The paper archives of Gurinder Chadha and Tina Gharavi reveal both filmmakers’ prodigious creativity and dedication to their craft, but also the challenges and pushbacks they’ve faced in a ...
The New York documentarian behind the HBO series How To with John Wilson continues his captivating meanderings through the mundane with a feature-length meditation on concrete.
In Richard Linklater’s affectionate and stylish Nouvelle Vague, Guillaume Marbeck plays Jean-Luc Godard as he shoots Breathless, the film that kicked down the door for French New Wave filmmaking and ...
The month ahead includes subscription exclusives for frenzied London thriller Odyssey, Benedict Cumberbatch fantasy drama The Thing with Feathers and Radu Jude’s sharp satire Kontinental ’25.
A new BFI Player collection of the London Critics’ Circle Top 20 launches today.
In our Spring 1960 issue, we evaluated the masterful debuts of two then-unknown filmmakers: Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and Eric Rohmer’s The Sign of Leo.
An old bear wanders a misty British hillside in a mystical short film from directing team Zhang + Knight that asks what it means to remember the ‘old ways’.
To brat or not to brat is the career dilemma in the film: how to follow the massive success of Brat summer? More of the same club-friendly output, something yet to be discovered, or the streamlined ...
As the Scorsese and Tarantino-endorsed British crime thriller Strongroom is re-released in cinemas, we break open the history of the British heist film and make off with the goods.
Now forgotten, the middle-class domestic farce 29, Acacia Avenue flew the flag for risqué dialogue and saucy themes more than a decade before the first Carry On film.
The complexity of 'statelessness' is explored through four shorts in this anthology film from the Drung Tibetan Filmmakers’ Collective that offers a philosophical and spiritual outlook on the global ...
Pillion picks up three nominations, including for Outstanding British Film, while My Father’s Shadow and A Want in Her will also compete for Outstanding British Debut.