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Audience attendance was up 6% across London this year, watching films from 78 countries around the world, with 40% female directors across the programme and 60% female directors in competition.
Winner of Sundance 2019’s Grand Jury Prize, The Souvenir is the compelling, semi-autobiographical drama from acclaimed writer-director Joanna Hogg.
Watch The Souvenir on BFI Player
Read Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir: six visual influences
Martin Scorsese talks The Irishman and more in an exclusive three-and-a-half-hour interview. Plus Joaquin Phoenix behind the Joker’s mask, Alejandro Landes’s Monos, and our Deep Focus season – on Maurice Pialat and the New French Realism.
Bill Nighy, Sam Riley and Alice Lowe star in this stylish and heartfelt comedy-drama about a Scrabble-obsessed family who know plenty of words but struggle to communicate.
Brexit will change the way UK businesses interact with the EU, including those working in the screen sectors. We answer some of the key questions for the screen industries.
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Joanna Hogg’s critically acclaimed, semi-autobiographical drama.
Comedy-drama about a Scrabble-obsessed tailor searching for a lost son.
Groundbreaking documentary about those life-changing moments and words.
Evocative, esoteric exploration of witchcraft at the end of the 1960s.
1,000s of films, preserved.
120 years of British life, many unseen for decades.
Hidden histories and forgotten stories of people and places from the UK’s key film and TV archives.
20 colour snapshots of vibrant Soho 60 years ago
Flesh and pleasure made its name, but in 1956 there was a lot more to a place that, in modern times, has all but vanished.
37 pictures showing what punk Britain was really like
From the late 70s, punk fashions and attitude spread agitation round the nation.
Do Not Adjust Your Set (3-disc DVD set)
The most definitive release to date of the ground-breaking sketch show.
£24.99
At Last the 1948 Show (3-disc DVD set)
Classic comedy, produced by David Frost and written and performed by some of the UK’s best loved comedians.
£24.99
Two small time ranchers join forces against a ruthless land baron in Alan J. Pakula’s western drama.
£14.99
Pasolini: Trilogy of Life (3-disc Blu-ray set)
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s trio of literary adaptations, presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.
£29.99
Video: Sing us a line from your favourite musical
Wednesday 16 October 2019
The American dream unravelled: 20 years of Fight Club
Tuesday 15 October 2019
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman draws 63rd BFI London Film Festival to a close
Tuesday 15 October 2019
Where to begin with Maurice Pialat
Monday 14 October 2019
Seven things we learned from Robert De Niro
Monday 14 October 2019
2019 competition winners announced at 63rd BFI London Film Festival
Saturday 12 October 2019
Willem Dafoe on The Lighthouse: ‘It’s a good discipline to know how to be by yourself’
Friday 11 October 2019
14 of the best film posters at the BFI London Film Festival 2019
Friday 11 October 2019
Musicals! The Greatest Show on Screen at BFI Southbank
Dust off your dancing shoes, practice your scales and join us for some heart-lifting movies, special events and joyful singalongs.
Maurice Pialat and the New French Realism at BFI Southbank
A two-part exploration of an uncompromising director and the impact he’s made on recent French cinema and its actors.
Will Smith stars as Henry Brogan, an elite assassin targeted by a mysterious young operative who can seemingly predict his every move.
Jake Scott’s patient portrait of a woman’s grief and struggle in a working-class Pennsylvania community gives Miller a leading role she seizes brilliantly, writes Philip Kemp.
Sunday 13 October 2019
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie review – a tele-finale for old fans’ sake
Wednesday 16 October 2019
Co-ordinating intimacy: making sex scenes safe
Monday 14 October 2019
Robert De Niro looks back
Monday 14 October 2019
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