The laidback grace of actor Sam Neill – droll, unfussed by celebrity, and an advocate of the proverbial underdog – made him a national treasure for New Zealanders, who have always been deeply ...

The video essay has become a defining form of online culture, steadily growing in popularity among both creators and audiences. As part of Our Screen Heritage, our project to establish the BFI ...

Our season of Chabrol’s cool, deliciously wicked thrillers runs at BFI Southbank from 1 September to 6 October, with a BFI Distribution re-release of La Femme infidèle returning to cinemas in the UK ...

The UK release of the new 4k restoration of Sumitra Peries’s The Girls (Gehenu Lamai, 1978) has thrown a spotlight onto the at times turbulent world of Sri Lankan cinema. Though often eclipsed by the ...

While the Evil Dead introduced that prime location for horror cinema, the cabin in the woods, Lee Cronin’s recent sequel/reboot Evil Dead Rise (2023) instead began and ended with a lake, and that is ...

When his films first shocked, charmed, and terrorised theatres in the 70s and 80s, John Waters was an unlikely candidate for mainstream canonisation. But here we are, with six of his feature films now ...

The Italian director Francesco Sossai’s boozy road movie avoids grand epiphanies, instead painting a leisurely textured portrait of desolate spaces, and day to day living.

For as long as there have been dinner parties, astute observers have been attuned to that most cinematic of dinner party ingredients: drama. Seat a group of people – whether close-knit or barely ...

Andy Mundy Castle's thoughtful documentary follows British photographer Misan Harriman as he examines the clash between documenting injustice and earning social currency from it.

Projects supported with P&A grants for the release of a single UK film across a grouping of at least four international territories were I Swear, Pillion, Wasteman, Broken English and Palestine 36.

Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol are the comedian-filmmakers behind hit web series and TV show Nirvanna the Band. In their anarchic new big-screen mockumentary, they go back to the future in a film ...

For decades, Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide have been waiting for the restoration of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. Produced by Stoll Pictures between 1921 and 1923, the collection is the ...