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Historic Phoenix cinema rises with lottery cash

09.07.09
Britain's oldest continuously-working cinema is to be restored to its art deco glory thanks to a lottery grant... more

Touch of class war in Amongst Friends

27.05.09
April De Angelis's play, Amongst Friends, is intermittently funny, but strives too hard for topicality.... more

Who won what at Standard Film Awards

03.02.09
Irish martyrdom, Indian poverty, American politics - the judges of the Evening Standard British Film Awards faced difficult choices.... more

Tilda's the leading lady at Standard film awards

02.02.09
Tilda Swinton, the striking, idiosyncratic face of British cinema, led the cavalcade of winners at the Evening Standard British Film Awards... more

We’ve had a golden year for film but money is drying up

02.02.09
In an interview marking the Standard’s Film Awards, Channel 4 film and drama boss Tessa Ross talks about the challenges ahead and the likely merger of 4 and Five ... more

Slumdog Millionaire in British charge for Oscars

22.01.09
Kate Winslet will lead the British charge at next month's Oscars... more

Brits battle it out in Oscar nominations

22.01.09
Kate Winslet has been nominated for a best actress Oscar for her role in The Reader, while British Slumdog Millionaire is in the running for best movie.... more

Danny, Sally and the unsung secret of our screen success

13.01.09
As the Evening Standard Film Awards shortlist is announced, one writer who has reviewed film and stage for 20 years says our theatre is the key to our Hollywood glory... more

Mr Brown's new message on jobs

12.01.09
If summiteering were the key to reversing the downturn, Gordon Brown would have the recession well in hand... more

Happy-go-lucky Sally wins string of awards ahead of Golden Globes

18.12.08
The winners of the Golden Globes are yet to be named, and the Oscar nominations are still to come - but one British actress has already collected a string of awards this year.... more

Branagh and Leigh lead campaign to end illegal film downloads

16.12.08
More than 100 award-winning producers, directors and writers called for action to tackle illegal downloads of films and TV shows which they say are threatening jobs... more

Film

08.10.08
Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more

Teachers have feelings in under the blue sky

06.08.08
David Eldridge, who spent many years hanging out with teacher friends, nails a certain social milieu with wit and generosity in Under the Blue Sky.... more

Renaissance at Hampstead Theatre after funding boost

26.06.08
The Hampstead Theatre unveils a raft of new work, thanks to an Arts Council funding boost... more

Andrea Riseborough is the new iron lady

09.06.08
Bright young star Andrea Riseborough, who depicts a young Maggie on TV this week, has Thatcher to thank for her success in more ways than one.... more

Who’s had all the happy pills?

17.04.08
You may want to throttle her but no one can deny that Sally Hawkins's performance as the irrepressible Poppy in Mike Leigh's upbeat Happy-Go-Lucky is a tour de force.... more

DVDs of the week

15.04.08
The Mike Leigh feature Film Collection is a reminder of the writer/director's brilliance, Movin' On Up celebrates Curtis Mayfield and Enchanted brings us a modern fairytale.... more

This film is my love letter to life

03.04.08
Mike Leigh's latest, Happy-Go-Lucky, is a surprisingly sunny story of a chirpy London school teacher. It is, he says, his tribute to the resilience of the human spirit. ... more

British black actors star in photographic exhibition

17.03.08
Black British acting talent is to be celebrated in a photography exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery opening next month.... more

Leigh's deft touch brings laughter to London life

12.02.08
Mike Leigh's latest movie, Happy-Go-Lucky, is a comedy that once again contains performances as memorable as those of most of his films.... more

Get this on your little list

31.01.08
Alistair McGowan's portrayal of Mikado was a cocktail of Fry, Paxman and Cleese, and well worth the wait.... more

The gift of laughter - the best comedy DVDs

21.12.07
After groaning at the cracker jokes, raise some real belly laughs with the best of this year's comedy DVDs.... more

Heading downhill to the Seventies

26.09.07
It may sport black chandeliers, tulip chairs and offer pineapple ravioli, but all Vanilla's effort and money has been used to ill effect.... more

The actress taking on the mother of all roles

17.08.07
Lesley Manville is taking on the lead role in a stage adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother - alongside transsexual prostitutes, lesbian divas and a pregnant nun.... more

Making fun of awkward chavs

16.08.07
Despite finding humour in the tongue-tied antics of a couple, there is a feeling that the director is patronising both of them in Eagle vs Shark.... more

Starring role for Diana Rigg

22.06.07
Dame Diana Rigg is to star in the stage version of the Pedro Almodovar film All About My Mother. The play has its premiere at the Old Vic later this year.... more

Who will we fall in love with this year at Cannes?

10.05.07
There may be no Brits in competition, but there's plenty else to watch out for in the most important festival of the film calendar... more

Proms takes inspiration from Hurricane Katrina

26.04.07
The BBC Proms will tackle the subject of global warming with a musical drama inspired by the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.... more

Dramatic rise of a theatrical superstar

24.11.06
Acclaimed as 'a genius' by her peers, director Marianne Elliott has been shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Here she talks actors, Ibsen and inspiration.... more

DVD reviews: Silent but deadly

05.09.06
A videogame adaptation of Silent Hill that's surprisingly good joins Luis Buñuel's 1961 Palme d'Or winner Viridiana and the story of Britain's last hangman in this week's DVD releases.... more

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