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The feature debuts of Harris Dickinson, Akinola Davies Jr and Harry Lighton will all premiere in the festival’s Un Certain Regard section.
Louise Courvoisier’s sensitively observed début feature sees a laddish 18-year-old gradually mature when he is faced with new responsibilities as the family breadwinner.
The report by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee suggests measures to revitalise domestic production of culturally significant British film and television programmes.
With the launch of the second series of The Last of Us – based on the video game of the same name – we look at 10 engrossing stories that can only be experienced with a controller in hand.
The festival opens with a glorious dye-transfer original British release print of Star Wars, and will close with a pristine 35mm print of the original US pilot episode of Twin Peaks, screening for the ...
Irish tragicomedy, a story of sex and publishing, and a Hitchcock classic on TV. What are you watching this weekend?
A brace of riveting medical stories and a programme of archive films about life in rural Greece made for rich pickings at Thessaloniki’s annual documentary celebration.
Set in a lonely house on a Scottish clifftop, the windswept Tom Conti thriller Eclipse has returned from 50 years of obscurity. It now looks like a forerunner of Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men.
With two new John Lennon documentaries out this spring, and news filtering out about Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles biopics, we assess the best of the Fab Four on film.
On the eve of our 2002 Greatest Films of All Time poll, this feature argued the merits of Muriel’s Wedding, whose funniness and femininity balance a darker underside.
Irish director Darren Thornton tells us about his new adaptation of the Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch, which sees a novelist grappling with his ageing mother and three other eccentric elderly mums.
Tilda Swinton sings through an apocalypse, there’s a tale of murder and mushrooms in rural France, and we have two tales of terror on the tarmac. What are you watching this weekend?