Today: October 13, 2026

Jonathan McCalmont

Paper Moon

Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls paints a striking image of Peter Bogdanovitch as a man with more ambition than sense. Bogdanovitch started his career as an actor but struggled to get
May 13, 2015

Dreamcatcher

Kim Longinotto is one of Britain’s most under-appreciated documentarians. A graduate of the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire, she began her career in 1976 with a documentary about her old
April 24, 2015

Silent Youth

By the time it acquired the power of speech, cinema was already a complex artistic form with the capacity to capture moods, build characters, and tell stories. Though 1927 may have been
April 23, 2015

The Decent One

At the end of World War II, advancing American forces came upon the home of Heinrich Himmler, one-time head of the SS and architect of the so-called ‘Final Solution’ that industrialised the
April 7, 2015

The Turning

Short film is one of the most under-appreciated artistic mediums around, which is a real shame as it can provide filmmakers with a space in which to experiment whilst remaining relatively free
April 2, 2015

The Grandmaster

Born in the Chinese province of Guangdong in 1893, Ip Man has recently emerged as one of the most significant figures in Chinese popular culture. Aside from being a master of Wing
March 26, 2015

Day of Anger

Tonino Valerii sprang from the great genre melting pot that was the Italian film industry in the 1960s. Always keen to be considered both a writer and a director, he began his
March 26, 2015

Rollerball

Norman Jewison began his career as a film director with a series of light comedies that landed him a contract with Universal Studios. Worried that making back-to-back Doris Day vehicles might wind
March 20, 2015

Jack Strong

‘Jack Strong’ was the codename of a senior Polish military officer who spent decades sharing Soviet plans with the CIA in the hope of averting a nuclear confrontation that would have turned
February 18, 2015

Effie Gray

Do a bit of reading about the disastrous marriage of Euphemia ‘Effie’ Gray to the prominent Victorian art critic John Ruskin and you will realise that it contained too much story for
February 18, 2015
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