Film

Many of us grow up with cinema, but Bill Prince was practically raised in one. Here, the writer and editor remembers the magnificent theatre that shaped his early years.

What did the iconic women of Italian film have in common? Fatima Khan unpacks what she calls 'La Donna Fatale'

What did the iconic women of Italian film have in common? Fatima Khan unpacks what she calls 'La Donna Fatale'

Our Rome correspondent Alain Elkann reminisces on Fellini’s Rome and his encounters with the director…including in his sleep.

La Dolce Vita is Fellini’s masterpiece, and perhaps the most famous Italian film of all time. In his essay, Jonathan Romney looks at the movie’s prestige over time, as well as the addictively glamorous world it depicts.

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet delivers a remarkably polished debut that speaks to the age of the "chaotic femme"

John Cameron Mitchell's boundary-pushing sex-comedy remains a refreshing ode to fluidity.

Our Editor-in-Chief Charles Finch on the allure of Cannes during festival season.

"For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur has been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by wear. The claws scratched in the linings of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast.

A travelogue through the south of France, the summertime muse of Cinema Francais.