Features and reviews
Discover the latest from the BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image.
Pod people: the legacy of Invasion of the Body Snatchers
As the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers debuts on Blu-ray, we take the measure of its many remakes and how they adapted the Jack Finney story to reflect the anxieties of their own times.
By Mark Salisbury
London After Dark: the nocturnal 1960s films that inspired Edgar Wright... and how their locations look today
By Adam Scovell
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
Where to begin with Małgorzata Szumowska
By Alex Ramon
Please sir, I want some more: behind the scenes on the making of Oliver!
By Nigel Arthur
The 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
Wings of desire: 3 films from the future at the LFF
By Sarah Perks
6 African films not to miss at the LFF
By Chrystel Oloukoï
Mike Leigh: the naked truth
By Andy Medhurst
Post-lockdown laughs: comedies in the age of COVID
By Leigh Singer
Shorts to see: recommendations from our programmers
By Nellie Alston, Philip Ilson and others
Culinary delights: festival films for big appetites
By Paul Ridd
Perception diving: 3 films about changing the way we think
By Sophie Brown
Lost souls: faith and the occult in the Cult strand at LFF
By Anton Bitel
Reflections on history and magic: the best Eastern European films at LFF
By Peter Hames
Urgent upheavals: artist films that call for new understandings of complex times
By Helen de Witt
Northern highlights: the best Nordic films at this year’s LFF
By Sarah Lutton
After Love: Aleem Khan’s inspirations – from Edward Hopper to Chantal Akerman
By Aleem Khan
Strange new worlds: the craft of Denis Villeneuve
By Nikki Baughan
Lebanese stories: 3 defiant films from a nation rocked by crisis
By Elhum Shakerifar
Animation for the nation: how the COI used cartoons to present the voice of authority
By Jez Stewart
Gallivanting with Andrew Kötting, Big Granny and little Eden
By Iain Sinclair
On the streets, on the tennis courts, at the arcade: 3 documentaries about forging your own path
By Lynn Nwokorie
A Taste of Honey at 60: how the work of a teenage playwright changed British film
By Chloe Walker