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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

At the start of Diana Dors’ career, she was constantly underestimated. Her formidable talent was wasted on lightweight films, and her whole vibrant persona usually sanded down to three words: ‘Britain ...

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 ...