James Oliver

02 September 2021

Anna May Wong: the eternal outsider

The pioneering Chinese-American actor who fled early Hollywood for Europe to escape her stereotyping as a tragic Butterfly or treacherous Dragon Lady.

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27 June 2021

Spaghetti crime: Italy’s 1970s cop film wave

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25 May 2021

Roy Andersson is the best filmmaker you’ve never heard of

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13 April 2021

Why the Soviets loved fairytale films

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03 March 2021

In praise of Jackie Chan

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17 December 2020

12 films that really capture the Christmas spirit

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12 November 2020

The movies that turned everything tin foil

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05 November 2020

Jean-Luc Godard’s breath of fresh air

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22 October 2020

Monster movies have a deeper meaning than you might think

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03 September 2020

Africa and its confident and expanding film industry

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06 August 2020

Brutal film Painted Bird does not hide the horrors – but it is a must-watch

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30 July 2020

What films about the British Empire reveal

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11 July 2020

Plot twist: The complicated world of Chinese cinema

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03 June 2020

How film reflects Russia’s different experience of the Second World War

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10 May 2020

Special K: Europe’s auteur from the age of arthouse

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06 April 2020

Apocalypse now: How to find coronavirus comfort in catastrophe movies

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13 February 2020

Jaques Demy: The director who put the shading into technicolour

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09 February 2020

Elia Kazan: A balancing act of the artist’s work and his actions

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19 January 2020

Forza Fed: Remembering Italy’s daring director Fellini

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12 January 2020

Queen Jean Seberg – the talented, tortured Iowan who became a Parisian star

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21 October 2019

Russia’s rising stars revisit its tragic past in new drama

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10 September 2019

The making of a classic – The Third Man at 70

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12 August 2019

Fatal Attraction: Why can’t Hollywood kick its Manson mania?

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31 July 2019

Right time for powerful film ‘Do The Right Thing’

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01 July 2019

Eurofile: The edge of Ealing

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02 June 2019

JAMES OLIVER: The secrets of Soviet sci-fi

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20 May 2019

The dark side of Dirk Bogarde

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21 January 2019

Director of debauchery

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