Cinema

Ela Bittencourt investigates the ways in which film directors in the 1960s and '70s used surrealism as a way of interrogating unstable political moments and reimagining the future 

During the turbulent summer of 2020, the filmmakers met to discuss contemporary filmmaking and decentring the human

Next year will be crushingly difficult for all aspects of cinema. Some theatres have a plan

From his parodies of celebrity culture to his depiction of gender identities, there is still a lot to unpack on the centenary of the film director’s birth

New award offers support and platform to 10 artists, whose works will be screened at Frieze Los Angeles 2020

Varda (1928-2019) provided a blueprint for an experimental, politically-radical, idiosyncratically personal and wide-eyed humanist cinema

A recent celebration of the American filmmaker provided a rare opportunity to come face-to-face with a major figure of underground cinema

In a year charged with politicized tensions, mastery of craft trumps truth-to-power commentary

Avengers: Infinity War confirms the domination of mass culture by the franchise: what ever happened to narrative closure?

The debut feature film by Austin Lynch and Matthew Booth is a captivating portrait of America loosely inspired by reclusive artist Forrest Bess

From a close study of the American voting booth to a plague of hydrangeas: the New York Film Festival’s Projections slate, 6-9 October

A posthumous publication of essays by artist and film theorist Ian White argues that the collective experience of cinema is more relevant than ever

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