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From thrillers to romantic comedies, British-born Cary Grant starred in some of the very finest films to have come out of Hollywood. Here are the 10 best places to seek him out.
Sunday 18 January 2015

Beyond Clueless: a golden age of the American teen movie

Ultra Culture founder Charlie Lyne talks about the passion for post-Clueless American teen movies that fuelled his new Kickstarter-funded documentary tribute.
Wednesday 30 July 2014

Colour in Film: the 10 best film colour systems

Do you know your Technicolor from your Kodachrome? The science of colour in film has brought us many innovative systems over the past 120 years – here’s an expert’s guide to 10 of the best.
Wednesday 14 January 2015

BFI and Wikipedia join forces for marathon Wikipedia editing session

We need your help for an epic Editathon at the BFI Reuben Library to enrich Wikipedia’s entries relating to black and Asian British cinema.
Friday 16 January 2015

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A personal report on an adventure called film.factory

What Jonathan Rosenbaum learnt teaching at Béla Tarr’s new film school.

Jonathan Rosenbaum
Thursday 18 July 2013

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Preview: London Indian Film Festival 2013

Monsoon shootouts, danger-fraught road trips and a celebration of 100 years of Indian cinema are among the highlights of this year’s annual roundup of the best new films from the subcontinent.

Samuel Wigley
Thursday 18 July 2013

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God’s Own County: Yorkshire on screen

Curator Simon McCallum introduces highlights from the collections for Yorkshire’s first BFI Mediatheque, opening in Bradford this week.

Simon McCallum
Wednesday 17 July 2013

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BFI DVD/Blu-ray poll: the results

The Devils reigns supreme as voters’ favourite BFI DVD release after a poll of 6,500 people.

Samuel Wigley
Wednesday 17 July 2013

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Humphrey Jennings, my father

Marie-Louise Jennings remembers her father, Humphrey Jennings, who is widely considered one of Britain’s greatest documentary filmmakers.

Marie-Louise Jennings
Tuesday 16 July 2013

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Video essay: The essay film – some thoughts of discontent

In a world bedazzled by intractable images, do we need the essay film now more than ever? Kevin B. Lee weighs up this distinctively self-aware, searching form of cinema through both video and text.

Kevin B. Lee
Tuesday 16 July 2013

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Pacific Rim

Guillermo del Toro’s metal-monster sci-fi has the awesome to give you nosebleeds – but protagonists who seem long ago lobotomised, says Kim Newman.

Kim Newman
Friday 12 July 2013

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Be black, baby! An overview of Black Power on film

The revolution was not televised, but has it been filmed? Ashley Clark looks back over cinematic representations of Black Power.

Ashley Clark
Friday 12 July 2013

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Film of the week: Blancanieves

Hot on the heels of The Artist, Tabu and Frankenweenie, this silent Spanish-Cinderella fantasia is a gloriously entertaining rumination on families, film history, fairytales and Spanish folklore, says Mar Diestro-Dópido.

Mar Diestro-Dópido
Friday 12 July 2013

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Top trumps: the giants of Japan’s monster movies

We run through 10 of Pacific Rim’s monstrous antecedents, the Japanese goliaths that paved the way for Guillermo del Toro’s vision.

Matthew Thrift
Friday 12 July 2013

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