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Julianne Moore and Ellen Page star in a moving story of a fight for LGBT rights.

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Jafar Panahi’s warm, witty and wise Berlin prizewinner.
 

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Colin Farrell and Ben Whishaw star in this bleakly hilarious dystopian drama.

James White

Reality bites for a hedonistic New Yorker.

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Underground (DVD)

Emir Kusturica’s Palme d’or winner uses the story of two friends to portray the history of Yugoslavia.

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Valentino (dual format Blu-ray/DVD)

Ken Russell’s film about silver-screen legend, Rudolf Valentino.

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Ration Books and Rabbit Pies (DVD)

Public information and propaganda films from the BFI National Archive.

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Love on the Dole (dual format Blu-ray/DVD)

A tribute to liberal democracy in Britain, set in 1930s Salford and starring Deborah Kerr.

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Ken Russell: The Great Composers (dual-format Blu-ray/DVD)

Collection bringing together three films Ken Russell made for the BBC.

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Ken Russell: The Great Passions (dual-format Blu-ray/DVD)

Four Ken Russell films focusing on Henri Rousseau, Isadora Duncan and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival 2016 trailer

Watch the trailer for the 30th Festival, celebrating the best new and classic LGBT films from around the world.

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Hugh Grant awarded BFI Fellowship

Tuesday 23 February 2016

“Could you Really Say Goodbye?”: Brief Encounter’s Carnforth station

Friday 12 February 2016

Harmony Korine in conversation

Wednesday 10 February 2016

Dexter Fletcher introduces Nuts in May

Monday 8 February 2016

Rams Q&A with director Grímur Hákonarson

Monday 1 February 2016

Jean-Luc Godard as Architect

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    Jean-Luc Godard at BFI Southbank

    A seminal film director and a leading contemporary artist whose work in diverse media and changing historical contexts demands to be re-examined.

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    Unfaithfully Yours at BFI Southbank

    Preston Sturges’ audacious screwball comedies careen from divine lunacy to biting satire and are among the funniest films ever made.

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    Blade Runner: The Final Cut at BFI IMAX

    Ridley Scott’s sci-fi opus is a grand cinematic synthesis of sound, image and thought-provoking drama that demands to be seen on the big screen.

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Film of the week: Bone Tomahawk

Wild west sheriff Kurt Russell and ragtag hunting pack meet some kind of horror in a richly revisionist and ultra-violent weird western, notes Anton Bitel.
Anton Bitel
Friday 19 February 2016

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