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Ryan Coogler gives a masterclass to BFI Film Academy

The director of films including Sinners, Black Panther and Fruitvale Station visited BFI Southbank to talk to a group of BFI Film Academy students and alumni about his career in filmmaking. The masterclass was hosted by film programmer Wema Mumma, Coogler talked about pivoting from sports and science to the...…

15th December 2025
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George Clooney on his life and career, including Batman & Robin…

With his new film, Jay Kelly – about a world-famous movie star looking back on his life and career – now on Netflix, George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to do the same. In a forthright interview covering everything from celebrity to social media to politics, Clooney talks about his rise...…

12th December 2025
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Paul Thomas Anderson on One Battle After Another

The star and director-producer-writer of one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year visit BFI IMAX to introduce a special screening of One Battle After Another. In One Battle After Another washed-up revolutionary Bob (DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter,...…

8th December 2025
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Edgar Wright talks to Mark Kermode about The Running Man | BFI IMAX Q&A

As Edgar Wright brings his high-octane, fast-paced and thrilling adaptation to the big screen, the director visited BFI IMAX to talk to Mark Kermode about putting Stephen King’s dystopian life-or-death gameshow thriller through its paces. Welcome to the BFI, bringing you exclusive Screen Talks and Filmmaker Q&As from London’s BFI...…

1st December 2025
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Richard Linklater interviewed by Ian Haydn Smith

Richard Linklater joins us to discuss his incredibly diverse body of work, after screening two films, Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague, at the 2025 BFI London film festival. Few filmmakers have been as prolific, prodigious and endlessly inventive as Richard Linklater. His work has ranged from playful engagement with Hollywood...…

22nd November 2025
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Daniel Day-Lewis and Ronan Day-Lewis interviewed by Mark Kermode

One of cinema’s most admired screen actors visits BFI Southbank to talk to Mark Kermode about his career. The ultimate actors’ actor, Daniel Day-Lewis has worked with some of the world’s finest filmmakers, amassing a body of films that is defined by a commitment to excellence. From his first screen...…

20th November 2025
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Yorgos Lanthimos interviewed by Jesse Armstrong

Writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos talks to Jesse Armstrong about his career, including Bugonia, which screened at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. Since his 2009 international breakthrough with Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos has cut one of the most distinctive paths in contemporary cinema. Initially associated with the critic-coined Greek Weird...…

14th November 2025
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Tessa Thompson interviewed by Edith Bowman

Actor Tessa Thompson talks to Edith Bowman about her career, including her new film, Hedda, which screened at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival. Equally at home in cutting-edge drama and comedy as she is big-budget blockbusters, Tessa Thompson is often the trump card in the cast of any film....…

6th November 2025
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Tim Burton on the 20th anniversary of Corpse Bride

Director and writer Tim Burton helps us celebrate Halloween by looking back on the making of his animated tale of an undead love story, 20 years old this October. Nervous about his forthcoming nuptials, especially after ruining the wedding rehearsal, bridegroom Victor Van Dort runs into the woods to practice...…

30th October 2025
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Inside the Archive: designing an archive for the 1980s and beyond

Ever wondered what the BFI National Archive looked like in the 1980s? As the archive celebrates its 90th anniversary, find out more and discover how, and why, the Archive established the John Paul Getty Jr Conservation Centre with this short Inside the Archive video essay. Video produced with the support...…

29th October 2025
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Tim Burton on animation | BFI in Conversation

As we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, we welcome BFI Fellow Tim Burton to talk about his films and passion for animation, looking back at his work to date and the animation that has inspired him. BFI…

27th October 2025
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Ridley Scott on the state of movies today | BFI in Conversation

Director Ridley Scott visits BFI Southbank to talk about his long career in film-making including titles such as Gladiator, Alien, Blade Runner and The Martian. Across a career spanning more than 60 years, Scott has directed a wide range of ambitious, hugely entertaining and technologically innovative features, as well as...…

16th October 2025
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Love, Sex, Religion, Death: The Complete Films of Terence Davies

The trailer for the BFI’s upcoming Terence Davies season, a complete retrospective of the director’s work that runs 20 October-30 November. Davies’ cinema is one of memory, longing and tragedy, profoundly personal but universal in its themes: the suffocation of love, the cruelty of faith, the temptations of the flesh...…

19th September 2025
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Steve Oram and the cast of Aaaaaaaah! | BFI Q&A

Writer-director Steve Oram, cast Sean Reynard and Holli Dempsey and producer Andy Starke visit BFI Southbank to talk about Oram’s directorial debut, a horror comedy in which people talk like apes. Debauchery, chaos and the jarringly mundane unfold in weird ways, and amid drab suburban contexts, in actor-comedian Steve Oram’s...…

29th August 2025
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Tarsem Singh on The Fall | BFI IMAX Q&A

Director Tarsem Singh visits the BFI IMAX to talk about The Fall, a fantasy drama in which a hospitalised stuntman befriends a young girl and tells an epic story of heroism and revenge. Filmed over 24 countries without a completed script and heavily improvised, this film is more than unique...…

21st August 2025
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Mark Gatiss and the cast and crew of Bookish | BFI Q&A

Mark Gatiss, star of the crime drama Bookish, visits BFI Southbank to talk about the show. Gatiss plays Gabriel Book, a bookshop owner and investigator, who works in tandem with his childhood best friend and wife Trottie (Polly Walker), Book and Trottie run his shop and mystery solving enterprise in...…

20th August 2025
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The making of the Film on Film Festival

With every film in its programme projected from a print, the BFI Film on Film Festival is truly one of a kind. In this discussion event, curators and technicians behind the festival explained how they brought the programme to life, screening formats from 8mm to 70mm – from an original...…

12th August 2025
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Daniel Craig in Conversation

The James Bond star talks to Mark Kermode about his career in acting, from a standout early role as Francis Bacon’s muse in Love is the Devil, to working with Spielberg on Road to Perdition, to the recent Knives Out murder mystery films, in which Craig plays the ebullient detective...…

23rd July 2025
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Inside the Archive: Star Wars in Technicolor | BFI

In our latest Inside the Archive video we go far, far away – all the way back to 1977 – to examine an original IB Technicolor dye-transfer print of Star Wars (Dir. George Lucas, 1977), held in the BFI National Archive’s collections. Join Kieron Webb (Head of Conservation) and James...…

12th June 2025
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