The laidback grace of actor Sam Neill – droll, unfussed by celebrity, and an advocate of the proverbial underdog – made him a national treasure for New Zealanders, who have always been deeply ...

Our season of Chabrol’s cool, deliciously wicked thrillers runs at BFI Southbank from 1 September to 6 October, with a BFI Distribution re-release of La Femme infidèle returning to cinemas in the UK ...

For decades, Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide have been waiting for the restoration of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. Produced by Stoll Pictures between 1921 and 1923, the collection is the ...

Every day, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) listens to the thoughts of mortals who play their lives out on the streets of West Berlin. He finds himself entranced by a trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin) whose ...

Hearing the sad news on a rainy day in Seoul, I find myself drifting back through old memories. Back to the day I first met Tony, thirty-two years ago. It was 1994. Tony was proofreading the English ...

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5 things to know about The Red Shoes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ravishing film about a dancer ...

While the Evil Dead introduced that prime location for horror cinema, the cabin in the woods, Lee Cronin’s recent sequel/reboot Evil Dead Rise (2023) instead began and ended with a lake, and that is ...

The UK release of the new 4k restoration of Sumitra Peries’s The Girls (Gehenu Lamai, 1978) has thrown a spotlight onto the at times turbulent world of Sri Lankan cinema. Though often eclipsed by the ...

The British critic and programmer was a world renowned expert in East Asian cinema, helping to bring many major Asian filmmakers to international attention.

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When his films first shocked, charmed, and terrorised theatres in the 70s and 80s, John Waters was an unlikely candidate for mainstream canonisation. But here we are, with six of his feature films now ...