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.

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 ...

Andy Mundy Castle's thoughtful documentary follows British photographer Misan Harriman as he examines the clash between documenting injustice and earning social currency from it.

The Italian director Francesco Sossai’s boozy road movie avoids grand epiphanies, instead painting a leisurely textured portrait of desolate spaces, and day to day living.

In August 1986, Hong Kong was running out of Ray Bans. Director John Woo and producer Tsui Hark had just unveiled their brooding action epic A Better Tomorrow, a tale of treachery and brotherhood ...

The video essay has become a defining form of online culture, steadily growing in popularity among both creators and audiences. As part of Our Screen Heritage, our project to establish the BFI ...

In films such as Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita (1960) and 8½ (1963), the lives of the rich and fashionable were gradually picked apart, showing the emotional void underneath the sharp suits and ...

The UK release of the new 4k restoration of Sumitra Peries’s The Girls (Gehenu Lamai, 1978) has thrown a spotlight onto the at times turbulent world of Sri Lankan cinema. Though often eclipsed by the ...

Two years on from its premiere at Cannes, arthouse auteur and multihyphenate Takeshi Kitano’s latest feature, Kubi, still awaits a UK release, but in April it made its debut on these shores as the ...

While the Evil Dead introduced that prime location for horror cinema, the cabin in the woods, Lee Cronin’s recent sequel/reboot Evil Dead Rise (2023) instead began and ended with a lake, and that is ...

When his films first shocked, charmed, and terrorised theatres in the 70s and 80s, John Waters was an unlikely candidate for mainstream canonisation. But here we are, with six of his feature films now ...

Among its many qualities, one factor behind the staying power of Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day (1993) is the relatability of its premise: feeling trapped in relentlessly mundane routines. Monotony can ...