Film

How Sheffield Film Tales From A Hard City set the Scene for Pulp’s Different Class

Daniel Dylan Wray argues that the depiction of Steel City life in a little-known 1995 film (currently being celebrated in an art exhibition and series of screenings) acts as a "companion and contrast piece" to Jarvis Cocker & co's commercial breakthrough, released the same year. Black and white still photography by Bill Stephenson.

Watch Dublin Elegy Down The Market by Dave Tynan

Darran Anderson speaks to the writer and filmmaker about the closure of Smithfield Market on the Northside and the sung and spoken eulogy he made to celebrate its passing

Still Turning Heads: The Exorcism reviewed

JR Moores casts a cynical eye over the exorcism genre and asks whether Russell Crowe's contribution to the form adds anything new. Contains spoilers for a variety of exorcism and shark attack-related films 

How A Brian Eno Documentary Has The Power To Change Film Making For Good

Using custom built software designed specifically for this project, film maker Gary Hustwit tells Daniel Dylan Wray, the film Eno will be different every time it is screened. Homepage portrait by Cecily Eno

Echoes Of A Horror To Come: The Exorcist At Fifty

The Missionary Imposition: Godland Reviewed

Big ideas are reflected by a big landscape in Hlynur Pálmason’s meditation on religion, existentialism, and human suffering, Godland, says William Stottor

An Act Of Self-Defence: How To Blow Up A Pipeline Interview

Cici Peng speaks to director Daniel Goldhaber about his explosive green heist movie

Stormy Weather And Cabin In The Sky: Pioneering Black Musicals At 80

Eight decades since the release of seminal Black musicals Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather, there's still much to be said about how Black people were shut out of moviemaking, finds Noah Berlatsky

The Last Of Us: Post-War Anxiety In The Birds At 60

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds turns 60 this year, but its post-WWII anxieties are more prescient than ever, finds Sam Moore

Donkey Power: The History Of Cinema’s Favourite Sidekick

There's a trend for donkeys in 2023 Oscars favourites, but cinema's relationship with the animal traces much further back, finds Thomas H. Sheriff

Hide And Seek: Pakistan’s Remarkable Joyland

The first Pakistani film to be shortlisted for an Oscar, Joyland is a defiant family portrait tackling gender expectations, finds Cici Peng

A Man’s Job: Asif Kapadia And Akram Khan On Creature

Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan address female abuse, post-colonial inheritance and the beauty and pain of male artistry in conversation with Soma Ghosh

Long Live The New Flesh: Videodrome At 40

David Cronenberg's masterpiece speaks to our fragmented reality more than ever 40 years later, finds Cici Peng

Royal Warriors: When Michelle Yeoh Was Her Best Self

While Michelle Yeoh is finally nominated for an Oscar, her greatest performance is still in action masterpiece Royal Warriors, finds Cian Tsang

Making A Murderer: Black Trauma And The Media In Alice Diop’s Saint Omer

The fiction feature debut of documentarian Alice Diop reveals a searing amount about Black trauma and mass media exploitation, finds Blaise Radley

The “Latent Psychosis” Of Jimmy Stewart: The Naked Spur At 70

Stewart’s darkest picture so far showed the actor angrier and more tortured than ever before, finds Sean McGeady

This Is Ourselves: Music And Memory In Aftersun

Charlotte Wells' searing directorial debut, now Oscar-nominated, captures memories through music with singular poignancy, finds Danny Wright

Bad Education: Tár And The Sadistic In The Artistic

This century has offered a lot of challenging and upsetting treatises on power and abuse in conservatoires and academies, with four striking films offering a gateway into Tár, finds Rory Doherty

Feel The Film: Mark Jenkin On Enys Men

Fêted director and screenwriter Mark Jenkin is staying true to the purity of filmmaking like few others – he tells Darren Hayman about his new feature Enys Men

If These Walls Could Talk: The Stone Tape At 50

Nigel Kneale’s BBC ghost story still haunts the fields of parapsychology and cinema 50 Christmases since it first aired, finds Sean McGeady

Happy Ending: How Guillermo Del Toro Reinvented the Fairy Tale

The story of Pinocchio has, in the hands of Guillermo del Toro, ended up in fascist Italy – but it makes total sense in the Mexican auteur's world of monsters, finds Nathaniel Ashley

Modern Masterpiece: 20 Years Of 24 Hour Party People

2022 marks 20 years of 24 Hour Party People, but also 20 years of a curious evolution of postmodernism in British cinema, finds Neil Fox

It’s Fetishised, But Hey, It’s Home: Aladdin At 30

While Orientalist stereotyping in Aladdin is impossible to miss, the film still carries special meaning to an entire generation of Arabs and South Asians 30 years later, finds Samia Qaiyum

Viewers Viewing Viewers: Peter Greenaway’s Unusual Britishness

As the BFI celebrates the peerless work of Peter Greenaway, Leo Chadburn dives deep into what the filmmaker's sensibilities reveal about British cinema

‘We Don’t Put Out’: Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains At 40

Hardly screened when first released in 1982, The Fabulous Stains found an audience among the Riot Grrrl acts a decade later. David Chiu explores this cult classic with reminisces from the cast and crew

Rage Was Always the Virus: 28 Days (And 20 Years) Later

The classic apocalyptic film galvanised horror as a genre but also foreshadowed contemporary life 20 years on, finds Kathryn Finch

Welcome To Wakaliwood: Africa’s Almighty Filmmakers

Welcome to Wakaliwood, Uganda's cult-like film production company bringing Kung Fu fighting and plastic waste solutions to a global stage – Frank L'Opez meets the team

Some Velvet Mourning: Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar At 20

A subversive portrait of grief and working-class ennui, Morvern Callar set the tone for Lynne Ramsay's power in capturing emotional and ethical dislocation, finds Josef Steen

Reel Sounds Vol. 5: Electrophonique, Hargrove And More At Doc ‘N’ Roll 2022

Combing through the vast array of music documentaries showcasing independent talent, Neil Fox previews this year's Doc 'N' Roll festival

Sonic Mouth: Peter Strickland Interviewed

As his culinary oddity Flux Gourmet is released into the world, Sam Moore sits down with Peter Strickland to reflect on his own Sonic Catering Band from back in the day

High Alert: Romain Gavras On Greek Tragedy Athena

With Athena, music video director Romain Gavras has made the most explosive statement of his career yet – Sam Moore finds out how he did it

Miss Understood: Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. At 30

Leslie Harris’s work offers food for thought about representation and suggests that authentic films are best made outside the Hollywood system, finds Mahnaz Dar