Films using a mixture of animated and live-action elements have been around since the earliest days of animated cinema.
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This filmmaking technique will leave you doubting what’s in front of your eyes.
From talking bodiless heads to flirty phone conversations, this technique goes back to the earliest days of cinema.
You may have never consciously noticed a match cut before, yet this simple editing technique completely transforms how we experience a film.
I wanted to make a film about solo parenting in all its messiness, the highs, but also the lows. I shot with my smartphone, almost daily, for nearly two decades.
The Backrooms horror legend began as an anonymous 4chan post in 2019. Now it’s an A24 film by director Kane Parsons – just 20 years old.
The Academy has decided to ban AI actors and scripts from the Oscars. But machine learning systems are actually used in cinema more often than most people realise.
The fourth wall break is a 100-year-old screen staple – and film and TV creators can’t seem to get enough.
AI tools can now generate movie scenes, resurrect lost footage and replace entry-level jobs – forcing Hollywood to rethink creativity, labor and authorship.
The turn to CGI has sidelined many of the dogs, bears and horses of yesteryear. But ethical questions aside, there’s still some magic in filming and seeing the real thing.
Even after the original group fizzled, many of its members were able to keep making films with progressive messages.
The old-school shooting format had been out of fashion for decades – before being rekindled last year in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.
Actor and director Robert Redford enjoyed a long and varied career that spanned 60 years and produced some of Hollywood’s most enduring and best-loved cinema.
From Carrie to The Shawshank Redemption, there are now more than 50 Stephen King film adaptations - making him one of the most adapted authors alive.
In the fall of 1985, two pioneering films offered radically different portrayals of AIDS – one intimate and confrontational, the other more cautious and network-friendly.
Ghanaian film-makers struggle to access international distribution.
Cancellation of screenings of the documentaries ‘Russians at War’ (TIFF) and ‘Rule of Stone’ (RIDM) means that provocative and timely films are silenced.
Jaws may have unfairly monstered sharks forever, but it helped fix Hollywood’s broken studio system and create the blockbuster.
Panahi received the 2025 Palme d'Or, the highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival. He’s also the focus of the 2025 Sydney Film Festival retrospective.
There are only two Imax cinemas in the UK but if you can see Sinners at one, it will be a worthwhile experience.
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor in Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
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Head of Film, Screen and Creative Media, Bond University
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Senior Lecturer, Media & Communication, RMIT University
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Film and Television, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Media Arts & Production, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Professor of Film, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Lecturer, Screen Studies, University of New England
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Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Windsor
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