Director Wim Wenders often made films about journeying. Famed for his distinctly more pessimistic, European take on the American road movie form, Wenders regularly looked at journeys heading nowhere ...

Not only was Ingmar Bergman one of the greatest artists in the history of cinema, he was also one of the most prolific. Chalking up over 60 films as director, he worked quickly with regular ...

A kaleidoscopic tribute to oneiric cinema, Gerald Fox’s Kinaesthesia reimagines the film-history documentary as a drifting dream, guided by the words and ideas of his former teacher, the great ...

Tom Holland’s Peter Parker returns amid an existential crisis in a brand-extension blockbuster that lacks the springy spontaneity of Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Fifty years after the release of Bugsy Malone, we share the illustrations with which director Alan Parker first imagined the idea of a gangster musical in which all of the parts would be played by ...

Helen Walsh’s On the Sea stars Barry Ward as a married mussel farmer in rural North Wales whose affair with a younger deckhand threatens his family and community ties.

Like the porn industry it puts under the microscope, Adult Material knows that where there’s muck, there’s brass. So this bold, ambitiously over-stuffed miniseries opens on porn-star heroine Jolene ...

Between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weird and wonderful film production line in communist East Germany included sci-fi, westerns, film noir and some uniquely ...

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Pensioners Madeleine and Nina are neighbours and lovers whose relationship is thrown into turmoil by a sudden illness in Filippo Meneghetti’s absorbing first feature. In Filippo Meneghetti’s ...

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