Patrick Wang’s richly experimental film about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud stars a single actor telling his life story to a series of musical instruments. The result is extraordinary.

Thirty years after its release, Trainspotting is returning to cinemas. In our February 1996 issue, Geoffrey Macnab spoke to director Danny Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald ...

Horror expert Anton Bitel has spent long days and nights watching films from this year’s packed FrightFest programme. These are his eight favourite discoveries.

As this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival gets under way, we pick out 10 recommendations from a programme that embraces the thrill of the new with a stack of world premieres from early-career directors.

This month, read a selection of on-the-ground reports from festivals in the UK and internationally and dive into an exciting BFI-supported transmedia project.

From Super 8 to Berberian Sound Studio... As Jane Schoenbrun’s meta-slasher movie Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma arrives in cinemas, we turn a lens on the surprisingly rich history of dramas and ...

Rafael Manuel’s debut feature, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at this year’s Sundance, will be in cinemas on 20 November.

A struggling director follows the deluded Lady Isabella (Sian Clifford) around her country estate for a documentary in Samuel Abrahams’s eccentric comedy about the parasitic relationship between ...

Deborah Kerr and Roger Livesy star in this wondrous British Technicolor classic – one of cinema’s greatest studies of ‘Englishness’. Rent on BFI Player £3.50 Watch and discover Sight and Sound The ...

Once upon a tele-time, it was all about single plays, soaps and sitcoms, but in the late 1970s ambitious multi-episode drama series such as Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), Roots (1977) and Jesus of ...

The new delivery model for 2026 to 2029 increases opportunities for underrepresented young people to access free year-round training, networking opportunities and career development closer to home.

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 ...