books & arts
2 October 2014
Brian McFarlane revisits Chekhov’s remarkable play, on screen and away from Russia
Books & arts
23 September 2014
Jonathan Croall’s new book reveals a talented researcher and writer at work, says Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
26 April 2014
In London, Brian McFarlane reviews three valiant attempts to make the transition from celluloid to the theatre
Books & arts
16 January 2014
Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse and Ian Fleming provide the inspiration for four new novels, reviewed here by Brian McFarlane
31 May 2013
In London, Brian McFarlane reviews three recent stage productions
Books & arts
2 May 2013
The boldest translations of book to film usually make for the best cinema, argues Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
29 August 2012
There is no one quite like Ivy Compton-Burnett, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
9 August 2012
Brian McFarlane reviews a hard-to-classify account of the influence of Graham Greene
25 June 2012
Brian McFarlane reviews a classic theatrical revival, a new play paired with an old one, and a musical adapted from a film for the stage