Production designer Danny Vermette talks Dezeen through the exacting work of building liminal spaces for Backrooms, a new horror film that follows a frustrated architect-turned-furniture salesman. More about Architects will "cringe a bit" at design horrors in Backrooms says production designer
Christian Herren has curated an installation featuring over 200 rediscovered Swiss experimental films during NYCxDesign. More about Frame in Frame installation showcases rediscovered Swiss films during NYCxDesign
It's 2026 – the year imagined in Fritz Lang's sci-fi epic Metropolis almost a century ago. Despite its laboured plot the film got a lot right about the future city, writes Catherine Slessor. More about "Metropolis's prophetic vision of chaotic skylines and unequal social conditions still resonates"
Production designer Sam Bader describes what it took to bring the Shakers' frugal yet beautiful world to life for the film The Testament of Ann Lee, created by the duo behind last year's The Brutalist. More about The Testament of Ann Lee painstakingly re-creates Shaker craft
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a superhero movie set in an alternative mid-century modern universe. Production designer Kasra Farahani explains how he used sets informed by the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and Eero Saarinen to make it feel real. More about How Kasra Farahani created a "mid-century modern future world" for The Fantastic Four
The villa for popular reality TV show Love Island USA was built specifically for the show to prioritise both the participants and the cameras, says production designer Richard Jensen. More about Cameras were "also the client" for Love Island USA villa
Anna Pinnock created a Venetian palazzo, complete with trompe l'oeil pillars and graphic wallpaper, for the set of The Phoenician Scheme, the latest film by director Wes Anderson. More about "You create a world" for every Wes Anderson film says set decorator Anna Pinnock
Filmmaker Beatrice Minger sought to embrace Eileen Gray's boundary-pushing approach with her new docu-drama about the enigmatic designer's famous E-1027 house, she tells Dezeen in this interview. More about E-1027 film "is a present" to Eileen Gray says director Beatrice Minger
Charismatic objects that squeak, rumble and clang were produced by industrial design students at Ohio State University who took a weeklong dive into the cinematic art of Foley. More about Ohio State design students bring beauty to sound effects with Foley instruments
The Brutalist won a trio of Oscars last night, but it failed to say anything meaningful about architecture, writes Edwin Heathcote. More about "The Brutalist somehow manages to get the architecture all wrong"
Late film director David Lynch adored design and architecture and mastered the art of wielding it to evocative effect, writes Anthony Paletta. More about "David Lynch was a superb director of architecture"
The Brutalist leads the Oscar nominations but as a film about architecture it's a little underwhelming, writes Will Wiles. More about "As architectural drama The Brutalist does not wholly convince"
Making a film is like designing a building, The Brutalist director Brady Corbet tells Dezeen in this exclusive interview. More about "There is no more controversial style of architecture" says The Brutalist director Brady Corbet
Spooky puppets, original costumes and childhood drawings feature in The World of Tim Burton, an exhibition at London's Design Museum charting 50 years of the American filmmaker's work. More about Tim Burton design exhibition explores work and mind of "unique director"
London-based artist John Akomfrah has collaborated with LG OLED to present a five-screen film installation, as revealed in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. More about John Akomfrah and LG OLED present video installation at Frieze London
Francis Ford Coppola's bizarre new epic movie about a visionary architect has been panned by critics. Will Wiles asks what it all says about the profession's role within contemporary popular culture. More about "Megalopolis is a reminder that the heroic conception of the architect is an intoxicating one"
Projects by architects Sumayya Vally and David Gianotten are among this year's Sydney Design Week highlights, chosen by curators Keinton Butler and Amaia Sánchez-Velasco. More about Six visions of the future at Sydney Design Week
Heavy-lift machinery and vehicles informed the set design of the sci-fi horror film Alien: Romulus by production designer Naaman Marshall. More about Production designer Naaman Marshall adopted "utilitarian" approach for Alien: Romulus
Brutalism, septic tanks and a rejection of the sci-fi status quo informed the set design of the film Dune: Part Two, production designer Patrice Vermette tells Dezeen in this interview featuring exclusive images. More about Production designer Patrice Vermette put himself "in the position of the architect" for Dune
Designed by architects including Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma, the Tokyo Toilet project forms the backdrop for the Oscar-nominated film Perfect Days. Here, Dezeen rounds up all 17 facilities. More about Explore all 17 Tokyo Toilet projects featured in Wim Wenders' film Perfect Days