In our biggest ever poll in 2012, 846 critics, programmers and curators nominated ten best movies ever made – and the results gave us a new top film, ending the 50-year reign of Citizen Kane.
Twenty years after the release of the world’s first digitally shot blockbuster, George Lucas’s Attack of the Clones, Sam Wigley talks to the early adopters who delighted in experimenting with a medium that would reinvent the industry.
Jean-Marie Straub has died, aged 89. In tribute, we republish this 2009 examination of his and his wife Danièle Huillet’s decades-long career on the forefront of politically committed filmmaking.
The pioneering producer reflects on her work as part of the Black Film Workshop movement of the 1980s and observes what’s changed for Black filmmakers and creatives since.