Eisenstein’s debut feature, the labour drama Strike, which was released at the start of the year, well deserves a place on this list. However, 1925 was also the year that he directed the monumental ...

The story of Christine Norden’s road to fame is a publicist’s dream. While queuing to see a Ray Milland film in the Edgware Road in August 1945, this glamorous daughter of a Sunderland bus driver was ...

British filmmakers have been producing Christmas pictures for more than 125 years, dating back to G.A. Smith’s Santa Claus in 1898. In 1901 came R.W. Paul’s Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost (1901), the ...

Part romcom, part weepie, director John Crowley’s melodrama We Live in Time explores the relationship between chef Almut (Florence Pugh) and corporate lackey Tobias (Andrew Garfield). It was shot ...

Now in its eighth edition, the Sight and Sound poll for the best video essays of the year gives contributors the opportunity to share their personal highlights of videographic criticism. This year’s ...

A Florida orange hangs sweetly from its tree: the camera pans left, and it becomes clear that the person gazing at it is horizontal, lying on the grass below. Assuming this person’s point of view, ...

Each December, we rifle through the packed festive telly schedules and try our best not to pick the same old chestnuts. You know the things we mean. They tend to feature Victorian misers, wonderful ...

Much dust has gathered on Wallace and Gromit’s teapot since their last screen outing, 16 years ago, in A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008); more since their only previous feature, Wallace & Gromit: The ...

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal sci-fi, about a trio of travellers searching for wish fufilment by crossing into restricted territory, made a dystopian malady of life in the then Soviet Union. Forty years ...

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