Contents So Many Moustaches!: A cache of films by Edwardian company Mitchell & Kenyon brings to life the ghosts of a lost world. Nick James watches in wonder.

Fly Guy: In the The Aviator Martin Scorsese pays tribute to Howard Hughes and Hollywood's golden age.

Contents Red, White And Brew: In Sideways Alexander Payne follows two emotionally retarded middle-aged men around the Californian vineyards. But how does he make us like them, asks Mark Salisbury.

Muscular Contractions: Sex scenes are a matter of letting the a

Contents Lesser Spotted Fish And Other Stories...: Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou charts the problems of an autocratic, obsessive director. 'It's not based on me,' he promises Kevin Conroy Scott. Plus Ali Jaafar explores the underwater world of

Contents Tell It To The Camera: Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation stitches together home movies from his childhood onwards into a no-budget documentary of wrenching emotional honesty and visual power. B. Ruby Rich reports.

Theatre of Complicity: Catherine Deneuve

Contents Only Human: Douglas Adams' surreal SF comedy Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a huge cult success as a radio series, a TV show and a novel. But does the long-awaited film adaptation work, asks Andrew Osmond. Plus its director-producer team talk to Edw

Contents The Godard Interview: I, A Man Of The Image: The upbeat mood of Godard's Notre musique, in which war is hell, Sarajevo a purgatory and heaven a lakeside idyll, was not built to last. 'It's exhausted,' the director tells Michael Witt.

The Fickle Finger

Contents Funny Peculiar: Bald, gangly and nervous-looking, Alastair Sim was one of British cinema's great eccentrics. And among its finest actors, argues Michael Brooke.

Geometry Of Feelings: Alain Delon and Monica Vitti adorn L'eclisse, a chilly, formally dar

Contents Edinburgh Cringe: Festival is a freewheeling Altmanesque comedy about the Edinburgh Fringe festival. So how come it's funny and tragic and romantic all at once? Director Annie Griffin, creator of television's The Book Club, knows how. All comedians 'are l

Contents The Storyteller: Ian Christie explains how Michael Powell's unfinished fantasia of 1973 moves between the imagined and reality, scrolling through his life and loves with wit and sensuality.

Edinburgh 2005: The Sun: Aleksandr Sokurov's new film is an u

Contents Castles In The Sky: Veteran animator Hayao Miyazaki's new film Howl's Moving Castle draws on motifs from his past work and anime's longstanding fascination with children's literature, writes Andrew Osmond.

School For Scandal: Dealing with an all-girls

Contents Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Edward Lawrenson on a thriller that takes a knowing look at Hollywood

Good Night And Good Luck: Geoffrey Macnab on George Clooney's tribute to speaking your mind

The Death Of Mr Lazarescu: Mark Cousins on death in Bucharest

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Edward Lawrenson on a thriller that takes a knowing look at Hollywood
Good Night And Good Luck: Geoffrey Macnab on George Clooney's tribute to speaking your... more