Although it rarely features in top 100 lists, Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker (1964) played a significant role in shaping 1960s American cinema. Yet, it was almost never made and sat in a vault for ...

Between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weird and wonderful film production line in communist East Germany included sci-fi, westerns, film noir and some uniquely ...

After years working as a film critic at publications like Cahiers du Cinéma, along with peers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer, Truffaut became one of the most significant directors of the ...

Fifty years after the release of Bugsy Malone, we share the illustrations with which director Alan Parker first imagined the idea of a gangster musical in which all of the parts would be played by ...

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A world premiere of the restoration including a Q&A with band members will take place at BFI Southbank, before the film returns to cinemas nationwide on 2 October.

Alfred Hitchcock once said “the beauty of a matte shot is that you can become God.” Hollywood extravagance is often associated with elaborate sets and huge locations. But the humble matte painting ...

Sammo Hung is fresh off a masterclass at the Tokyo International Film Festival and nobody is totally calm. He’s being fanned like royalty and subjected to photo after photo. Backstage I meet two ...

Perhaps it’s a mark of shifting demographics, or a sign of gradually eroding stigmas, but it’s notable that over the past decade or so we’ve seen a string of prestigious films about dementia.

What I love about watching Jaws now is that for all the technology that exists, which didn’t exist 50 years ago, there’s nothing new that’s been invented that makes moving that pneumatic shark on a ...

Carl Theodor Dreyer’s rapturous silent masterpiece, with soulful close-ups of Renée Jeanne “Maria” Falconetti’s tremulous martyr, transcending tyranny and temporality.

Although, today, the racism of his Southern epic The Birth of a Nation (1915) has rightly made D.W. Griffith a controversial figure, there’s no denying the impact that his films had on his ...