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The American director goes behind the scenes of Breathless’ historic production for a film that embraces Jean-Luc Godard’s cinephile passion and formal imagination.
From Harry Lighton to Akinola Davies, a number of UK filmmakers making a splash with their debut features at this year’s Cannes are alumni of BFI NETWORK.
In what is probably his final outing as Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise squares up against AI in a series of spectacular set-pieces in the sky and sea.
Denzel Washington’s timeless charisma propels this exciting but narratively uneven reimagining of an Akira Kurosawa classic.
A father in search of his lost daughter enters a world of illegal desert raves in the Spanish director’s teeth-rattling sensorial experiment.
A young woman struggles to conceal the depth of her loss when her lover-in-secret suddenly dies in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s assured feature.
The Brazilian director’s stellar filmmaking and sharp storytelling make this portrait of life under dictatorship as politically incisive as it is entertaining.
As Slade in Flame arrives on disc, we present a mixtape of other cult classics of the British pop movie, from Cracked Actor to 24 Hour Party People.
As the controversial debut film by British auteur Thomas Clay comes to BFI Player, we look back on the outrage it caused in 2005, the method behind the film‘s upsetting impact, and its parallels with ...
Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.
Inspired by a lunchtime pizza, Bandai Namco’s bright yellow mascot has endured remarkably since he first started chomping 45 years ago. From Saturday morning cartoons to cereal, pop songs to pyjamas, ...
The German director’s gorgeous, drifting study of a woman taken in by a stranger after a car crash has faint echos of Vertigo, but is more concerned with unnerving family dynamics than romance.