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Four Mothers: comic spark shines through the farce in this pertly scripted crowd-pleaser
Director Darren Thornton’s charming remake of Gianni Di Gregorio’s Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch (2008) brings the story to Ireland, where the people-pleasing debut novelist Edward is left to ...
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Muriel’s Wedding: the greatest film of all time?
One the eve of our 2002 Greatest Films of All Time poll, this feature argued the merits of Muriel’s Wedding, whose funniness and femininity balance a darker underside.
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39th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival wraps with audiences up 6%, global talent attendance and 6 feature film world premieres
Audiences attending screenings and events at BFI Southbank increased by 6%, with 50% of these audiences new to BFI Flare.
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10 great films about The Beatles
With two new John Lennon documentaries out this spring, and news filtering out about Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles biopics, we assess the best of the Fab Four on film.
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The 2025 UK Top 50: digging into Moving Image’s annual ranking of comms film movers and shakers
Top 50 published by industry analysts Moving Image offers a state-of-the-nation snapshot of who’s hot and what’s interesting in the thriving corporate film sector. BFI curators Patrick Russell and ...
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“The more craic people are having on the shoot, the less funny it’s going to be”: Darren Thornton on his tragicomedy Four Mothers
Irish director Darren Thornton tells us about his new adaptation of the Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch, which sees a novelist grappling with his ageing mother and three other eccentric elderly mums.
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5 things to watch this weekend – 28 to 30 March
Tilda Swinton sings through an apocalypse, there’s a tale of murder and mushrooms in rural France, and we have two tales of terror on the tarmac. What are you watching this weekend?
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10 great British films of 1975
The class of 1975 includes a Kubrick masterpiece, the first feature by a Black British director, and the Knights Who Say ‘Ni!’ ...
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The End: bunker-bound billionaires make a song and dance of the apocalypse
Joshua Oppenheimer’s debut fiction feature – following a series of intense political documentaries – is a daring but slow-paced end-of-the-world musical, buoyed by spirited lead performances from ...
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Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other: elegant portrait of an artist marriage
New York photographer Joel Meyerowitz and artist Maggie Barrett take stock of their 30-year marriage, contemplating mortality, equality and how to move forward together, in this richly artful ...
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“We use virgin olive oil, and oil the eye”: the Quay brothers on the method behind their uncanny worlds
As a new exhibition offers a unique glimpse at the craft that goes into their hallucinatory stop-motion animations, we visit the Quay brothers at their studio.
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In search of Jacques Rivette’s Paris: locations from his films, then and now
The films of the French New Wave director turn Paris into a board game where mystery and conspiracy permeate the boulevards. How did his locations look today?