Curator Josephine Botting delves into the publicity materials surrounding the release of an Anna Neagle film that has dropped off the map of British cinema, but which is preserved in the BFI National ...

Brady Corbet’s architect saga The Brutalist took nine nominations, with seven each for Anora, Dune: Part Two and Wicked, and six each for the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and the Irish-language ...

Britain’s first animated feature was a long way from Disney. It was an adaptation of George Orwell made at the height of the Cold War and part funded – in secret – by the CIA. Seventy years on, ...

It contains one of cinema’s fleshiest kisses, but also a moment of pure spiritual transcendence. And it’s the interdependence of these elements that makes Carl Dreyer’s 1955 classic Ordet – which is ...

The festival for aspiring filmmakers aged 16 to 25 will be taking place in-venue at BFI Southbank, online globally for free, and in cinemas UK-wide from 20 February to 6 March.

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson strike up a risky, BDSM-charged office affair in Halina Reijn’s playful drama, Babygirl. Here the director talks about toying with audience expectations of an ...

The Russian filmmaker talks to us about the mastery and folly of humankind’s relationship with rock, the “emotional depression of boring architecture”, and his take on Megalopolis.

Guillermo del Toro was born, grew up, and studied in Guadalajara, Jalisco in western Mexico. In 1986 he co-founded the Guadalajara International Film Festival, expressly intended to raise the profile ...