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Experience IMAX 70mm screenings of The Odyssey 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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The world moves on: Billy Wilder’s cinema of ageing and obsolescence
From overlooked office workers to fading movie stars, ageing in Billy Wilder’s films is about more than growing old. Across his career, he wittily chronicled characters confronting missed opportunities, diminished relevance and the feeling that life has passed them by.
By Chloe Walker
BFI Player’s November 2026 line-up
BFI Player’s November 2026 line-upScotland’s rival to The Jazz Singer: the story behind a groundbreaking British sound film
By Marc David Jacobs
10 great East African films
By Abiba Coulibaly
Whalefall: Austin Abrams gives it his all in a passable film about a man swallowed by a whale
By Adam Nayman
Nightborn: Finnish myths are lost in the thicket of this gory post-partum horror
By George Townsend
Portrait of a lady: Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette
By Pam Cook
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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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