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The BFI cares for the world's richest and most significant collection of film and television. The BFI National Archive is at the heart of this work, where we preserve almost one million titles, from the earliest silent films to new releases and digital work.
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A veritable encyclopaedia of marine imagery accompanied by a barrage of eccentric statistics.
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Jack Clayton’s celebrated screen adaptation of Henry James The Turn of the Screw is a brilliant exercise in psychological horror
Michael Powell’s early masterpiece tells the moving story of a remote island and its inhabitants.
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Alberto Cavalcanti's visionary wartime film, based on a story by Graham Greene. Now showing in cinemas around the UK.
New digital restoration of Luchino Visconti's richly realised masterpiece, in cinemas around the UK.
Eric Rohmer's profoundly insightful study of desire, doubt and self-delusion, now showing in UK cinemas.
Will Brooker's illuminating study of the landmark blockbuster.
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The Iranian master tells Geoff Andrew about filming Certified Copy, his Tuscan brief encounter with Juliette Binoche.
Anton Bitel reviews Sylvain Chomet's exquisitely melancholic Jacques Tati homage, his follow-up to Belleville Rendez-vous.
Mark Pilkington praises Italian horror-thriller homage Amer and Eggshells, Tobe Hooper’s forerunner to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Michael Brooke introduces the visionary medieval epics (and more) of the late Czech director who's finally being discovered in the West.
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