Behind the Camera

Interview with the straight-talking star of films such as Victim and Ice Cold In Alex, shot in 1967.

Famed for managing small budgets and delivering a profit, Robert Hartford-Davis talks about his career as a producer/director in this 1960s interview.

Caustic and very personal ravaging of film criticism, from the director of Tom Jones, A Taste of Honey and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

Remarkable meeting with the Scot, promoting the only film he's ever directed, and illustrating how it awakened his political consciousness.

Lively interview with veteran filmmaker on the state of the British film industry, and his work with his regular star, Peter Sellers. Filmed in 1967.

At 21, Mills' private life was of wider interest than her career as a former child star, as this timely and telling interview discovers.

Wide-ranging, honest and revelatory conversation with the former Goon, who was about to begin a new phase of his career.

Charming interview with the 21-year-old Lipman, who had just completed her first film role, as she ponders what to do next.

Terence Davies introduces Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister's poetic paean to Great Britain.

Working with Terence Davies on Of Time And The City, Anderson addresses the importance of archive footage and his wider role as an archive producer.

Peter Kosminsky, Claire Foy and Debbie Wiseman join Hilary Mantel to talk about the BBC adaptation of her Booker Prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall.

Pith and politics from the brilliant, unpredictable comedian who declares proudly, "I find myself unable to learn anything."

Actors talk of Straw Dogs while on location in Cornwall.

Julie Christie and Alan Bates entertain us as Hardy’s book is brought to life.

Kirk Douglas likes the seaside town of Weymouth except the weather.

Michael Caine completes mission as Oberst Kurt Steiner.

American British actor David Soul appears in Mud.

Hollywood Actor Charlton Heston thinks about playing Saxon King Harold.

Deborah Kerr explains the masoschism associated with theatrical performance.

A cricket match with extras

Sir Ian McKellen reflects on his most renowned on-screen Shakespearean role, reprised from Richard Eyre's acclaimed National Theatre production.

Sir Ian McKellen introduces Laurence Olivier's classic adaptation of Henry V, a rousing wartime classic which McKellen contrasts with Kenneth Branagh's more circumspect 1989 version.

The champion of BFI's Shakespeare on Film season introduces Akira Kurosawa's great Macbeth adaptation.

Hollywood has more than just celebrated stars: its industry is respectable and prosperous, says Leslie Howard.

Charlie Chaplin relaxes on the tennis court in this potted history of Hollywood, which looks back fondly to the early days of film, in a world on the brink of war.

A laudatory item on the mid-1930s British film industry makes this issue of the cinemagazine fascinating for film fans.

Fern the red deer appears once again for the cameras