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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

Hitchcock on the Potemkin steps

This month Hitchcock made a posthumous visit to Odessa – and Robin Baker, the BFI’s Head Curator, was lucky enough to travel with him.
Tuesday 29 July 2014

The Lady from Shanghai: Welles at his most mischievous

Orson Welles’ exhilarating film noir finds the actor-director mixing profundity with playfulness.
Tuesday 22 July 2014

10 great American film noirs

With Orson Welles’s magnificent noir melodrama The Lady from Shanghai back in cinemas, we turn back the clock to the golden age of Hollywood to select the 10 best American film noirs.
Thursday 24 July 2014

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Godard’s telegram

Scheduled to give a lecture at the BFI in 1968, Jean-Luc Godard never showed up. Instead came a telegram…

Samuel Wigley
Monday 3 December 2012

Features
The best films of 2012

We asked over 90 international critics to nominate their top five films and their highlights of 2012…

Monday 3 December 2012

Annual round-ups
What larks! – Jeremy Irvine on Great Expectations

Samuel Wigley
Saturday 1 December 2012

Interviews
Babette’s Feast: watch the new trailer

Watch the new trailer for Babette’s Feast, an Oscar-winning Christmas treat rereleased on 14 December.

Friday 30 November 2012

Video
Film of the week: The Hunt

A falsely accused defies lynch-mob justice in Thomas Vinterberg’s disarmingly entertaining black thriller, writes Geoffrey Macnab.

Geoffrey Macnab
Friday 30 November 2012

Reviews and recommendations
The BBFC files: Trash

Scenes of intravenous drug use caused a headache for the 1970s censor board. The BBFC’s senior archivist Jen Evans rumages through the Trash file.

Jen Evans
Friday 30 November 2012

Features
Ridley Scott at 75: a career in pictures

To celebrate Ridley Scott’s 75th birthday, we present a selection of behind-the-scenes images of the great director at work.

Samuel Wigley
Friday 30 November 2012

Features
Playing it cool

Has Abel Ferrara been punished for his refusal to subscribe to the too-cool-for-school sensibility of von Trier and the Coens, wonders Brad Stevens?

Brad Stevens
Friday 30 November 2012

Bradlands
Film of the week: Sightseers

An odd couple of Midlands nerds wreak vigilante murder on the English Heritage trail in Ben Wheatley’s deadpan rural rural comedy.

Philip Kemp
Friday 30 November 2012

Reviews and recommendations
Stop motion lives!

Jez Stewart risks the sneers of Guardian blog baiters to hail half a dozen instances of wholesome low-rent excellence at the Bradford Animation Festival.

Jez Stewart
Thursday 29 November 2012

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