Dir.: Akira Kurosawa; Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyö, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimra, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijioru Ueda; Japan 1950; 88 min. From Agatha Christie to Patricia Highsmith modern literature is fraught with...

With temperatures this Christmas dipping to -18 in parts of Scotland, Richard Chatten reflects back on Britain's Big Freeze of 1963 and the films that were on in the cinema...

Dir: Lili Fini Zanuck | Writers: Stephen "Scooter" Weintraub, Larry Yelen | Music Biopic | 213' Fans of Eric Clapton will certainly know the facts behind the ’god of guitar's’ eventful life....

Dir.: Bela Tarr; Cast: Mihaly Vig, Istvan Horvath, Erika Bök, Peter Berling, Miklos B. Szekely, Laszlo Fe Lugossy, Eva Almassi Albert, Alfred Jaray, Erzsebet Gaal, Janos Derzsi, Iren Szajki; Hungary/Germany/Switzerland...

The Critics’ top 20 Greatest Films of All Time are:  1       Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) 2       Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) 3       Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 4       Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953) 5       In the...

Dir: Sam Latzman, Fred Sears | US Horror This quickie by Sam Katzman & Fred Sears brings the legend up to date by setting it in a very contemporary world of...

Dir.: Jacques Becker; Cast: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Brussieres, William Sabatier; France 1952, 94 min. French director/co-writer Jacques Becker (1906-1960) is relatively unknown outside France, his early death...

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | US Noir Thriller 90’ Charlotte is ecstatic to have her dear Uncle Charlie over at her place. But upon his arrival, she learns that he is a...

The BFI celebrates Peter Greenaway's 80th birthday with a retrospective and the premiere of his new feature Walking in Paris. And here Andre Simonoveisz reflects on his career to date The...