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Ozu Yasujirô: the master of time

Our Directors’ Poll voted Tokyo Story the Greatest Film of All Time. Thom Andersen explains why its maker is the greatest of directors.

Listomania!

Ahead of our Greatest Film of All Time poll, Michael Atkinson anatomises critics’ obsession with enshrining cinema’s ‘top ten’.

Great wide open: L’Avventura

Antonioni’s L’avventura is now more influential than ever, argues Robert Koehler in the latest of our series on contenders for our Greatest Films of All Time poll.

Forever falling: Vertigo

In our series on contenders for our forthcoming Greatest Films of All Time poll, the renowned Spanish critic Miguel Marías finds himself falling once again for the fathomless mysteries of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

Creative destruction: Better Books, Cinema 65 and the birth of the London film underground

Henry K. Miller excavates the mid-60s bookshop where by night the likes of Jeff Keen, Bruce Lacey and John Latham attempted to wreck the print word.

Christopher Nolan: escape artist

In the space of just over a decade, Christopher Nolan has shot from promising British indie director to undisputed master of a new brand of intelligent escapism. Joseph Bevan anatomises his body of work.

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