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A swashbuckling adventure leads BFI Player's August line-up, alongside a stunning homegrown debut and suite of Sophia Loren classics.
Two siblings are taken into the care of Laura, a foster parent obsessed with bringing her deceased child back to life, in Danny and Michael Philippou’s impressive follow-up to 2022’s Talk to Me.
To celebrate Helen Mirren’s 80th birthday, Kate Stables hails her extraordinary 2006 metamorphosis into Queen Elizabeth II – “a human submarine with her emotions and personality largely submerged”.
Created for the Christopher Reeve version of Superman, this 20-foot-long painting creates a wondrous impression of the landscapes around the globe that Lois and Superman witness on their first magical ...
From the dystopian visions of Brazil and Twelve Monkeys to the surreal odyssey of The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam has spent half a century defying cinematic convention. In this wide-ranging interview, ...
Mentees will be paid the London Living Wage for work produced during the LFF and will have full press accreditation for the 12-day duration of the LFF (8-19 October 2025). Mentees from outside London ...
Here are 10 great films from directors who – whether voluntarily or not – were one and done.
Censors quibbled some of the adult language in the script, but otherwise passed this boundary-pushing drama starring Julie London and Anthony Steel as a married couple seeking out a fertility clinic.
Capturing late-90s Cardiff as a city of clubbing and hedonism, Human Traffic is a cult classic of the Cool Cymru era. Twenty-six years later, how have its locations changed?
The Spanish director’s ever-evolving approach to on-screen relationships has led him to The Other Way Around, an upside-down rom com that begins with a break-up.
The magic of Charles Laughton's Southern gothic one-off may be in Mitchum's willing flamboyance, argued David Thomson in our April 1999 issue ...
Across the world, directors have used the heatwave as a metaphor for urban disaffection, abandonment and unrest. Outside of cities, blistering heat feels like nature’s violent reckoning with those too ...