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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.
One of a spate of early noughties Jane Austen adaptations, Pride & Prejudice impressed our critic with fine casting and evocative cinematography and production design.
Against the tide of a snarky era of pop culture, this creative platformer offered a surprisingly nuanced and stigma-free treatment of tricky terrain: the darker stuff going on inside our heads.
Mathieu Kassovitz’s sensational second feature as a director changed the cultural landscape of French cinema when it landed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, winning the Best Director prize. It ...
The glitzier details of Irish author Edna O’Brien’s life are given more space than her work in Sinéad O’Shea’s new documentary. But with anecdotes like these, how could you resist?
The “mother of the Scottish film industry” played a key role in hits such as Gregory’s Girl, Taggart and Monarch of the Glen before dedicating herself to mentoring through Glasgow’s GMAC Film.
BFI’s collection of Victorian 68mm film – the “IMAX of their day” – afforded protected status as part of a collection of 300 titles that will be added to UNESCO’s register.
As Ryan Coogler’s Sinners - in which Michael B. Jordan does double duty in two lead roles – hits cinemas, we look back at the rich history of dual performances.
The Oscar-winning composer behind Black Panther and Oppenheimer talks about bringing the blues to work on director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.