Eisenstein’s debut feature, the labour drama Strike, which was released at the start of the year, well deserves a place on this list. However, 1925 was also the year that he directed the monumental ...

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal sci-fi, about a trio of travellers searching for wish fufilment by crossing into restricted territory, made a dystopian malady of life in the then Soviet Union. Forty years ...

Learn to create Hair, Wigs, Makeup & Prosthetics for Film and TV.

Chilean director Felipe Gálvez tells us about his period adventure drama The Settlers, based on a dark chapter in Chile’s colonial past.

What is Digital Library on Demand (DLD)? DLD is an electronic document delivery service which enables you to obtain scans of book chapters or journal articles from our collections without having to ...

Born in Sunderland 100 years ago, Norden is little known today, but she exuded glamour and confidence in a string of ‘bad girl’ and femme fatale roles in post-war British cinema.

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh are a couple whose relationship we experience across three timelines in the new film from the director of Brooklyn, John Crowley. He explains how Nic Roeg movies ...

Robert Eggers brings fresh eyes and potent dread to Murnau’s silent vampire classic, but this Count Orlock can’t match the menace of the original.