As the controversial debut film by British auteur Thomas Clay comes to BFI Player, we look back on the outrage it caused in 2005, the method behind the film‘s upsetting impact, and its parallels with ...

Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.

Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone’s comic talents are lost to one-dimensional roles in a misguided pandemic satire filled with dated jokes and disingenuous political messaging.

The German director’s gorgeous, drifting study of a woman taken in by a stranger after a car crash has faint echos of Vertigo, but is more concerned with unnerving family dynamics than romance.

In 1951, the Swedish actress and soon-to-be groundbreaking director – who was born 100 years ago this May – wrote about the craft of film acting, and especially its relationship to stage acting.

While male auteurs Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien were feted internationally, a closer look at Taiwan’s 1980s new wave reveals the interconnectedness and shared desires of many less celebrated ...

As her latest film Magic Farm is released in cinemas, our new series on peak performances looks at Chloë Sevigny’s nervily vigilant partygoer in Whit Stillman’s razor-sharp comedy about the New York ...

Capturing a dreamlike night working at the Portobello Hotel, the newly restored Nightshift reveals the remarkable vision of British filmmaker Robina Rose, who died in January, and her unique ...

The Papacy has also figured in numerous fictional films, including crime dramas (The Godfather Part III, 1990), thrillers (Angels & Demons, 2009), horrors (The Pope’s Exorcist, 2023) and numerous ...

Before Lost in Translation there was Tokyo Pop, which – after decades in rights limbo – is now restored and ripe for reappraisal. We speak to director Fran Rubel Kuzui (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) about ...

As indie gem Good One wanders into cinemas – right in the middle of National Walking Month – we hit the trail in search of 10 other films that capture the joy (and terror) of hiking.

A world exclusive interview with Tom Cruise Inside: The latest edition of Black Film Bulletin, Wes Anderson on The Phoenician Scheme, The career of Mai Zetterling, the legacy of the Film Society, arch ...