After years of run-ins with the authorities, the Iranian director was forced to direct his most recent film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, remotely and in secret. But the methods are at odds with the ...

Released in cinemas on 22 August and on Blu-ray/CD and vinyl on 5 September, the centenary celebration edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s iconic silent film will be launched at BFI Southbank with a Q&A ...

Director Rian Johnson’s third instalment of the Netflix Knives Out series is the LFF Opening Night Gala, hosted at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall with screenings around the UK.

When the BFI announced the establishment of the National Film Library (now the BFI National Archive, which turns 90 this year), its first curator, Ernest Lindgren, outlined the need for its existence.

The agreement will bring the UK and France’s screen industries closer together, benefiting industries, culture and audiences in both countries.

Actor Fiona Shaw and director Rebecca Lenkiewicz go behind the scenes on their humid summer drama Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s acclaimed novel about a mother-daughter relationship fraying ...

The Spanish director Jonás Trueba finds humour in the ephemerality of romance with the story of a longterm couple who are planning a big party to celebrate their break-up.

Influential film theorist and filmmaker Peter Wollen was a compulsive list-maker. His notebook contains fascinating lists on many themes, including this rundown of ’diabolical doctors’.

A reel-by-reel dovetailing of two films, one from Fascist Italy and the other from Soviet Russia, Record of War shows the Italian invasion of Ethiopia from radically opposed viewpoints. From our June ...

With The Gleaners and I, Agnès Varda was liberated by her digital camera to produce a more intimate form of documentary essay, marked by a deft political approach and a remarkable lightness of touch.

Unravelling the myth and mayhem of Apocalypse Now’s troubled shoot, Hearts of Darkness is the ’making of’ movie to end them all. As it returns to cinemas in a new restoration, co-director Fax Bahr ...

Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw plays a mother and daughter at odds under the Spanish sun in the new film of Deborah Levy’s novel Hot Milk. To greet its cinema release, we recommend 10 more films exploring ...