Britain’s first animated feature was a long way from Disney. It was an adaptation of George Orwell made at the height of the Cold War and part funded – in secret – by the CIA. Seventy years on, ...
Ahead of the release on Blu-ray and 4K UHD of Guillermo del Toro’s haunting debut feature Cronos, we delve into the rich history of Mexican horror – a world of gothic mystery, allegory and gonzo ...
Adapted from the real-life story of Danish serial killer Dagmar Overbye, Magnus von Horn’s gothic fairytale is set in post-World War I Copenhagen, but its horrifying reality does not feel so far from ...
Jesse Eisenberg’s story of two cousins who go on a ‘Holocaust tour’ doesn’t quite work as a road-trip movie, but the electric pairing of Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin brings wit and sensitivity to the ...
The Russian filmmaker talks to us about the mastery and folly of humankind’s relationship with rock, the “emotional depression of boring architecture”, and his take on Megalopolis.
Eisenstein’s debut feature, the labour drama Strike, which was released at the start of the year, well deserves a place on this list. However, 1925 was also the year that he directed the monumental ...
British lives, caught on film and collected online. Discover previously unseen film capturing 120 years of Britain on film. I’ve never seen my family on film before so it was a wonderful surprise to ...
It contains one of cinema’s fleshiest kisses, but also a moment of pure spiritual transcendence. And it’s the interdependence of these elements that makes Carl Dreyer’s 1955 classic Ordet – which is ...
Each week the BFI publishes box office figures for the top 15 films released in the UK, all other British releases and newly-released films. The figures cover box offices grosses in pounds sterling, ...
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