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Ninety years after his birth, and as a season of his films begins at the ICA, we suggest a beginner’s path through one of the heavyweights of European arthouse cinema: Greek master Theo Angelopoulos.| BFI | Features and reviews
American producers the Danziger brothers established a hive of brisk, low-budget genre movies and cult TV in 1950s Britain. Son of a Stranger was a crime melodrama that tapped into the current vogue for angry young men.| BFI | Features and reviews
Terence Davies’s sumptuous story of New York high society returns to UK cinemas this week. In our October 2000 issue, Philip Horne explored what made the film “an unpredictable, unformulaic success”.| BFI | Features and reviews
Big emotions. Bright colours. When melodrama and Technicolor meet, the intensity fairly pours off the screen.| BFI | Features and reviews
Josh O’Connor stars as a wannabe criminal who fumbles a small-time art robbery in Reichardt’s ingenious evocation of 1970s suburban Massachusetts.| BFI | Features and reviews
Together with his long-term partner Flo Jacobs, Ken emerged as a towering figure of the post-war avant-garde, whose work straddled politics, play and illusions while pushing beyond the traditional limits of cinema.| BFI | Features and reviews
The line-up leads with a season dedicated to James Cameron, the multi-Academy Award-winning mastermind behind the biggest films in the history of cinema.| BFI | Features and reviews
Explore how the archive is becoming more environmentally friendly and how we're streamlining the way we collect online moving image material| BFI | Features and reviews
Adapted from the acclaimed memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, Stewart’s directorial debut will be in UK and Irish cinemas from 6 February 2026.| BFI | Features and reviews
As our celebration of Terence Davies begins, we map a beginner’s path through Davies’s sublime cinema of music, memory and desire.| BFI | Features and reviews
How much history is it possible to hide inside a milk churn?| BFI | Features and reviews
With two new films this year (and a long gestating project being filmed across 20 years), US indie great Richard Linklater joined the festival to talk time, hangouts and why the era when he made Dazed and Confused was ”a different world”.| BFI | Features and reviews
For LFF’s closing archive presentation, an extended restoration of Sholay screened at BFI IMAX. Mixing romance, bromance, crime, spaghetti western action and unforgettable musical numbers, Ramesh Sippy’s colourful classic remains one of Bollywood’s defining hits.| BFI | Features and reviews
The winning films include Lucrecia Martel’s Landmarks, winner of the Best Film award.| BFI | Features and reviews
Vesuvius tremors, tomb raiders and patient Neapolitan Fire Brigade workers all have a part to play in Gianfranco Rosi’s poetic meditation on the fragile nature of Naples.| BFI | Features and reviews
The LFF closing night film is a storybook fable based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel. We spoke to director Julia Jackman about a movie rooted in fairytales but with a very contemporary call to arms.| BFI | Features and reviews
Released in 2005, Team Ico’s seismic adventure, in which you scale and slay gargantuan beasts, subverted genre conventions and reignited the conversation around the artistic merit of video games| BFI | Features and reviews
Highlights from the three-time Oscar winner’s rare appearance, in conversation at the BFI London Film Festival.| BFI | Features and reviews
The new film from Luca Guadagnino has Julia Roberts playing a philosophy professor getting engulfed in the fallout from a sexual abuse incident. Co-stars Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield tells us about acting as a way of delving into humanity and what it was like rehearsing at Roberts’ house.| BFI | Features and reviews
The annual awards celebrate creative audacity among emerging UK filmmakers.| BFI | Features and reviews
Actor Benjamin Voisin stars as Camus’ naive anti-hero Mersault, a man who is ill at ease with his desire, in this beautifully shot black and white rendition of this classic of existentialism.| BFI | Features and reviews
Derek Cianfrance is best known for emotionally challenging films like Blue Valentine, but his latest project, Roofman, has a lighter touch. The writer-director explains how the film marks a new phase in his career and discusses physical comedy, suburbia and giving people grace.| BFI | Features and reviews
The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general.| BFI | Features and reviews
Learn more about Screencraft's visit to film-related network partners in Paris and Brussels and an upcoming video exploring Derek Jarman-related material preserved by the archive.| BFI | Features and reviews
The French director centres the plight of Souleymane (Abou Sangaré), an asylum seeking bicycle courier fighting to survive in contemporary Paris.| BFI | Features and reviews
From Eyes Without a Face to Raw, French horror trips the line between realism and the uncanny, and pushes into a realm of profound discomfort.| BFI | Features and reviews
One hundred years after she was born, we remember one of our favourite Angela Lansbury performances: as the malevolent mother working for the other side in John Frankenheimer’s chilling Cold War thriller.| BFI | Features and reviews
A young girl’s life is upended by tragedy in Belgian drama Têtes brûlées. Director Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama told us about avoiding the clichés of violent masculinity and the limits of storytelling as a way of processing trauma.| BFI | Features and reviews
From Akinola Davies Jr’s feature debut My Father’s Shadow to Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada, this year’s festival programme features the work of many alumni of our early-career support and funding programme BFI NETWORK.| BFI | Features and reviews
The Film Society, a monthly miscellany staged at West End venues in London between 1925 and 1939, played a critical role in helping to define film as the seventh art. Here are seven ways it did so, from introducing films from around the world to Britain to its influence as a seedbed for artists’ films.| BFI
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
Discoveries from Locarno Film Festival and the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway.| BFI
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
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
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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
