A decade of radical change - not least for British cinema ...

Michael Winner has been one of the most controversial British directors of recent times, consistently critical of an indigenous cinema culture that he regards as failing to support film-makers who see ...

While Mitchell and Kenyon's Buxton Skyline (1901) demonstrates an appreciation of that town's architectural outline, this film takes the opposite approach, reveling in the 'thrilling scenes' of the ...

In the year 2005, Mitchell and Kenyon, a late Victorian and Edwardian film company, went from being a footnote in the received film history of cinema scholars to becoming a virtual household name. The ...

The first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, the First Folio of 1623, subdivided them into Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. While many of the plays comfortably fit one or other of those ...

As an actor, John Hurt is drawn to misfit roles, outsiders and mavericks, victims and - occasionally - oppressors, sometimes pathetic (the Elephant Man), sometimes defiant (Emperor Caligula, or the ...

After the wings that she needs for her school play costume are damaged beyond repair, little Amelia scours the streets of London looking for replacements. Despite the film's minuscule budget, there ...

Before the 1950s, when the 'Windrush generation' of immigrants from the West Indies began to make its presence felt, race was a relatively little-used subject for British comedians. Even after that, ...

Notorious practical joker Henry Russell dies, and his will leaves £50,000 to each of four relatives - on condition that they carry out various humiliating tasks beforehand. And, as with recent ...

India, 1905. A British soldier is assigned to protect a 6-year-old Maharaja's son and his American governess from Muslim rebels.

On holiday in Switzerland, Jill and Bob Lawrence become involved in a sinister plot when they witness a murder and their daughter Betty is kidnapped. Back in London, they are too scared to involve the ...

Cast: Anton Walbrook (Boris Lermontov); Marius Goring (Julian Craster); Moira Shearer (Victoria Page); Leonide Massine (Grischa Ljubov); Robert Helpmann (Ivan Boleslawsky) ...