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 ...

After years working as a film critic at publications like Cahiers du Cinéma, along with peers such as Jean-Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer, Truffaut became one of the most significant directors of the ...

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Carl Theodor Dreyer’s rapturous silent masterpiece, with soulful close-ups of Renée Jeanne “Maria” Falconetti’s tremulous martyr, transcending tyranny and temporality.

A puritanical policeman investigates the disappearance of a girl from a Scottish island community in this eerie psychological horror which has become a cult classic. Rent on BFI Player £3.50 “The ...

Isabel Davis will lead the BFI’s £20 million annual Filmmaking Funds and its strategic support for UK independent filmmakers when she joins from Screen Scotland as Director on a five-year contract ...

Director-author Helen Walsh’s previous works have included tough tales set in working-class communities, sometimes focusing on sexuality and forbidden passion. In her 2014 novel The Lemon Grove, a ...

Alfred Hitchcock’s directorial debut, made when he was 25, follows the love lives of two dancers at a London nightspot. The diverging lives of two dancers are told in melodramatic style in Alfred ...

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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 ...

Elia Kazan’s film of Tennessee Williams’s sweltering melodrama features an early and career-defining performance from Marlon Brando. “A Streetcar Named Desire is thoroughly adult drama, excellently ...