What’s on at BFI Southbank
Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films.
Find out moreBeetlejuice Beetlejuice at BFI IMAX
The ghost with the most is back – Tim Burton revives Michael Keaton’s mischievous bio-exorcist in the sequel to his beloved 1988 fantasy.
Find out moreThe 68th BFI London Film Festival
Discover the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling – from 9 to 20 October 2024 in London and around the UK.
Find out moreBFI Replay
A new free-to-access digital archive exclusively available in UK public lending libraries. Discover thousands of digitised videos and television programmes from the 1960s to the 2010s, offering a glimpse into Britain’s past, its people and places.
Find out moreThe Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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The night the country didn’t sleep: 40 years of Threads, the BBC’s traumatising TV movie
Broadcast on BBC2 in 1984, Threads dramatised the fallout from a nuclear attack on Sheffield with harrowing realism. We look back on a TV movie that scarred a generation of viewers for life.
By George Bass
Maria: Pablo Larraín’s grand, reverential biopic of Maria Callas
By Nicolas Rapold
The Outcasts: the return of a buried landmark of Irish folk horror
By Paul Duane
Speakers and events announced for this year’s LFF Industry Forum
Speakers and events announced for this year’s LFF Industry ForumPaying for It: Sook Yin-Lee’s humane Toronto tale reflects on love and sex work
By Adam Nayman
Modern house on film: 10 films featuring modernist homes
By David Morrison
Happyend: an impressively assured future-shock satire
By Adam Nayman
Events
Director Daniel Kokotajlo and actors Morfydd Clark and Robert Emms visit BFI Southbank to dig into their new British folk horror.
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The BFI National Archive has one of the most important film and TV collections in the world. Choose from a selection of 11,000 titles that cover 120 years of British life, and the history and art of film.
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