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Mike Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation eschews horror for a life-affirming take on the end of the world. Stars Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor spoke to us about their favourite King ...
This week we go back in time to the 1950s and 60s to explore the Archive's pioneering past and look ahead to Heritage Open Day. Ever wondered what the BFI National Archive looked like during the 1960s ...
Becoming one of the iconic faces of the swinging 60s, Stamp worked with Fellini, Pasolini and Ken Loach and was branded “the most beautiful man in the world” before leaving the limelight altogether.
Packed with notes, sketches and Polaroids, this shooting script for Sally Potter’s film of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando illustrates the complexity of one of cinema’s undersung roles: the script supervisor ...
Using a DV camera and successive iPhones, Mapplebeck threads together 20 years of her and her son’s lives with humour, warmth and honesty.
A young couple move to the countryside and are overcome by a magnet-like attraction that threatens to fuse their bodies together permanently in Michael Shanks’s gruesome yarn.
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s dark and mesmerising modern fairy tale, which won the Silver Bear at Berlin, will be in cinemas in the UK and Ireland from 21 November.
From Stalker to Hard to Be a God: as a wild Czech New Wave sci-fi farce surfaces on Blu-ray, we survey the unhinged dystopias and mind-bending metaphysics of the best science fiction films from ...
The BFI’s highest honour recognises the huge global impact of Mulvey’s work through her groundbreaking writing and filmmaking, including her seminal essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’.
This week learn more about some much-needed auditing completed by our Access Team and about a special crowdsourcing event hosted at BFI Southbank.
Writer-director Hikari returns to the BFI London Film Festival with her second feature as American Express Gala, hosted at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall with screenings around the UK.
A camel sits among the punters in a small London cinema in these unique promotional photos from 1962 – all intended to drum up excitement for the upcoming release of David Lean’s desert epic Lawrence ...