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”.

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”.

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 ...

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

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.

The LFF closing night film is a storybook fable based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel. We spoke to director Julia Jackman about a movie rooted in fairytales but with a very contemporary call to ...

One hundred years after she was born, we remember one of our favourite Angela Lansbury performances: as the malevolent mother working for the other side in John Frankenheimer’s chilling Cold War ...

Highlights from the three-time Oscar winner’s rare appearance, in conversation at the BFI London Film Festival.

The Oscar-winning Nomadland director joined an LFF Screen Talk to discuss her sensitivity to sadness, building pressure with the frame, and her acclaimed new adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet.

Mixing romance, bromance, crime, spaghetti western action and unforgettable musical numbers, Ramesh Sippy’s colourful classic remains one of Bollywood’s defining hits.