Long fêted for her ability to steal scenes from co-stars, even in her fleeting early roles, Viola Davis has gone on to establish herself as one of the finest actors of her generation. Here she speaks ...

Although most celebrated for his civil rights era dramas, a younger generation of viewers first discovered Sidney Poitier via late-career video-shop favourites like Sneakers and Deadly Pursuit, which ...

Film Forever was the BFI’s plan for 2012 to 2017. Film Forever covered all BFI activity and was funded by Grant in Aid from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and a share of National Lottery ...

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 ...

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, ...

Marisa Paredes, who has died at the age of 78, oozed old school Hollywood glamour. She had verve, style and a veritable sense of mischief. Her presence and poise were deployed to compelling effect by ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Christmas, anyone trying to prepare a turkey dinner for their extended family should know that, according to a recent survey, cooking a festive spread is one of the main causes of holiday stress.