Filmmaker Chloe Abrahams tells us about her award-winning documentary The Taste of Mango, an intimate enquiry into distressing aspects of her own family history.
Not content with being one of the great iconoclasts of modern cinema, David Lynch has also been a trailblazing musical adventurer – and in recent years, it is music that has come to dominate his ...
A funny and charming tale of one Irish son juggling four very different mothers, Darren Thornton’s film won the LFF 2024 Audience Award for Best Feature.
When making the classic film of Watership Down, the animators based their drawings on actual places in the English countryside. But have these locations been spared the bulldozers?
But the risk-taking exploits of the great silent comedian have also inspired Keanu Reeves and Brad Pitt in their respective stunting in John Wick (2014) and Bullet Train (2022). Tom Cruise is a fan ...
A 1970s disaster movie classic, a double dose of slow cinema, and a romance set amid the London drag scene. What are you watching this weekend?
Shot in the style of a home movie, Chloe Abrahams’s impressionistic debut documentary finds space for empathy as it exhumes painful family secrets.
In an era preoccupied with misinformation, a new book tells the story of how the moving image has been wielded to shape opinion and push British political interests. Here, author Scott Anthony looks ...
From fronting his own cookery show to rapping on the lead single from the biggest album of all time, the late career of horror legend Vincent Price took many unexpected directions.
Hong Kong’s comedy kings Dayo Wong and Michael Hui reunite for a surprisingly serious-minded drama exploring family dynamics and the burden of tradition.
Our Mediatheque at BFI Southbank provides access to the digital collections of the BFI National Archive, enabling viewers to travel back in time to other televisual eras.
Despite its off-putting anaemic pastel look, director Jon M. Chu’s highly anticipated adaptation is packed with eye-catching numbers and strong vocal performances from Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.