On Cinema

His own best character

A new Netflix release has been trailed as a masterpiece, with myriad claims to Oscar recognition, says Christopher Silvester

A pair of Czech masterpieces

Two new Czech masterpieces

Editors deserve more credit

Christopher Silvester on the essential, and undervalued, part editors play in film and documentary creation

Women directors screened out

Christopher Silvester on Mark Cousins’s latest documentary

Do mention the war

The Deer Hunter remains the most affecting of Vietnam movies, Christopher Silvester writes

The mobster and the Method

Al Capone’s relationship with the movies goes back a long way, writes Christopher Silvester

Lockdown Cinema

Staying frosty in plague times

Reel hell of the Western Front

The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester

Untrue story of the Kelly Gang

For a folk hero this Ned has zero contact with the ordinary Irish folk who will supposedly come to love him, says Christopher Silvester

The toughest role

The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”