Hannah Khalil’s new play sprang from her surprise at seeing the great Egyptian actor had performed at the Festival theatre in the 1980s. She explains how it entwined with a story of her mixed-heritage identity

Julie Christie remains as magnetic as ever in the mammoth big-screen adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s novel

David Lean’s epic is still an astonishing visual achievement but there are far richer and darker themes at play

Would David Lean’s epic Russian-revolution romance stir my heart or leave me stone-cold? Well, all the balalaikas set my teeth on edge from the start

Continuing the series in which our writers revisit childhood movie passions, our film critic finds that mid-Atlantic bomb thriller Juggernaut from 1974 still gets his palms sweating

29 April 1966: Guardian film critic Richard Roud is not very impressed with the new David Lean film set during the Russian Revolution