Terence Davies’s sumptuous story of New York high society returns to UK cinemas this week. In our October 2000 issue, Philip Horne explored what made the film “an unpredictable, unformulaic success”.
Voting for the ever-popular LFF Audience Awards closes on Monday 20 October. The winners of Best Feature Film and Best British Feature Film categories will be announced in due course. 2024 winners of ...
The line-up leads with a season dedicated to James Cameron, the multi-Academy Award-winning mastermind behind the biggest films in the history of cinema.
American producers the Danziger brothers established a hive of brisk, low-budget genre movies and cult TV in 1950s Britain. Son of a Stranger was a crime melodrama that tapped into the current vogue ...
US indie great Richard Linklater joined the festival to talk time, hangouts and why the era when he made Dazed and Confused was ”a different world”.
Ninety years after his birth, and as a season of his films begins at the ICA, we suggest a beginner’s path through one of the heavyweights of European arthouse cinema: Greek master Theo Angelopoulos.
Vesuvius tremors, tomb raiders and patient Neapolitan Fire Brigade workers all have a part to play in Gianfranco Rosi’s poetic meditation on the fragile nature of Naples.
The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general.
One hundred years after she was born, we remember one of our favourite Angela Lansbury performances: as the malevolent mother working for the other side in John Frankenheimer’s chilling Cold War ...
The LFF closing night film is a storybook fable based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel. We spoke to director Julia Jackman about a movie rooted in fairytales but with a very contemporary call to ...
Explore about how the archive is becoming more environmentally friendly and how we're streamlining the way we collect online moving image material ...
Actor Benjamin Voisin stars as Camus’ naive anti-hero Mersault, a man who is ill at ease with his desire, in this beautifully shot black and white rendition of this classic of existentialism.