In a bumper year for screen adaptations of Stephen King’s work, the director of The Running Man, a dystopian thriller about a bloodthirsty TV gameshow, talks to the author about media manipulation, ...

A special post celebrating the 10th anniversary of the BFI National Archive’s digital preservation infrastructure.

Rishi Coupland is appointed as Executive Director of new directorate Industry Development and Innovation and Deputy CEO Harriet Finney takes on an expanded remit, now overseeing Fundraising and ...

Joel Edgerton gives a career-best performance as a travelling labourer in Clint Bentley’s extraordinary film about a period of extraordinary change in early 20th century America.

Jennifer Lawrence stars in Lynne Ramsay’s first film in eight years: as a woman grappling with the emotional strain of early parenthood. She tells us about the influence of Cassavetes, her own ...

Read about the BFI User Experience (UX) team’s focus on cross-department collaboration and user-centred design.

Our first releases of 2026 include a 5-film collection of the great American documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman and a 1960s British B-film much loved by Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright.

The Kwame Brathwaite Story is chosen as Best British Discovery in the annual audience vote at the end of this year’s BFI London Film Festival.

Our Railway 200 series continues with a look at trains in British animation, from a 1980s Ovaltine advert to a psychedelic gem from the Yellow Submarine team.

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.

This stark black-and-white design for the Sidney Poitier classroom drama is the work of Maria Ihnatowicz, one of the few female artists at the celebrated Polish School of Posters.

To play or not to play? This toy theatre was produced to help publicise Laurence Olivier’s Oscar-winning version of Hamlet. Ian McKellen remembers getting one for Christmas.