The glitzier details of Irish author Edna O’Brien’s life are given more space than her work in Sinéad O’Shea’s new documentary. But with anecdotes like these, how could you resist?

The festival opens with a glorious dye-transfer original British release print of Star Wars, and will close with a pristine 35mm print of the original US pilot episode of Twin Peaks, screening for the ...

The Oscar-winning composer behind Black Panther and Oppenheimer talks about bringing the blues to work on director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.

Filmmakers from Martin Scorsese to, soon, Terrence Malick have attempted their own cinematic versions of the life of Christ. How might the version Carl Theodor Dreyer wrote but never made have ...

BFI’s collection of Victorian 68mm film – the “IMAX of their day” – afforded protected status as part of a collection of 300 titles that will be added to UNESCO’s register.

The fund is open to organisations to deliver creative project development labs across the UK.

The first UK production by the famed Hungarian producer-director Alexander Korda, the Leslie Howard love-triangle comedy Service for Ladies added a touch of class to the 1930s ’quota quickie’ assembly ...

As Ryan Coogler’s Sinners - in which Michael B. Jordan does double duty in two lead roles – hits cinemas, we look back at the rich history of dual performances.

The report by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee suggests measures to revitalise domestic production of culturally significant British film and television programmes. A new report by the Culture, ...

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Set in a lonely house on a Scottish clifftop, the windswept Tom Conti thriller Eclipse has returned from 50 years of obscurity. It now looks like a forerunner of Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men.