Broadcast on BBC2 in 1984, Threads dramatised the fallout from a nuclear attack on Sheffield with harrowing realism. We look back on a TV movie that scarred a generation of viewers for life.
Paul Duane, the director of modern Irish folk horror All You Need Is Death, speaks to Robert Wynne-Simmons, whose haunting 1982 film The Outcasts has re-emerged after decades of obscurity.
The events lineup includes LFF Spotlight conversations with Working Title Films co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner; Head of International Production and Development at Searchlight Pictures, Katie ...
Lee’s film adapts the graphic novel by her ex-partner Chester Brown, creating a candid his-and-hers narrative of their open relationship and its break down.
Despite its impressive cast, this portrait of surrealist artist and wartime photographer Lee Miller can at times feel a little lifeless.
As London’s Open House Festival offers a glimpse inside the capital’s most impressive buildings, we take a look at the modern house on film.
A 70-year-old widow in Tehran shakes up her predictable existence when she pursues a relationship with a lonely taxi driver in Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha‘s defiant tale of late-in-life ...
A stinging satire on the British film industry, a Netflix thriller that delivers the goods, and a glowing tale of ageing romance. What are you watching this weekend?
Brisk genre movies made on the cheap, British ’quota quickies’ were a proving ground for talents including Michael Powell and David Lean. As a set of early Powell films arrives on Blu-ray, we went ...
Happyend unfolds in a dystopian near-future where a title card informs us that systems are crumbling. It’s here, beneath a subtly Blade Runner-ish skyline and amidst intermittent earthquakes, that a ...
That time when Ealing pretended Camden was Bethnal Green... We go in search of the streets where Robert Hamer’s classic man-hunt thriller It Always Rains on Sunday was filmed.
Pablo Larraín refracts another 20th-century figure of fame and misfortune in his portrait of opera legend Maria Callas. Jackie (2016) and Spencer (2021) centred on women in the public eye and hitched ...