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.

From The Apartment to her Oscar-winning turn in Terms of Endearment... On her 91st birthday we toast Shirley MacLaine’s resumé of tough cookies and wise-cracking dreamers.

April, a bold and expressionistic Georgian film about a doctor who performs secret abortions in her village, has yet to screen in its native country. As the film arrives in UK cinemas, we speak to ...

One of a spate of early noughties Jane Austen adaptations, Pride & Prejudice impressed our critic with fine casting and evocative cinematography and production design.

Florence Pugh leads a messy squad of ‘superhero’ misfits as Black Widow’s sister Yelena Belova in a comic book movie that prioritises its characters over spectacle.

Twenty years on from its theatrical release, Bullet Boy possesses a contemporary relevance far beyond its tale of Black youths and gun crime, says Dr Clive Nwonka.

Luc Godard’s singular sci-fi noir Alphaville first came out, writer Richard Roud found it so striking he saw it three times. On its 60th anniversary, we look back at Roud’s analysis of it in our ...

The archive has also brought six titles, including original 1975 Jaws print, to the TCM Classic Film Festival.

In the latest awards, more than £448,000 is awarded in international distribution funds.

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 ...

Zhao Tao embodies modern alienation as Qiao Qiao, an enigmatic figure drifting through time and space in contemporary China.

Fifty years after glamrock band Slade surprised everyone with the grittiness of their big-screen fable about the music industry, we spoke to singer Noddy Holder, actor Tom Conti and director Richard ...