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BFI edition of silent classic Underground wins best Blu-ray at DVD awards

The restored, high definition edition of Anthony Asquith’s 1928 classic of London life is named the year’s best Blu-ray by Italy’s esteemed Il Cinema Ritrovato festival.
Friday 4 July 2014

10 great films set in the swinging 60s

It’s 50 years since the Beatles movie A Hard Day’s Night helped put a swing in the step of 60s British cinema, heralding London’s emergence as the epicentre of hip fashion, art and music. Here are 10 of the best swinging London films that followed in its wake.
Thursday 3 July 2014

Behind the scenes with the Beatles and Richard Lester

Rare images, many from the private archive of director Richard Lester, show the Fab Four playing around on the set of their swinging 60s pop film classics A Hard Day’s Night and Help!
Thursday 3 July 2014

10 great wuxia (swordplay) films

Based in a centuries-old genre of Chinese literature, the wuxia martial arts movie takes place in a world of swords, sorcery, chivalry and romance. Here are 10 of its jaw-dropping milestones.
Thursday 26 June 2014

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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
BFI Most Wanted: our discoveries so far

The BFI’s international search for 75 ‘missing’ British films has turned up some real treasures, but the hunt goes on…

Josephine Botting
Thursday 29 November 2012

Features
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

Festivals
Seeing double: the London Korean Film Festival 2012

Pairs of new royal costume dramas, ensemble heist movies, derivative thrillers and downbeat animations marked this year’s Korean crop, found Anton Bitel.

Anton Bitel
Thursday 29 November 2012

Festivals
Sightseers: Ben Wheatley, Alice Lowe and Steve Oram

As Sightseers is released, we caught up with Ben Wheatley and his writer-stars Alice Lowe and Steve Oram.

Paul O’Callaghan
Wednesday 28 November 2012

Interviews
‘This is a play!’ – breaking the fourth wall

Is it time for television to rediscover its experimental edge and bring the ‘fourth wall’ crashing down again?

Anna Coatman
Wednesday 28 November 2012

Features
Mike Newell: ‘This is Dickens’s Jekyll & Hyde’

As his opulent new Dickens adaptation opens nationwide, director Mike Newell discusses returning to the dark heart of Great Expectations.

Samuel Wigley
Tuesday 27 November 2012

Interviews
The BBFC files: The Killing of Sister George

‘By far the most explicit scene of lesbian physical love that has ever been submitted’ – the censor report on a boundary-pushing drama.

Jen Evans
Tuesday 27 November 2012

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