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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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Object of the week: Costume designs for Julie Christie in the swinging 60s drama Darling
These costume designs by Julie Harris helped to create one of the iconic figures of swinging London: Julie Christie’s upwardly mobile fashion model in the 1965 drama Darling.
By Melanie Williams
A history of 1960s British cinema in 10 songs
By David Parkinson
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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
Inside the Archive #73: From west London to north-west Morocco
By Milo Holmes, Bryony Dixon and others
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The creators of Free Nelson Mandela bring the story of Mandela’s extraordinary release to BFI Southbank.
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The BFI National Archive has one of the most important film and TV collections in the world. Choose from a selection of 11,000 titles that cover 120 years of British life, and the history and art of film.
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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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