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Eloise King’s debut documentary explores the hidden world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ – ghostwriters powering a global academic industry. Ahead of screenings in cinemas and on Channel 4, she joined ...
Hosking’s wacky two-hander imagines a rendezvous with Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, who meet at a remote ‘Scottish Cottage’ to eat veggie patties, smoke ‘doobie-woobies’ and work on an anti-racist ...
First-time director Usman Riaz embraces the old-fashioned star-crossed romance with a beautifully animated Studio Ghibli-inspired film about a young glass-blowing artist and his lost love.
The investment of £150 million over three years represents a 10% increase to support UK screen culture and industry and will build on successful interventions made since the strategy was launched in ...
As Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre arrives on Blu-ray and 4K UHD, we chart the history of the horror genre in Germany, from its uncanny beginnings in the silent era.
In charismatic performances of immense restraint over more than half a century, Robert Redford blended traditionalism, predictability and inscrutability to great effect. From our January 2019 issue.
Bigelow’s story of US government officials facing an escalating nuclear threat is a masterclass in tension-building, with top-notch performances from an ensemble cast that includes Idris Elba and ...
Kicking off a new series celebrating the 200th anniversary of the UK’s passenger railways, curator Steven Foxon offers a whistle-stop tour of the long-running love affair between cinema and trains, ...
In her six films in the UK in the late 1920s and early 30s, Asian-American star Anna May Wong challenged the norms of representation in British cinema, forging her own unique brand of transnational ...
All copies are now lost, but the 1950s TV show The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong was a genuine landmark in television history: the first show with an Asian-American star and the first centred around a ...
Transposing the story of the recent Nazi destruction of a Czech mining village to the Welsh valleys, Jennings’ 1943 film The Silent Village was a powerful alternative-history story that prompted a ...
Werner Herzog’s Aguirre is a fevered descent into madness and myth, where colonial ambition meets cosmic futility. Blending hallucinatory Romanticism with Brechtian realism, his jungle epic becomes a ...