To play or not to play? This toy theatre was produced to help publicise Laurence Olivier’s Oscar-winning version of Hamlet. Ian McKellen remembers getting one for Christmas.

Funding has been awarded to Creative Diversity Network and Design Otherwise CIC to strengthen equity, diversity and inclusion in UK film production, by addressing longstanding data collection ...

The Peak District plays the Lake District in Jorge Grau’s cult 1970s zombie horror film The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue. As the film comes to BFI Player, we went walking in search of its ...

Ninety years after his birth, and as a season of his films begins at the ICA, we suggest a beginner’s path through one of the heavyweights of European arthouse cinema: Greek master Theo Angelopoulos.

American producers the Danziger brothers established a hive of brisk, low-budget genre movies and cult TV in 1950s Britain. Son of a Stranger was a crime melodrama that tapped into the current vogue ...

Terence Davies’s sumptuous story of New York high society returns to UK cinemas this week. In our October 2000 issue, Philip Horne explored what made the film “an unpredictable, unformulaic success”.

Together with his long-term partner Flo Jacobs, Ken emerged as a towering figure of the post-war avant-garde, whose work straddled politics, play and illusions while pushing beyond the traditional ...

Vesuvius tremors, tomb raiders and patient Neapolitan Fire Brigade workers all have a part to play in Gianfranco Rosi’s poetic meditation on the fragile nature of Naples.

Adapted from the acclaimed memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, Stewart’s directorial debut will be in UK and Irish cinemas from 6 February 2026.

Explore how the archive is becoming more environmentally friendly and how we're streamlining the way we collect online moving image material ...

The project rewrote the story of early film, revealing a thriving early 20th century industry of local, non-fiction filmmaking. Mitchell and Kenyon toured northern and central England, Scotland, ...

As our celebration of Terence Davies begins, we map a beginner’s path through Davies’s sublime cinema of music, memory and desire.