As Perfect Blue returns to cinemas, we introduce the small but perfectly formed oeuvre of Satoshi Kon, a visionary of grown-up animation whose films blur the boundary between reality and fantasy, and ...

Before Kathryn Bigelow’s new thriller A House of Dynamite, the presidential home has played many parts: a house of conspiracy, a house of romance, even a house of divine ...

Revolutionary voices and radical cinema arrive on demand, including Black History Month, Terence Davies, melodrama and more.

In part one of a special, two-part edition of the blog, colleagues discuss their contributions to this year’s hugely popular open day.

A groundbreaking Sri Lankan film with a uniquely feminine perspective, The Girls (Gehenu Lamai) wowed critics in the late 1970s and is now returning in a new restoration.

The Story of Rocky Horror hitting UK cinemas this week, we revisit an exploration of how midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show resurrected the idea of cinema as community. From our ...

José Ramón Soroiz gives a spirited performance as a newly single gay man whose sexual freedom is cut short by illness in this well-crafted crowdpleaser that puts its focus squarely on the people.

The juries for this year‘s festival awards will be led by Elizabeth Karlsen (Official Competition), Kibwe Tavares (First Feature Competition), Eloïse King (Documentary Competition) and Ming-Jung Kuo ...

Vividly shot on 16mm, Mark Jenkin’s film about two Cornish fishermen who return from sea to find they have slipped 30 years in the past is a tale of the fantastic, but it’s rooted in the bleak ...

Cardinale, who has died aged 87, was one of the defining faces of postwar European film, a performer of magnetic presence and emotional depth who appeared in several classics of world cinema.