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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One hundred and twenty years after the birth of Roberto Rossellini, we go looking for the original Berlin locations of one of his searing neorealist classics, which was filmed in the bombed out ...

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.

Documentarian Yihwen Chen’s film about charismatic punk band Shh… Diam! has the feel of a hang-out movie, but uses the group’s experiences to probe the increasingly hostile policies faced by queer ...

This week discover more about a research project exploring silent film depictions of the ancient world and a BFI Replay event in Blackpool.

The latest awards see almost £1 million allocated to support six new co-productions collaborating with 13 territories.

From All About Eve to Amadeus... As a sprawling new epic set amid the kabuki theatre world arrives in cinemas, we look at films where art and performance become battlegrounds of ruthless ambition.

One of the world’s largest cities, São Paulo has inspired generations of filmmakers to engage with its scale and contradictions, transforming the city's tensions and dynamism into some of Brazilian ...

The Mexican director is receiving a BFI Fellowship for his prolific body of work straddling fantasy and gothic horror, as well as his unstoppable endeavours to support the wider film culture. Here he ...