As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives in cinemas, we revisit 10 films that journeyed into Greek mythology before it, finding enduring inspiration in an ancient world of gods, monsters and epic ...

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.

The list of 13 ‘Love Stories’ recommended to the BFI by Emerald Fennell, director of Promising Young Woman, Saltburn, and now her explosive “Wuthering Heights”, is a carefully considered programme ...

The director of Ex Machina and Annihilation, Alex Garland is back with a folk horror film for the #MeToo era. We spoke to him about Green Man imagery, body-horror effects and the influence of anime.

In her latest documentary, We, Alice Diop wanders the route of the RER B, following the screeching halts and blinking fluorescence of this creaky, artificially-lit commuter train. While Diop’s camera ...

Forty years ago, a landmark film by Lebanese director Heiny Srour centred the less visible stories and histories of women in Lebanon and Palestine through an audacious feminist rewriting. Now ...

Silent Sherlock Holmes series of the 1920s gets major restoration project The on-screen Sherlock Holmes who had the approval of Arthur Conan Doyle himself, Eille Norwood starred in a series of 1920s ...

In August 1986, Hong Kong was running out of Ray Bans. Director John Woo and producer Tsui Hark had just unveiled their brooding action epic A Better Tomorrow, a tale of treachery and brotherhood ...

A mammoth adventure epic that shot for 91 days across six months in six countries and cost a reported $250 million to make, The Odyssey is a cinematic beast worthy of its own mythology. Adapting and ...

The winner of Sight and Sound magazine’s hugely anticipated and world-renowned Greatest Films of All Time Critics’ poll 2022 is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ...

Like Whit Stillman’s Barcelona, Before Sunrise was backed by Castle Rock, and the two films also share their basic premise: young Americans broaden their minds through encounters with European women ...

Maya Deren (1917–61) once wrote: “In film I can make the world dance.” And that’s exactly what she did. Born in Kyiv 100 years ago, Deren is one of the most influential figures in American avant-garde ...