Introducing Jack Warner as hero copper PC Dixon, The Blue Lamp was the biggest British film of 1950. Did it help that this original poster moves the focus away from law and order to the criminal ...

One hundred years after the birth of television in Britain, Magic Rays of Light author John Wyver looks back at the rapid development of the new medium during the 1930s – a lost era that saw a huge ...

Learn more about preparations for a season of big screen classics and get a closer look at a newly donated collection of nitrate film.

As the 28 Years Later saga mutates once more, director Nia DaCosta brings sharp humour and a wild new cult of villains to the post‑apocalyptic chaos. She discusses stepping into the franchise, ...

Five ‘Lynchian’ films that pre-date Lynch’s work, and five modern films that share fascinating connections with his wild at heart and weird on top world.

Nia DaCosta picks up where Danny Boyle left off for a mixed bag of macabre excess that toys with the horror of Naff Britannia.

The Turin Horse was the last testament of the legendarily uncompromising Béla Tarr. In 2012, he discussed retirement, Nietzsche and wanting to change society.

The Fellowship of the Ring may be a huge success for Peter Jackson, but what would Tolkien have thought of it, asked this feature from our February 2002 issue.

Hikari’s film about an unsuccessful actor in Japan who finds work at a rental agency playing stand-in friends and family members feels underdeveloped, but is saved by its thoughtful performances.

Kaouther Ben Hania’s docudrama about the killing of five-year-old Palestinian Hind Rajab is undeniably powerful, but the decision to use the child’s real voice within its genre-inflected narrative ...

Richard Linklater turns cinephile devotion into buoyant biography in Nouvelle Vague, his playful homage to Jean-Luc Godard. Ahead of its UK release, we revisit 10 films that mythologise real-life ...

This limited engagement at BFI IMAX features a tailored programme of four titles selected from a longer list of 13 ’Love Stories’ curated by Fennell especially for the BFI, of ...