French actor Gerard Depardieu, center, dances during a reseption, in Chechnya's provincial capital Grozny, Russia. President Vladimir Putin granted Depardieu Russian citizenship last month ©AP From WORLD Feb 25, 2013

Depardieu renews double act with Kadyrov

Actor attends dinner hosted by Chechen ruler

Producer Grant Heslov accepts the best picture award for 'Argo' ©Getty From MULTIMEDIA Feb 25, 2013

The Oscars 2013

Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’ leads the winners of the 85th Academy Awards

Rita Hayworth in ‘Gilda', dressed by Jean Louis ©Zuma From STYLE Feb 22, 2013

Glamour from a ‘Gilda’ age

How Jean Louis inspired film costumiers

Tom Hanks and Jim Sturgess in ‘Cloud Atlas’ ©Warner Bros Nigel Andrews Feb 21, 2013

Cinema review: Cloud Atlas, To the Wonder, Lore and more

Wachowskis tackle David Mitchell’s jumbo novel, Malick dishes out more mysticism, war-aftermath road movie has a powerful charge

Illustration by Sarah Maycock of James Franco ©Sarah Maycock Lunch with the FT Feb 15, 2013

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 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

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

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

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