American producers the Danziger brothers established a hive of brisk, low-budget genre movies and cult TV in 1950s Britain. Son of a Stranger was a crime melodrama that tapped into the current vogue ...

Ninety years after his birth, and as a season of his films begins at the ICA, we suggest a beginner’s path through one of the heavyweights of European arthouse cinema: Greek master Theo Angelopoulos.

Terence Davies’s sumptuous story of New York high society returns to UK cinemas this week. In our October 2000 issue, Philip Horne explored what made the film “an unpredictable, unformulaic success”.

Explore about how the archive is becoming more environmentally friendly and how we're streamlining the way we collect online moving image material ...

US indie great Richard Linklater joined the festival to talk time, hangouts and why the era when he made Dazed and Confused was ”a different world”.

Our library at BFI Southbank is available to everyone, free of charge. It contains a huge collection of books, journals and digitised material about the world of film, television and the moving image.

Voting for the ever-popular LFF Audience Awards closes on Monday 20 October. The winners of Best Feature Film and Best British Feature Film categories will be announced in due course. 2024 winners of ...

British lives, caught on film and collected online. Discover previously unseen film capturing 120 years of Britain on film. I’ve never seen my family on film before so it was a wonderful surprise to ...

Heroic Bloodshed: how Hong Kong’s style was swiped by Hollywood ...

The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general.

H.G. Wells 150th anniversary: 10 essential film adaptations from the godfather of sci-fi ...

Vesuvius tremors, tomb raiders and patient Neapolitan Fire Brigade workers all have a part to play in Gianfranco Rosi’s poetic meditation on the fragile nature of Naples.