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Special guests in venue this month will include Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox and series producer Nick Freand Jones, filmmaker Peter Strickland, and Psychoville actors Steve Pemberton and Reece ...
Alexander Skarsgård’s Ray guides Harry Melling’s Colin through a journey of sexual discovery in Harry Lighton’s cleverly-written feature debut.
Long before the arrival of 16mm film, a revolutionary film format became the first to make viewing film possible beyond cinemas – in schools, churches and even homes. So why has 28mm film been ...
Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.
From Harry Lighton to Akinola Davies Jr, a number of UK filmmakers making a splash with their debut features at this year’s Cannes are alumni of BFI NETWORK.
In what is probably his final outing as Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise squares up against AI in a series of spectacular set-pieces in the sky and sea.
Stellan Skarsgård delivers a career best performance as Gustav Borg, a self-involved director and absent dad who tries to convince his anxious actress daughter (played by a fantastic Renate Reinsve) ...
A young woman struggles to conceal the depth of her loss when her lover-in-secret suddenly dies in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s assured feature.
A father in search of his lost daughter enters a world of illegal desert raves in the Spanish director’s teeth-rattling sensorial experiment.
As the controversial debut film by British auteur Thomas Clay comes to BFI Player, we look back on the outrage it caused in 2005, the method behind the film‘s upsetting impact, and its parallels with ...
As indie gem Good One wanders into cinemas – right in the middle of National Walking Month – we hit the trail in search of 10 other films that capture the joy (and terror) of hiking.
As Slade in Flame arrives on disc, we present a mixtape of other cult classics of the British pop movie, from Cracked Actor to 24 Hour Party People.