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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.
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 ...
A brace of riveting medical stories and a programme of archive films about life in rural Greece made for rich pickings at Thessaloniki’s annual documentary celebration.
On the eve of our 2002 Greatest Films of All Time poll, this feature argued the merits of Muriel’s Wedding, whose funniness and femininity balance a darker underside.
Irish tragicomedy, a story of sex and publishing, and a Hitchcock classic on TV. What are you watching this weekend?
Special guests in venue this month include Tom Cruise, filmmaker Ben Rivers, editor and sound designer Walter Murch, and many more.
A celebration of 25 years of In the Mood for Love, with new interviews from Wong Kar Wai, Maggie Cheung, William Chang, Christopher Doyle and more, and a fresh reflection on the film by Jessica Kiang ...
Tilda Swinton sings through an apocalypse, there’s a tale of murder and mushrooms in rural France, and we have two tales of terror on the tarmac. What are you watching this weekend?
With two new John Lennon documentaries out this spring, and news filtering out about Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles biopics, we assess the best of the Fab Four on film.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s debut fiction feature – following a series of intense political documentaries – is a daring but slow-paced end-of-the-world musical, buoyed by spirited lead performances from ...
Director Darren Thornton’s charming remake of Gianni Di Gregorio’s Italian comedy Mid-August Lunch (2008) brings the story to Ireland, where the people-pleasing debut novelist Edward is left to ...
Top 50 published by industry analysts Moving Image offers a state-of-the-nation snapshot of who’s hot and what’s interesting in the thriving corporate film sector. BFI curators Patrick Russell and ...