Nolan’s Odyssey pities the Cyclops, repents Troy and then butchers the suitors for a finale. A reading of the most expensive guilt machine ever built.
The BFI London Film Festival turns 70: 251 works from 88 countries, 7 to 18 October, opening with Elsinore. What to book and how.
Ink, Primetime and Loktev's exile diary: the 83rd Venice Film Festival kept returning to the media and what it does to the truth.
Danny Boyle, Pippa Harris and James Wilson headline the Industry Forum of the 70th BFI London Film Festival, 8 to 15 October. Maria Bregman on…
Forty years after Blue Velvet opened in 98 American cinemas, the first anniversary since David Lynch’s death finds the film’s severed ear listening back as…
By Maria Bregman Most coverage of a film festival is written for the audience. This piece is for the people on the other side of…
The 83rd Venice International Film Festival runs from 2 to 12 September on the Lido, and for anyone who follows cinema seriously it marks the…
By Sara Bright Ealing comedies, produced under Michael Balcon, offered a unique lens on postwar Britain’s spirit. Amidst austerity and rigid class structures, films like…
There is a particular strangeness to living inside a culture that talks to itself through film dialogue. An American will tell you something is “a…
By Sara Bright Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, working as The Archers, transformed British cinema from documentary realism into a medium of feverish psychological opera.…