From Sun Ra’s origins to the future of climate‑ravaged memory, this year’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival presented vital new works tackling archival practice and spotlighted early films by Bill ...
This week learn more about the latest stops on the Inside the Archive exhibition tour and the sequel to a BFI Replay workshop.
Directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard construct a fictional ’Ministry of Not Forgetting’ led by Tilda Swinton to investigate the cultural legacy of Marianne Faithfull in a didactic documentary that ...
From The Searchers to It Was Just an Accident, kidnapping stories have provided tense movie drama ever since the silent era. As Gus Van Sant’s new thriller Dead Man’s Wire goes on release, we pin down ...
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s treacly alien buddy comedy about an astronaut stranded in outer space gives even the most curmudgeonly among us things to laugh at.
From hobbit to horror diehard, Elijah Wood dives into Ready or Not 2 and discusses working with David Cronenberg and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and the secrets of a good scare.
Bi Gan’s third feature is a chameleonic journey through a century of filmmaking. Here the director discusses finding inspiration in classic folk tales, and the fundamental mystery of perspective.
Baz Luhrmann’s all-raving Moulin Rouge – returning to cinemas this week for its 25th anniversary – is not just an ambitious stab at reviving the musical, it is also a rapturous blend of cultural ...
Look inside Derek Jarman’s scrapbook for Blue, where notes, drawings and clippings reveals the research, process and imagination behind his devastating and austere final film.
Long overshadowed by 16mm and 8mm, the curious 9.5mm format once opened a doorway to cinema for home audiences and young filmmakers alike – and today stands as a vital archive of films that survive ...
Fernando Eimbcke’s sharp eye for composition captures the restless present tense of childhood in a bittersweet film about a young boy in Mexico City trying to make sense of his mother’s illness.
London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary, we travel back through its history to select 40 queer cinema classics that you might not have seen.