Ashley Walters’ BFI-backed directorial debut is among the raft of UK world premieres announced for this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.

Introducing Jack Warner as hero copper PC Dixon, The Blue Lamp was the biggest British film of 1950. Did it help that this original poster moves the focus away from law and order to the criminal ...

Learn more about preparations for a season of big screen classics and get a closer look at a newly donated collection of nitrate film.

One hundred years after the birth of television in Britain, Magic Rays of Light author John Wyver looks back at the rapid development of the new medium during the 1930s – a lost era that saw a huge ...

Philippa Lowthorne's shrewd adaptation of Helen Macdonald's memoir lacks some nuance, but is a worthy entry into the canon of thorny animal therapy films.

As the 28 Years Later saga mutates once more, director Nia DaCosta brings sharp humour and a wild new cult of villains to the post‑apocalyptic chaos. She discusses stepping into the franchise, ...

Nia DaCosta picks up where Danny Boyle left off for a mixed bag of macabre excess that toys with the horror of Naff Britannia.

The Fellowship of the Ring may be a huge success for Peter Jackson, but what would Tolkien have thought of it, asked this feature from our February 2002 issue.

Hikari’s film about an unsuccessful actor in Japan who finds work at a rental agency playing stand-in friends and family members feels underdeveloped, but is saved by its thoughtful performances.

This limited engagement at BFI IMAX features a tailored programme of four titles selected from a longer list of 13 ’Love Stories’ curated by Fennell especially for the BFI, of ...

Richard Linklater turns cinephile devotion into buoyant biography in Nouvelle Vague, his playful homage to Jean-Luc Godard. Ahead of its UK release, we revisit 10 films that mythologise real-life ...

Taking inspiration from W.E.B. Du Bois’s unfinished work Encyclopedia Africana, Kahlil Joseph adapts his video installation into a radical essayistic film that unfolds like a 24-hour news cycle.