It’s a tale as old as the hills, the kind that international law says should have long been buried in them: ordinary people menaced on their land by raiding parties, invaders and occupiers waving ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Hollywood studio execs continue to plunder the comic-book archives, over in France the stock of the 19th-century novelist Alexandre Dumas is back at a premium. Last year, a pair of rollicking Three ...

As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives in cinemas, we revisit 10 films that journeyed into Greek mythology before it, finding enduring inspiration in an ancient world of gods, monsters and epic ...

A juror on a murder trial comes to suspect himself as the killer in Clint Eastwood’s terse interrogation of the American justice system. Back in the mid-Nineties, when Hollywood’s John Grisham ...

A world premiere of the restoration including a Q&A with band members will take place at BFI Southbank, before the film returns to cinemas nationwide on 2 October.

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Expanding on the BIFA-nominated short film of the same name that he made in 2019, Philip Barantini’s exhilarating Boiling Point takes us behind the scenes at a busy east London restaurant in the ...

“It’s about the power of film,” says co-founder Johanna von Fischer when asked about the inspiration behind the short film festival 16 Days 16 Films. Now in its eighth year, the festival runs annually ...

Countless column inches have been spent in odes to the voluptuous beauty of Claudia Cardinale. The Italian-Tunisian bombshell was compared with Bardot, called “‘Italy’s happiest invention” by co-star ...

There was a certain quality to the grime that gritted the window frames and car bonnets of 1980s Ireland. It may not be a detail that most viewers will notice, or perhaps they’ll notice but won’t get ...