All it took was one very special screen test for Audrey Hepburn’s career to take flight. Read the letter that led to her star-making role in Roman Holiday.

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 ...

The acclaimed actor makes imaginative choices with his first feature, an exploration of addiction and homelessness led by an outstanding performance from Frank Dillane.

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

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

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.

As a new documentary about Warren Ellis arrives in cinemas, we spoke to the veteran composer and Bad Seed about four of his finest scores and a favourite soundtrack he didn’t write.

The showcase event screens exclusive extracts from each project introduced by their filmmakers to an invited audience of international buyers, UK sales agents and festival programmers.

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.

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.