Latest from the BFI

10 great Italian neorealist films

With Roberto Rossellini’s masterpiece Rome, Open City back in cinemas, we present a 10-film primer on one of film history’s most important movements: Italian neorealism.
Thursday 6 March 2014

10 great films about fashion

With the chic Audrey Hepburn classic Funny Face back in cinemas, we unveil this season’s essential collection: our 10 favourite fashion movies.
Thursday 27 February 2014

10 great films about sex

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 classics.
Friday 21 February 2014

¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival celebrates 20th year

This year’s ¡Viva! festival in Manchester kicks off with a thirtysomethings buddy movie with a hit-packed, swinging 60s soundtrack.
Friday 7 March 2014

Stranger by the Lake out on BFI Player from 7 March

Dazzling erotic thriller Stranger by the Lake will be available to watch on our video-on-demand service BFI Player from 7 March.
Wednesday 5 March 2014

Steve McQueen: making history

Steve McQueen is the first ever black producer to win the Oscar for best picture. But the awards still have a long way to go in the diversity stakes.
Wednesday 5 March 2014

Oscars 2014: the winners in full

Gravity pulls in seven Oscars, but 12 Years a Slave takes best picture at this year’s Academy Awards.
Monday 3 March 2014

10 to see at Borderlines Film Festival

The UK’s biggest rural film festival brings a healthy helping of the best new world cinema to 32 venues across Herefordshire, Shropshire and the Welsh Marches. 
Thursday 27 February 2014

Spitting Image: still biting after all these years

Thirty years on, we reminisce with Spitting Image’s creators about a series that was essential viewing for politicos and couch potatoes alike.
Wednesday 26 February 2014

Nymphomaniac out on BFI Player from 1 March

The provocative new film by Lars von Trier, the story of a woman’s life of sex obsession, will be available to watch on the BFI Player from Saturday 1 March.
Wednesday 26 February 2014

Feng Xiaogang: an exclusive audience with China’s most successful director

The director of some of the all-time biggest films at the Chinese box office, Feng Xiaogang, joined us to discuss his knack for connecting with audiences.
Monday 24 February 2014

Behind the scenes: Funny Face

Evocative shots that take us back to Paris in 1956, where Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire are filming on location for the musical romance Funny Face.
Tuesday 25 February 2014

Berlin 2014: a programmer’s picks

A family drama filmed over 12 years and an understated debut about a Chechen boy living in Vienna catch Geoff Andrew’s eye at this year’s Berlinale.
Friday 21 February 2014

Preview: Glasgow Film Festival 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Under the Skin bookend the 10th GFF as its home venue, Scotland’s oldest arthouse cinema, celebrates its 75th birthday.
Thursday 20 February 2014

Bigger and even better: The Godfather Part II

With towering performances from Pacino and De Niro, the second Godfather movie is a sequel without equal and a high-water mark of American cinema.
Thursday 20 February 2014

BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival launch 2014

Clare Stewart introduces the 2014 BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival (formerly LLGFF), including opening and closing films Lilting and 52 Tuesdays.
Friday 28 February 2014

Video: Philip Seymour Hoffman on heroes

The late Philip Seymour Hoffman explains why great people are more complicated than we know.
Monday 3 February 2014

Video: Sherlock: The Empty Hearse Q&A

Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss and the talent behind Sherlock discuss the making of The Empty Hearse.
Friday 24 January 2014