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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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Picking up The Stoker

How Edinburgh’s Filmhouse is expanding cinema – into other cinemas. By Harriet Warman.

Harriet Warman
Wednesday 8 May 2013

Interviews
Terence Stamp: classic film posters

From Theorem to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, enjoy some of the striking posters for the classic films of Terence Stamp.

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Features
The fifth Doctor and The Caves of Androzani

Following Tom Baker’s reign as Doctor Who, Peter Davison had big shoes to fill. But fan-favourite serial ‘The Caves of Androzani’ proves him a worthy successor.

Ayesha Khan
Saturday 4 May 2013

Features
Don Hertzfeldt’s beautiful days

Chris Robinson talks rage, regrets and revelations with the maker of the tragicomic rhapsody It’s Such a Beautiful Day.

Chris Robinson
Friday 3 May 2013

Interviews
New BFI DVD and Blu-ray releases July-September 2013

Two Roberto Rossellini classics and controversial films by French author Alain Robbe-Grillet are among the BFI’s summer releases on DVD and Blu-ray.

Friday 3 May 2013

Announcements
Libido, morality and a broom

Usually seen as an oddity, if seen at all, Nicholas Ray’s late erotic short The Janitor distils his interest in the tussle between id and superego, writes Brad Stevens.

Brad Stevens
Friday 3 May 2013

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All against one and one against all: Fred Schepisi’s outsiders

The roving auteur talks widescreen isolation, collapsing timeframes, cranes in the bedroom and his adaptation of Patrick White’s The Eye of the Storm with Dan Callahan.

Dan Callahan
Friday 3 May 2013

Interviews
Film of the week: It’s Such a Beautiful Day

Cult animator Don Hertzfeldt grows up with a majestic passion play about a stickman named Bill, his mortal coil, life and the universe, writes Nick Bradshaw.

Nick Bradshaw
Friday 3 May 2013

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Ask an actor: Terence Stamp

The great British actor Terence Stamp to take part in an online Q&A.

Friday 3 May 2013

Announcements
10 great New York youth films

Gimme the Loot is the latest movie to fuse the irrepressible energy of youth with the teeming excitements of the Big Apple. Start spreading the news, here are our 10 great New York youth films.

Ashley Clark
Thursday 2 May 2013

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