Bush’s approach to music changed when he discovered the once famous composer, Rutland Boughton who was a member of the English Communist Party. Bush composed a series of operas which he hoped would ...

Sex and cinema have been bawdy bedfellows almost since the first flickering frames hit a screen. As early as 1896, saucy shorts were already being cranked out to titillate voyeuristic - and invariably ...

This film is tricky to describe: is it a boat study, a film-poem, an experiment, a picture postcard? One thing is certain: it's a rare colour snapshot of the Thames and London in the 1930s - and it ...

Narcissistic actress Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) and writer Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) are old friends, whose tenuous bond is broken when Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé (Bruce Willis). It’s tested ...

The flagship of the GPO Film Unit's output and a cornerstone of British documentary. Harry Watt and Basil Wright's study of the down postal express stands as a beacon for John Grierson's original ...

A hotbed of artistic talent, it provided a springboard to many of the most acclaimed figures in the British Documentary Movement and beyond, including John Grierson, Alberto Cavalcanti, Humphrey ...

Poetry was Ellis Evans' passion- his life's ambition to be chaired at a National Eisteddfod. He achieved this at the Birkenhead Eisteddfod of 1917. Unfortunately, he never knew of his success as he ...

Queen Victoria's long reign famously saw extraordinary advances: in industry, transport, science, culture... But one vital innovation is too often missed: the moving image, the last great invention of ...

Starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, Girl Crazy becomes a 'let's put on a rodeo, right here' musical but to great effect. Garland gives superlative renditions of 'Embraceable You', 'Bidin' My Time ...

Although his cutting lyrics speak provocatively about identity politics, it is not until Zed (Ahmed) returns home after two years on tour that he is called by his real name: Zaheer. But it is the ...

Cinema’s poet of the West, John Ford had countless westerns under his belt before reteaming with regular star John Wayne for this disturbing story of racism, obsession and revenge. Intending to kill ...

Shot on location in Los Angeles, this film has been recognised as one of the most striking directorial debuts in black cinema history. It is the story of Caine Lawson (Tyrin Turner), a black youth who ...