The new BFI Governors are Tanya Cordrey, Mark Herbert, Ganan Kanagathurai, Hakan Kousetta, Ryan Prince and Jane Tranter (Wales Governor).

Ahead of the release of Sophy Romvari’s acclaimed Blue Heron, we revisit 10 Canadian debut features that signalled singular talents and quietly reshaped the national film landscape.

Together with Arts Council England and LIVE Green, we’re rolling out UK-wide campaign offering public vital refuge in cultural venues during heatwaves. Cool Off in Culture features a growing list of ...

Tanigaki Kenji built his reputation as an action choreographer in Hong Kong and Japan, doing much of his best work with directors Donnie Yen and Otomo Keishi. The Furious offers a blueprint for a ...

This August we’re celebrating Italian movie star Monica Vitti, the craft of puppeteers, and the radical cinema of Peter Watkins. Famous in the 1960s as the face of a new cinematic language she helped ...

As the beloved Ealing crime comedy turns 75, we track down the exact spots where Alec Guinness and his gang of gold bullion thieves carried out their heist.

For her Pan-African cinema archive project ‘Excavating Legacies’, June Givanni sat down in Paris with Martinican director Euzhan Palcy for a conversation spanning tensions between awards recognition ...

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is a title that requires a little unpacking. You see, circa 2007-2009, before Matt Johnson was the writer-director of such films as The Dirties (2013) and ...

Julie Harris’s costume designs for the swinging London drama Darling (1965) would earn her an Academy Award, as well as the status of genuine fashion influencer. One writer noted how “a wave of ...

From pounding rockers to haunting laments... As hit-single-launching teen musical The Young Ones arrives on Blu-ray, we select a key film song from each year of the swinging 60s.

Canadian-Hungarian director Sophy Romvari restages her childhood experiences to devastating effect in a semi-autobiographical debut feature that understands grief is not a problem to be solved.

Despite its overstuffed plot, this return to the Toy Story franchise is guaranteed to break hearts all over again as the gang fight for imagination and relevance in a world of screen-addicted children ...