As Alan Pakula’s Watergate thriller turns 50, we revisit Richard Combs’ assessment of its masterful pacing, controlled performances and potent tension. From our Summer 1976 issue.

From Coffin Joe’s blasphemous birth in the 1960s to today’s socially charged nightmares, Brazilian horror has repeatedly repurposed global genre tropes to confront religion, patriarchy, class and ...

Opera director Damiano Michieletto discusses bringing Antonio Vivaldi’s early Venetian years to the screen in Primavera, a film that blends Baroque music, modern soundscapes and a quietly radical ...

Filmed exclusively on the original home movie format and with 80 different antique Super 8 cameras, Ed Sayers’ film celebrates our universal connection to nature.

Following A Passage to India, David Lean took a public vote for which big novel to adapt next. Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo proved a popular suggestion, but sadly Lean died before cameras rolled. These ...

Following a Colorado cowboy (Josh O’Connor) who must piece his life back together after losing his ranch to a wildfire, Max Walker-Silverman’s quietly powerful film is an ode to family and community.

As Moulin Rouge! turns 25 and with Strictly Ballroom returning to cinemas, we plunge into the giddying, maximalist cinema of Baz Luhrmann and his tales of glamour, showmanship and doomed love.

These sumptuous sketches by the Chilean-born British designer Olga Lehmann were created for the 1977 version of The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Richard Chamberlain, Jenny Agutter and Patrick ...

Kawamura Genki’s adaptation of The Exit 8 walking simulator game traps a man in the corridors of a Japanese metro station, using endless repetition to terrifying effect.

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 ...

Petzoldian alienation blends with a strangely restorative world view in the story of Laura (Paula Beer), a woman taken in by a family who seem to be keeping a tragic secret.

Scrapper director Charlotte Regan joined a BFI Film Academy masterclass with production designer Amy Maguire and cinematographer Chris Sabogal to discuss their new BBC crime show Mint and their ...