Directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor dig deep into their thrilling biopic Baltimore, in discussion with Nadia M Oliva.
Young Michael and his family leave home to travel the world by boat. During a storm, he is thrown overboard and washed up on an island where he must adapt to life alone. But over time, he feels ...
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Malcolm X's legacy was on Spike Lee's mind when making his classic 1989 film Do the Right Thing, and he would contentiously end that film with a quote from the man that many read as endorsing violence ...
Cinema’s poet of the West, John Ford had countless westerns under his belt before reteaming with regular star John Wayne for this disturbing story of racism, obsession and revenge. Intending to kill ...
When British-Nigerian poet and activist Femi Nylander discovered Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the novel that Barack Obama claims helped him understand why ‘white people are afraid’, he was ...
Mark Cousins’ epic documentary, executive produced by Tilda Swinton and Clara Glynn, offers a completely fresh take on film history, exploring the development of the medium exclusively through work ...
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Queen Victoria's long reign famously saw extraordinary advances: in industry, transport, science, culture... But one vital innovation is too often missed: the moving image, the last great invention of ...
British cinema boasts a long history of carefully coded queerness, but for much of the 20th century explicit depictions of gay life in drama or documentary were more or less taboo. Gay men were ...
Stop! Look! Listen! For decades public information films have been educating, persuading and above all warning us of hidden dangers.