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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon puts a new spin on the terrifying girl-with-the-long-black-hair type
The new film from A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night director Ana Lily Amirpour inverts a horror movie cliché to tell an anarchic story of a woman wronged by society, says Alexandria Slater, one of the mentees on this year’s LFF Critics Mentorship Programme.
By Alexandria Slater
50 creative opportunities offered on StoryTrails, a new immersive storytelling experience
50 creative opportunities offered on StoryTrails, a new immersive storytelling experienceVenom: Let There Be Carnage serves up a strangely affecting superhero sequel
By Kim Newman
London After Dark: the nocturnal 1960s films that inspired Edgar Wright... and how their locations look today
By Adam Scovell
Il Buco takes viewers on a meditative dive through the caves of Calabria
By Ben Nicholson
Sci-fi pioneer, German ‘James Bond’ and star of one of the world’s worst films: celebrating George Nader on his centenary
By Chloe Walker
“You throw Black people in a western and it’s like sci-fi”: Director Jeymes Samuel on The Harder They Fall
By Christina Newland
Curse of The Chippendales explores the gender dynamics of stripping in the 1980s
By Rebecca Harrison
Where to begin with Małgorzata Szumowska
By Alex Ramon
Competition winners announced at 65th BFI London Film Festival
Competition winners announced at 65th BFI London Film FestivalBelfast: Kenneth Branagh on an autobiographical drama “50 years in the making”
By Lou Thomas
Please sir, I want some more: behind the scenes on the making of Oliver!
By Nigel Arthur
BFI research finds less than a quarter of 4- to 18-year-olds believe UK television represents them
BFI research finds less than a quarter of 4- to 18-year-olds believe UK television represents themThe here and now in new dimensions: the LFF’s virtual reality programme
By Ulrich Schrauth
The view from South Asia: the best films from the subcontinent at this year’s LFF
By Kalpana Nair
Our Men: a refined and quietly impressive military drama
By Nicole Davis
Boiling Point captures a chef’s night from hell filmed in one continuous shot
By Philip Concannon
Wings of desire: 3 films from the future at the LFF
By Sarah Perks
All My Friends Hate Me to be released by the BFI in UK and Ireland
All My Friends Hate Me to be released by the BFI in UK and Ireland6 African films not to miss at the LFF
By Chrystel Oloukoï
Succession returns for a third season with another spectacular Roy family feud
By Caspar Salmon
Mike Leigh: the naked truth
By Andy Medhurst
Post-lockdown laughs: comedies in the age of COVID
By Leigh Singer
The Harder They Fall: a brilliantly over the top revenge tale
By Leila Latif
Squid Game is a winning addition to the burgeoning dystopia subgenre
By Anne Billson