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Find out moreGodzilla Minus Zero at BFI IMAX
Takashi Yamazaki delivers on the promise of Godzilla Minus One with a character-driven, action-packed sequel – see it 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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10 great films based on unfinished books
Adapting an unfinished text means confronting gaps, ambiguities and unrealised intentions. With the acclaimed new film of Lorca’s La bola negra currently in cinemas, we look at 10 films that embrace the challenge, turning incomplete books, plays and memoirs into distinctive cinematic works.
By Miriam Balanescu
“Land of Hope and Bloody Glory, eh?”: Brassed Off, 30 years on
By Alex Ramon
Ken Russell’s The Devils coming to 4K UHD and Blu-ray in April 2027
Ken Russell’s The Devils coming to 4K UHD and Blu-ray in April 2027“We do things differently here”: the long afterlife of 24 Hour Party People and its modern myth of Manchester
By Farran Golding
“Fiction is always a documentary of the actors”: Sebastián Lelio on Disobedience
By Nick James
Dead Souls: Alex Cox twists Gogol’s classic into a peppery spaghetti western
By Kim Newman
10 great South Korean films of the 2020s
By Hayley Scanlon
Events
Andrew Scott returns to the BFI London Film Festival with his new film Elsinore and visits BFI Southbank to reflect on his career.
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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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