The filmmakers featuring in the GREAT 8 are Ashley Walters, Celyn Jones, Helen Walsh, Imran Perretta, Paul Wright, Rebekah Fortune, Stroma Cairns and Ted Evans.

On his 82nd birthday, the first of a new series celebrating actors at the peak of their powers looks at Michael Palin’s turn as pig-stealing chiropodist Gilbert Chilvers in A Private Function.

In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed.

Florence Pugh leads a messy squad of ‘superhero’ misfits as Black Widow’s sister Yelena Belova in a comic book movie that prioritises its characters over spectacle.

Twenty years on from its theatrical release, Bullet Boy possesses a contemporary relevance far beyond its tale of Black youths and gun crime, says Dr Clive Nwonka.

On what would have been her 96th birthday on 4 May, we retrace Audrey Hepburn's steps in the movie that made her a superstar: William Wyler’s Oscar-winning romance Roman Holiday.

Nothing quite coheres in Paolo Sorrentino’s story of a young Neapolitan desired by all around her, but the glorious images make it worthwhile – just about.

Zhao Tao embodies modern alienation as Qiao Qiao, an enigmatic figure drifting through time and space in contemporary China.

As the award-winning A Samurai in Time comes to Blu-ray and digital, we explore highlights of Japanese cinema’s many inspired leaps and loops across time.