Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol are the comedian-filmmakers behind hit web series and TV show Nirvanna the Band. In their anarchic new big-screen mockumentary, they go back to the future in a film ...

Andy Mundy Castle's thoughtful documentary follows British photographer Misan Harriman as he examines the clash between documenting injustice and earning social currency from it.

The Italian director Francesco Sossai’s boozy road movie avoids grand epiphanies, instead painting a leisurely textured portrait of desolate spaces, and day to day living.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For as long as there have been dinner parties, astute observers have been attuned to that most cinematic of dinner party ingredients: drama. Seat a group of people – whether close-knit or barely ...

Projects supported with P&A grants for the release of a single UK film across a grouping of at least four international territories were I Swear, Pillion, Wasteman, Broken English and Palestine 36.

A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content. Battleship Potemkin is renowned for its dynamic ...

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