The events surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo’s declaration of independence and the subsequent assassination of prime minister Patrice Lumumba are laid out with cool precision to a ...

Steve McQueen takes us inside his new film Blitz Inside: Sean Baker on Anora, and sex work at the movies – Pedro Almodóvar on The Room Next Door – No Other Land – The Apprentice – The Wild Robot – Jea ...

Catherine Breillat’s Romance confronts sexual taboos and desire, explains Leslie Felperin, while Linda Ruth Williams interviews the director. From our October 1999 issue.

In the late 1940s and 50s, comedy horror was dominated by a series of films bringing Universal’s top-billing comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into corny collision with various old-school ...

From Cat People to The Substance. How the depiction of monstrous women on screen has evolved and reflected society’s deeper fears about sexuality and the body.

Swinton was joined on the 2024 BFI & CHANEL Filmmaker Awards jury by Edward Enninful OBE, Editorial Advisor, British Vogue and Global Creative and Cultural Advisor, Vogue, Marie-Louise Khondji, ...

Kieron Webb, Head of Conservation at the BFI National Archive, introduces our plan for a state-of-the-art heritage science laboratory – part of a major £80 million research and innovation investment ...

Winner of the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Film Festival, the Spanish auteur’s mesmerising bullfighting documentary shows the beauty and the barbarism of the controversial tradition.

Devout fans of Todd Phillips’s 2019 Joker may feel let down by this drastically different sequel, an unusual jukebox musical which dials down the in-your-face toxicity to see Lady Gaga and Joaquin ...

This year’s competition jury presidents are Alexandre O. Philippe, Dionne Edwards, June Givanni and Chloe Abrahams.

With his new film Abiding Nowhere screening at the BFI London Film Festival, we pick a beginner’s path through Tsai Ming-liang’s hypnotic cinema of loneliness and thwarted desire.

Ahead of the premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer at the BFI London Film Festival, we round up other films looking at the lives and fictions of William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the ...