Geoffrey Macnab has been writing about film for The Independent since the 1990s. He is also a senior correspondent at Screen International. His books include āStairways to Heaven: Rebuilding the British Film Industryā (2018), āIngmar Bergman: The Life and Films of the Last Great European Directorā, āDelivering Dreams: A Century of British Film Distributionā, āThe Making of Taxi Driverā, āSearching for Stars: Stardom and Screen Acting in British Cinemaā, āScreen Epiphaniesā and āJ Arthur Rank and the British Film Industryā.