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When Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel premiered in 2014, it quickly became a defining film for visual design. Beyond its distinctive cinematography and set design, its costume choices, led by Milena Canonero, have left a lasting impact on fashion as a whole. A decade later, its influence can be seen in collections, campaigns, and styling choices across the industry.

At this year’s Academy Awards, we saw a film created entirely using a free animation software win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

In 2022, Sight and Sound published the results of their once-a-decade poll: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles had made the top of the list of greatest and most influential films ever.

When you hear the name Pamela Anderson, the image of a blonde bombshell running in slo-mo whilst sporting a red one-piece may come to mind. A true American beauty with big hair and even bigger dreams.

Animation has a history with being overlooked and underappreciated within the film and TV industry. Often stereotyped as childish and passed over as a result, animation has an incorrect association to having surface level plots.

The Bridget Jones franchise fast became a cultural staple in British Cinema, with the eponymous character making audiences know that like feeling "like an idiot most of the time" is okay and her TikTok termed ‘frazzled English woman’ aesthetic remaining steadily popular.

Chungking Express became a darling of cinema almost overnight, despite having no script and being filmed in just 23 days whilst Wong Kar Wai was on hiatus from his 40 million HKD epic Ashes of Time.

You do not need to have extensive knowledge of David Lynch’s filmography to sense, through the outpour of love from his friends and fans, that his impact on the people around him and cinema as a whole was vast.