Fran Lebowitz: ‘I am really not a contrarian’
She embodied the hip, downtown Manhattan of the 70s. Now she is winning new fans in her friend Martin Scorsese’s documentary series Pretend It’s a City
Jeremy Newson obituary
Documentary film-maker who lifted the lid on the fashion, music and entertainment businesses
Mahmood Jamal obituary
Pioneering producer of films and programmes set in British-Asian communities, and published poet
The week in TV: The Pembrokeshire Murders; The Great Pottery Throw Down and more
A real-life crime drama reveals the plod of police work, kiln beats cake as a crafty contest returns, and Bollywood comes under the harshest spotlight
On my radar: Jason Williamson’s cultural highlights
The Sleaford Mods frontman on a favourite singer-songwriter, a hellish horror film and why he spends seven hours a day on Twitter
Michael Apted obituary
Eclectic director of documentaries and feature films, from Seven Up! to James Bond
Michael Apted, 1941-2021: tributes paid to ‘visionary’ director of Up series
The film-maker, who has died aged 79, held up ‘a mirror to society’ with his pioneering documentaries
Michael Apted, director and Seven Up documentarian, dies at 79
British director made films Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World is Not Enough, and the long-running Up documentary series
Lorca, Hockney, Byatt, Berger – how Mike Dibb got the greats to open up
He’s revered for shooting Ways of Seeing with John Berger, but Mike Dibb has made films about all the giants of culture – as well as Wimbledon tennis balls. He looks back on a dazzling career
Curses! Nicolas Cage to examine history of swearwords for Netflix
The Oscar-winner will host six-part series, with each episode focusing on a single expletive
The week in TV: Waterhole; The Undoing; Inside Cinema, Raised by Wolves; Red, White and Blue
Chris Packham and Ella Al-Shamahi make a top team on the BBC’s enthralling African stakeout. Elsewhere, dramas great and small…
Baby God: how DNA testing uncovered a shocking web of fertility fraud
Quincy Fortier was once Nevada’s physician of the year. As unspooled in a new documentary, he had a dark secret: dozens of children fraudulently fathered through his fertility clinic
‘They were not born evil’: inside a troubling film on why people kill
In Alex Gibney’s documentaryt Crazy, Not Insane, the career of clinical psychiatrist Dr Dorothy Otnow Lewis is explored, from her work with Ted Bundy to Arthur Shawcross
Samuel L Jackson: ‘A fullness comes upon me every time I land in Africa’
As their hard-hitting TV show Enslaved comes to an end, the star and his wife LaTanya Richardson talk about roots, race, revolution – and how to get rid of ‘the orange man’
‘He was murdered to silence him’: a shocking film on Jamal Khashoggi
Documentary Kingdom of Silence revisits the life and murder of the dissident journalist and the US-Saudi relationship underpinning both