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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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Masahiro Shinoda obituary: Japanese New Wave director behind Pale Flower and the original Silence
Shinoda, who has died aged 94, was one of the leading figures in 1960s Japanese cinema, whose taste for artifice and experimentation led to some of the New Wave’s most striking films.
By Alexander Jacoby
The 2025 UK Top 50: digging into Moving Image’s annual ranking of comms film movers and shakers
By Patrick Russell and Rebecca Vick
“The more craic people are having on the shoot, the less funny it’s going to be”: Darren Thornton on his tragicomedy Four Mothers
By Josh Slater-Williams
In search of Jacques Rivette’s Paris: locations from his films, then and now
By Adam Scovell
5 things to watch this weekend – 28 to 30 March
By Sam Wigley
The End: bunker-bound billionaires make a song and dance of the apocalypse
By Jonathan Romney
10 great British films of 1975
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Bong Joon Ho joins us to talk about his incredible career to date and his new film, Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson.
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