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The Lubitsch touch in The Shop Around the Corner
This archive feature dissects the unique tonal touch employed by Ernst Lubitsch in The Shop Around the Corner, which fills out its romantic confection with a moving portrayal of economic desperation we can empathise with today
By Nick James
The best films of 2021: the year in cinema
By Isabel Stevens
The best TV of 2021: the year in television
By Lisa Kerrigan
Night Call: the 70s motorway safety film with a sting in its tail
By Steven Foxon
Somewhere over the rainbow: Ringan Ledwidge 1971-2021
By Professor Emily Caston
Off the beaten track: wilderness in video games
By Nadia Attia
In pictures: Dirk Bogarde, the reluctant movie star
By Jade Evans
Strike a pose: fashion and film through the ages
By Peter Wollen
“Kill all hippies”: the punk nihilism of Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue
By Christina Newland
Between the lines: the hidden drama in Dirk Bogarde’s scripts
By Carolyne Bevan
Sacred and profane: Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear
By J. Hoberman
A sense of history: Mike Leigh’s period cinema
By Alex Ramon
“Servant? I’m nobody’s servant”: Dirk Bogarde in Pinterland
By Josephine Botting
Beyond La Haine: how France’s new urban films are moving things forward
By Abiba Coulibaly
“These were stars!”: how a forgotten teleseries put swinging London on the map
By Scott Anthony
Genre highlights at BFI London Film Festival 2021
By Philip Concannon
The long take: No crying in journalism
By Pamela Hutchinson
Exploring Virtual Realities at the BFI London Film Festival 2021
By Rebecca Harrison
How Hammer horror locations look today
By Adam Scovell
The best of Experimenta at BFI London Film Festival 2021
By Ben Nicholson