Struggling writer

Philippe Harel's Whatever (1999).

Cheap and fearful

Roger Corman's The Fall of the House of Usher (1960).

Spielberg backs blockbuster Memoirs of a Geisha

All-star cast and Oscar-winning director Rob Marshall to work on prestige novel adaptation

The brotherhood of Mann

Istvan Szabo's Mephisto (1981)

Air craft

The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier, adapted by Alfred Hitchcock.

A day in the country

Jean Renoir's Partie de Campagne (1936)

A hard K’s night

Orson Welles's The Trial (1962).

Crossing genders

Sally Potter's Orlando (1993)

Screwball comedy

WS Van Dyke's The Thin Man (1934)

Dramatic props

Lindsay Anderson's This Sporting Life (1963)

Can you remember it?

Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall (1990)

In brief: Warm reception forecast for Fahrenheit 9/11

Plus: Viggo Mortensen in talks for graphic novel adaptation, and Keira Knightley to star in silver screen treatment of Pride and Prejudice

Xtc etc.

Bernard Rose's Ivansxtc (2000)

In brief: Harry Potter in violent grisly death shock

Plus: Gary Oldman considers The Longest Yard, and stars line up for Da Vinci Code adaptation