Vivien Leigh spent two days in Paris being fitted for the luxurious costumes she wears in the 1948 version of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, which were designed by the renowned photographer and designer ...
Winner of the Audience Award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Ish is the first feature by Imran Perretta, who received the prestigious Turner Prize bursary in 2020 for his work The Destructors.
As the classic Ealing comedy turns 70, we went walking around King’s Cross to see whether Alec Guinness and his motley band of robbers would recognise it today.
The mid-90s saw home consoles, including Sony’s blockbuster PlayStation, pushing cabinet gaming close to extinction. Yet one arcade game was ready to call ‘Action!’ on a revival. Thirty years old this ...
From a seven-and-a-half hour masterpiece to one of the most beautiful colour films ever made: as a trio of István Szabó films arrive on Blu-ray, we present a 10-film primer on the glories of Hungarian ...
1976 France Directed by Barbet Schroeder Produced by Pierre Andrieux Featuring Gérard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer Running time 108 minutes ...
BFI-backed BDSM drama Pillion wins Best British Independent Film, A Want in Her is Best Feature Documentary, while Akinola Davies Jr wins Best Director.
Zipping frenetically from one set piece to the next and incorporating a dizzying array of film types – from heist gone wrong to romantic melodrama to satirical comedy to chase thriller – the ...
With Jay Kelly, the director of Frances Ha and Marriage Story turns his lens on the fragility of fame, following George Clooney as an ageing movie star reckoning with his past. In this conversation, ...
As Andrzej Żuławski’s freaky psychodrama Possession arrives on 4K UHD, we track down the original locations in what was then a divided Berlin – including the subway which provides the setting for that ...
An alien Scarlett Johansson prowls the streets of Glasgow in Jonathan Glazer’s astonishing, mind-bending mixture of existential science fiction and inner-city realism. Rent on BFI Player £3.50 Watch ...
The 4K restoration of Jean Vigo’s tale of two newlyweds arrives in UK cinemas this week. Revisiting the film, originally released in 1934, our critic was struck by its inventive blend of “spontaneous” ...