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The Spanish director Jonás Trueba finds humour in the ephemerality of romance with the story of a longterm couple who are planning a big party to celebrate their break-up.
Influential film theorist and filmmaker Peter Wollen was a compulsive list-maker. His notebook contains fascinating lists on many themes, including this rundown of ’diabolical doctors’.
One hundred years after his birth, we pick a path through the films of the melancholy maestro of Indian cinema, Guru Dutt.
Unravelling the myth and mayhem of Apocalypse Now’s troubled shoot, Hearts of Darkness is the ’making of’ movie to end them all. As it returns to cinemas in a new restoration, co-director Fax Bahr ...
Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw plays a mother and daughter at odds under the Spanish sun in the new film of Deborah Levy’s novel Hot Milk. To greet its cinema release, we recommend 10 more films exploring ...
The celebrated British game designer has gone back to his globe-trotting conspiracy game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars for a new tweaked edition. He tells us what’s changed, and why there ...
German film director Andreas Dresen creates a human-sized story rather than a heroic one with his portrayal of anti-Nazi dissents Hilde and Hans Coppi, set during Hilde’s trial for treason in wartime ...
Director Gerard Johnstone takes a Terminator 2 approach with this funny, scaled-up sequel to his popular 2022 horror, which sees M3GAN tasked with defeating a world-threatening AI fembot.
As Blondie singer Debbie Harry turns 80, we remember her coolly controlled aura and dangerous mystique in David Cronenberg’s stomach-churning psychosexual satire Videodrome.
As Shane Meadows' indie marvel TwentyFourSeven arrives on Blu-ray, we recommend 10 other monochrome masterpieces of the modern era, from directors including Christopher Nolan, Sally Potter and Isaac ...
Director Hind Meddeb’s timely and arresting new documentary chronicles the the lives of Sudanese citizens in Khartoum during 2019’s uprising after the fall of president Omar al Bashir.
The BFI, BAFTA albert, and ScreenSkills have launched the UK’s first National Occupational Standards and skills checklists for sustainability roles in film and TV production – marking a major step ...