Bluray releases to celebrate the artistically ambitious cinema of independent filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973) in his centenary year. France in the 1940s and 50s is seen as a broken nation, where male solidarity...

Andre Simonoveisz looks back at the life and work of New Wave director JACQUES RIVETTE (1928-2016). Jacques Rivette was born in Rouen, where he shot his first short film Aux Quatre...

Between 1920 and 1929, Buster Keaton created a peerless run of feature films that established him as one of the greatest actor-directors in the history of film. Three films in...

Dir: Dome Karukoski | Cast: Pekka Strang, Jessica Grabowsky, Lauri Tilkanen | Finland | Biopic | 112min Dome Karukoski’s biopic about Touko Laaksonen - aka Tom of Finland - is a...

Dir: Francois Truffaut |Cast: Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring | Sci-fi Drama | 112' One of the many pleasures of Truffaut’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 has become...

Dir.: Willy Rozier; Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Jen-Francois Calve, Howard Vernon; France 1952, 76 min. Also known in the UK/US under the title The Girl in the Bikini, this was 17y-ear old...

Dir.: Willy Rozier; Cast: Jacques Dumesnil, Marie Dea, Aime Clariond, Rene Blancard; France 1949, 88'. Willy Rozier (1901 - 1983) was know for his exotic taste, and 56 Rue de Pigalle...

Writer/Dir: Sandrine Veysset | Cast: Dominique Reymond, Daniel Duval, Jessica Martinez | France | Drama | 90' Deeply moving but never sentimental this remarkable debut from FRENCH writer/director Sandrine Veysset is...

Dir: Margy Kinmonth. With the voices of Daisy Bevan, Tom Hollander, Sean Cronin, Matthew Macfadyen, Eleanor Tomlinson | Documentary | UK | 85min Bafta-nomimnated documentarian Margy Kinmonth (Hermitage Revealed) provides a...