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 ...

Eisenstein’s debut feature, the labour drama Strike, which was released at the start of the year, well deserves a place on this list. However, 1925 was also the year that he directed the monumental ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Although most celebrated for his civil rights era dramas, a younger generation of viewers first discovered Sidney Poitier via late-career video-shop favourites like Sneakers and Deadly Pursuit, which ...

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 ...

Film Forever was the BFI’s plan for 2012 to 2017. Film Forever covered all BFI activity and was funded by Grant in Aid from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and a share of National Lottery ...