Faber & Faber’s Walter Donohue marks the 28th anniversary of Natalie Wood’s death by running an extract from Gavin Lambert’s biography of the tragic actress.

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood at her most playful

Dan Barber

Dan Barber

Scott Macaulay chats with Skip Lievsay, A Serious Man’s sound designer, about his work on the movie and his 25 years collaborating with the Coen brothers.

Larry Gopnik

Larry Gopnik fixes the TV aerial, a pivotal sonic moment in A Serious Man

To mark the release of Frankenstein on this day in 1931, Faber & Faber’s Walter Donohue runs an extract on its director from James Curtis’ biography James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters.

James Whale

James Whale directing Boris Karloff in Frankenstein.

FilmInFocus’ Nick Dawson picks out 10 films made in Liverpool that demonstrate the city’s diverse cinematic history.

Slide 1: Introduction

Liverpool's greatest cultural contribution is arguably in the field of music – from the Mersey Sound and the Beatles in the 60s to Echo & the Bunnymen, Teardrop Explodes, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood to modern day bands like The Coral and the Zutons – but it also has a considerable claim to be a major movie city too. Over the years, numerous film productions have used the city city as a backdrop (sometimes even pretending it was Russia), and there has been an impressive diversity in the movies that dropped anchor on Merseyside. In this whistle-stop tour of Liverpool-set flicks, we take you from a 1950 Ealing comedy not set in Ealing all the way through to the movie about an unlikely young millionaire that he made long before he made Slumdog.

DJ Brenda Black

DJ Brenda Black

As part of NBC Universal's Green Week, FilmInFocus' Nick Dawson looks at the burgeoning environmental film festival scene.

American Conservation Film Festival

American Conservation Film Festival

FilmInFocus presents the special musical playlists that writer-director Richard Curtis created for each of the DJs featured in Focus Features’ current release, Pirate Radio.

Angus

Angus

Nick Dawson sits down with Pirate Radio’s writer-director to discuss what he describes as his “first love.”

Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis during his stay in New York

To celebrate François Ozon’s 42nd birthday, Faber & Faber’s Walter Donohue collects together Ryan Gilbey’s take on the director and Ozon’s own perspective on the creative process.

François Ozon on set.

François Ozon on set.