Antonia Bird’s film about faith and sexuality caused an outrage upon release in 1994, but now looks like the nuanced human drama about tolerance that it always was.

The Phoenician Scheme returns Wes Anderson to the straightforward pleasures of the caper movie. He talks about writing the film for its star, Benicio del Toro, his fascination with charismatic, ...

Steven Soderbergh’s smart, fun spy thriller Black Bag is the kind of mid-budget, star-led adult entertainment that has become an endangered species in cinemas. Here the director explains why the box ...

Sofia Alaoui tells us about her enigmatic first feature, in which a pregnant woman’s journey across Morocco becomes a meditation on class, belonging and the mysteries of existence, as strange cosmic ...

From The Simpsons to Broadcast News and the Best Picture-winning Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks has been a driving force in American film and TV for more than half a century. As Ella McCay, his ...

A young pregnant Amazigh woman finds herself alone during a supernatural event in Sofia Alaoui’s philosophical exploration of Moroccan class divides.

As three silent cases for Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth emerge in new restorations, we place a magnifying glass over some of the finest Sherlock Holmes dramatisations to grace big screens and ...

Find out about the three BFI-backed UK films heading to Utah in January.

BFI curators select their favourite new programmes and series from a year on British TV. How many have you watched?

As the classic Ealing comedy turns 70, we went walking around King’s Cross to see whether Alec Guinness and his motley band of robbers would recognise it today.

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Ish is the first feature by Imran Perretta, who received the prestigious Turner Prize bursary in 2020 for his work The Destructors.

Vivien Leigh spent two days in Paris being fitted for the luxurious costumes she wears in the 1948 version of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, which were designed by the renowned photographer and designer ...