Pamela Hutchinson

How haunting footage from a holiday in 1938 became a private monument to the Holocaust.

The Oscar-nominated documentary offers a lesson in good journalism, following the women of Khabar Lahariya newspaper as they get to grips with new technology, producing stories that lead to concrete local change.

Guardian writers discuss their favourite bits from some of the year’s finest films, from In the Heights to The Power of the Dog to Licorice Pizza

Read Empire’s review of Justin Chon’s deportation drama, also starring Alicia Vikander.

Marriage is certainly not bliss in the films of this pioneering director, who took advantage of the pre-censorship era to make movies as challenging, subversive and genuinely radical as any modern film-maker’s, says Pamela Hutchinson

Director Sally Potter returns with a dementia drama starring Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning. Read the Empire review.

Articles, videos and podcasts from the British Film Institute, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image.

With the West Hollywood City Council voting to have Donald Trump’s star removed, other problematic celebrities could face a similar fate

‘I got letters every day from people telling me how the film inspired them to do something about their lives’

From The Devils to Doubt, film-makers’ passion for holy havoc continues, as two very different movies called The Nun are released this summer

From the earliest days of Hollywood, women were stage managed and manipulated by older men in powerful positions. And it’s clear that, although Harvey Weinstein has been outed, little has changed

Among the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s First World War drama La Grande Illusion – released more than 80 years ago – still packs a powerful punch as a film about humanity’s common bonds.

Ninety years after the release of Fritz Lang’s hugely influential sci-fi epic, we look back at Metropolis and the pioneering films that first brought science fiction to life on screen.

When did a film last blow you away? The pair behind the restoration of an old silent classic about Napoleon say it’s a reminder of how magnificent pure cinema can be