Where to begin with British Transport Films | BFI
A beginner’s path through the planes, trains and automobiles of the British Transport Films collections.| BFI
A beginner’s path through the planes, trains and automobiles of the British Transport Films collections.| BFI
A groundbreaking Sri Lankan film with a uniquely feminine perspective, The Girls (Gehenu Lamai) wowed critics in the late 1970s and is now returning in a new restoration.| BFI | Features and reviews
The juries for this year‘s festival awards will be led by Elizabeth Karlsen (Official Competition), Kibwe Tavares (First Feature Competition), Eloïse King (Documentary Competition) and Ming-Jung Kuo (Short Film Competition).| BFI | Features and reviews
The acclaimed actor makes imaginative choices with his first feature, an exploration of addiction and homelessness led by an outstanding performance from Frank Dillane.| BFI | Features and reviews
As the first true Hammer horror, The Curse of Frankenstein, returns to cinemas in a 4K restoration, we select one essential Hammer classic from each of the famed studio’s golden years.| BFI | Features and reviews
Better known for his sketches for Kubrick, Star Wars and Superman, in the 1950s British artist Ivor Beddoes was commissioned to create early designs for a long-in-the-making landmark of Hindi cinema.| BFI | Features and reviews
Liverpool developer Psygnosis’s racing game quickly established the Sony PlayStation as the coolest console around on its launch in 1995. Fuelled by era-defining graphics and a soundtrack powered by rave music, Wipeout flung the British underground at a global audience.| BFI | Features and reviews
The showcase event screens exclusive extracts from each project introduced by their filmmakers to an invited audience of international buyers, UK sales agents and festival programmers.| BFI | Features and reviews
José Ramón Soroiz gives a spirited performance as a newly single gay man whose sexual freedom is cut short by illness in this well-crafted crowdpleaser that puts its focus squarely on the people.| BFI | Features and reviews
Shot on the streets of the Italian capital at the end of the Second World War, Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City was made under precarious conditions but created an earthquake in film history with its unvarnished realism. Eighty years on, we went in search of the locations.| BFI | Features and reviews
As Billy Elliot turns 25, we revisit an interview with its director Stephen Daldry on the film’s political context, emotional rhythms and expressive physicality. From our October 2000 issue.| BFI | Features and reviews
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In Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s ethereal docufiction film, a young woman tries to learn more about her deceased father, starting with her only inheritance – his mysterious patent for a ‘healing device’.| BFI | Features and reviews
From The Ice Storm to Inherent Vice: 10 period pieces that capture a nation caught between the aftershocks of the 60s and the dawn of Reagan era.| BFI | Features and reviews
Director Justin Kurzel’s first documentary offers poignant insight into the world of Warren Ellis as it follows the musician to the animal sanctuary he co-founded with activist Femke den Haas.| BFI | Features and reviews
Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie have fantastic chemistry, but instead of a grand romance, Kogonada’s magic realist road trip is about two lonely people sharing their emotional baggage.| BFI | Features and reviews
Olivier Assayas makes the distracting decision to have half the cast speaking in English accents, but his political drama about Vladimir Putin (Jude Law) and his spin doctor (Paul Dano) shows great understanding of the inner workings of a totalitarian propaganda state.| BFI | Features and reviews
This week, learn about a recent pop-up exhibition and take a closer look at materials from the Halas & Batchelor collection.| BFI | Features and reviews
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as an off-the-grid freedom fighter searching for his vanished teenage daughter in an absurdist action thriller that thunders along with Mad Max-like propulsion.| BFI | Features and reviews
Nadia Fall’s film about two teenage girls fleeing their British seaside town to join ISIS recalls the exuberant portraits of teens in Girlhood (2014) and Rocks (2019), focusing on the girls’ ride-or-die friendship over their misguided choices.| BFI
As a new documentary about Warren Ellis arrives in cinemas, we spoke to the veteran composer and Bad Seed about four of his finest scores and a favourite soundtrack he didn’t write.| BFI | Features and reviews
This now little-seen thriller explores the impact of a murder and brought together a remarkable number of up-and-coming talents, including a young Jessica Tandy.| BFI | Features and reviews
Highlights include filmmakers Jon M. Chu discussing his groundbreaking vision of Oz in the Wicked films, and Rian Johnson on Knives Out and the art of whodunnit.| BFI | Features and reviews
Intended to spark conversation in 1940s Britain, this series of posters offers a range of fictional responses to the film’s provocative question about postwar reconciliation: “Would you take Frieda into your home?”| BFI | Features and reviews
The Young Vic’s artistic director tells us about her debut feature – the story of two teenage friends who run away from Britain on a journey to Syria.| BFI | Features and reviews
Amid intense debate and anticipation, the UK got its second ever TV channel 70 years ago – a rival to the BBC. Curator Lisa Kerrigan looks back at ITV’s busy launch and the early programmes that shaped commercial broadcasting in Britain.| BFI | Features and reviews
One modern classic after another... but as his new film arrives in cinemas, where to dive in?| BFI | Features and reviews
Running 9 to 15 October at Picturehouse Central, the LFF Industry Forum will open with a Spotlight conversation with pioneering UK producer Tessa Ross.| BFI | Features and reviews
First-time director Usman Riaz explains how a pirate VHS tape of Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) sparked his love for animation and led to his own landmark hand-drawn feature, The Glassworker.| BFI | Features and reviews
Discoveries from Locarno Film Festival and the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway.| BFI
Eloise King’s debut documentary explores the hidden world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ – ghostwriters powering a global academic industry. Ahead of screenings in cinemas and on Channel 4, she joined us to delve into the ethical fault-lines underlying the world of contract cheating.| BFI | Features and reviews
The author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Shy discusses his new film with Cillian Murphy, the fine art of adaptation and the pleasurable ‘dry-stone walling’ of screenplay writing.| BFI | Features and reviews
Kicking off a new series celebrating the 200th anniversary of the UK’s passenger railways, curator Steven Foxon offers a whistle-stop tour of the long-running love affair between cinema and trains, from steam-powered dramas to diesel-fuelled documentaries.| BFI
In charismatic performances of immense restraint over more than half a century, Robert Redford blended traditionalism, predictability and inscrutability to great effect. From our January 2019 issue.| BFI
Director Romain Gavras’s film about a self-involved movie star (Chris Evans) who is kidnapped by a group of eco-activists for a human sacrifice crams together so many visual styles, its ideas about political posturing never stick.| BFI
Six critics pick the discovery films that bowled them over from the international selection at this year’s Biennale.| BFI
Rob Reiner’s follow-up to This Is Spinal Tap (1984) has plenty of great gags, but without the sharp satire of the original, it feels too close to the hagiographic music docs it once mocked.| BFI
Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi are superb as Victor Frankenstein and the creature in del Toro’s lavish, melodramatic adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic.| BFI
Baumbach’s comedy-drama features an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup and Riley Keough.| BFI
A grieving family turn to folk remedies and rituals to cope with their loss in Daniel Kokotajlo’s supremely creepy adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s novel.| BFI
From his classic book Signs and Meanings in the Cinema to his filmmaking collaborations with Michelangelo Antonioni and Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen was the single most influential film theorist in the English language, remembers Henry K. Miller.| BFI
Mohammad Bakri is one of the founding fathers of Palestinian cinema, with four of his sons now actors too. He tells us about growing up with a cinema but no electricity, the burden of playing Palestinians, and the enduring controversy around his documentaries as director.| BFI
Less than a minute long, this sound test from 1929 offers precious on-set footage of Alfred Hitchcock on mischievous form nearly 100 years ago.| BFI
A reel-by-reel dovetailing of two films, one from Fascist Italy and the other from Soviet Russia, Record of War shows the Italian invasion of Ethiopia from radically opposed viewpoints. From our June 2017 issue.| BFI
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The festival opens with a glorious dye-transfer original British release print of Star Wars, and will close with a pristine 35mm print of the original US pilot episode of Twin Peaks, screening for the first time ever in the UK and presented in person by special guest Kyle MacLachlan.| BFI
BFI’s collection of Victorian 68mm film – the “IMAX of their day” – afforded protected status as part of a collection of 300 titles that will be added to UNESCO’s register.| BFI
Influential film theorist and filmmaker Peter Wollen was a compulsive list-maker. His notebook contains fascinating lists on many themes, including this rundown of ’diabolical doctors’.| BFI
We have a world class collection of unique materials related to film and television.| BFI
Discover how we bring the archive to life by collecting, preserving and restoring film.| BFI
Find which of the 8 regional BFI Film Audience Network film hubs is closest to you.| BFI
David Lynch on music, innovation and his future as a filmmaker Plus, in a music special: Kneecap on their blistering biopic – Brian Eno in conversation with Walter Murch – Great 21st century scores, as chosen by Ishibaki Eiko, Colin Stetson, Fatima Al Qadiri and more| BFI
In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed. The Sight and Sound poll is now a major bellwether of critical opinion on cinema and this year’s edition (its eighth) is the largest ever, with 1,639 participating critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics each submitting their top ten ballot. What has risen up the ranks? What has ...| BFI
