Highlights include filmmakers Jon M. Chu discussing his groundbreaking vision of Oz in the Wicked films, and Rian Johnson on Knives Out and the art of whodunnit.

Intended to spark conversation in 1940s Britain, this series of posters offers a range of fictional responses to the film’s provocative question about postwar reconciliation: “Would you take Frieda ...

Amid intense debate and anticipation, the UK got its second ever TV channel 70 years ago – a rival to the BBC. Curator Lisa Kerrigan looks back at ITV’s busy launch and the early programmes that ...

Eloise King’s debut documentary explores the hidden world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ – ghostwriters powering a global academic industry. Ahead of screenings in cinemas and on Channel 4, she joined ...

Running 9 to 15 October at Picturehouse Central, the LFF Industry Forum will open with a Spotlight conversation with pioneering UK producer Tessa Ross.

In modern American cinema, Paul Thomas Anderson is a unicorn: a filmmaker who, having directed his first feature nearly 30 years ago, has all the way into the IP-fixated 2020s continued to command mid ...

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.

First-time director Usman Riaz explains how a pirate VHS tape of Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) sparked his love for animation and led to his own landmark hand-drawn feature, The Glassworker.

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 ...

From the first moving-picture record of a British train and the iconic, lyrical Night Mail (1936) to footage of the InterCity 125, the programme (enjoyed by a full house!) showcased the rich variety ...

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 ...

The author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Shy discusses his new film with Cillian Murphy, the fine art of adaptation and the pleasurable ‘dry-stone walling’ of screenplay writing.