As befits his style, Guy Maddin has chosen incidents from the city’s past that benefit from Byzantine retelling – the horrific tale of a herd of race horses trapped in a frozen river, a local bridge that was destined for Egypt and dreams of foreign climes, the buffalo stampede that destroyed Happyland, an amusement park reclaimed by the homeless and re-erected on the city’s rooftops.
Feature by Alex Fitch

Flipside is one of London’s most imaginative film nights, delighting in oddball, off-centre and way-out cinema.
Feature by Virginie Sélavy

In 1965 and 1967, Czechoslovakia won its first Hollywood Oscars – for A Shop on the High Street and Closely Observed Trains. In the same period, Miloš Forman’s A Blonde in Love (1965) and The Firemen’s Ball (1967) were also short-listed, and at Cannes in 1968 three Czech films were in competition. It was a golden era for Czech and Slovak cinema and, for a time, names such as Miloš Forman, Jiří Menzel, and Věra Chytilová were up there among the leading art-house directors.
Feature by Peter Hames

Director Shane O’Sullivan tells us about his new feature documentary, RFK Must Die, which explores the controversies surrounding Kennedy’s death and the possibility that his assassin may have been hypnotically programmed. The film screens as part of the East End Film Festival.
Feature by Shane O’Sullivan

A midnight movie is not just a film shown at midnight. Bridget Jones’ Diary shown at midnight would not be a midnight movie. Neither would a midnight screening of Time Regained – not unless the crowd were told to speak in French and to bash a teaspoon against a teacup when a compere gave the cue.
Feature by Lisa Williams

As the Bird’s Eye View Film Festival reminds us every year, there is still only a ridiculously small proportion of female directors working in the film industry. But while filmmaking remains a male-dominated world, there have been numerous opportunities within the movies themselves for women to get even. In a list where exploitation meets feminism, we look at ten of the sassiest, sexiest, baddest girls in the history of cinema.
Feature by Virginie Sélavy

In anticipation of the Bird’s Eye View Film Festival, a celebration of women in cinema which takes place in March, Sarah Wood from Club des Femmes explains why it is vital to offer an alternative space for female directors who do not fit in the mainstream.
Feature by Sarah Wood

Cryptic, understated and thought-provoking, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s work probes the darkest, most unfathomable depths of human life.
Feature by Virginie Sélavy

Firstly I had received an email with instructions and directions for the day. But this didn’t arrive ’til five hours before the event. Not only that, but the directions instructed us to bring warm clothes. Where were they taking us?! Would we be watching a film in a wind tunnel?
Review by Lisa Williams

Hailed as RW Fassbinder’s masterpiece, the 15-hour-plus Berlin Alexanderplatz is an intense and unsettling chronicle of morally ambiguous characters caught in the murky world of 1920s Berlin.
Feature by Stephen Thomson