Filmmaker Ross McElwee distills his grief over the loss of his child into a powerful memory archive of home movies, clips from previous films, and footage shot by his late son, Adrian.
Mathilde Arcel gives a committed performance as a Danish housemaid haunted by a secret that threatens her new life, but el-Toukhy’s Golden Lion-winner fails to give its (anti)heroine a personality ...
Mathilde Arcel gives a committed performance as a young housemaid haunted by her relationship with a Germain soldier, but el-Toukhy’s Golden Lion-winner fails to give its heroine a personality beyond ...
Ahead of our Blu-ray release of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space and a big-screen celebration of Roger Corman’s centenary, we sift for gold among the pulp pleasures and cheapo ingenuity of the sci-fi ...
In dark comedy Bad Apples, Saoirse Ronan plays a teacher driven to drastic measures to stop disruption in her class. She talks to us about breaking bad on screen, a favourite podcast, and where her ...
Florin Serban’s drama about a xenophobic attack that causes a respected Romanian doctor's world to unravel unfolds with the patient elegance of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s films, but its hard to connect with ...
With BFI Southbank’s Claude Chabrol retrospective Elements of Crime in full swing and La Femme infidèle (1969) re-released in cinemas this week, we revisit an interview with the prolific French ...
As Claude Chabrol’s classic psychological thriller La Femme infidèle returns to cinemas, discover 10 films in which affairs, betrayals and forbidden desires send ordinary lives spinning into obsession ...
Annouchka de Andrade is curator of the BFI Southbank season ‘A Poet with a Camera: The Cinema of Sarah Maldoror’. She is also Maldoror’s daughter, and since her mother’s death has been working to ...
Two decades after the premiere of Children of Men, we track down the exact spots where Alfonso Cuarón filmed his modern dystopian classic.
Director Lance Oppenheim attempts to crawl into the psyche of Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson), star of the real-life true crime series To Catch a Predator, but Primetime never gets below the surface ...
Directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s devastating documentary features interviews with 24 Israeli intelligence and military insiders to expose the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian ...