30 November 2023, LONDON. The BFI has made 10 new awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, supporting international opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. Financed...
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Even before the global success of Barbie, Greta Gerwig had established herself as a filmmaker with distinctive humour, an authentic voice and a unique and personal cinematic...
The director and stars of Rustin, a compelling portrait of an unsung hero of the American civil rights movement, talk to David Olusoga about their film. Bayard...
Choreographer Matthew Bourne (@matthewbourne13) and ballet dancer Ashley Shaw (@asharella14) visit the BFI Southbank to talk about the film that inspired Bourne’s adaptation, The Red Shoes. A...
Director Ella Glendining talks to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne about her documentary, a personal journey that highlights the importance of being seen....
Part of the enduring majesty of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s cinema comes from their ability to undercut the prim and proper sensibility of war-time filmmaking with...
The crew of Girl, a drama in which a young immigrant mother and her daughter attempt to forge a life in and around their Glasgow tower block...
NEW STUDY LAUNCHED BY THE BFI AND THE CREATIVE PEC REVEALS ADDITIONAL ECONOMIC VALUE THAT CINEMAS GENERATE FOR COMMUNITIES • Social value provided by cinemas to people...
The cast and creators of The Lazarus Project, including Paapa Essiedu, Caroline Quentin, Anjli Mohindra and writer Joe Barton, visit the BFI Southbank to talk about the...
MEMBERS OF THE JURY TILDA SWINTON, EDWARD ENNINFUL OBE, MARIE-LOUISE KHONDJI AND BFI CHIEF EXECUTIVE BEN ROBERTS, SELECTED THIS YEAR’S WINNERS: Ella Glendining, writer/director (director and cast...
How do you oversee and deliver a large-scale mass videotape digitisation? How do you select and curate the most ‘at risk’ videotapes from film archives around the...
Award-winning composer Jung Jae-il is has created some of South Korea’s most popular scores. He has worked on titles such as Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Broker, Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Squid...
Writer-directors Alfonso Cuarón (Roma, Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) and Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void, Love, Irreversible) talk about Cuarón’s 3D sci-fi...
Bella Ramsey, Jodie Whittaker and the crew behind Time, a BBC TV drama set in a womens’ prison, visit the BFI Southbank to talk about the show....
The 67th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express closed Sunday 15th October with the World Premiere of Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya’s THE KITCHEN,...
London – 25 October 2023. BFI Distribution announces today the forthcoming UK-wide theatrical release of GETTING IT BACK: THE STORY OF CYMANDE. The award-winning music documentary feature...
BFI Southbank today announces the programme for December 2023, which includes the conclusion of CINEMA UNBOUND: THE CREATIVE WORLDS OF POWELL + PRESSBURGER, a major BFI UK-wide...
London – 19 October 2023. BFI Distribution announces today the forthcoming UK-wide theatrical release of the new feature documentary WERNER HERZOG: RADICAL DREAMER (2022) directed by Thomas...
Lenny Henry, the creator and writer of Three Little Birds – a new series about Jamaican immigrants coming to Britain in the 1950s – visits the BFI...
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s films, though made in the 1940s and 1950s, are hugely influential to this day. Their unconventional style has spread far beyond film,...
The BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express today announces the winners of this year’s LFF Awards. The Competition sections are a celebration of the...
The legendary director behind classics such as Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and The Wolf of Wall Street talks to fellow filmmaker Edgar Wright about...
Release: 11/03/2023 Anna and Ryan have found true love. It’s been proven by a controversial new technology. There’s just one problem: Anna still isn’t sure. Then she...
Actor Brian Cox joins Mark Kermode at the BFI Southbank to discuss his long and varied career. One of the most gifted actors of his generation, Cox...
The stars of Attack the Block visit the BFI Southbank to talk about the sci-fi thriller, which made John Boyega a star. Joe Cornish’s 2011 sci-fi comedy...
Databank 25 September / 2023 Film Distributor Weeks on release Weekend Total Total Box Office 1 A Haunting In Venice Walt Disney 2 £1,472,237 £4,947,591 2 Expend4bles...
The 67th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express is thrilled to announce this year’s line-up of Screen Talks, in which audiences have the chance...
Writer-director Shane Meadows and producer Mark Herbert visit the BFI Southbank to talk about Dead Man’s Shoes, Meadows’s revenge thriller, which features a terrifying performance by Paddy...
London – Tuesday 19 September 2023: The BFI today announces £2.7m of National Lottery good cause funding to bring new audiences to UK cinemas with free screenings....
BFI Cinema Unbound: the Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger Comes to Big Screens UK-wide this Autumn
Clockwise from top left: BLACK NARCISSUS (1947);ITV Studios and Park Circus; THE RED SHOES (1948) Restoration credit UCLA Film & Television Archive in association with the BFI, The Film Foundation, ITV Global Entertainment and Park Circus; Portrait: Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell (photo Ronnie Pilgrim); A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946), ITV Studios Global Entertainment/Park Circus; I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! (1945), Restoration credit: BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation in association with ITV and Park Circus. All stills sourced from BFI National Archive.
Clockwise from top left: BLACK NARCISSUS (1947);ITV Studios and Park Circus; THE RED SHOES (1948) Restoration credit UCLA Film & Television Archive in association with the BFI, The Film Foundation, ITV Global Entertainment and Park Circus; Portrait: Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell (photo Ronnie Pilgrim); A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946), ITV Studios Global Entertainment/Park Circus; I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! (1945), Restoration credit: BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation in association with ITV and Park Circus. All stills sourced from BFI National Archive.
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Celebration of groundbreaking filmmaking duo in cinemas UK-wide from 16 October – 31 December 2023 PRESS RELEASE: 15 September 2023. CINEMA UNBOUND: THE CREATIVE WORLDS OF POWELL...
From the Woodfall films of the 1950s to Attack the Block, Top Boy and the rise and rise of Danny Dyer today, representations of working class masculinity...
BFI Southbank today announces the programme for late October and November 2023, including the start of CINEMA UNBOUND: THE CREATIVE WORLDS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER, a major...
An artist and her elderly mother (both played by Tilda Swinton) confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by...
Following success on previous Disney productions over the past seven years, close to 200 BFI Film Academy Trainees have now had paid placements on UK productions. Here...
Both a comment on the terrors of contemporary America and homage to the horror films of Roger Corman, TARGETS is a thrilling crime drama that launched the...
As a storm rages outside, Lord Byron and his guests conjure up their deepest fears by means of a séance in Ken Russell’s wild tale of the...
The 67th BFI London Film Festival (LFF) in partnership with American Express today announces the full programme line-up, which will be presented in cinemas and online, across...
The director, producer and cast of Scrapper – a gorgeous, colourful heart-warming gem – visit the BFI Southbank. The debut feature of Charlotte Regan, best known for...
LONDON, Tuesday 29th August. The 67th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express is delighted to announce the line-up and competition categories for this year’s...
