Category: Movies

Found footage is collaged into the suggestion of an oppressive state being resisted in this absorbing, disturbing film Dalibor Baric is a Croatian artist and film-maker, who after many experimental gallery shorts is making a feature debut with this deeply weird quasi-noir animated reverie, which he writes, directs, animates, edits and for which he composes […]

Yakut director Dmitry Davydov’s first feature is an intriguing examination of redemption in Sakha, a remote Russian republic Dmitry Davydov is the self-taught Russian director from the remote eastern republic of Sakha who has been gaining golden opinions on the festival circuit for his spare and fervent films, often using non-professional actors. Here is Davydov’s […]

We’ll put your questions to the actor known for Mel in EastEnders and the Scarecrow in The Masked Dancer, who is now in new movie Bull Tamzin Outhwaite has popped up in everything from Men Behaving Badly to The Bill, Da Ali G Show, Silent Witness and Inside No 9, and even played a Cyberman-battling […]

He blew the doors off in the 60s as part of an upstart generation of actors. As he releases a new film and tries his hand at novel-writing, is he about to make a clean getaway from the movie business? Michael Caine is 88 and walks with a stick. He has a gammy leg and […]

From the tumult of the uprisings to everyday scenes, Clovis Salmon’s jerky camera captured Black British life. As his work hits the big screen, we meet the 94-year-old known as Sam the Wheels ‘I used to keep my camera like this,” says Clovis Salmon, putting his 1960s wind-up Kodak Brownie inside his jacket so that […]

At 78, with three Baftas and a Palme d’Or under his belt, the director still sees himself as an outsider. He talks about Hollywood’s obsession with big names, his determination to portray ‘real people’ – and being accused of pretension Interviewing Mike Leigh is a daunting prospect, not because of his intimidatingly central plinth in […]

Jean-Gabriel Périot’s slow-burn doc asks current students to re-enact films from a different political era and share their thoughts Filmed in collaboration with students from Ivry-sur-Seine on the edge of Paris, Our Defeats is a snapshot of their feelings about 21st-century society and commitment, or lack of it, to political change. But it conducts this […]

With the Pinter-penned 1963 classic The Servant back in cinemas, there’s a chance to reflect on the playwright’s less-acknowledged acting performances Like an unhurried but dependable butler, The Servant is here again. It was only nine years ago that Joseph Losey’s crackling psychological drama, about the shifting power games between a toff (James Fox) and […]

Despite its frantic antics, this family animation from Peru is told from the welcome perspective of indigenous characters Here is a family animation from Peru that spins a magical tale in the Amazon with a cast of mythological creatures from rainforest legend – and importantly, it’s told from the perspective of indigenous characters. It’s a […]

It’s hard to imagine who will enjoy this convoluted animated tale of furry creatures called ‘flummels’ Even if you can get over the inherent weirdness of furry little doughnut-shaped creatures with holes in their middles, there’s a lot to puzzle over with this family animation, which manages to be both surreally baffling and wearyingly derivative. […]