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Akira Kurosawa goes full tilt humanist with this emotionally wrenching, vastly insightful look at human nature. A faceless bureaucrat, alone and empty, is diagnosed with stomach cancer. He rebels and breaks down, but then finds a way to give meaning...

Everybody is kung-fu fighting for sure, but it takes more than that to make a great martial arts movie. The Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 finest ever made • Top 10 movie adaptations • Top 10 animated movies • Top 10 silent...

Asian cinema is always a force to be reckoned with in the world cinema scene. Early in the 1950s, Japan and India had made internationally acclaimed films that introduced a different culture and film language to the West. Between 1960s and 1980s, filmmakers...

Today is a special day in Cannes as we will be able to check quite a few animals: a lobster, some rams, a snake or two, and the worst animal of them all, human beings. But the two films in competition have become strong contenders for top awards. The...

EB’s editor-in-chief visits the Tarkovsky heir and archivist to find out how personal memory and artistic legacy, immortalized on film, have become one. Above: Andrey A. Tarkovsky, photographed in Florence, Italy by Luci Lux.   The...