A funny and charming tale of one Irish son juggling four very different mothers, Darren Thornton’s film won the LFF 2024 Audience Award for Best Feature.
When making the classic film of Watership Down, the animators based their drawings on actual places in the English countryside. But have these locations been spared the bulldozers?
But the risk-taking exploits of the great silent comedian have also inspired Keanu Reeves and Brad Pitt in their respective stunting in John Wick (2014) and Bullet Train (2022). Tom Cruise is a fan ...
Shot in the style of a home movie, Chloe Abrahams’s impressionistic debut documentary finds space for empathy as it exhumes painful family secrets.
A 1970s disaster movie classic, a double dose of slow cinema, and a romance set amid the London drag scene. What are you watching this weekend?
In an era preoccupied with misinformation, a new book tells the story of how the moving image has been wielded to shape opinion and push British political interests. Here, author Scott Anthony looks ...
From fronting his own cookery show to rapping on the lead single from the biggest album of all time, the late career of horror legend Vincent Price took many unexpected directions.
In her first feature The Taste of Mango, Sri Lankan-British director Chloe Abrahams excavates a matrilineal history of abuse within her own family via hypnotic handheld camera and intimate ...
Our Mediatheque at BFI Southbank provides access to the digital collections of the BFI National Archive, enabling viewers to travel back in time to other televisual eras.
The BFI has made 18 new awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, supporting international opportunities for the UK ’s independent screen sector. Financed through the Department for Culture, Media and ...
Shiraishi Kazuya’s brutal Boshin War period piece about a group of death-row criminals recruited to defend a dilapidated fortress challenges the notion of the noble samurai.
He was the kid trained by Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon, but he went on to become one of Hong Kong’s most acclaimed action choreographers. Stephen Tung Wai looks back over 50 years of kung fu and ...