Comment
14 Mar 2008
Berlin 2008: Faster, Captain! Kill! Kill!
The jury's grand winner choice at the 2008 Berlin Festival was one of the most misguided decisions in recent festival times

Feature
14 Feb 2008
Festival report: 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008 (23 January - 03 February)
Having established itself as a launching pad for new arthouse talent, the International Film Festival Rotterdam kicks off the global festival circuit. Thessa Mooij sets out to find this year's discoveries

Profile
21 Dec 2007
Val Lewton's A Grade B-movies
Frightfully good: Val Lewton's horror film legacy is a case of elegance and sophistication. He's one of the topics in Kamera Books' latest title, Horror Films, by Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell, and we present the section on Lewton as a Christmas present to all of you fans of Cat People and many other films Lewton produced and wrote. A warm holiday salute from the Kamera posse.

Festival Review
20 Sep 2007
The 64th Venice film festival, 28 August – 8 September 2007
Dearth in Venice: sex, politics and violence dominated the latest edition of the Venice film festival to the detriment of art, says Thessa Mooij

Feature
16 Aug 2007
How to get seen
Show me around: Two film distribution professionals give us their perspectives on the DVD market and the Internet

Festival previews
24 May 2007
Trans-Europe Express
An overview of film events across Europe in June

Feature
14 Feb 2007
Profile: Margaret Tait
Poetry in motion: The Lux in London releases a DVD compilation of the work of the late Scottish film poet, Margaret Tait, accompanied by a reader

2006 retrospective
28 Dec 2006
2006: the year in rear view
2006: Kamera reviews the closing year's cinematic achievements

Festival Review
14 Dec 2006
Dispatch: Cinénygma Luxembourg International Film Festival (Part I)
Grim Tales of Reality and the Fantastic: A look at the Méliès d'argent Competition for Best Fantastic Film from Europe at the Cinénygma Luxembourg International Film Festival

Festival Review
30 Nov 2006
Dispatch: The 36th Molodist Film Festival in Kiev
Look east: Steven Yates reports from the 36th Molodist Film Festival in Kiev

Festival Review
1 Nov 2006
Ghosts in Venice
The 2006 Venice Film Festival that others did not see. By Boyd van Hoeij

Festival Review
12 Oct 2006
Dispatch: Karlovy Film Festival - part II
Ones to watch: Boyd van Hoeij gives us the right directions into Eastern European cinema

Feature
3 Sep 2006
Great British Movies
Don Shiach's newly released book, Great British Movies, charts the lineage of the best of British cinema from the silent era to the present. Highlighting the country's most inspired cinematic moments, such as the Free Cinema of the late 1950s and the subsequent New Wave, the author argues that Truffaut might have been wrong, after all...

Feature
23 Aug 2006
Stop mopping and start writing
All write: ever dreamed of writing a screenplay? John Costello, author of the Pocket Essentials Writing a Screenplay offers a few hints. Here's an excerpt in which Costello tells us how to fight the lure of the broom and the washing up and get to work on the keyboard.

Feature article
4 Aug 2006
The merchant of truth
Truth and dare: a bevy of DVD releases featuring films, interviews and documentaries widens the access to the works of the master of New German Cinema, Rainer Weiner Fassbinder.

Feature: Sex and the Screen
15 Jun 2006
Sex and the Cinema
Read an exclusive extract from Tanya Krzywinska's Sex and the Cinema

Feature: Sex and the Screen
13 Jun 2006
The Woman With The Hungry Eyes: The World's First Vamp on Film
Raising Bara: Thessa Mooij on the world's first Vamp

Feature
25 May 2006
New cinema from Eastern Europe
The new Europe: The Trieste film festival is one of the few venues to showcase new Eastern European cinema. John Gorick reports on what's happening in the new Europe

Feature
19 May 2006
The story of Coffin Joe - Part 2
Twice as scary: the second part of our homage to Brazilian horror master, Coffin Joe. By Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell

Feature
11 May 2006
The story of Coffin Joe
Who's afraid of Coffin Joe? Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell pay homage to one of horror cinema's greatest creations

Feature
13 Apr 2006
The Island of Doctor Moreau 1996 (or how to make a mega flop with Val Kilmer)
The gates of hell are unlocked, part I: Bob Caroll tells us the story of one of film history's most majestic flops, The Island of Doctor Moreau

Festival Review
24 Mar 2006
Dispatch: 2006 Berlinale, Berlin, 9-19 February
Elke de Wit on the good, the bad and the funny from the latest in German cinema shown at last month's Berlinale

Feature
16 Mar 2006
Film London launches Microwave funding initiative
Film London wanted more Londoners to make films. And so Microwave was launched.

Feature
16 Mar 2006
Kieslowski special: the director today
Edward Lamberti remembers the great Polish director 10 years after his death

Feature
9 Feb 2006
Cult File #1: Liquid Sky
To inaugurate Kamera's new section on cult movies, editor Antonio Pasolini writes an ode to that much-worshipped freak from the New York New Wave scene, Liquid Sky

Feature
5 Jan 2006
Director's cult: Andrei Tarkovsky

Dispatch
15 Dec 2005
Guerillas in the mist and food for thought: the 2005 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
This year's International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) ran from 24 November through 4 December in the icy cold and dark Dutch capital

Director's cult: Pietro Germi
7 Dec 2005
Italian for beginners
Pietro Germin, the director of Divorce Italian Style, does not figure amongst the sacred gods of Italian cinema. But wider availability of his films on DVD may put an end to Germin's undeserved ostracism, says Edward Lamberti

Festival Report
16 Nov 2005
Athens - The 18th Panorama of European Cinema
The city that brought us civilisation, the Olympics and the arts is also home to one of the lesser known film festivals that shouldn't be overlooked. Steven Yates reports

Festival Preview
27 Oct 2005
London Film Festival 2005: Five to See...and One to Miss?
John Atkinson rounds up some of the films on offer at this year's Times bfi London Film Festival

Feature Item
13 Sep 2005
Alan Parker On Sound
In the second of our exclusive series of interviews with directors on the subject of sound in cinema, Peter Cowie talks to one of the foremost names in modern British cinema, Alan Parker

Feature Item
13 Sep 2005
Walter Salles On Sound
In the third instalment of our Filmmakers On Sound series, Walter Salles - director of the award-winning Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries - talks to Peter Cowie about the way sound has shaped his career

Feature Item
28 Aug 2005
Before There Was Steve McQueen There was James Dean
Fifty years on from his death, James Dean remains one of cinema's most enduring icons. In an exclusive article for kamera, Christopher Sandford examines why Dean is still such a potent presence - and wonders whether it really is better to burn out than to fade away

Festival Report
28 Aug 2005
Fantasia 2005 (Part 2)
In the second part of her report from this year's Fantasia Film Festival, Marcelle Perks checks out a comedy-horror hybrid, a Herschell Gordon Lewis homage and a spoof of the Charlie Manson cult...

Feature
27 Jul 2005
Chronicles of Narnia Q&A
If you've ever wanted to interview a Hollywood director - now's your chance! kamera is asking its readers to submit questions for a unique collaborative interview with Andrew Adamson - director of the forthcoming Narnia film

Feature Item
30 Jun 2005
kamera blog
kamera ventures into the world of the blog this week, with a brand new section of the site devoted entirely to cinematic comment - provided as always by kamera's expert pool of writers. Editor Oliver Berry gives us the lowdown on the new kamera blog

Festival Report
21 Jun 2005
The 45th Cracow International Film Festival
The Cracow Film Festival may have started small, but after several successful years it's rapidly becoming one of the hottest film events on the European circuit. Steven Yates headed east to report on this year's festival

Feature Item
6 Jun 2005
We're Watching You
In a brand new feature for kamera.co.uk, Oliver Berry and Ben McCann launch the first kamera Top Ten with a round-up of the ten best Being Watched movies, inspired by a recent poll at Lovefilm.com

Festival Report
12 Apr 2005
goEast 2005 - The 5th Festival of Central and Eastern European Film at Wiesbaden
In an exclusive report for kamera.co.uk, Steven Yates rounds up the highs and lows from goEast 2005 in Wiesbaden - one of the few film festivals which focuses exclusively on East European cinema

Interview
12 Apr 2005
An Interview with Minh Nguyen-Vo
The Vietnamese director Minh Nguyen-Vo may have started out as a physics teacher, but his low-budget film Buffalo Boy is currently making waves on the festival circuit and looks set to make his name as a serious filmmaker. Interview by KJ Doughton

Festival Report
29 Mar 2005
55th Berlin Film Festival (Part 2)
Following on from our coverage of this year's Rotterdam Film Festival, we've also got a second report from the 55th Berlinale, still one of the big guns on the European Festival circuit. Ian Haydn Smith reports

Festival Report
16 Mar 2005
55th Berlin Film Festival
With the Golden Bear going to a South African film for the first time ever, this year's Berlinale made it clear that African-made and African-themed productions are really starting to get noticed. Thessa Mooij reports from the German capital

Festival Report
15 Feb 2005
16th Trieste Film Festival – Alpe Adria Cinema
While Venice, Cannes and Berlin scoop up all the press coverage, the much smaller Alpe Adria Cinema festival in Trieste continues to develop as one of the most intriguing and entertaining events on the European calendar. Elke de Wit reports

Film Retrospective
1 Feb 2005
Comedies And Proverbs: An Eric Rohmer Retrospective
Eric Rohmer is one of Europe's most prolific and hardworking directors, but his work has always struggled to reach out to a mainstream audience. Edmund Hardy looks back at Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs film cycle

Feature Item
18 Jan 2005
Le Neuvième Art: Animation in France
France has always had a love affair with the comic book and the graphic novel, and French artists and animators continue to produce some of the most memorable animation work this side of Pixar. Ben McCann finds out why

Feature Item
18 Jan 2005
Deux ou trois choses: A Brief Introduction to French cinema
To begin our coverage this week, Ben McCann takes a highly subjective look at the distinctive qualities of French cinema - how a film defines itself as French, and what we've come to expect from French fimmakers

Feature Item
18 Jan 2005
The French Occupation on film
Sixty years on, the occupation of France still weighs heavily on French consciousness, and the subject remains fertile ground for the country's filmmakers. Ben McCann examines some of the most notable films d'occupation

Feature Item
11 Jan 2005
Old Blue Eyes: Paul Newman at 80
He's one of the iconic actors of the 20th century, and believe it or not, Paul Newman is about to turn 80. With a new biography just released, Christopher Sandford looks back over the career of the hustler himself

Feature Item
4 Jan 2005
Films of the Year 2004 - Part 1
It's that time of year again...as always, a selection of Kamera writers round up their best and worst films of last year. In Part 1, Colin Odell, Michelle le Blanc, Ben McCann and Ed Lamberti reveal their choices

Festival Report
17 Nov 2004
The 2004 London Film Festival (Part 2)
In the second part of his report from this year's London Film Festival, Metin Alsanjak reviews films from debut directors Jonathan Caouette and Saul Dibb and enjoys a contemplative film from Chinese filmmaker Yun De Nanfang

Festival Report
9 Nov 2004
The 2004 London Film Festival
In his first instalment from this year's BFI London Film Festival, Metin Alsanjak rounds up the highlights of the first week, including the latest films from the indomitable Mike Leigh and the critically-lauded director David Gordon Green

Competition
12 Oct 2004
House of Flying Daggers Competition
With the release of Zhang Yimou's epic House of Flying Daggers just weeks away, we have two tickets to the forthcoming screening at the London Film Festival to give away, courtesy of the good people at Orange

Festival Report
12 Sep 2004
Edinburgh Film Festival 2004
The Edinburgh Film Festival has been one of the main events on the UK's cinematic calendar for over twenty years - but this year's selection has prompted some critics to speculate on the festival's future. Hannah Patterson reports

Feature Item
18 Aug 2004
A Quick Chat With Andrew Jarecki
Andrew Jarecki's new documentary, Capturing The Friedmans, has been taking film festivals around the world by storm in recent months. Hannah Patterson met the director to find out where the story began

Feature Item
9 Aug 2004
The Rise and Fall of British Horror (Part 1)
There was a time, not so long ago, when British horror movies were regularly frightening the life out of cinemagoers both at home and abroad. Following the success of films like 28 Days Later and Dog Soldiers, Oliver Berry wonders whether the British horror film might be about to make a comeback

Feature Item
20 Jul 2004
A Quick Chat With Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater is one of the few American directors who seems able to combine mainstream success with personal, highly individual filmmaking. With his latest film about to hit our screens, Jason Wood caught up with the director in an exclusive interview for kamera.co.uk

Film Retrospective
4 Jun 2004
The Conversation
Coppola is best known for his big films of the 70s, including the first two Godfathers and the fire and brimstone of Apocalypse Now - but Tim Applegate thinks The Conversation is just as worthy of praise

Festival Report
2 Jun 2004
Cannes Film Festival 2004
With accusations flying around that this year's Palme d'Or had more to do with politics than art, it's a good time to look back at some of the lesser-known films that graced Cannes 2004. Chas Turner braves the crowds to file a festival round-up

Festival Report
10 May 2004
Berlinale 2004
The Berlinale is one of the major events of the cinema year, and over recent weeks we've been running reviews of some of the major films at this year's festival. John Gorick rounds our coverage off with a festival overview

Interview
18 Mar 2004
David Caffrey
Gram Parsons is one of the great forgotten stars of country music, who like so many musicians of his generation, died before his 30th birthday. Now a film has been made about his life (and death). Elke de Wit caught up with its director at the recent Berlin film festival

Festival Report
17 Feb 2004
The 2nd Bangkok International Film Festival
Asia is surprisingly short on world class film festivals, so the emergence of the Bangkok International Film Festival, now in its second year, bodes well for the future. Robert Williamson reports on a selection of new films from the Far East

Festival Report
8 Feb 2004
Rotterdam Film Festival
With so many film festivals on the European circuit, programmers are finding it increasingly difficult to make their event stand out. In a so-so year at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Thessa Mooij found the best new work came from the Balkans

Festival Preview
19 Jan 2004
The 3rd London Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Festival
It's got a bad reputation thanks to some of its most ardent and disturbing devotees, but there's more to sci-fi than bad make-up and big hair. Simon Jones previews the 3rd London Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Festival

Career Retrospective
10 Jan 2004
Knights Errant: The Films of John Woo & Chow Yun Fat (Part 1)
John Woo is undoubtedly Hong Kong's most famous and successful director. Bob Carroll charts the career of the inventor of "heroic bloodshed", and examines the importance of his partnership with leading man, Chow-Yun Fat

Feature Item
10 Jan 2004
The Cinema of Jackie Chan
Following the untimely death of Bruce Lee, martial arts movies were crying out for a new star. A young actor called Jackie Chan stepped up to the challenge, and the rest is kung fu history. Colin Odell and Michelle le Blanc look back over the career of the drunken master

Feature Item
10 Jan 2004
The Hong Kong Film Industry
The Hong Kong film industry once rivalled Bollywood and Hollywood, but in the years since the handover in 1997, it has become a shadow of its former self. Simon Jones analyses the reasons why Hong Kong cinema has hit the rocks

Feature Item
6 Jan 2004
kamera.co.uk's Films of 2003 (Vol.3)
To round off this special issue, John Atkinson takes up the case for George Clooney, Bob Carroll comes out fighting for Quentin Tarantino, and Thessa Mooij stands shoulder to shoulder with Sofia Coppola

Feature Item
6 Jan 2004
kamera.co.uk's Films of 2003 (Vol.1)
In the first of our top threes by regular kamera.co.uk writers, Jon Ashton, Ben McCann and Andy Murray argue the relative merits of a Tokyo love story, a bizarre French cartoon, and the latest film by P.T. Anderson

Feature Item
8 Dec 2003
Films of the Year 2003
With 2003 drawing to its close, and studio executives already turning their minds to next summer's blockbuster season, it's about time we looked back at this year in cinema. Oliver Berry invites you to nominate your best (and worst) films of 2003

Festival Report
10 Nov 2003
Cherbourg Shorts 2003
For the last nineteen years, the Cherbourg Film Festival has dedicated itself to providing a forum for new work by young British and Irish directors. Elke de Wit reports on the short film programme at this year's festival

Festival Report
4 Nov 2003
The 41st New York Film Festival
L.A. may be in love with the movies, but the movies have always been in love with New York. At the 43rd official celebration of cinema in the Big Apple, Thessa Mooij found the first film festival which gave her nightmares

which gave her nightmares

Festival report
20 Oct 2003
17th Leeds International Film Festival
It might have been eclipsed by its more glamorous cousins in London and Edinburgh, but the Leeds Film Festival is quietly carving a name for itself as one of the UK's most exciting film festivals. Graeme Cole reports

Career Retrospective
24 Sep 2003
Carl Dreyer
For years, Carl Dreyer has been largely forgotten by critics and cinema goers alike, but following a recent retrospective at the NFT, his films are undergoing something of a revival. Antonio Pasolini looks back over the career of one of Denmark's great directors

Feature Item
18 Aug 2003
The Japanese Issue
Welcome to the first of a regular new series on international cinema at kamera.co.uk. Oliver Berry, the magazine editor, introduces the inaugural Japanese issue and outlines our plans for the future

Feature Item
18 Aug 2003
Japanese Cinema
In the first article of our special Japanese issue, John Gorick provides a thorough overview of the history of Japanese cinema, and profiles some of its great directors

Feature Item
18 Aug 2003
Takeshi Kitano - Part 1
In the first part of an in-depth feature on the work of Takeshi Kitano, Tim Smedley explores the main themes and preoccupations of the director's work

Feature Item
5 Aug 2003
Jacques Becker
In our continuing series from the French Noir season at the Ciné Lumiere, Alex King looks back at the career of one of the country's most underrated directors - Jacques Becker

Festival Report
22 Jul 2003
Bunuel
Luis Bunuel was one of the most enigmatic and provocative figures of 20th century cinema, and his films left an indelible impression on the medium. A selection of kamera writers look back over a recent retrospective of his films at the Ciné Lumiere

Festival Report
8 Jul 2003
Reel Madness Film Festival 2003: Seeing the Madman
In the second of our Reel Madness reports, Chris Michaels reviews one of the strongest fiction films in the festival programme - Fridrik Thór Fridriksson's Angels of the Universe

Interview
17 Jun 2003
A Quick Chat with Rebecca Bagley-Cook
She's just made a romantic comedy with Superman's girlfriend, and her next film's about a loony John Lennon impersonator. Thessa Mooij catches up with young New York director Rebecca Bagley-Cook

Festival Report
9 Jun 2003
The Tribeca Film Festival 2003
The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Robert de Niro to revitalise the Tribeca area of New York after the events of September 11th. Now with a new director at the helm, Thessa Mooij reports on the festival's second year

Feature Item
31 May 2003
Battleplans
The uneasy relationship between war and the media was highlighted during the recent Iraq conflict, with live battles and Hollywood-style rescues beamed directly onto our television screens. Chris S. Michaels looks back over the recent history of war in American cinema

Competition
28 Apr 2003
Show Me Love and Together
To mark the release of Lilya 4-Ever, kamera.co.uk is giving away DVD and VHS copies of two of Lukas Moodysson's earlier films. Get your film buff hats on, readers...

Film Retrospective
19 Apr 2003
Thieves Like Us
Robert Altman changed the face of American cinema in the 1970s. Films like McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971) and Nashville (1975) are acknowledged classics, but Altman's lesser work of the period also deserves reconsideration. Tim Applegate looks back over a little-known Altman tale from 1974, inspired by Nicholas Ray's first feature They Live by Night (1947)

Film Retrospective
13 Apr 2003
Mystery Train
Jim Jarmusch's third feature film examines three interconnected stories which take place over a day and a night in Memphis, Tennessee. Adrian Gargett reflects on the poetic qualities of Jarmusch's 'distinct dramatic-comic vision'

Festival Report
17 Mar 2003
Voices of Dissent: the 10th New York Underground Film Festival
Theresa Mooij sends kamera.co.uk an exclusive report from New York's premier festival of avant-garde and offbeat cinema, now in its tenth year

Career Retrospective
10 Mar 2003
Douglas Sirk
Following his review of Far From Heaven, Antonio Pasolini looks again at the work of Douglas Sirk, 'a thinking artist with a social conscience'

Festival Preview
4 Mar 2003
9th London Australian Film Festival
First cricket, then football (or soccer) - now movies? John Atkinson on why the line-up for 9th London Australian Film Festival might teach British cinema something

Festival Review
25 Feb 2003
53rd Berlin Film Festival
Marcelle Perks and Ingo Ebeling round up the highlights in Asian and horror cinema from the 2003 Berlinale

Competition
18 Feb 2003
Revengers Tragedy Competition
To mark the release of Alex Cox's Revengers Tragedy, we have sets of the soundtrack, source play and poster signed by Mr Cox himself. Click here to enter.