Director Justin Kurzel’s first documentary offers poignant insight into the world of Warren Ellis as it follows the musician to the animal sanctuary he co-founded with activist Femke den Haas.
As Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre arrives on Blu-ray and 4K UHD, we chart the history of the horror genre in Germany, from its uncanny beginnings in the silent era.
Shot on the streets of the Italian capital at the end of the Second World War, Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City was made under precarious conditions but created an earthquake in film history with ...
Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro on reanimating Frankenstein. Inside the issue: A journey to the Zanzibar International Film Festival in the Black Film Bulletin, an interview with The ...
From The Ice Storm to Inherent Vice: 10 period pieces that capture a nation caught between the aftershocks of the 60s and the dawn of Reagan era.
As Billy Elliot turns 25, we revisit an interview with its director Stephen Daldry on the film’s political context, emotional rhythms and expressive physicality. From our October 2000 issue.
Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie have fantastic chemistry, but instead of a grand romance, Kogonada’s magic realist road trip is about two lonely people sharing their emotional baggage.
Highlights include filmmakers Jon M. Chu discussing his groundbreaking vision of Oz in the Wicked films, and Rian Johnson on Knives Out and the art of whodunnit.
Amid intense debate and anticipation, the UK got its second ever TV channel 70 years ago – a rival to the BBC. Curator Lisa Kerrigan looks back at ITV’s busy launch and the early programmes that ...
In charismatic performances of immense restraint over more than half a century, Robert Redford blended traditionalism, predictability and inscrutability to great effect. From our January 2019 issue.
Olivier Assayas makes the distracting decision to have half the cast speaking in English accents, but his political drama about Vladimir Putin (Jude Law) and his spin doctor (Paul Dano) shows great ...
Nadia Fall’s film about two teenage girls fleeing their British seaside town to join ISIS recalls the exuberant portraits of teens in Girlhood (2014) and Rocks (2019), focusing on the girls’ ...