With faking and forgery at the heart of Steven Soderbergh’s new art-world drama The Christophers, we went looking for further frauds on film and came up with these 10 genuine originals.
The concluding chapter of the director’s Cairo trilogy is an angry portrait of censorship, propaganda and complicity under the rule of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
This week, learn about a brand-new collection on BFI Replay and our assembly celebrating the archive’s progress, planning, and future.
The latest awards see almost £1 million allocated to support six new co-productions collaborating with 13 territories.
Great 8’ is the BFI and British Council’s annual showcase of new UK feature films from first-time and early career filmmakers, which will be shown to programmers and distributors attending the Cannes ...
As Leaving Las Vegas returns three decades on, director Mike Figgis revisits the making of his bruising story of addiction, how he reinvented his career through radical low‑budget filmmaking, and his ...
Marilyn Monroe at 100 Inside the issue: the fifth anniversary of the Black Film Bulletin’s return to print; At the movies with Guillermo del Toro; Brazilian cinema in focus; Scanners Inc on their ...
The event was attended by leading filmmakers and talent including J. J. Abrams, John Waters, Rian Johnson, J. A. Bayona, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, David Bradley, Burn Gorman and more.
As Shrek returns to cinemas this week for its 25th anniversary, we revisit Kim Newman’s appraisal of its fairytale gags, zany characters and CGI innovations. From our July 2001 issue.
A favourite of directors including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, the 1953 version of Invaders from Mars frightened a generation with its vision of Martian mind-controllers arriving on Earth.
Ahead of his upcoming BFI Southbank season Station to Station: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Top Ten Train Films, the Nobel prize-winning author writes exclusively about some of the finest films set aboard trains.
As the beloved broadcaster turns 100, curator Elinor Groom digs into some unusual roles and archive daytime TV appearances from David Attenborough’s decades-spanning career as an irrepressible force ...