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Take the It's a Wonderful Winter quiz!

Test the film buff credentials of you and your friends with our winter quiz.

 

Brilliant BFI Box Set Sale!

We've got a brilliant new sale on desirable BFI box sets - must-haves for your collection and great gifts too.

Browse our great new sale on a selection of BFI box sets, including the surreal shorts of the Quay Brothers and the fascinating GPO films. Take advantage of these great low prices and add these must-have sets to y...

 

UK VAT Reduction Update

We've already received some queries from customers wondering how the VAT reduction will affect our prices, so we'd like to take this opportunity to explain our position.

The Government announced that VAT will go down from 17.5% to 15% from next Monday, December 1st 2008 to December 31st 2009. The first point is that we, like everyone else, are waiting to see how the companies...

 

Just the Ticket - the latest fascinating volume from BTF

James White is impressed by the creativity and craftmanship of the British Transport Films presented in volume 9 of the series.

Just the Ticket contains over four hours of classics from the award-winning British Transports Film Unit, with a particular focus on the staff training film, a genre often wrongly neglected but no less creative an...

 

Timeless charm - Wall-E

Milo ranks the latest creation from Pixar amongst the very best and enduring of Disney characters.

When Walt Disney decided that the star of Dumbo should be – pardon the pun – dumb, wiser heads told him no. How would audiences, especially children, respond to a character who never spoke? Walt’s gamble paid off,...

 

Año Uña - Cuarón's film of stills

Jonas Cuarón, with his father Alfonso Cuarón as executive producer, has written and directed a film edited entirely from photographic stills.

Jonás Cuarón took photographs over the course of a year, recording spontaneous images of people going about their everyday lives. At this point there was no plot as Cuarón intended for characters, themes and stori...

 

Sight and Sound's Best DVDs of 2008!

Sight and Sound have polled 50 critics to produce their Best DVDs of 2008 and published the results online.

Sight and Sound's January issue, out next Tuesday, will look back over the year in film and will include 50 critics' personal cinematic highlights from the last 12 months. To whet your appetite before then, Sight ...

 

Five Milestones of Russian Cinema

With the release of Zvyaginstev's beautiful The Banishment, Michael Brooke suggests further essential Russian viewing.

With the release of Andrey Zvyaginstev's beautiful The Banishment on DVD, Michael Brooke suggests some further viewing for those with a taste for Soviet cinema in his Five Milestones of Russian Cinema. Desp...

 

Striking simplicity: The Legend of the Suram Fortress

Michael Brooke is captivated by this imaginative interpretation of folk culture.

In a more benign universe than our own, the great Armenian-born director Sergo Paradjanov would have celebrated his 84th birthday this year, having spent the four preceding decades turning out a stream of masterpi...

 

Full credit to Saul Bass: the greatest film credits in cinema history

Read our guide to Saul Bass, creator of the greatest film credits in cinema history, including Vertigo and Bunny Lake is Missing.

With our latest exclusive, Bunny Lake is Missing, comes a welcome reminder of the late, great Saul Bass, one of the greatest graphic designers of the mid-20th century and creator of this and many other celebrated ...

 

Win a box set and tickets to Wajda's Kaytn at Cinecity!

To complement the screening of Andrzej Wajda's highly acclaimed Katyn CINECITY have teamed up with sponsor MovieMail to offer you the opportunity to win a Andzrej Wajda War Trilogy DVD box set and tickets to this one-off screening.

We've got 5 pairs of tickets to the screening (Brighton's Cineworld on Wed 26 Nov 8.15pm) and a Wajda War Trilogy box set containing A Generation (1955) Kanal (1957) Ashes and Diamonds (1958) to give away. To ...

 

Energetic entertainment - Mamma Mia!

Brighten up those dark evenings with the feelgood favourite Mamma Mia!

If the long cold nights are getting you down, this big-screen adaptation of the long-running West End musical packs enough endorphins to see you through a Lapland winter. The feelgood hit stars the preternatura...