Jordan, Caton and Coogler introduce Sinners at the BFI IMAX
With Sinners director-writer Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan reunite for a genre-bending take…
With Sinners director-writer Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan reunite for a genre-bending take…
Director-Writer-Producer Ryan Coogler takes us behind the scenes of Sinners…
The Chronology of Water — a raw journey of identity, resilience and the power of storytelling…
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...…
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...…
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,...…
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...…
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...…
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...…
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...…
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....…
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...…
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...…
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…
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...…
Director Linus O’Brien, composer Richard Hartley, actor Belinda Sinclair and costume designer Sue Blane visit BFI Southbank to talk about a documentary about the creation of The Rocky Horror Show and its enduring legacy. BFI…
Cillian Murphy, director Tim Mielants, actors Tracey Ullman and Jay Lycurgo and writer Max Porter visit BFI Southbank to talk about Steve, a story set in a reform school for boys in the 90s. Set in the mid-90s, Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter’s Sunday Times bestseller Shy. The...…
Thanks to National Lottery funding, the BFI Short Form Animation Fund helps support cutting-edge work by a wide range of animators and makers across the UK. BFI…
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...…
Succession showrunner Jesse Armstrong talks to David Mitchell, Robert Webb and the cast and crew of their new series, Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping at the BFI Southbank. Mitchell and Webb are back! The legendary duo return to Channel 4 in a brand-new sketch show, an innovative merging of...…
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...…
Big things have small beginnings. Ridley Scott is a titan of filmmaking and worldbuilding. See his cinematic visions back on the big screen with our career retrospective, screening at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX from Sep-Oct. BFI…
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...…
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...…
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...…
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...…
Kyle MacLachlan, speaking to BFI CEO Ben Roberts after the UK’s first ever screening of a 35mm print of the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, talks about working with David Lynch on the legendary series. ‘She’s dead! Wrapped in plastic.’ These words, spoken by David Lynch regular Jack Nance, sparked...…
LucasFilm President Kathleen Kennedy visits BFI Southbank to introduce a screening of George Lucas’ galaxy-shaking space fantasy, from a glorious original 1977 dye transfer IB Technicolor British release print. A long time ago, before it conquered the galaxy, captivated countless imaginations and forever shifted popular culture, George Lucas’ phenomenon began...…
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...…
HUMAN TRAFFIC – NEW TRAILER/POSTER RELEASE TODAY Newly remastered in 4K, back in cinemas after 26 years on 16 July 2025, on UHD/Blu-ray on 21 July 2025 John Simm, Danny Dyer, Lorraine Pilkington, Shaun Parkes, Nicola Reynolds 12 June 2025 – BFI Distribution releases today a brand-new trailer and poster...…