Between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weird and wonderful film production line in communist East Germany included sci-fi, westerns, film noir and some uniquely ...

Isabel Davis will lead the BFI’s £20 million annual Filmmaking Funds and its strategic support for UK independent filmmakers when she joins from Screen Scotland as Director on a five-year contract ...

Field’s grasp of global cinema history and abiding desire to discover new films and filmmakers of interest made him an exemplary programmer. But his considerable success as a festival director and ...

Fifty years after the release of Bugsy Malone, we share the illustrations with which director Alan Parker first imagined the idea of a gangster musical in which all of the parts would be played by ...

You wonder whether Imran Perretta was thinking of Kes (1969) when he gave a three-letter name to his own film about a painful childhood. Ish might, to a degree, be categorised as British realism in ...

Director-author Helen Walsh’s previous works have included tough tales set in working-class communities, sometimes focusing on sexuality and forbidden passion. In her 2014 novel The Lemon Grove, a ...

At the end of 2011, I drove out to Virginia Water with a colleague, to collect a film donation to the BFI National Archive. Meeting actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes at his Surrey home is a treasured ...

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Ghost World plays on 25 July at Cinema Rediscovered, running from 22 to 26 July, as part of its ‘Comics Come Alive’ strand. Two Satanists are strolling down Lincoln Boulevard. It’s a dry, sunny ...

The monstrous-feminine on screen: the changing face of cinema’s female monsters ...

Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s witty portrait of a Broadway diva (Bette Davis) fending off age, rivals, and anxieties about the loyalty of a fan-turned-assistant (Anne Baxter) is packed with bitchy banter. A ...

Racial tensions reach boiling point in Spike Lee’s incandescent portrait of a Brooklyn neighbourhood on the hottest day of the year.