Fifty years after the release of Bugsy Malone, we share the illustrations with which director Alan Parker first imagined the idea of a gangster musical in which all of the parts would be played by ...

As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives in cinemas, we revisit 10 films that journeyed into Greek mythology before it, finding enduring inspiration in an ancient world of gods, monsters and epic ...

Returning to the serial format of earlier work like Night on Earth (1991), Jim Jarmusch’s prize-winning latest film looks at adult sibling relationships in the long shadow of a parent. It’s typically ...

A world premiere of the restoration including a Q&A with band members will take place at BFI Southbank, before the film returns to cinemas nationwide on 2 October.

At the end of 2011, I drove out to Virginia Water with a colleague, to collect a film donation to the BFI National Archive. Meeting actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes at his Surrey home is a treasured ...

A mammoth adventure epic that shot for 91 days across six months in six countries and cost a reported $250 million to make, The Odyssey is a cinematic beast worthy of its own mythology. Adapting and ...

Ghost World plays on 25 July at Cinema Rediscovered, running from 22 to 26 July, as part of its ‘Comics Come Alive’ strand. Two Satanists are strolling down Lincoln Boulevard. It’s a dry, sunny ...

In a film where nothing is taken literally, the biggest enigma of the picture revolves around its protagonist, Moon (Moon Guo Barker): is she meant to be perceived as a child, or is she a child ...

Diversity and inclusion: how we’re doing (2018 to 2019) Diversity data showing the extent to which the BFI is achieving its employment and funding inclusion targets in 2018 to 2019. Find out more ...

Romance in cinema has always relied on the transformative potential of a chance encounter. Here, in the fifth of his Comedies and Proverbs series of films, Eric Rohmer explores the frustration of a ...

The monstrous-feminine on screen: the changing face of cinema’s female monsters ...

Miyazaki Hayao, the co-founder and driving visionary behind Japan’s Studio Ghibli, is renowned for his world-spinning, fecund and furious animated fantasies: across his 11 features he has conjured pre ...