Making a living in the capital has always been a challenge for creative types, but British television was once very interested in how they managed
Peter Watkins’ 1974 film is no ordinary portrait of the artist – and feels more current than ever as the art-historical canon is up for debate
An exhibition at the Cinémathèque française doesn’t shy away from the film-maker’s political side
The Egyptian film industry came to dominate the Arab world – and poster makers did much to secure its hold on the popular imagination
The Eye Filmmuseum highlights the madness of the director’s methods and how beautiful the finished films are – and leaves us to make up our own minds about it all
Before the gal who has everything got into pink, her ideal home was a shrine to midcentury modern living
Marco Ferreri’s ode to eating may be one of the most disgusting films about food ever made
This curious film about the painter Edward Brezinski suggests that not all forgotten artists are candidates for rehabilitation
Laura Poitras’s documentary about the photographer is an inspiring account of her blurring of the lines between life, art and activism
Ever since F.W. Murnau adapted Bram Stoker’s Dracula for his seminal film Nosferatu, the vampire has haunted the modern imagination
While Peter Strickland’s most recent feature sends up sound artists, Georgina Starr’s short makes for a more challenging listen
Romain Duris cuts a dash in a lavish French film about the engineer, but it’s the tower that’s the true star
Rakewell marvels at HBO's surprisingly true-to-life portrayal of the obsessive art collector in pursuit of a Jean Royère pepper shaker
The story of the scammer who passed herself off as an heiress should make for must-see television, but reality far outstrips Shonda Rhimes’s overly safe retelling
In this Netflix series a film conservator is tasked with rescuing a set of videotapes from the 1990s. What could possibly go wrong?
Roger Michell’s last film tells the unlikely story of how the Duke of Wellington’s portrait was stolen from the National Gallery – and found in a train station four years later
Salomé Jashi’s film ‘Taming the Garden’ documents how a tree-hogging former prime minister is pillaging the landscape to create a private paradise
Ridley Scott is pressing ahead with his biopic about Bonaparte – but Rakewell has a modest proposal regarding the leading man
Philip Barantini shot his 90-minute movie about the drama of a busy restaurant service in one take – and it's nail-biting stuff
In what now seems like a warning from history, the artist’s only feature film is about a magazine editor who is forced to work at home
There’s more than one way to knock a figure off its pedestal, as a documentary about dressing up public monuments in Liverpool shows
The Chicago art scene turns out to be a suitably chilling setting for Nia DaCosta’s sequel to the cult horror film
Like the rarest works of art, white truffles from Alba are commodities in a mysterious, monied world
Two documentaries on the ‘lost Leonardo’ have found the story’s sensationalism irresistible – but hard facts are as absent as the painting itself
