The filmmaker and artist reflects on arriving in 90s London, their politicised coming‑of‑age, and the deeply personal new film premiering at this year’s London Short Film Festival – a layered ...

Ashley Walters’ BFI-backed directorial debut is among the raft of UK world premieres announced for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.

After a brutal experience on Dune in 1984, which he felt had been butchered by the studio, David Lynch vowed to maintain tighter control of his future projects. Here his business partners, from ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Philippa Lowthorne's shrewd adaptation of Helen Macdonald's memoir lacks some nuance, but is a worthy entry into the canon of thorny animal therapy films.

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 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.

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 ...

Taking inspiration from W.E.B. Du Bois’s unfinished work Encyclopedia Africana, Kahlil Joseph adapts his video installation into a radical essayistic film that unfolds like a 24-hour news cycle.