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“The manifesto was: let’s trust our heritage, our talent and each other”: Shabier Kirchner on shooting Small Axe
The cinematographer (and director) explains how and why he chose a different film or digital format for each film in Steve McQueen’s series of films about Black British history.
By Aaron E. Hunt
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom explores the politics behind the ‘Mother of the Blues’
By Nadine Deller
Ronnie’s: Ronnie Scott & his World Famous Jazz Club rhapsodises Soho in blue
By Nick James
The week ahead on BFI at Home: Max Richter and Yulia Mahr, and Crip Camp and County Lines Q&As
The week ahead on BFI at Home: Max Richter and Yulia Mahr, and Crip Camp and County Lines Q&AsLynne Ramsay on the magic behind the velvet curtain
Lynne Ramsay on the magic behind the velvet curtain5 things to watch this weekend – 27 to 29 November
By Samuel Wigley
Red, White and Blue shows the Catch-22 of Black British advancement
By Hannah McGill
Les bon temps rouler: rolling with Les Blank’s good-time movies
By Nick Pinkerton
Nimic mixes manic-comic music-mimic magic
By Thomas Flew
From Come and See to William Eggleston: 7 visual influences on County Lines
By Leigh Singer
Possessor sends Andrea Riseborough out of her mind
By Anton Bitel
Watch a cult classic #8: The Company of Wolves
By Katherine McLaughlin
Red, White and Blue shows us the loneliness of the Black police reformer
By Gary Younge
Overseas watches domestic workers rehearse their art
By Thomas Flew
We Are Who We Are lifts the lid on teenage identity crises
By Michael Brooke
Kleber Mendonça Filho on Recife’s Cinema São Luiz, his hometown picture palace
By Kleber Mendonça Filho
I can remember it for you wholesale: The making of Total Recall, 30 years on
By Josh Slater-Williams
Remembering British film star Anne Crawford on the centenary of her birth
By Josephine Botting
With its cinemas closed, Thessaloniki’s 61st film festival opened some virtual doors
By Georgia Korossi
“Incompetence was killing the victims”: Alexander Nanau on his health-service exposé Collective
By Nick Bradshaw
5 things to watch this weekend – 20 to 22 November
By Samuel Wigley
The best of brand film: EVCOM London Film and Live Awards 2020
By Patrick Russell
“Cinema is my happy place”: Francis Lee celebrates cinemas as community spaces
By Francis Lee
Collective takes a scalpel to the contagion of corruption
By Trevor Johnston
“Welcome to the circle. Bang bang”: Iain Sinclair on King of New York
By Iain Sinclair