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Then and now
Beautiful Thing: finding the Thamesmead locations for the classic 90s gay romance
Romance blossoms during a hot summer in south London in the 1996 film Beautiful Thing, filmed on some of the same locations as A Clockwork Orange. How do they look today?
By Adam Scovell
Beautiful Thing: finding the Thamesmead locations for the classic 90s gay romance
Festivals
Trans films in the spotlight as BFI Flare returns
By Ben Walters
Where to begin
Where to begin with Warwick Thornton
By Stephen Morgan
Features
The Taviani brothers on Bicycle Thieves: “It was like a course in directing”
By Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani
Features
After the end? Exploring the BFI National Archive in the wake of Covid-19
By Dr Kelechi Anucha
From the Sight and Sound archive
“It is about moments of connecting and not connecting”: Kelly Reichardt on Certain Women
By So Mayer
Festivals
What to watch at Kinoteka Polish Film Festival 2024
By Alex Ramon
From the Sight and Sound archive
City of God: angels with dirty faces
By Ismail Xavier
Then and now
Carry On Regenerating: how locations from Britain’s sauciest series have changed since
By Adam Scovell
From the Sight and Sound archive
Out of oblivion: Alice Guy-Blaché
By Francis Lacassin
Features
What to see at BFI Future Film Festival 2024: the programmers’ picks
By Rosie Bailey, Bethan Celeste Davies and others
From the Sight and Sound archive
The eyes of Texas: Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven
By Richard Combs
Then and now
Mind the doors! In search of the locations for the underground horror Death Line
By Adam Scovell
Where to begin
Where to begin with Dorothy Arzner
By Caroline Cassin
Where to begin
Where to begin with the Taviani brothers
By Pasquale Iannone
Bookends
Sidney Lumet’s first and last films: 12 Angry Men and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
By Brogan Morris
From the Sight and Sound archive
Out of the shadows: Sergei Parajanov
By Ian Christie
The NHS at 75
How a 1965 documentary captured changing ideas about mental health
By Rebecca Vick
Features
EVCOM awards 2023 and the year in communications filmmaking
By Patrick Russell
Features
Spirited away: a tour of Ghibli Park with Miyazaki Goro
By Andrew Osmond
Features
The Red Shoes: Moira Shearer’s ballet shoes and other artefacts from the making of Powell and Pressburger’s classic
By Claire Smith