A beautifully told romantic drama and a meditation on the nature of existence. Amid the languid pace of a small town, the lives of a terminally ill photographer and a young parking-enforcement officer ...

Simba, having become king of the Pride Lands, is determined for his cub to follow in his paw prints while the origins of his late father Mufasa are explored. Told in flashbacks, the story introduces ...

Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films. John Woo’s first US film paired him with action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, who plays an ex-marine reluctantly drawn into a ...

In Tsui Hark’s timeless romantic comedy, two people fall in love, are separated soon after and attempt to overcome the burden of not knowing what the other looks like. In 1937, during a Japanese air ...

The move to sound film production brought disruption to film industries across the world. Until recently, Britain’s transition experience had been relatively unexplored. Geoff Brown’s fascinating ...

Now one of the great lines in film history, ‘They call me Mr Tibbs!’ announced the arrival of Poitier’s detective to Rod Steiger’s racist Mississippi sheriff. They find themselves working together on ...

This rarely-screened work of Gothic splendour is an indictment of privileged masculinity, featuring a loathsome protagonist in the form of Giancarlo Giannini’s Tullio. He viciously takes advantage of ...

Sidney Poitier woos Diahann Carroll in the city of love and to the strains of a rich Duke Ellington score. Poitier makes for a dashing romantic lead as jazz saxophonist Eddie Cook, enjoying the ...

The film that launched Tanner’s career was directly informed by the aftermath of May ’68. It established a template of focusing on characters intent on making radical life changes. A middle-class ...

A glorious celebration of the power of cinema and our collective imagination, replete with witches, munchkins and a cadre of flying monkeys. Dorothy Gale is transported from her Kansas farm to a ...

Accompanying the release of Victor Kossakovsky’s Architecton are two earlier films by the director, which make up his trilogy exploring our place in the world. Victor Kossakovsky’s film essay looks at ...