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Allan Hunter (Festival co-director) What does your job entail? Mostly watching films, shaping the programme, deciding the annual country focus, choosing th... Read more »

When we interviewed filmmaker Mark Cousins back in 2011 ahead of the broadcast of A Story of Film: An Odyssey, his epic 15-part history of the moving image, ... Read more »

Room Joy (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son, Jack (Jacob Tremblay), live in Room. To the mother, it's a prison cell barely two meters square; for the s... Read more »

Bryan M Ferguson has wanted to make movies since the age of four. “I was the only kid in my primary class that wanted to be a filmmaker and not a footb... Read more »

There’s a tension at the heart of Terence Davies’ work. From his autobiographical trilogy of shorts (Children, Madonna and Child, Death and Trans... Read more »

Scotland’s most disreputable film festival, Dead By Dawn (21-24 Apr), returns to spill guts and gore across Filmhouse’s screens this month. Top o... Read more »

The inaugural Nespresso Talents 2016 vertical film contest comes to a close, with three great filmmakers receiving 6,000€ as well as a trip to the world... Read more »

Another year, another awards season and another Oscars at which no women filmmakers were nominated for best director. Well, quite frankly, fuck the Oscars. I... Read more »

Where are films made? The romantics out there might say, “In the imaginations of artists.” The more practical answer, however, is, “within ... Read more »

We all know the stories from the Hollywood casting couch of yesteryear, where young stars, both male and female, were expected to do more than just give a go... Read more »

We’re speaking to Eva Husson on the day the world saw Justin Bieber's penis. As we sit down to talk to the 39-year-old French filmmaker, paparazzi long... Read more »

Nespresso Talents 2016 shortlist has been announced and it’s up to you to take to Facebook or Twitter to choose the three films to be sc... Read more »

In the age of Netflix and video on demand, festivals like Glasgow’s are more vital than ever. The more time we spend on our own watching movies on titc... Read more »

Just under a year ago at Glasgow Short Film Festival 2016, Ross Hogg and Duncan Cowles’ beautiful and deeply moving documentary-animation hybrid, Isabe... Read more »

There are many reasons to love Canada at the moment, not least for its matinee-idol prime minister's recent visit to the White House where he took on Donald ... Read more »

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki is about an unassuming Finnish boxer who has his nation's hopes pinned on his success. We speak to its directo... Read more »

How does one go about adapting for the stage a beguiling piece of meta-noir? That seems to be the primary challenge faced by playwright Duncan Macmillan and ... Read more »

John Waters has been transgressing ever since he was in short trousers. His original sin, appropriately enough, happened in a house of God. “My mother ... Read more »

This St Patrick's Day, many of you lager and ale drinkers are likely to break your routine to sample a snifter of Ireland's national drink. Some of you might... Read more »

What got into John Huston in the 1970s? In the decade previous, the once-great director had begun churning out arthritic prestige pictures – see 1966's... Read more »

Draw a Venn diagram of art and science interactions, and you might assume little overlap between both circles. The former is driven by emotion and self-expre... Read more »

The auteur theory gets a bad rap. Ever since the great New Yorker critic Pauline Kael eviscerated the notion in her angry 1963 essay Circles and Squares, man... Read more »

When God's Own Country, the first film from actor-turned-director Francis Lee, premiered at Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, it was quickly labele... Read more »

On 21 June, the 71st Edinburgh International Film Festival will kick off with its best opening film in years, Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country, a ... Read more »

In theory, the space opera should be the most wild and imaginative sub-genre in cinema, but it tends to be quite the opposite. Almost all made post-1977 have... Read more »

If the movies have taught us anything, it’s that Emmerdale Farm is a sham. The opening credits for that surprisingly salacious soap opera promises roll... Read more »

To the best of our knowledge, Royal, the directorial debut by Flying Lotus, is the first film inspired by a GIF. The GIF in question was a black and white ph... Read more »

The artistic process is under the spotlight in Stanley Tucci’s Final Portrait. For its subject, Alberto Giacometti, it’s an ordeal, but watching ... Read more »

Once the bleeding edge nightmare of 90s science fiction movies, virtual reality (VR) is now on the cusp of being an everyday reality. The tech is already in ... Read more »

The best film events happening in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds this week, including HOME's Soundtrack season and FACT's rare screening of Jacques Rivette'... Read more »