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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
First-time director Usman Riaz explains how a pirate VHS tape of Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) sparked his love for animation and led to his own landmark hand-drawn feature, The Glassworker.
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’ ...
The author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Shy discusses his new film with Cillian Murphy, the fine art of adaptation and the pleasurable ‘dry-stone walling’ of screenplay writing.