As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives in cinemas, we revisit 10 films that journeyed into Greek mythology before it, finding enduring inspiration in an ancient world of gods, monsters and epic ...

A world premiere of the restoration including a Q&A with band members will take place at BFI Southbank, before the film returns to cinemas nationwide on 2 October.

In a film where nothing is taken literally, the biggest enigma of the picture revolves around its protagonist, Moon (Moon Guo Barker): is she meant to be perceived as a child, or is she a child ...

A mammoth adventure epic that shot for 91 days across six months in six countries and cost a reported $250 million to make, The Odyssey is a cinematic beast worthy of its own mythology. Adapting and ...

In August 1986, Hong Kong was running out of Ray Bans. Director John Woo and producer Tsui Hark had just unveiled their brooding action epic A Better Tomorrow, a tale of treachery and brotherhood ...

The evening of 13 January 1955 was bitterly cold with blustery snow. It was a hardy crowd that gathered at the Ritz cinema in London for the first UK showing of Animal Farm, a feature-length animated ...

Stanley Kubrick was undoubtedly a child of the Bronx, but the great director – who died 25 years ago on 7 March 1999 – spent much of his creative life in Britain, in particular in the outer orbit of ...

Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti… Italy has certainly produced more than its fair share of world-class female stars. Towering above them all – in terms ...

The winner of Sight and Sound magazine’s hugely anticipated and world-renowned Greatest Films of All Time Critics’ poll 2022 is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ...

Monogamy, gradually losing its status as a secular religion in our era of endless options, has come under the movie microscope recently in varied forms. The hideous prospect of long-term love ...

The video essay has become a defining form of online culture, steadily growing in popularity among both creators and audiences. As part of Our Screen Heritage, our project to establish the BFI ...

Maya Deren (1917–61) once wrote: “In film I can make the world dance.” And that’s exactly what she did. Born in Kyiv 100 years ago, Deren is one of the most influential figures in American avant-garde ...