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The investment of £150 million over three years represents a 10% increase to support UK screen culture and industry and will build on successful interventions made since the strategy was launched in ...
First-time director Usman Riaz embraces the old-fashioned star-crossed romance with a beautifully animated Studio Ghibli-inspired film about a young glass-blowing artist and his lost love.
As Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre arrives on Blu-ray and 4K UHD, we chart the history of the horror genre in Germany, from its uncanny beginnings in the silent era.
Hosking’s wacky two-hander imagines a rendezvous with Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, who meet at a remote ‘Scottish Cottage’ to eat veggie patties, smoke ‘doobie-woobies’ and work on an anti-racist ...
In charismatic performances of immense restraint over more than half a century, Robert Redford blended traditionalism, predictability and inscrutability to great effect. From our January 2019 issue.
Kicking off a new series celebrating the 200th anniversary of the UK’s passenger railways, curator Steven Foxon offers a whistle-stop tour of the long-running love affair between cinema and trains, ...
Transposing the story of the recent Nazi destruction of a Czech mining village to the Welsh valleys, Jennings’ 1943 film The Silent Village was a powerful alternative-history story that prompted a ...
All copies are now lost, but the 1950s TV show The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong was a genuine landmark in television history: the first show with an Asian-American star and the first centred around a ...
Werner Herzog’s Aguirre is a fevered descent into madness and myth, where colonial ambition meets cosmic futility. Blending hallucinatory Romanticism with Brechtian realism, his jungle epic becomes a ...
In her six films in the UK in the late 1920s and early 30s, Asian-American star Anna May Wong challenged the norms of representation in British cinema, forging her own unique brand of transnational ...
As the ultimate mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap gets a new sequel, here’s a list that should really go up to 11.
A chance to find out about the specialist skills and technology that go into conserving the national collection of film and television.