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Five things to watch this weekend – 22-24 March

The latest horror sensation from the director of Get Out tops this week’s handy hitlist of viewing recommendations.
Friday 22 March 2019

Five things to watch this weekend – 22-24 March

The latest horror sensation from the director of Get Out tops this week’s handy hitlist of viewing recommendations.
Friday 22 March 2019

Where to begin with Blumhouse Productions

Your next obsession: Blumhouse’s technology-obsessed scary movies
Monday 18 March 2019
Why literary lesbians are having a moment on screen

From Colette to Can You Ever Forgive Me?, lesbians of letters are suddenly getting their stories told on film. Why now?
Tuesday 12 March 2019
10 great LGBTQ+ documentaries

From Paris Is Burning to The Celluloid Closet, we celebrate 10 landmark non-fiction films about LGBTQ+ lives.
Thursday 21 March 2019
Five reasons to watch cyberpunk body-horror Tetsuo: The Iron Man – 30th anniversary

Metallic mayhem and graphic depravity fly thick and fast in the mind-melting 30-year-old Japanese body-horror benchmark Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Here are five reasons to stick it in your eyes.
Thursday 21 March 2019
Children of Men: Why Alfonso Cuarón’s anti-Blade Runner looks more relevant than ever

It flopped on release in 2006, but Children of Men’s dystopian visions of Britain in 2027 feel more troubling every day.
Tuesday 12 February 2019
Alien at 40: In space no one can hear your plea for workers’ rights

How Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi grounds its outer-space terror in a credible vision of blue-collar working life that still feels authentic four decades later.
Tuesday 26 February 2019
Grief on screen: three films that get loss right

The impact of losing someone is tricky to adequately convey on screen, but three recent films make mourning feel visceral.
Wednesday 6 March 2019
New BFI DVDs and Blu-rays announced for spring 2019

Upcoming releases include new collector’s editions of Room at the Top, The Caretaker and How I Won the War, Merchant Ivory restorations and the best of the British Transport Films collection newly remastered for Blu-ray.
Tuesday 5 February 2019

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What to watch at Manchester’s ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival

Manchester’s much-loved celebration of Spanish and Latin American cinema returns for its 25th edition this year with a lineup of classic and contemporary films.

Jamie Dunn
Friday 22 March 2019

Features
Jordan Peele on Us: “I knew I was gonna forge new ground in the pantheon of doppelganger tales”

Us, Jordan Peele’s horrifyingly entertaining follow-up to Get Out, is an allegorical portrait of the state of the Union, set in a sun-kissed California peopled with evil doppelgangers – an ingenious vision that offers a tantalising array of interpretations. He talks to Simran Hans.

Simran Hans
Friday 22 March 2019

Interviews
Five things to watch this weekend – 22-24 March

The latest horror sensation from the director of Get Out tops this week’s handy hitlist of viewing recommendations.

Henry Barnes
Friday 22 March 2019

Lists
Watch this year’s BFI Flare #FiveFilms4Freedom

Five short films from the BFI Flare programme have been made available to watch across the British Council’s global digital platforms, free of charge.

Thursday 21 March 2019

Announcements
10 great LGBTQ+ documentaries

From Paris Is Burning to The Celluloid Closet, we celebrate 10 landmark non-fiction films about LGBTQ+ lives.

Alex Davidson
Thursday 21 March 2019

Lists
Video: Ralph Fiennes and the makers of White Crow

The director of White Crow joins the film’s writer, David Hare, and star, Oleg Ivenko, to talk about his biopic of Rudolf Nureyev.

Thursday 21 March 2019

Video
Five reasons to watch cyberpunk body-horror Tetsuo: The Iron Man – 30th anniversary

Metallic mayhem and graphic depravity fly thick and fast in the mind-melting 30-year-old Japanese body-horror benchmark Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Here are five reasons to stick it in your eyes.

Lou Thomas
Thursday 21 March 2019

Features
The films of Straub and Huillet: images richer than words

The films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet have seldom found distribution in the UK, on account of their perceived difficulty. Yet their half-century of working together shows an unparalleled commitment to intense human experience, as Tag Gallagher explains.

Tag Gallagher
Wednesday 20 March 2019

Features
The art of the LGBTQ+ film poster at BFI Flare

On the eve of BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival, we round-up some of the most creative posters for features and shorts screening in this year’s programme.

Wednesday 20 March 2019

Features
Industry programme and guests announced for BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival

Key speakers will include Tomer Heymann, Pratibha Parmar, Kristiene Clarke and Savannah Knoop, with Terence Stamp to attend for 25th anniversary screening of The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

Tuesday 19 March 2019

Announcements