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Strangers in a strange land: how films are reframing the refugee experience
Ben Sharrock’s Limbo is a tragicomic portrait of a group of asylum seekers passing time on a remote Scottish island. As it arrives in UK cinemas, we examine a growing body of films over the past two decades that have sought to reframe our understanding of the refugee experience.
By Agnes Woolley
Cannes 2021: Un Certain Regard round-up
By Jonathan Romney
Where to begin with Jaume Collet-Serra
By Matthew Thrift
Target for Tonight: the classic RAF bombing-raid documentary turns 80
By Alex Prideaux
Early Bergman: the genius of the angry young man
By Alex Barrett
Cartoon controversy: How censorship shaped the fate of popular animated franchises
By Sophie Determan
Get Carter at 50: how the Tyneside locations look today
By Adam Scovell
Italian auteurs and American upstarts: the Cannes Film Festival in 1976
By Penelope Houston
Up in flames: the ending of Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop
By Adam Solomons
Brighton Rock: in search of the locations for the vicious British noir
By Adam Scovell
Where to begin with Thomas Vinterberg
By Paul Ridd
“I’m only interested in honest stories”: people watching with Márta Mészáros
By Michael Brooke
“She knocked the brown right out of me!” Heritage, big-screen comedy and Two Dosas
By Ian Mantgani
“I'm a minimalist”: the dramatic stillness of Mads Mikkelsen
By Ryan Gilbey
“She’s behind you!”: a list of the times the ‘resident brown girl’ missed the mark
By Maansi Kalyan
Home Is Elsewhere: a photography series by Amaal Said
By Amaal Said
The nation’s wagging finger: celebrating 75 years of the COI’s public information films
By Sarah Castagnetti, Michelle Kirby and others
The sprawling brilliance of Robert Altman’s Nashville
By Geoff Andrew
The long goodbye: has cinema finally learned how to depict dementia?
By Guy Lodge
Where to begin with Paul W.S. Anderson
By Matthew Thrift
Tanu Muino has conquered the music video world – and she’s just getting started
By Sydney Urbanek
Salaam Bombay! ranks with the masterpieces of neo-realism
By Alex Dudok de Wit