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January 2026
Truly, madly, deeply in awe of Alan Rickman’s kindness and intelligence
Alan Rickman was the model of friendship and care – and then there was that voice
‘Soon after my baby’s birth came a bottle of champagne’: readers remember Alan Rickman
‘I fell in love with him on the spot’: Alan Rickman remembered, 10 years after his death
November 2025
Alan Rickman’s personal scripts and mementoes up for auction
Lots include the annotated shooting script for Die Hard and a hand-drawn Halloween card from his Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint
August 2025
Sense and Sensibility review – blue-chip cast decorates Emma Thompson’s pleasurable Austen adaptation
Thirty years later, this richly enjoyable film is back with its quality lineup including Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant alongside Thompson herself
August 2024
Observer New Review Q&A
Juliet Stevenson: ‘I didn’t read Alan Rickman’s diaries ... I know what my relationship with him was like’
The actor on channelling grief in her new film, speaking out about Gaza, and why she loves working with young directors
June 2024
If you want to know how free a society is, look at what’s happening in its theatres
Arifa Akbar
Political art helps to debate and confront the challenges in our lives. It is also a record we must return to again and again, says Guardian theatre critic Arifa Akbar
May 2023
Film & Music reader interview
Dexter Fletcher: ‘I sat on Diana Dors’s knee and she said: “Aren’t you lovely!”’
The actor and director on getting shouted at by Ken Russell, keeping it real for Elton John and when Jodie Foster made a moustache out of his hair
October 2022
Observer New Review Q&A
Tom Burke: ‘Alan Rickman was like family, really’
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries review – great actor, keen shopper, sharp wit
Book of the day
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries review – inside the actor’s world
Film & Music reader interview
Kevin Smith: ‘How are you going to get laid if you look like an old person?’
September 2022
‘He got our tortoise a part in Taming of the Shrew’: Alan Rickman remembered by Emma Thompson, Eddie Izzard and more
Alan Rickman’s diaries: ‘Ang seems nervous. He probably needs a hug. Like Hugh Grant’
‘An unbelievable Die Hard rip-off’: two decades of Alan Rickman’s withering film reviews
Alan Rickman’s secret showbiz diaries: the late actor on Harry Potter, politics and what he really thought of his co-stars
August 2022
From Die Hard to The Raid: Guardian writers on their favourite action movies
As Brad Pitt’s new thriller Bullet Train arrives in cinemas, Guardian writers have picked their most exciting action films of all time
October 2021
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone review – 20 years on, it’s a nostalgic spectacular
The first film in the franchise is re-released into a very different world – but it’s as entertaining and exhilarating as ever
