‘Too original for just one medium’: Agnès Varda’s Paris photographs go on show
Esteemed film-maker Varda began work as a photographer, capturing the postwar freedom of Paris, where a new exhibition presents her as a vital part of the city’s creative history
December 2023
‘Juergen Teller finds beauty in the most mundane moment’: a photographer like no other
He transformed fashion and celebrity photography with his unglamorous, low-fi style. Now, a new exhibition in Paris celebrates a lifetime’s work, from revealing self-portraits to nudes of Vivienne Westwood
August 2023
20 greatest Venice film festival Golden Lion winners – ranked!
With the 80th instalment of the festival on the Lido around the corner, we sort through the winners of one of cinema’s most prestigious accolades
July 2023
From the Guardian archive
‘You laugh as you’re choking’: a selection of Derek Malcolm’s seminal film reviews
Jane Birkin: a tremendous screen presence with a gift for creative collaboration
Peter Bradshaw
Camera ready: how Agnès Varda turned her photographs into film
Stream team
Cléo from 5 to 7: Agnès Varda’s New Wave classic is cosmopolitan to the core
July 2022
If you watch only one film … the greatest movies by the greatest directors
Some directors come with such huge back catalogues that it can be hard to know where to start. Enter our film critics, who suggest the best routes in to the works of some of our most prolific film-makers
September 2021
Intimate portraits of inspiring creative women – in pictures
The Mexican artist Hugo Huerta Marin spent seven years photographing and interviewing creative women who span disciplines, nationalities and generations
May 2020
Michel Piccoli: a fierce, strong performer who became the object of cinephile fan-worship
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema review – paean to neglected talent
December 2019
The Observer's obituaries of 2019
Agnès Varda remembered by Jane Birkin
The actor and singer on the pioneering film director she recalls as ‘an extraordinary bundle of curiosity and energy’
July 2019
Varda by Agnès review – inspiring look at a life in cinema
The Belgian director reviews her own career with wit and enthusiasm
Agnès Varda's last interview: 'I fought for radical cinema all my life'
In this September 2018 conversation, the film-maker reflected on her discretion, daring and how she wanted to be remembered
Agnès Varda – a life in pictures
Varda, who has died aged 90, made a string of masterpieces including Cleo from 5 to 7, Vagabond and Jacquot de Nantes, and became the oldest Oscar nominee ever with Faces Places
Agnès Varda obituary
'Greatest of the great' – Agnès Varda: the eternally youthful soul of world cinema
Peter Bradshaw
Agnès Varda, beloved French New Wave director, dies aged 90
February 2019
Berlinale 2019 roundup – from bad to wurst
Varda by Agnès review – two hours of magic with the veteran director
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