The Oscar-nominated documentary offers a lesson in good journalism, following the women of Khabar Lahariya newspaper as they get to grips with new technology, producing stories that lead to concrete local change.
Marriage is certainly not bliss in the films of this pioneering director, who
took advantage of the pre-censorship era to make movies as challenging,
subversive and genuinely radical as any modern film-maker’s, says Pamela
Hutchinson
From the earliest days of Hollywood, women were stage managed and manipulated by older men in powerful positions. And it’s clear that, although Harvey Weinstein has been outed, little has changed
Among the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s First World War drama La
Grande Illusion – released more than 80 years ago – still packs a powerful punch
as a film about humanity’s common bonds.
Ninety years after the release of Fritz Lang’s hugely influential sci-fi epic,
we look back at Metropolis and the pioneering films that first brought science
fiction to life on screen.
When did a film last blow you away? The pair behind the restoration of an old silent classic about Napoleon say it’s a reminder of how magnificent pure cinema can be