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 ...

Restoration of Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases to premiere at the 68th BFI London Film Festival The BFI National Archive’s major new project – the restoration of a series of films starring Eille ...

Stanley Kubrick was undoubtedly a child of the Bronx, but the great director – who died 25 years ago on 7 March 1999 – spent much of his creative life in Britain, in particular in the outer orbit of ...

Uberto Pasolini’s reworking of The Odyssey shuns spectacle to craft a potent, grown-up character study that mines the emotional core of Homer’s epic. Adapting just the poem’s second half, The Return ...

Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti… Italy has certainly produced more than its fair share of world-class female stars. Towering above them all – in terms ...

John Boorman was always ambitious. Getting his start making films for the BBC’s Documentary Unit, the ‘suburban boy’ was running that department by age 29; then, having directed just one feature, the ...

Plus on stage appearances from Ridley Scott, Tim Burton, Neil Tennant, Nadia Fall, Pooja Kaul, David Mitchell, Robert Webb and more. A free exhibition, Ridley Scott: Building Cinematic Worlds, will ...

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 ...

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 ...