A true-life WWII POW story gets all-star Hollywood treatment, topped by Steve McQueen’s iconic (and fictional) motorbike ride towards freedom. “A hit with the critics and at the box office, The Great ...
The British Film Institute (BFI) was founded in 1933 and constituted under Royal Charter on 18 July 1983 (amended April 2000). One of our key objectives is to establish, care for and develop ...
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 ...
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.
Between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weird and wonderful film production line in communist East Germany included sci-fi, westerns, film noir and some uniquely ...
BAFTA nominated Simon Stone (The Dig) directs Elsinore based on the life of Ian Charleson, written by BAFTA winner and Golden Globe nominee Stephen Beresford (Pride). Elsinore is a powerful, deeply ...
A huge, bloodshot eyeball fills the screen and screams are heard as the camera pulls back to reveal a hideous carnival mask with one eye and a twisted mouth. The streets are packed with frenzied ...
British filmmakers of the 1960s began to see a different capital to their predecessors. Instead of the melancholy gloom of the immediate postwar period, vibrancy and colour took precedence. A new ...
“Eeurgh, that was horrible!” says a schoolgirl during a class on cinematic presentations of World War II, complaining about Come and See (1985), Elem Klimov’s notoriously confronting story of ...
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 ...
During the opening sequence of Rubika Shah’s exhilarating new documentary White Riot, which charts the rise of the Rock Against Racism movement, a sequence of familiar, grainy footage plays. Groups of ...
Exam season is over, and we’ve scored some great Marks – a substantial retrospective of Mark Jenkin’s brilliant and singular work, from early shorts to his latest winner, Rose of Nevada. Get a little ...