From Snow White to Cinderella, the story of fairytales on film

Genies, princesses, fairy godmothers … from Disney’s earliest days, cinema has always been enchanted by fairytales. With the new Cinderella on release, Michael Newton picks out moments of movie magic

Winnie the Pooh: bear of little brain walks again

AA Milne’s much-loved children’s classic to be revived by Disney as a live action film, following success of Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella

Far From the Madding Crowd review: Carey Mulligan shines in Hardy perennial

Thomas (Festen) Vinterberg turns out to be a half-eccentric, half-inspired choice to direct Thomas Hardy’s rural tragedy, nearly 50 years after John Schlesinger’s classic adaptation

The film that makes me cry: Fantastic Mr Fox

Wes Anderson’s sophisticated hero hides a dark secret beneath his starched collar – he’s neither fully man nor beast. But then, all of us share this tragic quality

Martin Scorsese may direct film of Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth

Branagh reveals in radio interview that Scorsese will be invited to ‘do what he will’ with Shakespeare villainy based on acclaimed Manchester production

Sam Taylor-Johnson departs Fifty Shades of Grey movie sequels

Director will not return for Fifty Shades Darker; also departing is screenwriter Kelly Marcel, with novelist EL James taking reins

BBC Films reach 25th anniversary with Armando Iannucci’s David Copperfield

Dickens adaptation from In the Loop director announced to coincide with BBC’s celebration of milestone for its successful feature film arm

My highlight: Suite Française by Caroline Moorehead

Kristin Scott Thomas and Michelle Williams bring Irène Némirovsky’s superb novel about occupied France movingly to life in Saul Dibb’s excellent film

Director Sarah Polley paired up with Little Women adaptation

Canadian film-maker to helm latest big-screen version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel about four sisters coming of age in 19th-century New England

Far from the Madding Crowd review – seductive swordplay, psychedelic cows

Julie Christie is luminous and Terence Stamp a blade-twirling dazzler in John Schlesinger’s classic adaptation of Thomas Hardy

Richard Glatzer obituary

Film director and writer whose own illness informed the making of Still Alice, the award-winning movie about Alzheimer’s

Terence Stamp: ‘I was in my prime, but when the 60s ended, I ended with it’

He was the star of some of the decade’s most memorable films – and dated some of its most beautiful women. With the reissue of 1967’s Far From the Madding Crowd, the actor talks about his friendship with Michael Caine and his topsy-turvy career

Reese Witherspoon to play US soldier killed in Afghanistan

After patriotic success of American Sniper, Hollywood tackles story of Ashley White, and a team of pioneering elite women soldiers deployed on the battlefield

In for a Penny: Who would make the most spine-chilling Pennywise the killer clown?

True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga will direct the first big-screen version of Stephen King’s It, but he’s struggling to cast the sadistic shape shifter. Here are six suggestions

Far From The Madding Crowd: still seductive and shocking

A forthcoming remake will do well to match the power of John Schlesinger’s 1967 Hardy adaptation, which is rereleased this week