Cobbled together out of wood, elastic, Meccano and old printer parts, this vintage 1950s device – invented by a preservationist at the BFI National Archive – enabled film archivists to safely make ...

From the dystopian visions of Brazil and Twelve Monkeys to the surreal odyssey of The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam has spent half a century defying cinematic convention. In this wide-ranging interview, ...

Plus on stage appearances from Ridley Scott, Tim Burton, Neil Tennant, Nadia Fall, Pooja Kaul, David Mitchell, Robert Webb and more.

Across the world, directors have used the heatwave as a metaphor for urban disaffection, abandonment and unrest. Outside of cities, blistering heat feels like nature’s violent reckoning with those too ...

Director Rian Johnson’s third instalment of the Netflix Knives Out series is the LFF Opening Night Gala, hosted at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall with screenings around the UK.

Cardiff as a city of clubbing and hedonism, Human Traffic is a cult classic of the Cool Cymru era. Twenty-six years later, how have its locations changed?

As the new adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel Harvest opens in cinemas, we gather in a bounteous crop of previous films that have captured life on the land and the rolling beauty of the British ...

Actor Fiona Shaw and director Rebecca Lenkiewicz go behind the scenes on their humid summer drama Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s acclaimed novel about a mother-daughter relationship fraying ...

Beginning with one of the all-time great character entrances, Dandridge sashays with brazen confidence through her turn as the sassy protagonist of Otto Preminger’s Deep South romance.

Reflections from the BFI’s new Head of Cyber Security on the vital role of organisational culture in response to rising cyber threats.

Thirty years on, Clueless director Amy Heckerling looks back at remodelling Jane Austen in modern Beverly Hills, her struggles to get a foothold in the film industry, and why she’s nothing like the ...

After years of run-ins with the authorities, the Iranian director was forced to direct his most recent film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, remotely and in secret. But the methods are at odds with the ...