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.

The laidback grace of actor Sam Neill – droll, unfussed by celebrity, and an advocate of the proverbial underdog – made him a national treasure for New Zealanders, who have always been deeply ...

The video essay has become a defining form of online culture, steadily growing in popularity among both creators and audiences. As part of Our Screen Heritage, our project to establish the BFI ...

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 ...

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 ...

When his films first shocked, charmed, and terrorised theatres in the 70s and 80s, John Waters was an unlikely candidate for mainstream canonisation. But here we are, with six of his feature films now ...

In films such as Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita (1960) and 8½ (1963), the lives of the rich and fashionable were gradually picked apart, showing the emotional void underneath the sharp suits and ...

Two years on from its premiere at Cannes, arthouse auteur and multihyphenate Takeshi Kitano’s latest feature, Kubi, still awaits a UK release, but in April it made its debut on these shores as the ...

While the Evil Dead introduced that prime location for horror cinema, the cabin in the woods, Lee Cronin’s recent sequel/reboot Evil Dead Rise (2023) instead began and ended with a lake, and that is ...

Among its many qualities, one factor behind the staying power of Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day (1993) is the relatability of its premise: feeling trapped in relentlessly mundane routines. Monotony can ...

The camera snakes out of the flat, above a line of trees and through the high-rise buildings, as the haunting, jarring tune blasts out over the housing project. A moment later the scene cuts and ...