Dir.: Ingmar Bergman; Cast: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand; Sweden, 83'. Silence has always played a big part in Ingmar Bergman’s oeuvre – his 1963 feature The Silence...

Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky influenced many contemporary filmmakers, amongst them Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Steven Soderbergh and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. All seven of Tarkovsky’s features including MIRROR (1975), SOLARIS (1972),...

Dir.: Jean-Pierre Melville; Cast: Alain Delon, Francois Perrier, Natalie Delon, Cathy Rosier; France/Italy 1967, 101’. Le Samourai is a crime thriller all about loneliness. Dialogue is minimal, and even Francois de...

Melancholy: deep and impenetrable  sadness - a retrograde state of mind. The unknown and unseen past has swallowed up present and future. The heroes and heroines of melancholic films are...

Director|Writer: Stuart Cooper Cast: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Sam Sewell, John Franklyn-Robbins 83min | War Drama | UK Stuart Cooper directed this impressionistic Second World War drama that follows...

Cast: Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, Louisa Colpeyn | 95 min | Drama |  France BANDE À PART, shot in 25 days and based on the pulp novel “Fool’s Gold” by Dolores...

As the film year gets underway there's plenty to look forward to indiefilm-wise. Last year was all about strong performances and once again 2016 starts with the old professionals leading...

A major season dedicated to one of the godfather’s of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard, is coming up at the BFI from January - March 2016. The season will...

Andre Simonoveisz looks at Polish Cinema from 1945 until the 1970 in the first part of our Kinoteka 2015 series curated by Martin Scorsese | MARTIN SCORSESE SELECTS | POLISH...