Dearest Readers, It is with the utmost pride and honour that I write to inform you today, 22 January 2024, that The Film Magazine will remain online for at least six more years. This announcement comes after an extraordinary and deeply moving outpouring of support from our readers and friends, who answered our recent appeal … Read more

Dearest Readers, On Sunday 28 January 2024, The Film Magazine will cease to exist unless we secure immediate funding to cover essential renewal costs. Our zero-budget independent publication—home to more than 2.5 million freely accessible words on cinema—faces permanent removal from the internet if we cannot pay for hosting and security renewals. As of Sunday … Read more

Dearest Readers, On Sunday 28 January 2024, The Film Magazine faces permanent removal from the internet unless we secure immediate funding to cover essential renewal costs. We are a zero-budget, independent publication that has freely hosted more than 2.5 million words of writing about cinema — criticism, features, interviews, and analysis — and that archive … Read more

Sunset Boulevard (1950)Director: Billy WilderScreenwriters: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman Jr.Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson Sunset Boulevard is a landmark film from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Directed by Billy Wilder and written by Charles Brackett, Wilder and D. M. Marshman Jr., the movie has endured for decades due to … Read more

Sunset Boulevard (1950)Director: Billy WilderScreenwriters: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman JrStarring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson Released more than seven decades ago, Sunset Boulevard remains one of the most enduring and influential films of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder, Charles Brackett and D. … Read more

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1961 and ranked number 54 in the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films ever made, The Apartment has remained a touchstone of American cinema for more than six decades. After Billy Wilder and screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond scored a controversial comic triumph … Read more

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1961 and ranked number 54 in the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films, The Apartment has remained prominent and widely discussed in the more than six decades since its release. Fresh off the contentious success of Some Like It Hot the … Read more

Mulholland Drive (2001)Director: David LynchScreenwriter: David LynchStarring: Naomi Watts, Justin Theroux, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller, Robert Forster Hollywood is a place of dreams and illusions, a mythic landscape sold to audiences as glamour and possibility. In David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, the familiar glamour is presented alongside its rot: the underpaid crews, the manipulative executives, … Read more

Mulholland Drive (2001)Director: David LynchScreenwriter: David LynchStarring: Naomi Watts, Justin Theroux, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller, Robert Forster Hollywood is a place of dazzling promises and constructed myths: its glamour, bright lights, and immaculate costumes sell a fantasy that often hides the grimmer realities behind the scenes. David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive confronts that duality, offering … Read more

Next Goal Wins (2023)Director: Taika WaititiScreenwriters: Taika Waititi, Iain MorrisStarring: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana, Ioane Goodhue Taika Waititi made his name with tender, character-driven films rooted in indigenous and Polynesian experiences. From his early feature that explored father fixation and abandonment to his warm, comic road-movie about an unlikely father-son bond, Waititi blends humor … Read more