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Will playtime ever be the same? See Toy Story 5 on the UK’s biggest screen.
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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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“I want to make films about my community”: Akinola Davies Jr
Fresh on the heels of his Bafta win for Outstanding Debut by a British writer-director, filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr spoke to 'Beyond Nollywood' curator Nadia Denton about the zeitgeist, creating his own mythologies, and what comes next.
By Nadia Denton
75 years of The Lavender Hill Mob: how the London locations look today
By Adam Scovell
The monster and the mirror: Black resistance humour in cinema
By Artel Great
Object of the week: Costume designs for Julie Christie in the swinging 60s drama Darling
By Melanie Williams
A history of 1960s British cinema in 10 songs
By David Parkinson
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By Ellie Hilborne
10 great queer American underground features of the 1970s
By Sophia Satchell-Baeza
Events
The creators of Free Nelson Mandela bring the story of Mandela’s extraordinary release to BFI Southbank.
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Our Screen Culture 2033 strategy for the BFI and ten-year National Lottery funding strategy from 2023 to 2033.
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