A beginner’s path through the career of Peter Weir, from his beginnings in the Australian New Wave to making some of the most vivid and transporting Hollywood films of the 1980s and 90s.

BFI Southbank announces a major two-month season celebrating the rich and diverse history of Brazilian Cinema.

In the 26 film reviews written by Orwell during World War II, the novelist’s analysis was more politically than cinematically minded. From our Autumn 1979 issue.

From The Searchers to It Was Just an Accident, kidnapping stories have provided tense movie drama ever since the silent era. As Gus Van Sant’s new thriller Dead Man’s Wire goes on release, we pin down ...

Following the success of Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and The Exorcist (1973), the unofficial, iconic ‘demon child’ trilogy was completed in style with Richard Donner’s The Omen. Gregory Peck and Lee Remick ...

Baz Luhrmann’s all-raving Moulin Rouge – returning to cinemas this week for its 25th anniversary – is not just an ambitious stab at reviving the musical, it is also a rapturous blend of cultural ...

Peretta’s debut feature follows two 12-year-old best friends who are navigating childhood against a backdrop of political tension and personal loss.

Longtime John Waters collaborator Mink Stole and cult drag icon Peaches Christ reflect on their unlikely creative partnership, the radical legacy of ‘trash cinema’, and how their latest show ...

The fund has awarded £200,000 to British Screen Forum to focus on mapping and improving analysis of data related to financing, audience engagement and commercial performance of independent film.

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.

Starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona, Michael Angelo Covino’s wry comedy about two couples’ experiments with ethical non-monogamy revives the screwball in delightfully slapstick fashion.

Directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard construct a fictional ’Ministry of Not Forgetting’ led by Tilda Swinton to investigate the cultural legacy of Marianne Faithfull in a didactic documentary that ...