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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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Scotland’s rival to The Jazz Singer: the story behind a groundbreaking British sound film
One hundred years after its Edinburgh cinema release, we tell the story behind Till the Bells Ring, a Scottish talking picture that included synchronised dialogue a full year before Hollywood’s own coming of sound.
By Marc David Jacobs
10 great East African films
By Abiba Coulibaly
Whalefall: Austin Abrams gives it his all in a passable film about a man swallowed by a whale
By Adam Nayman
Portrait of a lady: Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette
By Pam Cook
“It was a way of understanding my own generation”: Manuela Martelli on her snowbound Chilean drama The Meltdown
By Georgia Korossi
Inside the Archive #77: Preserving Frankenstein, a new-look study store and a trip to Colorado via London
By Rosie Taylor, Alex Prideaux and others
Mahershala Ali on Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother and the impact of representation
By Whelan Barzey
Events
Andrew Scott returns to the BFI London Film Festival with his new film Elsinore and visits BFI Southbank to reflect on his career.
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