The idea that New Zealand films could attract global success was on the ascendant in the 80s and 90s, after the New Zealand Film Commission had been established and highly distinctive films such as ...
The makers of DreamWorks Animation’s wild escapade talk about bringing nature and technology together. The Wild Robot screened in the BFI London Film Festival as a special presentation on 13 October ...
WorkWise for Screen is a pilot to support screen businesses and employers to prioritise equality, dignity and respect in the workplace and sector specific guidance on the government’s incoming ...
Director Gints Zilbalodis’s wordless environmental fable finds comedy in animal behaviours as an unlikely gang of castaway creatures fights to survive a flood.
Sean Baker, director of the Palme d’Or winning Anora, spoke to the LFF audience about wildly differing reactions to his films, and why ‘non-professional actor’ is a damaging term.
Don Hertzfeldt turns an unrealised musical collaboration into a wordless animated dystopia that blends inter-dimensional compositions with the broken-puzzle poetry of Mulholland Dr. (2001).
It may not have the focus and flair of How to Train Your Dragon, but Chris Sanders’ quirky tale of an unlikely bond between an upbeat android and an orphaned gosling has a lot of heart.
At his LFF Screen Talk, the Dune director spoke of the formative influence of Steven Spielberg, the female characters at the centre of the Dune franchise, and the scar that reminds him not to act.
Catherine Breillat’s Romance confronts sexual taboos and desire, explains Leslie Felperin, while Linda Ruth Williams interviews the director. From our October 1999 issue.
Steve McQueen takes us inside his new film Blitz Inside: Sean Baker on Anora, and sex work at the movies – Pedro Almodóvar on The Room Next Door – No Other Land – The Apprentice – The Wild Robot – Jea ...
The events surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo’s declaration of independence and the subsequent assassination of prime minister Patrice Lumumba are laid out with cool precision to a ...