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...
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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...
This BFI Film Academy Lab introduces you to the role of a producer. Producers play a crucial part in every film and TV project, being at the...
Released on limited-edition BFI Blu-ray and DVD (Dual Format Edition) on Monday 6 November, 23 SECONDS TO ETERNITY will take viewers on a film journey through the...
GOTHIC A film by Ken Russell Starring Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, Myriam Cyr, Timothy Spall BFI Blu-ray release on 18 September 2023 Directed by cult...
Veteran Chicago cop Jim Brannigan is sent to London to escort Ben Larkin, a notorious gangster, back home – but when things don’t go to plan, Brannigan...
LONDON – 17 August, 2023: The 67th BFI London Film Festival (4-15 October) in partnership with American Express is thrilled to announce that this year’s Closing Night...
The 67th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express is delighted to announce that this year’s American Express Gala will be ONE LIFE directed by...
The 67th BFI London Film Festival (4-15 October) in partnership with American Express is excited to announce that this year’s Opening Night Gala will be SALTBURN, directed,...
An anniversary season, taking place at BFI Southbank in September, that celebrates Yasujirō Ozu and explores the filmmaker’s dissection of family life. ‘I tried to represent the...
New trailer for Love Life / in UK/Ireland cinemas 15 September 2023, on BFI Player 6 November
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From the Cannes award-winning director of Harmonium and Goodbye Summer, Kôji Fukada’s new family drama, Love Life, is a beguiling, beautifully paced portrait of a family navigating...
LONDON – Tuesday 25 July 2023. The BFI has made a further nine awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, boosting global opportunities for the UK’s independent...
One of the key contributors to the BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped initiative, Kaleidoscope, the classic TV archive based in Birmingham, returns to BFI Southbank on 5 August...
Over the course of the last century, The Walt Disney Company has had a profound influence upon the film world. What were the turning points in the...
BFI Southbank today announces the programme for August 2023, including REBEL CINEMA: OUSMANE SEMBÈNE AT 100, a rare opportunity to explore the rich filmography of a giant...
BFI Blu-ray, iTunes and Amazon Prime release on 26 June 2023 Never before released in the UK, THE DRIVER’S SEAT (aka IDENTIKIT) remains the most obscure, bizarre...
BFI Limited Edition Blu-ray, iTunes and Amazon Prime release on 19 June 2023 Sonic Cinema at BFI Southbank presents preview screening + Q&A on 15 June Initially...
Monday 22 May 2023, London. BFI Southbank today announce the programme for July 2023, beginning with a major new season of screenings, talks, special events and singalongs...
LONDON – Tuesday 9 May 2023. The GREAT8 showcase which presents new UK feature films from some of the UK’s most exciting first and second-time filmmakers to...
The BFI announces its latest round of diverse and distinct physical home entertainment presentations, for release during July, August and September 2023. Continuing with UHD releases, the...
La Règle Du Jeu A film by Jean Renoir BFI Blu-ray, iTunes and Amazon Prime release of 4K restoration on 29 May 2023 Jean Renoir’s 1938 film...
The first screenings of highly flammable nitrate prints in the UK in more than 10 years, including the oldest film print ever projected to UK audiences, a...
LONDON – Wednesday 19 April 2023: The BFI announces £9.6m of National Lottery funding over three years to support skills development and training across the UK. As...
Tuesday 18 April 2023, London. BFI Southbank today announce the programme for June 2023, beginning with a season dedicated to the tough-talking, single-minded and impeccably dressed women...
London – 18 April 2023. Following its world premiere at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival, BFI Distribution announces the release of the inspirational documentary NAME ME...
London – Thursday 13 April 2023: The BFI today publishes details of the first awards from the new BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund. A total of...
Monday 3 April 2023, London. Muriel Box remains Britain’s most prolific female director and was also the first woman to win an Oscar for best original screenplay...
From TV soaps Albion Market and Family Pride to children’s TV programmes Metal Mickey and Animal Kwackers, vintage interviews with Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Robin Williams and...
