Edward Berger’s film about a professional gambler drowning in casino debts feels lacklustre compared to the gambling-movie classics that serve as its clear inspiration.
This stark black-and-white design for the Sidney Poitier classroom drama is the work of Maria Ihnatowicz, one of the few female artists at the celebrated Polish School of Posters.
I Swear, Kirk Jones’s biographical drama based on the life story of John Davidson, a Scottish man with Tourette’s syndrome, took 9 nominations, while Lynne Ramsay’s latest film Die My Love got 8.
Following his autobiographical films, Terence Davies directed a run of four sublime adaptations, including The House of Mirth and Sunset Song. His personal archive sheds fascinating light on his ...
The collection includes Jones’s personal 16mm copies of the Monty Python feature films.
Applications are now open for the BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund, which will award £19.7m of National Lottery funding over three years to support the exhibition and distribution of ...
This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.
Eros and Thanatos battle it out in these horny Halloween horrors, where monstrosity, repressed sexuality and devilish decadence feed into some truly transgressive movies.
Ahmed stars Ash, a go-between for corporate whistleblowers, in Justin Piasecki and David Mackenzie’s smart surveillance conspiracy plot.
Coming to BFI Player this November are films by Bong Joon Ho, Gaspar Noé and Ken Loach, plus a subscription exclusive for Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun.
Over half a century and around the globe, Laura Mulvey’s influence on thinking about film, through her writing and her own filmmaking practice, has been unparalleled. As she receives a BFI Fellowship, ...
Emma Stone stars as a CEO who is kidnapped and accused of being an alien in Lanthimos’s dark and schlocky class-warfare thriller.