From mind-bending narrators to fourth-wall-breaking mechanics, these games delight in exposing the wires beneath the medium, turning play into a self-aware experience.

UK-wide partnerships with Into Film and National Saturday Club renewed over three years to deliver activity nationwide.

As Legally Blonde struts back into cinemas for its 25th anniversary, we revisit our original review of the film, where our critic praised its skilful satire and Reese Witherspoon’s winning performance ...

Following his recent BFI Fellowship, Mexican director Guillermo del Toro gave a masterclass to young creatives from the BFI Film Academy, exploring the craft behind his dark fairytales and how human ...

Long overlooked in the West, Soviet director Aleksandr Rou’s dazzling, effects-driven fairytale films reveal a pioneering master of fantasy whose enchanting worlds deserve a central place in cinema ...

How do the original sites in Rome where Vittorio De Sica shot his Italian neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves look today?

Hamaguchi’s touching portrayal of friendship and communion between a care home director and a playwright with a terminal illness allows the director to investigate the possibility of change in a ...

The American director’s third narrative feature explores the relationship between the spectator and the spectated with a meta story of a young director who has been tasked with reviving a cult horror ...

As the Alien star joins the Star Wars franchise with The Mandalorian and Grogu, we spoke to Sigourney Weaver about her first memories of George Lucas’s original film, the appeal of sci-fi, and the ...

Sandra Hüller brings her clipped brilliance to the role of Erika Mann as she accompanies her father, the Nobel-prize winning author Thomas Mann, on a ceremonial trip from Allied West Germany to Soviet ...

Cinema Novo was Brazil’s New Wave, a revolutionary body of films that reinvented Brazilian moviemaking via revolt, politics and radical style – with an impact that was felt around the world.

The Danish director returns to feature filmmaking with more violent eye-gouging, ambiguous irony and neon-fetishising cinematography in a story of a fantastical metropolis that suffers from wafer-thin ...