Film

Viggo Mortensen crosses the desert mountains with an Arab prisoner in 'Far From Men', set during Algeria’s war of independence.

David Wenham's acting roles have taken him from Middle-earth to a leper colony to, most recently, Botany Bay.

The splendid cast of Thomas Vinterberg’s adaptation Far from the Madding Crowd can’t make up for the director ironing out the nuance.

His documentaries have reaped plaudits but Alex Gibney has also felt the wrath of those on whom he’s shone his spotlight.

Thirty-year-old director Ariel Kleiman’s turns the Mornington Peninsula into Eastern Europe.

By her own admission, Helen Mirren hasn’t done too badly at crafting an illustrious career.

Filmmaker George Miller re-enters the dystopian world that first shot him to fame.

Like Bergman and Antonioni, Olivier Assayas focuses on the experience of women, as in his latest, Clouds of Sils Maria.

Prolific, controversial, funny, fearless … Actor James Franco has it all.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s efforts to stay true to the novel Inherent Vice leave this film noir floundering in the dark.