In the 1980s, Peter Brook’s adaptation of The Mahabharata enchanted audiences on stage and screen. As Brook’s son presents a restored print at the Venice film festival, he and his team discuss the work’s extraordinary journey
He has just made the highest-grossing Saudi film ever, about a delivery driver who muscles into illegal alcohol. But the edgy subject matter meant he had to fight to get it off the ground
With his new sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice set to open the Venice International Film Festival on 28 August, we look back at the career of every goth’s favourite director
There are deafening echoes of Get Out, Don’t Worry Darling and The Menu in this propulsive yet ultimately unwieldy attempt to use Epstein’s island as genre inspiration
The story of Northern Irish teenagers who reinvent the political purpose of hip-hop, the film is most uproarious when the energy of the music lets loose
The Italian director, whose film Together made a key contribution to the Free Cinema movement in the UK, died in 2020 but this interview is a fitting tribute