“Can you even be a cowboy, without cows?” demands Dusty’s dogged nine-year-old daughter Callie-Rose, unwittingly summarising her father’s existential dilemma. Because the hero of this small, ...

As Moulin Rouge! turns 25 and with Strictly Ballroom returning to cinemas, we plunge into the giddying, maximalist cinema of Baz Luhrmann and his tales of glamour, showmanship and doomed love.

The martial arts master’s latest is predictably strong on action, but the constant chases and duels faced by its sword-wielding bounty hunter leave little room for development of the film’s numerous ...

François Ozon has brought Albert Camus’s classic existentialist novel The Stranger to the screen in brooding, Bressonian black-and-white. He tells us about drawing out the sensual elements of the ...

A kaleidoscopic tribute to oneiric cinema, Gerald Fox’s Kinaesthesia reimagines the film-history documentary as a drifting dream, guided by the words and ideas of his former teacher, the great ...

These sumptuous sketches by the Chilean-born British designer Olga Lehmann were created for the 1977 version of The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Richard Chamberlain, Jenny Agutter and Patrick ...

Mad Max, The Babadook, The Cars That Ate Paris... these first-time filmmakers showed us how to make a killer calling-card.

Petzoldian alienation blends with a strangely restorative world view in the story of Laura (Paula Beer), a woman taken in by a family who seem to be keeping a tragic secret.

The first awards from the 2026 to 2029 BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund include multi-year awards for exhibitors, festivals, specialist audience organisations, as well as shorter-term ...

Kawamura Genki’s adaptation of The Exit 8 walking simulator game traps a man in the corridors of a Japanese metro station, using endless repetition to terrifying effect.

This week learn more about the process of collecting born-digital work and how we have been working to improve it.

Scrapper director Charlotte Regan joined a BFI Film Academy masterclass with production designer Amy Maguire and cinematographer Chris Sabogal to discuss their new BBC crime show Mint and their ...