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Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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The long weekend for cinephiles: highlights from Cinema Rediscovered 2025
From a Kurosawa-style epic of towering scale to a 1960s geisha drama, Christina Newland finds Bristol’s annual feast of archive cinema as alluring as ever.
By Christina Newland
BFI NETWORK alumni at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025
BFI NETWORK alumni at Edinburgh International Film Festival 202510 great films about hospitals
By Georgina Guthrie
“It’s no good showing things as they are – people wouldn’t believe them”: Alfred Hitchcock on To Catch a Thief
By Catherine de la Roche
Savages: eco stop-motion captures the vitality of the Borneo forest
By Nick Bradshaw
Dreams (Sex Love) second look review: vividly captures the dizzying highs and lows of first love
By Joseph Fahim
Late Shift: strained workplace drama is carried by Leonie Benesch as a dangerously overworked nurse
By Philip Concannon
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The director of Lollipop, along with cast members Posy Sterling, Idil Ahmed and TerriAnn Cousins, visit BFI Southbank to talk about Hudson's debut, a raw and urgent drama about one desperate mother’s relentless fight for justice against a broken system.
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