Alex Barrett
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Ingmar Bergman: 10 essential films
Your 10-film starter pack for discovering the soul-searching cinema of Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman. → Read More
Where to begin with Jack Clayton
Ahead of a season celebrating Jack Clayton’s centenary at BFI Southbank, we pick a path through the small but perfectly formed career of a British master filmmaker. → Read More
Where to begin with Martin Scorsese
A novice’s path through the work of modern movie master and giant of American cinema Martin Scorsese. → Read More
Where to begin with Akira Kurosawa
A beginner’s path through the peerless films of Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. → Read More
Where to begin with Akira Kurosawa
Your next obsession: the peerless films of Japanese master Akira Kurosawa → Read More
100 years of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – Why we’re still living in its shadows
A century after the release of the Expressionist horror landmark, we peer inside the cabinet to assess why Caligari had such a huge impact on the cinema. → Read More
Where to begin with Alain Resnais
On the 97th anniversary of his birth, we explore the fractured narrative experiments of Alain Resnais. → Read More
10 great shorts that became features
Thunder Road began life as a short film before being expanded to feature-length by director Jim Cummings. As it hits UK cinemas, we picked out 10 celluloid acorns that grew into cinematic oaks. → Read More
What’s the best year a director ever had?
From the director who had three films in the running for the major Oscars in one year to the pioneering woman who released, oh, 13 pictures in 12 months... → Read More
Where to begin with Jean Cocteau
Your next obsession: the poetic dream cinema of Jean Cocteau → Read More
Where to begin with Jamil Dehlavi
Your next obsession: the hallucinatory, mystical cinema of Jamil Delhavi → Read More
Where to begin with Tim Burton
Your next obsession: the gothic wonderlands of Tim Burton → Read More
Where to begin with Ingmar Bergman
Your next obsession: the soul-searching cinema of Ingmar Bergman. → Read More
Eight key actors in the Ingmar Bergman universe
Get to know these faces – they recur throughout Ingmar Bergman's greatest masterpieces. → Read More
Where to begin with Richard Linklater
Your next obsession: the easygoing, talkative indies of Richard Linklater → Read More
Where to begin with Richard Linklater
Your next obsession: the easygoing, talkative indies of Richard Linklater → Read More
Where to begin with Richard Linklater
Your next obsession: the easygoing, talkative indies of Richard Linklater → Read More
10 great German Expressionist films
From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Nosferatu, the trend for shadows, angst and exaggerated sets in 1920s German cinema laid the foundations for everything from film noir to the horror genre. → Read More
10 great island films
Islands – real or made up – have always held a firm grip on our imaginations. Magical islands, islands where castaways can be marooned, treasure islands, islands as prisons, islands as sites of hedonism or mystery, islands where closed-off communities and ceremonies endure, or – quite simply – islands where monsters live. From The Tempest via Robinson Crusoe to Lord of the Flies, fiction has… → Read More
10 great Christian movies
Faith is tested, challenged and reaffirmed in these 10 Christian movies... spiritual forerunners to Martin Scorsese's epic new priesthood drama Silence. → Read More