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Polish poster art for classic British films
A new exhibition at BFI Southbank celebrates a generation of visionary Polish poster artists who created their own unique spins on British films released in Poland in the post-war period.
Monday 2 February 2015 -
Shine a light: Jill Soloway’s Transparent
Two decades after the florescence of the New Queer Cinema, internet TV brings us sex-positivity on demand. Sophie Mayer on Jill Soloway’s hit comedy series.
Monday 2 February 2015 -
Toon of the month: You Look Like Me
Chris Robinson on Canadian veteran Pierre Hébert’s palimpsest of passing humanity.
Sunday 1 February 2015 -
Clio Barnard on her Wellcome Trust and BFI Screenwriting Fellowship
What the Selfish Giant director did with her year-long residency.
Friday 30 January 2015 -
Gene Hackman: 10 essential films
We remember 10 of the finest films starring Gene Hackman, one of the great actors to emerge from the New Hollywood of the 1960s and 70s.
Friday 30 January 2015 -
Film of the week: Inherent Vice
Paul Thomas Anderson’s crazy pinball method hits the kickers with this teeming adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s screwball-detective countercultural requiem. Nick Pinkerton is swayed.
Friday 30 January 2015 -
In his 50-year career, John Ford made some 140 feature films, including Oscar winners and some of the greatest westerns ever made. Here’s a rundown of his finest achievements.
Friday 30 January 2015 -
10 great films about children in wartime
Not just one of the great school films, Louis Malle’s Au revoir les enfants also belongs to a grand tradition of powerful dramatisations of the experiences of children during wartime.
Thursday 29 January 2015 -
I sing the body elastic: lamenting the new compliant super-flesh
The new generation of wittily weaponised superheroes have forsaken their transgressive body politics to join the modern order, bemoans Tim Hayes.
Thursday 29 January 2015 -
Sign up for our free online filmmaking course
Learn the secrets behind making films with our six-week course – back by popular demand – run by FutureLearn and developed by the NFTS with the BFI Film Academy.
Wednesday 28 January 2015
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