Roger Deakins doesn’t want you to notice his frames. He also really doesn’t understand how he does what he does.

Glasgow is set to get another chain of Irish bars. As an Irishman, our Writer at Large is not impressed with yet more "cartoonisation" ...

Before anime's 90s boom, these titles were the foundational classics that never saw the spotlight.

Chapter 1 of Andrey A Tarkovsky’s film on his father Andrei Tarkovsky, one of the greatest auteurs of cinema, begins with the filmmaker himself. Sunlight falls on an old photograph of Andrey’s boyhood ...

Taking place in a borderless, unnamed and untamed patch of farmland in Scotland, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest makes its Arcadian setting feel both familiar and strange. Its opening shots are of ...

To discover that Geoff Dyer has reached the memoir-of-his-childhood years is to be abruptly mugged by the passage of time. Surely Geoff Dyer can’t be, as Wikipedia solemnly informs me that he is, now ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

The writer on family, class and life lessons from a decade in America. By Nicholas Harris Geoff Dyer is an Englishman, though it can look as though he’s spent his life pretending not to be. His ...

“This is the Zone. It might seem capricious, but at each moment, it’s as if we construct it according to our state of mind.” Preserved within the sci-fi drama Stalker — between its elliptical cuts ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

In 1985 and 86, as 54-year-old filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky was dying of lung cancer, he managed to complete The Sacrifice, one of his finest works. Tarkovsky’s career began in his home country, the ...