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Byline: Catherine Love Star Rating: 3 stars Sheffield Theatres has revived Mike Bartlett's 2012 adaptation of Chariots of Fire in another Olympic year. Robert Hastie's production even nods to the [...]

Byline: Tim Costello As I arrange my timetable for the next two weeks to allow plenty of space to cheer on our Olympians in Paris I feel a strong sense [...]

Byline: Peter Bradshaw Star Rating: 5 stars In honour of both the imminent Paris Olympics and the centenary of the 1924 Olympics, also in Paris, here is a rerelease of [...]

Byline: Neil Duncanson 14 July 1924. Paris. Lucy Morton sat up on the pavement with a start. All around her was a cacophony of shouting. In French. The taxi she'd [...]

Byline: Neil Duncanson It takes a bit of finding, but on the front of the old Carlton hotel in the sleepy seaside town of Broadstairs hangs a blue plaque. It's [...]

Byline: Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent The Oscar-winning producer David Puttnam has issued a rallying cry to the film industry to address its yawning skills gap and grow audiences [...]

Byline: Ryan Gilbey 'The British are coming!' exclaimed the screenwriter Colin Welland at the Oscars ceremony in 1982, brandishing the statuette he had just won for Chariots of Fire (1981), [...]

Byline: Simon Wardell Pick of the week Elvis Austin Butler just bagged a Bafta for his turn as Elvis Presley, and he is the best thing in Baz Luhrmann's flamboyant [...]

Byline: Peter Bradshaw As the 1980s dawned, British ad director Hugh Hudson took on his first feature film and made it a legendary hit: an inspirational story which supplied a [...]

Byline: Ben Beaumont-Thomas Vangelis, the Greek composer and musician whose synth-driven work brought huge drama to film soundtracks including Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, has died aged 79. His [...]

Byline: Adam Sweeting The Greek composer Vangelis, who has died aged 79, always avoided becoming a trained, academic musician, and had an almost superstitious fear of analysing the nature of [...]

Byline: Keith Stuart Dennis Hopper was not happy. It was the summer of 1992, a few weeks into shooting Super Mario Bros: The Motion Picture and the atmosphere on set [...]

Byline: Dennis Barker When Colin Welland, who has died aged 81 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was handed the Oscar for his screenplay of Chariots of Fire in 1982, he [...]

Byline: Andrew Pulver For better or worse, actor and scriptwriter Colin Welland will always be remembered for the pronouncement he offered on receiving the best original screenplay Oscar for Chariots [...]

Byline: Ben Child An 'unofficial sequel' to the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire has been greenlit, thanks to Chinese fans of Olympic gold-winning runner Eric Liddell, aka the Flying [...]

Byline: Catherine Shoard Lord Puttnam, the Oscar-winning producer behind some of the most successful British films of the 1970s and 80s, including Chariots of Fire and Bugsy Malone, is to [...]

Byline: Olivier Bonnet In 1980, I was studying Spanish and French literature at St Andrews university in Scotland. I have mixed memories of student life there. After eight years at [...]

Age: 31. And it shows. Appearance: It's a piece of music. It has no visual likeness. All right then. Sounds like? Athletes jogging along a beach in slow-motion. Aha! The [...]

Byline: Peter Bradshaw Hugh Hudson's 1981 Oscar-winner (left) gets a deserved Olympic rerelease: a bold, intelligent, romantic film with all the lineaments of a classic. As the British team prepare [...]

Byline: Jack Watkins Hugh Hudson, director I think David Puttnam [the producer] chose me because he sensed I'd relate to the themes of class and racial prejudice. I'd been sent [...]

Byline: Maev Kennedy Eric Liddell rarely spoke of the extraordinary day in 1924 when, head thrown back, arms flailing, he won the 400m gold at the Paris Olympics - but [...]

Byline: Alexander McCall Smith Edinburgh, like London, has the distinction of being both a noun and an adjective. The noun is a place, a city of fragile beauty on a [...]

Byline: Michael Billington 'Will it run?' people asked when they heard that the celebrated 1981 movie was to be adapted for the stage. That question seems to have been answered [...]

Byline: Lyn Gardner Jack Lowden (light hair), who plays Liddell, and (to his right) James McArdle, who plays Abrahams, get military training. Bottom, James Baker walks 50 miles on a [...]

Byline: Mark Cook The memory of Colin Welland proclaiming 'The British are coming' at the 1981 Oscars has almost eclipsed the film that actually won the golden statuette. That and [...]

Byline: Frank Keating Radio 5 Live has been excelling itself with some reflective features far from the madding crowd of its usual breathless hurly-burly. Acclaim for Steve Bunce's revealing monograph [...]

America is a land of abiding symbols: the log cabin, the boatloads of immigrants, the wagons rolling West. So when an Olympic bald eagle drops dead of hypertension and smog-ridden [...]

Byline: Andrew Pulver Glance at the lineup of films at your local cinema and you might briefly believe you have passed through a time portal. Stirring athletics biopic Chariots of [...]

Byline: Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent For many people, the 1924 Paris Olympics will -- thanks to the 1981 film Chariots of Fire -- always be associated with slow-motion [...]

Byline: Marina Hyde Fire up a Chariots of Fire-style theme tune for the speech of the defeated Oxford captain in last Saturday's Boat Race, beamed edifyingly around the world : [...]

Byline: Alan Evans MGM's expensive remake of Ben-Hur lost the company approximately $47.8m (£37.9m), investors have been told. Related: Ben-Hur review -- chariots of dire The company released its quarterly [...]

Byline: Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome The blazing chariots of Ben-Hur have been banned from Rome's Circus Maximus, the site immortalised by the original Charlton Heston film, in a decision by [...]

Byline: Editorial Colin Welland famously exclaimed 'the British are coming!' while accepting an Oscar for Chariots of Fire in 1982. Three decades on, Mr Welland could feel a tinge of [...]

Byline: Ben Dowell 'The British are coming' promised Chariots of Fire screenwriter Colin Welland at the 1982 Oscars. But now it's British television rather than film which is leading a [...]

Byline: Lyn Gardner It's been a good year for playwright and director Mike Bartlett. Love, Love, Love played at the Royal Court and his adaptation of Chariots Of Fire is [...]

Chariots Of Fire (6.35pm, Film4) Just in case you haven't had enough Olympics, here's the stirring story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, gold medal winners at the 1924 Games [...]

Byline: Mark Cook There's a brace of openings at the Royal Court this week. On the main stage Mike Bartlett - whose new adaptation of Chariots Of Fire opens at [...]

Byline: Jason Burke, Delhi It is the marriage season in Delhi. The horse-drawn, tinsel-strung chariots cause such traffic jams that the police are running extra shifts to try to keep [...]

Byline: Patrick Kingsley You know that scene in Chariots of Fire where Eric Liddell - to the strains of Vangelis - storms home in world record time before an adoring [...]

Guardian 3/10 'A drama without a crisis' Observer 8/10 'The most rousing sport movie since Chariots of Fire' Sunday Times 8/10 'I had a lump in my throat and tears [...]

Byline: Paul Howlett Chariots Of Fire (Hugh Hudson, 1981) 1.05pm, Channel 4 Some cavilled at the slow-mo depiction of glorious British runners Liddell and Abrahams at the 1924 Olympics, but [...]

Byline: David Thomson Best Picture Hamlet The Bridge On the River Kwai Lawrence of Arabia Tom Jones A Man for All Seasons Oliver! Chariots of Fire Gandhi The English Patient [...]

Music during distance races is quite common on the continent, especially in France, where the organisers will throw in something corny like the theme from Chariots of Fire. Anything too [...]

Byline: Sukhdev Sandhu Alan Moore is best known for his comics Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell, all of which were turned into so-so or (in his opinion) no-no [...]

Byline: Compiled by Alfie Packham As part of the Guardian's series on ' the play that changed my life ', leading voices from the arts and beyond have been sharing [...]

Byline: Keith Stuart Over the past three weeks the Paris Olympics have provided some spectacular sporting moments, from incredible victories to heartbreaking defeats to Snoop Dogg standing about in full [...]

Byline: Daniel Boffey at the Stade de France Matt Hudson-Smith missed out by four-hundredths of a second on a first British gold in the men's 400m since the flying Scotsman [...]

Byline: Stephen McMillan at Stade Yves-du-Manoir 'I'd given up on my Olympic dream. I was at rock bottom and was going to quit.' Scripts that would flatter the silver screen [...]

Byline: Robert McLiam Wilson We tend to view Paris as a fairytale princess, all romance and half-seen glitter. But for all its glamour, Paris has actually been depressed and irritable [...]

Byline: Robert Kitson Leading English clubs are urging the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to accelerate their plans to introduce hybrid central contracts for a limited number of key men's international [...]