The Fellowship of the Ring may be a huge success for Peter Jackson, but what would Tolkien have thought of it, asked this feature from our February 2002 issue.

As the 28 Years Later saga mutates once more, director Nia DaCosta brings sharp humour and a wild new cult of villains to the post‑apocalyptic chaos. She discusses stepping into the franchise, ...

Taking inspiration from W.E.B. Du Bois’s unfinished work Encyclopedia Africana, Kahlil Joseph adapts his video installation into a radical essayistic film that unfolds like a 24-hour news cycle.

This 1920s newsreel footage captures the action on the pitch at Old Trafford nearly 100 years ago, even if the heavy camera and expense of film stock made it impossible to show all of the goals.

This limited engagement at BFI IMAX features a tailored programme of four titles selected from a longer list of 13 ’Love Stories’ curated by Fennell especially for the BFI, of ...

In the late 2000s and again during the pandemic era, David Lynch posted daily weather reports from his home in Los Angeles, offering blue skies, golden sunshine, and a glimpse of the light behind his ...

In November 2025, we ran a short session in collaboration with Youth Beyond Borders ( YBB ), a social enterprise dedicated to fostering connections and mutual understanding between young creative ...

The German director, who died aged 83 on 17 December 2025, was best known for his bold contributions to queer cinema. In 1990, Mark Nash explored how von Praunheim’s films “activate and mobilise” ...

Five ‘Lynchian’ films that pre-date Lynch’s work, and five modern films that share fascinating connections with his wild at heart and weird on top world.

The Turin Horse was the last testament of the legendarily uncompromising Béla Tarr. In 2012, he discussed retirement, Nietzsche and wanting to change society.

Jonathan Romney pays tribute to the Hungarian auteur whose uncompromising vision reshaped the possibilities of cinematic time and space, most famously in his seven-hour magnum opus Sátántangó.

This 1947 budget sheet for Black Narcissus shows exactly where the money went on Powell and Pressburger’s classic tale of nuns in the Himalayas.