Outdated attitudes but also pioneering compassion abound in these 10 path-finding documentaries about mental health from the 1940s to the 1990s.

In this playful performance film, Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini performs a set of songs inspired by a collection of real-life 1960s love letters discovered after the recipient’s death in 2018.

A world exclusive interview with Tom Cruise Inside: The latest edition of Black Film Bulletin, Wes Anderson on The Phoenician Scheme, The career of Mai Zetterling, the legacy of the Film Society, arch ...

The French director’s mid-length homage to his own filmmaking presents a funny and provocative collage of cinema history, politics, and artistic introspection.

As the award-winning A Samurai in Time comes to Blu-ray and digital, we explore highlights of Japanese cinema’s many inspired leaps and loops across time.

Before she established herself as a pioneering Swedish auteur, Mai Zetterling worked as a movie star in Britain. But despite star billing alongside the likes of Dirk Bogarde, the experience helped her ...

In 1951, the Swedish actress and soon-to-be groundbreaking director – who was born 100 years ago this May – wrote about the craft of film acting, and especially its relationship to stage acting.

On his 82nd birthday, the first of a new series celebrating actors at the peak of their powers looks at Michael Palin’s turn as pig-stealing chiropodist Gilbert Chilvers in A Private Function.

Director Andrew Ahn’s endearing and significantly queerer update of Ang Lee’s rom com hit lets its LGBTQ+ characters behave badly, and is all the better for it.

The Papacy has also figured in numerous fictional films, including crime dramas (The Godfather Part III, 1990), thrillers (Angels & Demons, 2009), horrors (The Pope’s Exorcist, 2023) and numerous ...

While male auteurs Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien were feted internationally, a closer look at Taiwan’s 1980s new wave reveals the interconnectedness and shared desires of many less celebrated ...

On what would have been her 96th birthday on 4 May, we retrace Audrey Hepburn's steps in the movie that made her a superstar: William Wyler’s Oscar-winning romance Roman Holiday.