The grotesque pantomime killings of Art the Clown reach new extremes with this gory Christmas addition to the Terrifier franchise.
Lovestruck Agnes is relentlessly reincarnated as Georgian aristocrat, Victorian teacher and fan of an 80s pop star as she pursues her ‘true love’ through time in Alice Lowe’s macabre comedy subversion ...
An amnesiac pieces together fragments of his life and lost love in Weightless. Italian director Sara Fgaier tells us about her ambitious use of archive footage to evoke a passing era.
Having broken through with a small role as one of the Manson family in Quentin Tarantino’s Once upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019), Mikey Madison has a rising-star status akin to that of her young ...
Cinema founded itself in documentary, but how did the form develop an alternative visual language to that of the fiction film? Is it, as pioneer Joris Ivens claimed, “a creative no-man’s land”? From ...
Steven Eastwood and Georgia Bradburn of the Neurocultures Collective tell us about their bold experiments with an ’autistic camera’ on The Stimming Pool, and why they resisted explaining autistic ...
Support the BFI and see the world premiere of Blitz as it opens the festival on the evening of Wednesday 9 October 2024. We are excited to announce that you can secure advance tickets, before they go ...
Burke makes a rare screen appearance in Blitz as “lovely and horrible” gang-leader Beryl. She discusses being directed by McQueen, her disinterest in awards, and being drawn to nastiness.
How much, who and what the BFI invested National Lottery funding in between April 2018 to March 2019. BFI CEO Ben Roberts discusses films and filmmakers we supported in 2018/19 with National Lottery ...
In the late 1940s and 50s, comedy horror was dominated by a series of films bringing Universal’s top-billing comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into corny collision with various old-school ...
Short films provide a vital training ground for filmmakers, meaning funds and programmes supporting short-form cinema must strive to ensure their help has far-reaching impact.
Catherine Breillat’s Romance confronts sexual taboos and desire, explains Leslie Felperin, while Linda Ruth Williams interviews the director. From our October 1999 issue.