A new BFI season highlights the incredible cinematic legacy of Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, who saw film as a tool to bring power to the people.
By Daniel Allen
Half a century on, George Lucas's seminal teen movie casts a long shadow across both the coming-of-age genre and filmmaker autofiction.
A writer reflects on how watching Greta Gerwig's Little Women led to a life-changing revelation, and the comfort found in her cinema of girlhood.
By Micah Nathan
The film that introduced Bruce Lee to the American mainstream was sadly his last – but its power is still palpable five decades later.
Tom Cruise and Marvel can't hold a candle to Aardman Animation's nail-biting stop animation sequence in the classic Wallace and Gromit adventure.
In his only produced screenplay, the American titan of literature painted a bleak picture of the logical endpoint of greed.
By Robyn Quick
Cheryl Dunye's debut feature broke the mould with its witty blend of fact and fiction – and remains a queer classic to this day.
By Katie Tobin
A decade since its release, Sofia Coppola's take on teen thieves and celebrity obsession is as sharp as ever.
By Barry Levitt
As the steadfast Sergeant Neil Howie, Woodward becomes a compelling audience surrogate in Robin Hardy's seminal folk horror.
As Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse series receives a 4K restoration, his take on the trials and tribulations of LA teenagers is still as sharp as ever.
Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley's classic pre-Code musical still delights almost a century later – and its success is down to a key change in how the story was bookended.
By Chloe Walker
As Local Hero returns to cinemas, we celebrate the singular talent of an enduring screen presence.
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach's 2013 dramedy is a perfect encapsulation of the uncertainty of your twenties – and how friendship is its own kind of romance.
Ten years after Baz Luhrmann's audacious take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved novel premiered, it's time to reassess this maligned venture.
From Mean Girls through to Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, the Canadian actress has become definable by her indefinability.
By B.C. Wallin
The Wachowskis' anime-inspired action epic is a notorious box office flop, but represents a sliding doors moment in cinematic history.
The reality television-inspired tween comedy heralded the end of an era for how young audiences watched their idols.
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