To celebrate the National Lottery’s 30th birthday, we look back on three decades of supporting and funding UK film.
Highlights include a new restoration of Guillermo del Toro’s debut feature Cronos and the first volume of Chantal Akerman’s films.
In 2022, the BFI National Archive announced a partnership with Netflix for a selection of their shows to be preserved as part of the national collection. Two years on, we look at highlights from the ...
Animation can be cuddly and cosy, but it can also cause nightmares and confront some of life’s darkest aspects. As Watership Down comes to Blu-ray and 4K UHD, we round up other cartoons that are set ...
Yeo Siew Hua asks intelligent questions about the effect of surveillance on the psyche in a brilliantly-cast mystery about a child’s disappearance.
One gasps one's way through Point Break, partly in admiration, partly in shock, often because time to breathe appears limited,” wrote our critic upon the initial release of Kathryn Bigelow’s ...
A juror on a murder trial comes to suspect himself as the killer in Clint Eastwood’s terse interrogation of the American justice system.
From leaping on to galloping horses for John Ford’s Stagecoach to masterminding Ben-Hur’s chariot race, legendary stuntman and stunt coordinator Yakima Canutt pushed the boundaries of realism for ...
New Clint, new Cillian and a Palme d’Or winning anti-fairytale from Sean Baker. What are you watching this weekend?
A beginner’s path through the heart-pounding cinema of one of modern Hollywood’s great action auteurs: Point Break and The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow.
The Outrun, Nora Fingsheidt’s adaptation of the Amy Liptrot novel, follows with 9 nominations, while Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl and Sally El Hosaini and James ...
Twenty-five years after The Blair Witch Project arrived in the UK, we take a Halloween dive into the faked realities of the found-footage movie, from Cannibal Holocaust to Creep.