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This week digital preservation and collection management techniques take centre stage as colleagues report back from two recent conferences.
Akiva Schaffer’s police-procedural reboot is refreshingly silly and expertly paced, with Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson fully committing to the bit.
On location in Japan for the fifth James Bond film, Sean Connery and Bond producer Harry Saltzman were interviewed by globe-trotting broadcaster Alan Whicker for an episode of Whicker’s World. Whicker ...
Thea Gajic and Alice Lusher are among a number of UK filmmakers from BFI NETWORK alumni to land at Edinburgh International Film Festival for the UK premiere of their debut features and short films.
From a Kurosawa-style epic of towering scale to a 1960s geisha drama, Christina Newland finds Bristol’s annual feast of archive cinema as alluring as ever.
Here are 10 great films from directors who – whether voluntarily or not – were one and done.
Two siblings are taken into the care of Laura, a foster parent obsessed with bringing her deceased child back to life, in Danny and Michael Philippou’s impressive follow-up to 2022’s Talk to Me.
The magic of Charles Laughton's Southern gothic one-off may be in Mitchum's willing flamboyance, argued David Thomson in our April 1999 issue ...
More hidden gems, chosen by critics and filmmakers including Steven Soderbergh, Jane Schoenbrun and Asif Kapadia. Inside: B. Ruby Rich on Sorry, Baby, Peter Sellers at 100, Stephanie Rothman’s ...
An ordinary day on a surgical ward spirals out of control in the new thriller Late Shift, the latest in a long line of films depicting the drama, emotion and high stakes of hospital life.
The Spanish director’s ever-evolving approach to on-screen relationships has led him to The Other Way Around, an upside-down rom com that begins with a break-up.
Director Petra Biondina Volpe captures the chaos and pressure of a night shift at an understaffed hospital in a cinematic tribute to nurses that’s elevated by the unflashy skill of Leonie Benesch.