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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

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

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Venice 2013: week one high-water marks

Nick James on grim Greek tragedy Miss Violence, Tokyo prostitution fable The Shape of Night and Kelly Reichardt’s Night Movies at a Biennale otherwise overshadowed by its own past glories.

Nick James
Tuesday 3 September 2013

Festivals
Storm of praise for Under the Skin at Venice

Rave reviews are pouring out of Venice for Jonathan Glazer’s bold new science-fiction movie Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson.

Tuesday 3 September 2013

Features
BFI Film Audience Network lead partners announced

Nine organisations to work with the BFI and regional partners to bring more specialised and independent British film to UK audiences

Tuesday 3 September 2013

Announcements
Satyajit Ray: a moral attitude

An extended interview with the great Indian director, compiled from a long series of conversations with his biographer Andrew Robinson in the years before Ray’s death in 1992.

Andrew Robinson
Tuesday 3 September 2013

Interviews
Video: Sir David Frost on the art of interviewing

Award-winning journalist, writer and producer Sir David Frost answers questions about interviewing people.

Monday 2 September 2013

Video
Malta, the Mafia and Michael Caine: making Pulp

Mike Hodges remembers filming his island-set crime thriller Pulp, and shares a letter that J.G. Ballard wrote to him in admiration of the result.

Mike Hodges
Monday 2 September 2013

Features
Monster Weekend: highlights from Twitter

Relive our Monster Weekend at the British Museum with our round-up from Twitter.

Monday 2 September 2013

Features
Another

Chris Robinson stumbles upon that ultra-rare student animation that warrants its 17-minute running time. Is this Au hasard bear?

Chris Robinson
Monday 2 September 2013

Bytes
Philomena gets raves at Venice

Stephen Frears’ Philomena, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, is received as one of the highlights of the Venice Film Festival.

Monday 2 September 2013

Features
High film of the week: Upstream Color

Shane Carruth, American cinema’s most sophisticated mad scientist, returns with another slice of breathtaking inscrutability. Michael Atkinson goes boldly in.

Michael Atkinson
Friday 30 August 2013

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