Beginners writer/director Mike Mills is a graphic designer and a filmmaker. The two fields have influenced each other for years. So we asked a few graphic designers to tell us about some films that have inspired their sense of design.

Scott Macaulay looks at the backstory of the New York’s Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting and how Gotham transformed itself into a true movie town.

Take a closer look at the New York borough that is home to Focus Features’ It’s Kind of a Funny Story, plus a buzzing film scene and a horde of unique movie venues.

As part of Movie City Brooklyn, Nick Dawson takes a trip around some of the most interesting places to catch a movie in the New York borough.

Focus Features takes an alternative look at food and movies by soliciting examples of “sustainable cinema” from five prominent figures within the food movement.

LA Weekly Film Editor Karina Longworth shares her thoughts on The Big Lebowski.

As part of Movie City New York, a selection of the nominees at the 2010 Gotham Independent Film Awards choose the NYC movie that means the most to them.

Eleanor Coppola discusses Hearts of Darkness: a Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, directed by Fax Bahr and the late George Hickenlooper, a documentary which gives a front row seat on the making of Apocalypse Now.

The screenwriter of Martin Scorsese’s biopic of boxer Jake La Motta looks back on his involvement in this classic movie.

In the latest series of Five In Focus articles we ask a group of computer game designers to list the movies that have influenced them most in their work.

Photographer Roberto Quezada-Dardon reports on how a new generation of digital still cameras have given low-budget filmmakers new options.