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Children’s Film Foundation: 10 fabulous films from the home of kid-based hijinks
The kids’ adventure films of the Children’s Film Foundation were high on hijinks and low on boring stuff. From the 60 we’ve now released on DVD, here are 10 that might bring back memories.
By Vic Pratt
Children’s Film Foundation: 10 fabulous films from the home of kid-based hijinks
Reviews
Sometimes I Think About Dying: downbeat workplace indie shows another side to Daisy Ridley
By David Katz
News
BFI invests £900,000 National Lottery funding over two years to create a BFI Skills Cluster for Wales
BFI invests £900,000 National Lottery funding over two years to create a BFI Skills Cluster for WalesFrom the Sight and Sound archive
Elaine May: laughing matters
By Carrie Rickey
Features
O dreamlands: why Lindsay Anderson was never the realist he claimed to be
By Henry K Miller
From the Sight and Sound archive
“Ford is a director with whom things are either right or wrong”: Lindsay Anderson’s review of The Searchers
By Lindsay Anderson
Reviews
All You Need is Death: hallucinatory horror captures the alchemical power of Irish folk ballads
By Roger Luckhurst
Reviews
The Book of Clarence: a messy, genre-blending Biblical epic
By Arjun Sajip
Features
Bye Bye Love, 50th anniversary: this gender-fluid couple-on-the-run movie had no precedent in Japanese cinema
By Tony Rayns
Reviews
If Only I Could Hibernate: a beautifully crafted Mongolian drama
By Tom Charity
5 things to watch
5 things to watch this weekend – 12 to 14 April
By Sam Wigley
10 great
10 great films featuring a film within the film
By Georgina Guthrie
News
Cannes 2024 lineup includes 3 BFI-supported UK films
Cannes 2024 lineup includes 3 BFI-supported UK filmsFrom the Sight and Sound archive
“Her charisma, her presence, was a lot to do with her eyes”: Asif Kapadia on Amy
By Nick James
Interviews
Kirsten Dunst and Alex Garland on Civil War: “I don’t feel any need to add to the number of films that spell everything out”
By Lou Thomas
Reviews
Back to Black: Amy Winehouse biopic fails in its aspirations to focus on the music
By Rebecca Harrison
Reviews
The Teachers’ Lounge: the hunt for a bad apple leads to chaos in this jittery classroom thriller
By Catherine Wheatley
Reviews
Civil War: Alex Garland’s spectacle of violence is determined to throw the audience off balance
By Henry K Miller
News
Chantal Akerman film catalogue acquired by BFI Distribution
Chantal Akerman film catalogue acquired by BFI DistributionFrom the Sight and Sound archive
My father the hero: Víctor Erice’s El sur
By Mar Diestro-Dópido
Reviews
Yannick: a disgruntled heckler hijacks a play in Quentin Dupieux’s wry comedy
By John Bleasdale
Features
Classroom politics and the new grade of teacher movies
By Bruno Savill De Jong
5 things to watch
5 things to watch this weekend – 5 to 7 April
By Sam Wigley