The Oscar-winning actor talks about her break-out feature film role in Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur, which was part financed with National Lottery Good Cause funding.

A life coaching Ponzi scheme causes a man’s world to unravel in this disarming first feature from Scottish director Tom Nicoll.

BFI Ambassador Joanna Scanlan visits the Storyhouse Cinema in Chester, formerly the Chester Odeon, which Joanna attended in her youth and where she first experienced watching films on the big screen, ...

There’s no doubt Chase Infiniti is star, but Niki Byrne’s debut feature, which features the actress as a gifted young mathematician, is too bogged down in exposition to really let her shine.

Ahead of our Blu-ray release of Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space and a big-screen celebration of Roger Corman’s centenary, we sift for gold among the pulp pleasures and cheapo ingenuity of the sci-fi ...

Joanna Scanlan discusses the impact of BFI National Lottery funded film Pride with BAFTA-winning actress Jessica Gunning.

Mathilde Arcel gives a committed performance as a young housemaid haunted by her relationship with a Germain soldier, but el-Toukhy’s Golden Lion-winner fails to give its heroine a personality beyond ...

Filmmaker Ross McElwee distills his grief over the loss of his child into a powerful memory archive of home movies, clips from previous films, and footage shot by his late son, Adrian.

Florin Serban’s drama about a xenophobic attack that causes a respected Romanian doctor's world to unravel unfolds with the patient elegance of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s films, but its hard to connect with ...

Mathilde Arcel gives a committed performance as a Danish housemaid haunted by a secret that threatens her new life, but el-Toukhy’s Golden Lion-winner fails to give its (anti)heroine a personality ...

In dark comedy Bad Apples, Saoirse Ronan plays a teacher driven to drastic measures to stop disruption in her class. She talks to us about breaking bad on screen, a favourite podcast, and where her ...

In films such as The Battle of Chile trilogy and Nostalgia for the Light, Guzmán returned again and again to the wounds left by Chile’s 1973 coup, creating a body of work that fused political ...