This week we hear from PhD researcher Rebecca Humphreys‑Lamford about their experiences undertaking a placement with the BFI to explore asexuality in the archive.

A haunted Irish hotel becomes a site of personal reckoning for a haunted man played by Adam Scott in Damian McCarthy’s surreal horror-comedy.

In this poignant story of a teen athlete ostracised by his teammates after a traumatising accident, Belgian director Valéry Carnoy captures the volatile nature of adolescent masculinity with striking ...

Croatian actor Slavko Sobin is the emotional core of Thea Gajić’s sensitive debut film, which follows a Serbian musician and recovering addict who is trying to keep his life on track.

From Coffin Joe’s blasphemous birth in the 1960s to today’s socially charged nightmares, Brazilian horror has repeatedly repurposed global genre tropes to confront religion, patriarchy, class and ...

As Alan Pakula’s Watergate thriller turns 50, we revisit Richard Combs’ assessment of its masterful pacing, controlled performances and potent tension. From our Summer 1976 issue.

Filmed exclusively on the original home movie format and with 80 different antique Super 8 cameras, Ed Sayers’ film celebrates our universal connection to nature.

Opera director Damiano Michieletto discusses bringing Antonio Vivaldi’s early Venetian years to the screen in Primavera, a film that blends Baroque music, modern soundscapes and a quietly radical ...

Following A Passage to India, David Lean took a public vote for which big novel to adapt next. Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo proved a popular suggestion, but sadly Lean died before cameras rolled. These ...

Following a Colorado cowboy (Josh O’Connor) who must piece his life back together after losing his ranch to a wildfire, Max Walker-Silverman’s quietly powerful film is an ode to family and community.

As Moulin Rouge! turns 25 and with Strictly Ballroom returning to cinemas, we plunge into the giddying, maximalist cinema of Baz Luhrmann and his tales of glamour, showmanship and doomed love.

These sumptuous sketches by the Chilean-born British designer Olga Lehmann were created for the 1977 version of The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Richard Chamberlain, Jenny Agutter and Patrick ...