From COMPANIES 8:05pm

Primetime arrives in saga of TV takeovers

Cable TV is enjoying a notable revival amid surge in dealmaking

Illustration by Sarah Maycock of James Franco ©Sarah Maycock Lunch with the FT 5:08pm

James Franco

Few A-listers divide opinion as much as the actor/writer/scholar and artist. Peter Aspden catches him in Berlin to hear why being a movie star just isn’t enough

mea maxima culpa Nigel Andrews Feb 14, 2013

Cinema review: Mea Maxima Culpa, This is 40, Side by Side and more

A damning documentary on Catholic cover-ups, Judd Apatow’s latest comedy and Keanu Reeves’ star-studded study of digital film

From MANAGEMENT Feb 14, 2013

Champagne and limousines – the glamorous side of accountancy

Tim Smedley meets the practitioners who spend their time among the stars

A scene from Hisham Zaman's prize-winning 'Before Snowfall' Feb 8, 2013

Gothenburg Film Festival

This year’s festival celebrated everything from epic sea adventures to back-to-nature art-house

Kevin Spacey in 'House of Cards' Feb 8, 2013

Review: Netflix’s House of Cards

The 13-part series is impeccably cast and professional at every level – but only gets going half way in

Helen Mirren and Anthony Hopkins in 'Hitchock' Nigel Andrews Feb 7, 2013

Cinema review: Hitchcock, I Give It a Year, A Liar’s Autobiography and more

This week’s new films: ‘Hitchcock’, ‘I Give It a Year’, ‘A Liar’s Autobiography’, ‘I Wish’, ‘Warm Bodies’ and ‘No’

Richard Burton in ‘The Spy Who Came in From the Cold’ (1965) ©Kobal Collection Feb 1, 2013

Clothes that make the mood of a movie

The coat worn by Richard Burton in ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ represents the mood of an era, writes Antonia Quirke

From WORLD Jan 31, 2013

UK film production spending falls 30%

Foreign groups scale back investment in country, says BFI

Matthias Schoenaerts in Bullhead Nigel Andrews Jan 31, 2013

Cinema review: Bullhead, Flight, Hyde Park on the Hudson and more

Reports on Michaël R. Roskam’s miserablist powerhouse, Robert Zemeckis’s moral-uplift mega-drama and Roger Michell’s FDR biopic

From WORLD Jan 31, 2013

Row erupts in India over free speech curbs

Rushdie, others accused of offending feelings of minorities

Nigel Andrews Jan 24, 2013

Cinema review: Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and The Last Stand

Nigel Andrews on Steven Spielberg’s biopic, Kathryn Bigelow’s bin Laden thriller and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to action

Simon Kuper from FT MAGAZINE Jan 18, 2013

And the Oscar for best career goes to…

Movies nudge middle-class young people without a particular vocation into certain professions

Peter Aspden Jan 18, 2013

Western values

From ‘Jesse James’ to ‘Django Unchained’, how did the movies that shaped America lose their myth-making power?

Nigel Andrews Jan 17, 2013

Django Unchained and other cinema reviews

This week’s new films: ‘Django Unchained’, ‘The Sessions’, ‘Everyday’ and ‘Ballroom Dancer’

From VISUAL ARTS Jan 11, 2013

The joy of forgotten texts

Artist Gerard Byrne tells Jane Ure-Smith about his ‘bizarre, batty work’

Jan 11, 2013

Forever young

David Thomson on ageless film stars, Emmanuelle Riva in ‘Amour’, and growing old in the movies

From TRAVEL Jan 11, 2013

Munich’s moment

The city is hoping a year-long programme of public art installations will help to win tourists back from Berlin

Peter Aspden Jan 11, 2013

Fighter in a futile war

A new documentary marshals facts and heart-rending stories as it attacks broken policy blighting America’s battle against drugs

From FT MAGAZINE Jan 11, 2013

Tarantino unchained

Exclusive on-set photographs by Brigitte Lacombe from ‘Django Unchained’, Quentin Tarantino’s slavery-era western