Latest news, features and DVDs
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Maîtresse: watch exclusive clips from the DVD
As controversial fetishism drama Maîtresse arrives on Blu-ray, watch exclusive extracts from a new documentary about the film.
Monday 12 November 2012 -
Romanian writer-director Cristi Puiu follows up The Death of Mr Lazarescu with a slow-burning depiction of a serial-killing spree, starring himself. Ryan Gilbey feels complicit.
Friday 9 November 2012 -
Travel back to the earliest days of film and explore how it first became necessary to invent the film censor.
Friday 9 November 2012 -
Virgin Media Shorts 2012 winner announced
The winner of Virgin Media Shorts 2012, the UK’s biggest short film competition, is announced at a star-studded ceremony at BFI Southbank.
Friday 9 November 2012 -
The Cinema Militans Lecture 2012: Semih Kaplanoglu
The winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear (for 2010’s Honey (Bal)) sets out the seeds of his filmic meditations – from the pure cinema of Tarkovsky, Hitchcock and Weerasethakul to Sufism, Turkish village life and the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul.
Wednesday 7 November 2012 -
Ealing: Light and Dark – an introduction
With our two-part Ealing: Light and Dark season now underway, season curator Mark Duguid explains why there’s more to Ealing than its comedies.
Wednesday 7 November 2012 -
The BBFC files: Blackboard Jungle
The BBFC’s senior archivist Jen Evans digs out the board’s original report on a teen rebel drama that scandalised 1950s audiences.
Tuesday 6 November 2012 -
How do you solve a problem like Potemkin?
With the release of Battleship Potemkin on Blu-ray, Michael Brooke unravels the difficulties of representing silent film accurately on disc.
Monday 5 November 2012 -
BIFA 2012 nominations announced
Nominations for the 15th annual Moët British Independent Film Awards are announced at a ceremony hosted by actor and BIFA patron, Adrian Lester.
Monday 5 November 2012
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Painting the town: Tati’s Jour de fête in colour
With the release of Jour de fête on DVD/Blu-ray, we trace the history of how Jacques Tati’s timeless comedy got its colour back.
Saturday 3 November 2012
Lists
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Fraternal frictions, jealousy and brotherly love run high in our list of 10 classic brother movies, celebrating the nationwide rerelease of the James Dean classic East of Eden.
Thursday 10 April 2014 -
We chart the growing pains of the coming-of-age movie across the decades with a selection of 10 terrific teen movies.
Friday 4 April 2014 -
With Jesse Eisenberg acting alongside himself in Richard Ayoade’s new film The Double, we reflect on some of cinema’s best films featuring doubles, dead ringers and doppelgängers.
Thursday 27 March 2014
Popular
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As Lars von Trier’s Nymph()maniac arrives in cinemas and on the BFI Player, we survey sex on film with a list of some of cinema’s naughtiest...
Friday 21 February 2014 -
Behind the scenes: The Godfather trilogy
17 rare shots of Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and Francis Ford Coppola in production on one of film history’s greatest trilogies.
Tuesday 18 February 2014
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Studio Ghibli: five essential films
As the great Japanese animation studio nears its 30th anniversary and BFI Southbank mounts a full feature retrospective, we pick out five must-see...
Wednesday 26 March 2014
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Interviews, news and comment on the Academy Awards.
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Interviews, news and comment on the British Academy Film Awards.
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