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Believe the hype? What NFTs mean for film
Non-fungible tokens promise to revolutionise the ways artists, filmmakers included, make money from their work. Is this latest use of blockchain technology too good to be true?
By Pamela Hutchinson
Cherry blossom season: 13 visions of springtime in Japanese cinema
By Hayley Scanlon
No success like failure – a natural history of the film maudit
By J. Hoberman
Simone Signoret: remembering a French screen legend on her centenary
By Adam Scovell
Life in Fassbinder’s fast lane: how a new biopic tackles his legend
By Tamsin Cleary
A year of lockdown: the screen culture that got us through it
By Henry Barnes, Whelan Barzey and others
From FernGully to Farthing Wood: the 90s green wave of eco animations
By Sophie Determan
By us, about us, for all: why films by trans people matter for everyone
By Thomas Flew
A chance to catch eight shorts by documentary pioneer and poet Cecilia Mangini
By Ruairí McCann
How a school drama with an all-female cast broke down doors for queer cinema, 90 years ago
By Tamsin Cleary
Where to begin with David Cronenberg
By Stephen Puddicombe
Hair-raising horticulture: A guide to plants in early horror
By Sophie Determan
What to watch at BFI Flare: Trans stories
By Zorian Clayton
Pimple and the tramp: the fickle fortunes of a silent comedy star
By Bryony Dixon
Mapping calamity in real time: the first wave of pandemic documentaries
By Adam Benzine
What to watch at BFI Flare: Stories of maturity and the queer past
By Brian Robinson
Handling the truth: documenting conspiracy in the age of misinformation
By Jonathan Romney
How a pioneering cinema season tackled disability, 40 years ago
By Henry K Miller
In the beginning: cinema’s murky origin story
By Peter Domankiewicz
The Watermelon Woman at 25: the Black lesbian classic that wears its brilliance lightly
By Chrystel Oloukoi
“Bogarde is exactly ripe for this role”: on the set of Visconti’s Death in Venice
By Margaret Hinxman
What to watch at the Glasgow Film Festival 2021
By Josh Slater-Williams
Wong Kar Wai’s needle-drops: a journey through his melancholic soundscapes
By Kambole Campbell