We're not going to recap the many accomplishments and honors his lengthy career has seen so far, but in the last few years his energy and curiousity have shown no signs of abating. His work has ranged from early 20th century drama ("The Wind That...

Could “Trainspotting” have been shot in a darker way? Yes. In Berlin you had the film “Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo”. A very worthy film. But nobody wanted to see it. If there is a welfare state and a full-employment economy, then you can take social...

Compston, 27, who starred in Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen, Robert Downey Jr's A Guide To Recognising Your Saints and last year's Brit-hit thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed, has just finished filming his latest role - and he reckons it was...

Compston, 27, who starred in Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen, Robert Downey Jr's A Guide To Recognising Your Saints and last year's Brit-hit thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed, has just finished filming his latest role - and he reckons it was...

The Glaswegian Ramsay is one of the leading lights in the generally dull, beige world of British cinema. Whereas even the U.K.s finest auteurs most notably Mike Leigh and Ken Loach tend to take hardscrabble working-class realism as an axiom, Ramsay...

"It's a great shame that, in the year of the Arab Spring when the BBC was covering the struggle of millions of people for freedom, it remained wedded to its institutionalised bias against the Palestinians and refused to even recognise the fact of their...