Ahead of the release on Blu-ray and 4K UHD of Guillermo del Toro’s haunting debut feature Cronos, we delve into the rich history of Mexican horror – a world of gothic mystery, allegory and gonzo ...

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson strike up a risky, BDSM-charged office affair in Halina Reijn’s playful drama, Babygirl. Here the director talks about toying with audience expectations of an ...

The Russian filmmaker talks to us about the mastery and folly of humankind’s relationship with rock, the “emotional depression of boring architecture”, and his take on Megalopolis.

Venue hire The BFI’s central London venues can be hired for screenings, meetings, conferences and events. Our venues include state-of-the-art cinema projection, unrivalled technical presentation and a ...

The festival for aspiring filmmakers aged 16 to 25 will be taking place in-venue at BFI Southbank, online globally for free, and in cinemas UK-wide from 20 February to 6 March.

A Florida orange hangs sweetly from its tree: the camera pans left, and it becomes clear that the person gazing at it is horizontal, lying on the grass below. Assuming this person’s point of view, ...

As Richard Linklater’s beloved indie romance turns 30, we tread the streets of Vienna to find the record shop, that bridge and other locations where Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy once walked.

Jesse Eisenberg’s story of two cousins who go on a ‘Holocaust tour’ doesn’t quite work as a road-trip movie, but the electric pairing of Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin brings wit and sensitivity to the ...

Long fêted for her ability to steal scenes from co-stars, even in her fleeting early roles, Viola Davis has gone on to establish herself as one of the finest actors of her generation. Here she speaks ...

Adapted from the real-life story of Danish serial killer Dagmar Overbye, Magnus von Horn’s gothic fairytale is set in post-World War I Copenhagen, but its horrifying reality does not feel so far from ...

Each December, we rifle through the packed festive telly schedules and try our best not to pick the same old chestnuts. You know the things we mean. They tend to feature Victorian misers, wonderful ...

British filmmakers have been producing Christmas pictures for more than 125 years, dating back to G.A. Smith’s Santa Claus in 1898. In 1901 came R.W. Paul’s Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost (1901), the ...