Walerian Borowczyk is undoubtedly one of the most singular talents in the history of European cinema. After training as a painter and lithographer in his native Poland, Borowczyk (or ‘Boro’) made his
Recent years have seen a welcome return of the stylish, intelligent French genre film. Last a visitor to our shores in the early ‘00s with titles such as Crimson Rivers and Brotherhood
Spend too much time in your local multiplex and you’re liable to forget that the world is made up of an almost infinite number of stories. Everyone has a unique perspective but
The last golden age of American film ended with the collapse of a major Hollywood studio. The era known as New Hollywood began in the late 1960s with the production of vital,
Lindsay Anderson’s If… is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest revolutionary films to ever come out of British cinema. Filled with iconic images and a direct influence on countless cinematic
Alex Gibney is one of the most well regarded documentary filmmakers of his generation. Winner of an Oscar in 2007 for Taxi to the Dark Side, his investigative films have chronicled not
There’s more to raw spectacle than meets the eye. The action film is nearly as old as cinema itself but while the genre has always been about providing people with vicarious excitement
Elia Kazan was one of the most divisive figures in 20th Century Hollywood. Co-founder of the Actors Studio that brought Method acting to the American stage, Kazan nurtured a generation of actors
It is easy to think of different genres as nothing more than a set of restrictive rules but genres and the story structures that comprise them evolved out of a desire to
Bill Forsyth is not what you would call a lifelong film lover. Born in Glasgow in the immediate aftermath of World War 2, his early experiences of cinema were formed by Saturday