It seems as though a new documentary about a legendary band pops up every week – but what separates the wheat from the chaff?
By Ralph Jones
Dan Perri, the man behind some of the film world's most iconic credits sequences, reflects on half a century of his work.
By Lucy Peters
How the doc maestro turned his hand to (musical!) fiction in his compelling and singular new film, The End.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, James Mangold's adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's memoir about her mental illness isn't perfect – but there's a reason it still resonates with young women.
A new exhibition in Milan sheds light on the multiplicity of collaborative processes in the filmmaking world through the preliminary drawings developed for Psycho, Train to Busan, Wings of Desire and beyond.
Tucked away on a narrow street in Bristol, an Aladdin's cave of DVDs persists despite the odds. For one employee, it's the Hotel California of video shops.
By Nadira Begum
A trailblazer on the global cinema stage as well as in his home of Mali, Souleymane Cissé's cinema of imagination changed the world.
A spate of recent works are pondering the concept of replicating or separating oneself in response to our increasingly economically perilous world.
Caveh Zahedi counts Greta Gerwig and the Safdie Brothers among his admirers – but where do you begin with a beast as strange and sprawling as his all-consuming magnum opus?
By Mila Fielker
A dystopian retro-future of telepathic mutants, gladiators and fascists – does Joe D’Amato’s vision of 2025 show any resemblance to our current reality?
We catch up with one of our all-time favourite filmmakers about his sci-fi caper and creating croissant-like creatures.
By Fedor Tot
Born out of Belgrade's underground scene in 1995, Želimir Žilnik's celebration of a tight-knit community of sex workers has a particular power in today's increasingly divided society.
Half a century on, the man behind Sextool and LA Plays Itself remains a pioneering, provocative figure of films that straddle the line between pornography and art.
The "one-inch barrier" that Bong Joon Ho spoke of in 2019 still exists – and it's not always audiences who are to blame for subtitles being inaccessible.
John “Slow West” Maclean returns with a Samurai-inspired heist thriller set in the English wilds – the eccentric results are mixed.
By Blake Simons
Thomas Vinterberg's 1998 drama finds its way to the Royal Opera House courtesy of an elaborate new reimagining – but how on earth do you adapt a Dogme 95 film into an opera?
By Alex Masse
Taking cues from Ridley Scott's juggernaut, Mouthwashing is a fascinating game about worker exploitation and the violence of the patriarchy.
By Sam Moore
As WWE enters its Netflix Era, there's an awful lot of "brand synergy" – and it's becoming a distraction.
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