American Film Institute
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Maureen Dowd: How did we go from Abraham Lincoln to a Sharknado reject?
- US
- November 1, 2020, 17:15
When I was growing up, my brother Michael took me to see old movies at the American Film Institute. An American in Paris. Shane. Mr Smith Goes to Wash(...)

Steve Martin at 75: ‘The name Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr still makes me laugh’
- Film
- August 13, 2020, 06:00
He’s a master of slapstick, a surrealist clown, the don of comic film roles from Roxanne to The Jerk. As he turns 75, comics including Sarah Silverman(...)

Armageddon time: how Stanley Kubrick made us laugh at the annihilation of the human race
- Film
- May 11, 2019, 05:00
Dr Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick’s biting cold war satire which is re-issued in cinemas next week some 55 years after its initial theatrical run, is ar(...)

Maureen Dowd: We are in a war over what kind of America we want
- US
- November 26, 2018, 01:00
My older brother Michael taught me many things. He taught me to hold vinyl records gingerly at the edges, so I wouldn’t smudge them, and how to wipe (...)

In 1979 nobody bat an eyelid about Woody Allen's character (42) dating a 17-year-old
- Film
- May 11, 2017, 07:37
It’s one of modern cinema’s greatest overtures: George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, played by the New York Philharmonic, blazes across cinematographer(...)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest review: Still raising hell
- Film
- April 13, 2017, 07:00
You just can’t argue with the place which One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest holds in cinema history. In the 42 years since Miloš Forman’s film premiered(...)

Benjamin Cleary: ‘I keep thinking I’ll wake up and discover this isn’t real’
- Film
- February 25, 2016, 06:00
You have to feel a little sorry for Benjamin Cleary. In any ordinary year, an Oscar nomination for best live-action short would secure him a place on(...)

The General
- Film
- January 24, 2014
Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton) is a simple soul. He loves the locomotive he drives and he loves his sweetheart, Annabelle Lee. Sadly, a misunderstanding(...)