Countless column inches have been spent in odes to the voluptuous beauty of Claudia Cardinale. The Italian-Tunisian bombshell was compared with Bardot, called “‘Italy’s happiest invention” by co-star ...

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 ...

When Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country) was finally released in 1946, ten years after it was shot, it was hailed as an ‘unfinished masterpiece’. Since then, Jean Renoir's masterly adaptation of ...

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 ...

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.

There was a certain quality to the grime that gritted the window frames and car bonnets of 1980s Ireland. It may not be a detail that most viewers will notice, or perhaps they’ll notice but won’t get ...

James Gunn has history with superheroes. His personal arc from mockery to belief is as affecting as his decision to put Krypto – Superman’s caped, super-powered pet dog, invented in the 1950s and ...

How much do we really know about our parents? This question has motivated Catalan filmmaker Carla Simón across a loose cycle of films, albeit with particular poignancy. Simón’s biological parents died ...

Legendary Salford playwright Shelagh Delaney was just 19 when she finished writing A Taste of Honey and it was performed for the first time, 20 when her play was transferred to the West End, and 21 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Portrait of a Lady on Fire demonstrates Céline Sciamma’s ability to make a timelessly beautiful film that also crystallises the gender politics of her era.