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Will playtime ever be the same? See Toy Story 5 on the UK’s biggest screen.
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The 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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75 years of The Lavender Hill Mob: how the London locations look today
As the beloved Ealing crime comedy turns 75, we track down the exact spots where Alec Guinness and his gang of gold bullion thieves carried out their heist.
By Adam Scovell
Object of the week: Costume designs for Julie Christie in the swinging 60s drama Darling
By Melanie Williams
A history of 1960s British cinema in 10 songs
By David Parkinson
Try the new BFI Cinemas website (beta)
By Ellie Hilborne
10 great queer American underground features of the 1970s
By Sophia Satchell-Baeza
Toy Story 5: screen-time overtakes creative play in Pixar’s imaginative tear-jerker
By Leigh Singer
Amélie’s Paris: how the locations look, 25 years later
By Adam Scovell
Events
The creators of Free Nelson Mandela bring the story of Mandela’s extraordinary release to BFI Southbank.
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Our Screen Culture 2033 strategy for the BFI and ten-year National Lottery funding strategy from 2023 to 2033.
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