Irish tragicomedy, a story of sex and publishing, and a Hitchcock classic on TV. What are you watching this weekend?
A celebration of 25 years of In the Mood for Love, with new interviews from Wong Kar Wai, Maggie Cheung, William Chang, Christopher Doyle and more, and a fresh reflection on the film by Jessica Kiang ...
Michel Hazanavicius’s adaptation of Jean-Claude Grumberg’s 2019 Holocaust novel has elegant animation to match its fairytale tone, but ultimately feels like two stories inelegantly stuck together.
Director Darren Thornton’s charming remake of Gianni Di Gregorio’s Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch (2008) brings the story to Ireland, where the people-pleasing debut novelist Edward is left to ...
On the eve of our 2002 Greatest Films of All Time poll, this feature argued the merits of Muriel’s Wedding, whose funniness and femininity balance a darker underside.
With two new John Lennon documentaries out this spring, and news filtering out about Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles biopics, we assess the best of the Fab Four on film.
Audiences attending screenings and events at BFI Southbank increased by 6%, with 50% of these audiences new to BFI Flare.
Top 50 published by industry analysts Moving Image offers a state-of-the-nation snapshot of who’s hot and what’s interesting in the thriving corporate film sector. BFI curators Patrick Russell and ...
Irish director Darren Thornton tells us about his new adaptation of the Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch, which sees a novelist grappling with his ageing mother and three other eccentric elderly mums.
The class of 1975 includes a Kubrick masterpiece, the first feature by a Black British director, and the Knights Who Say ‘Ni!’ ...
Tilda Swinton sings through an apocalypse, there’s a tale of murder and mushrooms in rural France, and we have two tales of terror on the tarmac. What are you watching this weekend?
Joshua Oppenheimer’s debut fiction feature – following a series of intense political documentaries – is a daring but slow-paced end-of-the-world musical, buoyed by spirited lead performances from ...