Between the end of World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weird and wonderful film production line in communist East Germany included sci-fi, westerns, film noir and some uniquely ...

Fifty years after the release of Bugsy Malone, we share the illustrations with which director Alan Parker first imagined the idea of a gangster musical in which all of the parts would be played by ...

A world premiere of the restoration including a Q&A with band members will take place at BFI Southbank, before the film returns to cinemas nationwide on 2 October.

As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives in cinemas, we revisit 10 films that journeyed into Greek mythology before it, finding enduring inspiration in an ancient world of gods, monsters and epic ...

Agnès Varda was a wandering filmmaker. Her films are often built on journeys, whether fictional in her dramas or real in her documentaries. Her restless spirit lasted right until her final films; ...

Danny and Michael Philippou graduated from Youtube horror skits to features with the accomplished Talk to Me (2022), in which communicating with the dead becomes a social media craze but brings a bad ...

In 2008, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) approached Tim Burton about exhibiting a retrospective of his artwork. The venerable New York institution spent the best part of two years unearthing the ...

Federico Fellini’s ode to Rome presents a lush, vibrant exterior to the swinging city, before revealing its rotting moral core.

Jerzy Skolimowski on his surreal donkey drama Eo: “I took Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar like a lesson from the old master” The Greatest Films of All Time The Greatest Films of All Time The Greatest ...

Work with local industry, education and training providers to help people within local communities develop their skills to pursue a career in the screen sector. Existing Skills Clusters can apply if ...

During the opening sequence of Rubika Shah’s exhilarating new documentary White Riot, which charts the rise of the Rock Against Racism movement, a sequence of familiar, grainy footage plays. Groups of ...

At the end of 2011, I drove out to Virginia Water with a colleague, to collect a film donation to the BFI National Archive. Meeting actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes at his Surrey home is a treasured ...