Jonathan Romney pays tribute to the Hungarian auteur whose uncompromising vision reshaped the possibilities of cinematic time and space, most famously in his seven-hour magnum opus Sátántangó.
This 1947 budget sheet for Black Narcissus shows exactly where the money went on Powell and Pressburger’s classic tale of nuns in the Himalayas.
In 1980, Lynch left behind the American heartland to make a film on British soil – his devastating story of The Elephant Man. We went looking for the hotspots of Lynchian London.