british cinema

Upon its release in 2019, Bait was highly acclaimed by critics as a timely film. Its story of simmering tensions between tourists and locals in a Cornish fishing community was considered opportune in the context of a country divided by…

"Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals" - O Lucky Man! There are few directors left who can stir anarchic ideas as well as the late Lindsay Anderson could. Born in 1929, he began directing in 1948, making documentaries, and in…

Cockney Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr., aka Michael Caine, is a force of acting virtuosity. Featuring in 130 films over the last 69 years, he started with an uncredited role as a teaboy in the 1950 movie Morning Departure. While his late…

In recent years, we’ve seen more British filmmakers journeying across the pond to point their incisive camera lenses at the American experience. Bringing their distinctly homegrown approach offers an interesting outsider’s perspective to a…

High Rise, the fifth film by British director Ben Wheatley, was released this month on DVD. Like much of the auteur’s work, it is a strange, intoxicating cocktail of black comedy and violent horror. In celebration of the filmmaker, this…