As Shrek returns to cinemas this week for its 25th anniversary, we revisit Kim Newman’s appraisal of its fairytale gags, zany characters and CGI innovations. From our July 2001 issue.

Ahead of his upcoming BFI Southbank season Station to Station: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Top Ten Train Films, the Nobel prize-winning author writes exclusively about some of the finest films set aboard trains.

The latest awards see almost £1 million allocated to support six new co-productions collaborating with 13 territories.

Great 8’ is the BFI and British Council’s annual showcase of new UK feature films from first-time and early career filmmakers, which will be shown to programmers and distributors attending the Cannes ...

The event was attended by leading filmmakers and talent including J. J. Abrams, John Waters, Rian Johnson, J. A. Bayona, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, David Bradley, Burn Gorman and more.

As Leaving Las Vegas returns three decades on, director Mike Figgis revisits the making of his bruising story of addiction, how he reinvented his career through radical low‑budget filmmaking, and his ...

Marilyn Monroe at 100 Inside the issue: the fifth anniversary of the Black Film Bulletin’s return to print; At the movies with Guillermo del Toro; Brazilian cinema in focus; Scanners Inc on their ...

A favourite of directors including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, the 1953 version of Invaders from Mars frightened a generation with its vision of Martian mind-controllers arriving on Earth.

As the beloved broadcaster turns 100, curator Elinor Groom digs into some unusual roles and archive daytime TV appearances from David Attenborough’s decades-spanning career as an irrepressible force ...

One hundred and twenty years after the birth of Roberto Rossellini, we go looking for the original Berlin locations of one of his searing neorealist classics, which was filmed in the bombed out ...

Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague arrives as a subscription exclusive in a month packed with Brazilian classics and a gripping Nordic noir.

From All About Eve to Amadeus... As a sprawling new epic set amid the kabuki theatre world arrives in cinemas, we look at films where art and performance become battlegrounds of ruthless ambition.