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Filmmakers from Martin Scorsese to, soon, Terrence Malick have attempted their own cinematic versions of the life of Christ. How might the version Carl Theodor Dreyer wrote but never made have ...
The fund is open to organisations to deliver creative project development labs across the UK.
One hundred years after he was born, we salute the fury and intensity of Rod Steiger’s presence on screen, from On the Waterfront to In the Heat of the Night.
The festival opens with a glorious dye-transfer original British release print of Star Wars, and will close with a pristine 35mm print of the original US pilot episode of Twin Peaks, screening for the ...
Audiences attending screenings and events at BFI Southbank increased by 6%, with 50% of these audiences new to BFI Flare.
Uberto Pasolini trades a fantastic voyage for an intense portrait of a marriage as the long-suffering Odysseus, played by Ralph Fiennes, returns from the Trojan War.
Using the couple’s own tape recordings and a patchwork of archive clips, Kevin Macdonald takes an intriguing show-don’t-tell approach to the first 18 months of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s move to New ...
The first UK production by the famed Hungarian producer-director Alexander Korda, the Leslie Howard love-triangle comedy Service for Ladies added a touch of class to the 1930s ’quota quickie’ assembly ...
On the eve of our 2002 Greatest Films of All Time poll, this feature argued the merits of Muriel’s Wedding, whose funniness and femininity balance a darker underside.
Director Darren Thornton’s charming remake of Gianni Di Gregorio’s Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch (2008) brings the story to Ireland, where the people-pleasing debut novelist Edward is left to ...
Irish tragicomedy, a story of sex and publishing, and a Hitchcock classic on TV. What are you watching this weekend?
A brace of riveting medical stories and a programme of archive films about life in rural Greece made for rich pickings at Thessaloniki’s annual documentary celebration.