François Ozon has brought Albert Camus’s classic existentialist novel The Stranger to the screen in brooding, Bressonian black-and-white. He tells us about drawing out the sensual elements of the ...

Mad Max, The Babadook, The Cars That Ate Paris... these first-time filmmakers showed us how to make a killer calling-card.

Designed by celebrated graphic artist Edward McKnight Kauffer, this 1938 brochure commemorated the 100th screening of the Film Society, the influential bohemian group who revolutionised film ...

Best known for playing stiff-upper-lip Brits, Clive Brook made only one feature as director: a period comedy set during the ‘naughty ’90s’ which is packed with modern humour and visual ingenuity.

Robert Pattinson and Zendaya star as a happily engaged couple whose idyll begins to dissolve when the bride-to-be makes a shock confession in an absurdist comedy from provocateur director Kristoffer ...

In Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, Kim Novak is the one doing the looking, casting a critical eye over her career, her professional relationship with Alfred Hitchcock and the 1958 film that made ...

Up to £150,000 will be available per project from experienced UK producers and creative leads with a track record in immersive or related screen-based practice.

Johnson, David Mackenzie’s deftly edited crime caper sees a group of men attempt to rob a bank while the military and police are busy defusing a bomb.

On the cover: the Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin on Rose of Nevada and the alchemy of analogue Inside the issue: As Otomo Katsuhiro’s Akira returns to UK cinemas nearly four decades on, Roger Luckhurst ...

Co-directors Chris Petit and Emma Matthews explore their son’s experience of epilepsy and their own struggle to find him adequate medical care in an essayistic film that has a flavour of Adam Curtis’s ...

A major two-month film season will celebrate Monroe’s 100th anniversary, with a BFI Distribution re-release of The Misfits in UK and Irish cinemas from 5 June.

Few people could lay as much claim as Sir Alec Guinness to being the face of British cinema. He was a commanding and welcome presence in film, theatre and television for over half a century, more ...