Film, the measure of all things

"The gesture of recording is also about the desire to memorialize people, of showing that you really see them and want them to feel seen."

To mark 50 years of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Ella Kemp explores what makes the film such a modern, dynamic and watchable reflection of all our greatest fears.

The complete text & images of a rare illustrated programme for the London premiere of Fritz Lang's Metropolis in 1927.

The actor and musician takes your questions on devastating box office results, his love of Oliver Hardy, and his new vaudeville crooner alter ego

Explore 25 years of our movie coverage, and find your next film from this collection of our critics’ favorites from each year.

Surveying the vast and appropriately unruly canon of underage auteurs.

A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history.

The greatest filmmaker of postwar Japan found a new way to show life onscreen.

You can keep Fast & Furious 6 and The Hangover Part III. My guilty pleasure this week is Hannah Arendt (premiering at New York’s Film Forum May 29), the latest collaboration between actress Barbara Sukowa and director Margarethe von Trotta. Guilt, of course, being the operative word. How to characterize the movie’s protagonist? Hannah Arendt …

‘During the riot scene, all the baked beans and mashed potato ended up on the floor. It became like an ice rink. It looks fantastic – but it was pretty hairy’

Amelie Hastie discusses the formal and affective qualities of Alfonso Cuarón's Roma.

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By Sven Mikulec When Universal approached Orson Welles with an intriguing supporting role in a new thriller tentatively called Badge of Evil, the filmmaker was at a difficult point of his career, not having directed an American film in a full decade. He spent the last ten years directing international productions like Othello

The dwarfs. The casting. The politics of the lead actress. And that wig! Is Disney’s live-action remake of the classic film doomed by culture war skirmishes?

One is the master of gruesome horror, the other is the composer who scored his most famous films. They sit down to discuss their 46-year collaboration, and the unlikely source of their darkest, most disturbing inspiration

Mikey Madison is the latest in a line of actors dating back to Janet Gaynor to win Oscars depicting the sex trade. Why this is, and whether it lessens the stigma of such work, is an open question

A quarter of a century later, a romantic masterpiece resurfaces.

As Constantine turns twenty and arrives on 4K Blu-ray, director Francis Lawrence talks to Matt Goldberg about the film’s cult status, casting Tilda Swinton and Peter Stormare as an angel and a devil,…

For the 70th anniversary of The Wages of Fear’s US release, Robert Daniels buckles up and takes us on a journey through the white-knuckle thrills and queer-coded complexities that keep the film…

At the 2000 Academy Awards, the film won five Oscars, including best picture. Then came 9/11, a tanking economy and Kevin Spacey.

Our brave victim writer sits through the film site’s 0%ers to see what makes a bad movie. Will she emerge with her sanity intact – and are all these flops really so bad?

David Lynch's one-time adventure in Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking would forever change him – but not his heart.

Humans love to watch other humans, whether it’s movies by Frederick Wiseman or vertical videos on your phone. In a way, we’re all documentarians.

“The Irony of Fate” is a turn-of-the-year TV tradition that endures even in households that are now wary of Russian culture.

The singer-songwriter was never only a creature of music. Our critic watched every film with him that she could find to better understand the artist.

Like their deracinated characters, Kramer’s films exist in a state of flux, as if unfolding for the first time before your eyes.

Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, the makers of our No 2 film of the year, are currently under arrest. They talk about their trial, crossing red lines and why they’re ready to fight

A festival devoted to the film usually focuses on its comforting message. This year, it also underscored suicide prevention.