Claire Denis’ parents would have preferred a different life for her than a career in cinema. As Chocolat arrives on Blu-ray, she sat down with us for a long chat about her childhood in Africa and how ...

Nicolas Cage stars as an unnamed, desperate Australian surfer who is humiliated by a hostile gang of locals in Lorcan Finnegan’s lightly psychedelic B-movie thriller.

Disaster and dystopian technology haunt The Beast, starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay as ill-fated lovers in three versions of the past and future. Bertrand Bonello tells us about his Lynchian, ...

Receiving huge acclaim after its first screening, Payal Kapadia’s film is the first Indian feature to be selected in Official Competition at Cannes in three decades.

It’s a murder mystery that’s elevated both by its erudite script and by the unusually profound things it has to say about the nature of desire. Dana Andrews is the police detective assigned to ...

Artist and filmmaker Stephen Sutcliffe tells us how discovering Lindsay Anderson’s collection of TV video recordings helped inspire his upcoming Experimenta Mixtape at BFI Southbank.

Although India is the world’s biggest film producer, All We Imagine as Light is the first Indian film to compete for the Palme d’Or in 30 years. What explains this blindspot?

Miguel Gomes elegantly bridges 100 years of film history with an experimental, time-bending colonial-era story of a British civil servant trying to outrun his persistent fiancé.

Sending Charles Dance on an exploration of London’s secret streets, Stephen Poliakoff’s directorial debut puts our writer in mind of the psychogeography movement and the urban conspiracy films of ...

From Trainspotting to Poor Things, we tot up some of the best examples of Scottish novels going from page to screen.

George Miller remains a master craftsman of bloody petrol-punk visuals, but this mythology-stuffed Furiosa backstory can’t match the momentum of Fury Road.

Sending Malcolm McDowell on a surreal odyssey through northern England, O Lucky Man! is the mother of all sprawling state-of-the-nation comic satires, from Southland Tales to The Sweet East.