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 ...
One 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.
Audiences attending screenings and events at BFI Southbank increased by 6%, with 50% of these audiences new to BFI Flare.
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.
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 ...
The class of 1975 includes a Kubrick masterpiece, the first feature by a Black British director, and the Knights Who Say ‘Ni!’ ...
As a new exhibition offers a unique glimpse at the craft that goes into their hallucinatory stop-motion animations, we visit the Quay brothers at their studio.
New York photographer Joel Meyerowitz and artist Maggie Barrett take stock of their 30-year marriage, contemplating mortality, equality and how to move forward together, in this richly artful ...
The films of the French New Wave director turn Paris into a board game where mystery and conspiracy permeate the boulevards. How did his locations look today?
Shot in cool black and white, Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios’s depiction of an intense New York restaurant handles the stories of undocumented workers with care.
The first feature from The Neurocultures Collective doesn’t just challenge neurodiverse stereotypes, it presents a manifesto for a new kind of cinematic language.