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Of monsters and men: Peter Wollen on Jurassic Park
As David Robert Mitchell’s dino flick The End of Oak Street arrives in cinemas, we revisit Peter Wollen’s 1993 article on what Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park shares with the 1925 monster movie The Lost World, the 19th-century dinosaur cult and Hitchcock’s The Birds.
By Peter Wollen
10 to watch at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2026
By Josh Slater-Williams
A tour of Alfred Hitchcock’s London: how the locations look today
By Adam Scovell
10 great TV miniseries of the 1980s
By David Parkinson
Lady: oddball mockumentary about a narcissistic aristocrat is strangely moving
By Gayle Sequeira
Darkest hour: the first ever film of a solar eclipse
By Bryony Dixon
BFI supported Escapes make cinema free and accessible nationwide, with over 100 National Lottery-funded screenings of I Swear
By Emily Maskell
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The filmmakers behind D-Punk join disability activists at the BFI’s We Crip Film Festival to discuss punk, representation and the power of reclaiming space.
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