The Austrian auteur has made his name with disturbing and superb studies of the violence and repression of bourgeois life. As he turns 81, we rate his finest films
June 2022
Jean-Louis Trintignant – a life in pictures
Jean-Louis Trintignant: an actor of charisma, depth and dark emotions
Peter Bradshaw
November 2020
Facing the fear: cinema finally confronts the reality of dementia
Powerful, deeply affecting films, from Relic to Dick Johnson Is Dead, are dispensing with worthiness and restraint to present the illness in a more robust and truthful way
January 2017
Film blog
Amour star Emmanuelle Riva: cinematic icon in two different eras
Emmanuelle Riva, French icon who starred in Amour, dies aged 89
July 2015
TV tonight
Wednesday’s best TV
A celebration of TV’s voice of golf, hitching a ride with centenarian drivers, learning the uncomfortable truth about slave-owner compensation, escaping Islamic State, and understanding autism’s effects on girls
June 2015
How Hollywood has learned to embrace the realities of death in film
Once film-makers made terminal illness as ambiguous as possible, but after the Aids epidemic audiences have been given more honest portrayals of death
January 2015
Peter Bradshaw’s top 50 films of the demi-decade
We are now midway through the 2010s. So what trends are emerging in cinema? Peter Bradshaw takes a look – and picks his top 50 films of the demi-decade
March 2013
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
February 2013
Film blog
Amour: how can we embrace a film that is so clearly an advert for euthanasia?
Margaret Morganroth Gullette: Enamoured as we are by Michael Haneke's Oscar-winning film, we're missing the dangerous social fallacies at its core
Oscars 2013: Amour wins best foreign film
Michael Haneke's Amour takes Oscar for best film not in the English language at the Academy Awards
Best picture Oscar hustings
Oscars 2013: Why Amour should win best picture - video
Emmanuelle Riva, 85, star of Amour, tells of her extraordinary life
The Guardian profile
Emmanuelle Riva: the 85-year-old French actor making Oscar history
January 2013
Film blog
Amour, art houses, ageing and the opposite of feel-good cinema
Amour wins hearts at London Critics' Circle film awards
Golden Globes 2013: the winners - in pictures
Amour's Oscar nod confirms golden age for subtitled films
