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Switzerland’s largest cinema has reopened after a three-year renovation. We explore this living monument to the power of film.

Celebrated film-maker Hirokazu Kore‑eda on optimism, storytelling, working with the late Ryuichi Sakamoto and his newest film.

In the desert outside the UAE’s capital, a vast film set is becoming a trusted shooting location for Hollywood, Bollywood and beyond. The Twofour54 complex is at the heart of a nascent movie industry, where government…

It’s time to liberate movies from the small screen. We visit five newly opened or renovated cinemas that are bringing communities together and celebrating the wonder of film.

Bringing stories to life in ultra-high-resolution film requires companies that care about the details – and when it comes to the outfits that appear on screen, Peris Costumes is the sartorial star of the show.

Newly renovated and redesigned, 195 Piccadilly gives Bafta the space the academy has always deserved.

Far from the bustling, buzzing multiplexes, with their packed screenings and sprawling footprints, these small cinemas offer their own unique ways of watching a movie – and being part of a city’s culture and community.

20 August 2021

In this special interview, Monocle 24’s senior correspondent Fernando Augusto Pacheco speaks to Prano Bailey-Bond, director of ‘Censor’.

16 August 2021

Robert Bound is joined by the film critics Simran Hans and Caspar Salmon to review the film ‘Zola’ – a dark comedy based on a viral twitter thread about two strippers in Florida on a wild weekend gone wrong.

It has been a dark year for cinemas around the world but the credits aren’t rolling yet – and a revitalised cinema on Singapore’s waterfront is stealing the scene.