The Film Society, a monthly miscellany staged at West End venues in London between 1925 and 1939, played a critical role in helping to define film as the seventh art. Here are seven ways it did so, ...

This vintage filing system with its colour-coded film records holds an invaluable place on the shelves of the BFI National Archive. Have you checked the Kalamazoo?

In the first of this year’s LFF Screen Talks, Lanthimos sat down with Succession creator Jesse Armstrong to reveal the secret ingredients and approach to actors that underpin his uniquely weird brand ...

The Oscar-winning Nomadland director joined an LFF Screen Talk to discuss her sensitivity to sadness, building pressure with the frame, and her acclaimed new adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet.

In a London Film Festival programme crammed with the best of new cinema from across the world, many films – some by established auteurs, others by exciting new voices – are still seeking a distributor ...

Using old home video footage and re-enactments, Irish filmmaker Myrid Carten presents a frank exploration of her troubled relationship with her mother Nuala, who suffers from addiction and alcoholism.

Before Kathryn Bigelow’s new thriller A House of Dynamite, the presidential home has played many parts: a house of conspiracy, a house of romance, even a house of divine ...

Director Ben Leonberg adopts a dog’s POV for a crafty little haunted house horror that makes the most of its endearing canine star.

The annual Super 8mm film competition challenges creatives to shoot and edit entirely in-camera, without post-production.

Having already established an international fanbase for her short films, Sophy Romvari has now made her feature debut with the gut-punching family drama Blue Heron. Ahead of its LFF screenings, we ...

The Story of Rocky Horror hitting UK cinemas this week, we revisit an exploration of how midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show resurrected the idea of cinema as community. From our ...

Vividly shot on 16mm, Mark Jenkin’s film about two Cornish fishermen who return from sea to find they have slipped 30 years in the past is a tale of the fantastic, but it’s rooted in the bleak ...