This week we go back in time to the 1950s and 60s to explore the Archive's pioneering past and look ahead to Heritage Open Day.

Mike Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation eschews horror for a life-affirming take on the end of the world. Stars Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor spoke to us about their favourite King ...

Packed with notes, sketches and Polaroids, this shooting script for Sally Potter’s film of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando illustrates the complexity of one of cinema’s undersung roles: the script supervisor ...

From Stalker to Hard to Be a God: as a wild Czech New Wave sci-fi farce surfaces on Blu-ray, we survey the unhinged dystopias and mind-bending metaphysics of the best science fiction films from ...

Using a DV camera and successive iPhones, Mapplebeck threads together 20 years of her and her son’s lives with humour, warmth and honesty.

The BFI Executive Board balances successful, leading figures from the world of film and moving image culture with senior private sector executives who bring considerable managerial and commercial ...

A young couple move to the countryside and are overcome by a magnet-like attraction that threatens to fuse their bodies together permanently in Michael Shanks’s gruesome yarn.

Early action films, such as the swashbucklers of Douglas Fairbanks, introduced audiences to chase sequences, protagonists in peril and literal cliffhangers and would have a great influence on ...

Writer-director Hikari returns to the BFI London Film Festival with her second feature as American Express Gala, hosted at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall with screenings around the UK.

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Director Shoshannah Stern’s documentary about Marlee Matlin, the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, offers thought-provoking insights into the history of disability inclusion (and exclusion) in America ...

British lives, caught on film and collected online. Discover previously unseen film capturing 120 years of Britain on film.