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“The Human Voice came about as a caprice”: Pedro Almodóvar on his spellbinding lockdown project
The iconic Spanish director talks directing in English for the first time, his symbiotic relationship with Tilda Swinton, and a dog who wouldn’t sit still.
By Mar Diestro-Dópido
Playing a round: loops, lockdown and Atomicrops
By Henry Barnes
Altman’s fortune: 10 underrated Robert Altman films
By Alex Ramon
Latest projects supported through Young Audiences Content Fund announced
Latest projects supported through Young Audiences Content Fund announcedCharlatan diagnoses fear and malady in post-war Czechoslavakia
By Carmen Gray
5 things to watch this weekend – 7 to 9 May
By Samuel Wigley
On beauties and their beasts
By Marina Warner
2021 IWC Filmmaker Bursary Award to focus on representation and inclusion
2021 IWC Filmmaker Bursary Award to focus on representation and inclusionZana explores a Kosovan town obsessed with a woman’s fertility
By Lisa Mullen
Cowboys rides all guns blazing into its transgender childhood story
By Alex Davidson
Jungle Fever at 30: Spike Lee’s thorny interracial love story
By Alex Ramon
Barry Jenkins is rebuilding American history with The Underground Railroad
By Devika Girish
Antebellum is an unpleasantly brutal depiction of anti-Black racism
By Leila Latif
Apples is a memorably deadpan take on the will to forget
By Anton Bitel
Atlantis imagines mere glints of hope in a post-traumatic Ukraine
By Jessica Kiang
In pictures: Makeup in the age of the flapper
By Nigel Arthur
New BFI Blu-rays and DVDs announced for July/August 2021
New BFI Blu-rays and DVDs announced for July/August 2021How do actors like Daniel Kaluuya and Daisy Edgar-Jones master new accents?
By Nicole Davis
The Flight Attendant is pandemic escapism at its finest
By Kate Stables
Violation twists the rape-revenge subgenre into anti-fantasy
By Katherine McLaughlin
5 things to watch this bank holiday weekend – 30 April to 3 May
By Samuel Wigley
Labyrinth of Cinema summons peace through frenetic cinephilia
By Tony Rayns
Identifying Features shines a light on Mexico’s disappeared as a mother searches for the truth
By Anjana Janardhan
The dewdrop on a blade of grass: Satyajit Ray in conversation
By Folke Isaksson
Exterminate All the Brutes tracks the march of genocide
By Paul Tickell
Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation shows two great American writers as friends and rivals
By Ela Bittencourt
X&Y tests the intersections of art and gender
By Tara Judah