The BAFTAs: The Artist brushes off the competition
The Artist swept the BAFTAs on Sunday night, taking seven awards including best film, actor and director. The Iron Lady, Hugo, Senna and Tinker, Tailor also took two awards each…
SAG and DGA awards: The Artist needs no Help
As the awards season totters towards a conclusion, only the BAFTAs and Oscars now remain, it seems ever more likely that the Artist will go down as this year’s outstanding…
Are the Oscars becoming irrelevant?
Well no, since you asked. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t deeply flawed. The Oscars are the high watermark of film recognition. The red carpet trampling, lovvie love-a-thon that is…
Oscar nominations: Hugo’s 11 outdo Clooney and The Artist
And lo, it’s that time of year again – an exciting time for we film journalists, as we pore over the list of Academy Award nominations. The Oscars being nothing…
Baftas: Tinker Tailor and The Artist look set to clean up
With the Golden Globes officially over, the focus of awards season shifts, temporarily, to our side of the Atlantic. The nominations for the British Academy of Film and Television Awards…
Films about films: The rise of self referential cinema
As the festive period recedes into the past, there are two feature films still at cinemas that, unlike bulging waistlines, are a welcome reminder of Christmas. Hugo, directed by Martin…
The Artist: A monochrome masterpiece
There is a line in Giuseppe de Lampedusa’s The Leopard which sums up the paradox faced by George Valentin’s eponymous artist, a silent film star at the advent of talkies:…
Here comes the silence – The year of the silent film.
This year sees Hollywood's first silent film in decades - by Sam Poppleton.…
