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Director Mike Flanagan has proved himself to be King’s most sympathetic interpreter on film with The Life of Chuck, the story of a man’s life in three acts, told backwards.
The British director returns to the lo-fi stylings of his early work with a multiverse sci-fi starring four characters in search of a narrative form.
Ten titles showcasing bold, inventive and distinctive filmmaking compete for Best Film at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival Awards.
Mike Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation eschews horror for a life-affirming take on the end of the world. Stars Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor spoke to us about their favourite King ...
Writer-director Anthony Schatteman’s film about a blossoming romance between two Belgian teenage boys has few surprises, but there’s something to admire in its relentless positivity.
From Stalker to Hard to Be a God: as a wild Czech New Wave sci-fi farce surfaces on Blu-ray, we survey the unhinged dystopias and mind-bending metaphysics of the best science fiction films from ...
This week we go back in time to the 1950s and 60s to explore the Archive's pioneering past and look ahead to Heritage Open Day.
Packed with notes, sketches and Polaroids, this shooting script for Sally Potter’s film of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando illustrates the complexity of one of cinema’s undersung roles: the script supervisor ...
Writer-director Hikari returns to the BFI London Film Festival with her second feature as American Express Gala, hosted at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall with screenings around the UK.
A young couple move to the countryside and are overcome by a magnet-like attraction that threatens to fuse their bodies together permanently in Michael Shanks’s gruesome yarn.
A camel sits among the punters in a small London cinema in these unique promotional photos from 1962 – all intended to drum up excitement for the upcoming release of David Lean’s desert epic Lawrence ...
During his final preparations for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, festival director Paul Ridd joined us to talk about his new guiding principles for the programme and makes some ...