Author Richard Martin

Debut films are often about youth, and about living on the edge. From The 400 Blows to Breathless, from Badlands to Kids, first features repeatedly channel the freedoms and frustrations of being young, via an a...

When I was halfway through reading David Thomson’s new book, I saw Vincente Minnelli’s musical The Band Wagon (1953) in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. It felt like a perfect David Thomson moment. The Band Wagon immer...

There’s a scene in Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown (2000) that epitomises both the brilliance and the frustrations that mark his entire body of work. It takes place on the Parisian Métro, where a woman named Anne...

If Inland Empire, released in 2006, has proved one of the strangest films of the last decade, David Lynch’s activities since then have only increased the mystery surrounding its director. In recent years, Lynch...