Cinema Novo was Brazil’s New Wave, a revolutionary body of films that reinvented Brazilian moviemaking via revolt, politics and radical style – with an impact that was felt around the world.
At BFI Southbank from 18 to 19 July, the festival returns with a programme of premieres, talks and events championing disabled filmmaking, community and creativity.
Seventy-five years after the 1951 Festival of Britain brought the nation a mood of post-war optimism and excitement about the arts, this week’s object from the archive is the supplement that Sight and ...
The American director’s third narrative feature explores the relationship between the spectator and the spectated with a meta story of a young director who has been tasked with reviving a cult horror ...
Na Hong-jin follows up his cult horror The Wailing with a maximalist monster movie that takes its cue from the pure action cinema of Mad Max: Fury Road.
In the first of a new series celebrating films returning to the spotlight in new restorations, Tony Rayns looks at an erotic Manila nightlife drama that troubled the censors but launched a subgenre of ...
Alongside this latest round of awards, the UK Global Screen Fund has today launched its brand new Video Games Release funding, designed to support UK video game developers to moun ...
The concluding chapter of the director’s Cairo trilogy is an angry portrait of censorship, propaganda and complicity under the rule of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Great 8’ is the BFI and British Council’s annual showcase of new UK feature films from first-time and early career filmmakers, which will be shown to programmers and distributors attending the Cannes ...
With faking and forgery at the heart of Steven Soderbergh’s new art-world drama The Christophers, we went looking for further frauds on film and came up with these 10 genuine originals.
Marilyn Monroe at 100 Inside the issue: the fifth anniversary of the Black Film Bulletin’s return to print; At the movies with Guillermo del Toro; Brazilian cinema in focus; Scanners Inc on their ...
As Leaving Las Vegas returns three decades on, director Mike Figgis revisits the making of his bruising story of addiction, how he reinvented his career through radical low‑budget filmmaking, and his ...