Cinema, TV, and Everything in Between
The director of Lollipop, along with cast members Posy Sterling, Idil Ahmed and TerriAnn Cousins, visit BFI Southbank to about Hudson’s debut, a raw and urgent drama about one desperate mother’s relentless fight for justice against a broken system. When single mother Molly emerges from prison, she is forced to...…
The writer-director of Mountainhead visits BFI Southbank to talk about his new film, the follow-up to the gargantuan multi-award-winning Succession. In Mountainhead four big tech billionaires, cocooned and isolated among the highest peaks of a luxury resort, holiday together as the world begins to implode. BFI…
The cast – including Bridget Christie, Jim Howick, Laura Checkley and Tanya Moodie – and crew of Christie’s comedy The Change visit BFI Southbank to talk about season two. May all your transitions be… complicated? In season two of The Change, Linda – played by series writer and creator Bridget...…
The Icelandic singer-songwriter joins directors Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard and actor Caroline Catz to talk about their film at BFI Southbank. The new film by the makers of 20,000 Days on Earth tells the story of Geraldine Flower, whose vast trove of letters from the 1960s and 70s details...…
Though he might be best known for his role as Ethan Hunt, and for his dedication to reinventing the cinema spectacle and preserving the theatrical experience, Tom Cruise’s career is rich with versatility. From his arrival in Hollywood, he proved himself an actor with a remarkable instinct for excellent scripts,...…
Editor and sound designer Walter Murch visits BFI Southbank to talk about Francis Ford Coppola’s war spectacle. Welcome to Vietnam – a Hieronymus Bosch-like world where ideal surfing conditions can be found at the centre of a war zone, TV crews capture death as entertainment, Playboy bunnies leap in and...…
The cast and director of Eclipse – an unsettling, little-seen 1970s psychological thriller that was recently re-released by the BFI on Blu-ray – visit BFI Southbank to talk about the film. A remote cliff-side house on the Scottish coast is the setting for Simon Perry’s atmospheric psychological thriller, barely seen...…
WARNING: Contains minor spoilers for the Black Mirror episode “Hotel Reverie”. The cast and crew of a Black Mirror: Hotel Reverie visit BFI Southbank to discuss an episode set partly within a fictional classic British film. Hotel Reverie – A high-tech, unusually immersive remake of a vintage British film sends...…
THE EXTRAORDINARY MISS FLOWER UK / 2024 / 73 mins / 12A Directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard Opening in cinemas in the UK & Ireland on 9 May 2025 New trailer just released today BFI London Film Festival 2024 – In Official Competition Starring Emilíana Torrini with Caroline...…
Booker prize-winner Marlon James, along with the cast of the crime series Get Millie Black, visit BFI Southbank to talk about the Jamaica-set show. From award-winning writer Marlon James, Get Millie Black follows ex-Scotland Yard detective Millie-Jean Black (Tamara Lawrance), who returns home to Jamaica after her mother’s passing and...…
A panel of BFI archivists, curators and researchers explore the challenges of collecting during the era in which thousands of hours of original content is produced and uploaded daily, in this closing panel of our Archiving in the Age of (Super) Abundance symposium BFI…
The essentials of developing a TV series, from character creation to crafting a pilot episode. Interested in writing for TV? Have you been inspired by iconic drama and comedy TV series like Heartstopper, The Last of Us, Sex Education, Euphoria, Extraordinary, We Are Lady Parts, Reservation Dogs, Stranger Things, The...…
The writer-director of an Oscar-nominated Oscar-winning tale of separated twins in 1970s Australia visits BFI Southbank to talk about his film. This year’s LFF Best Film Award winner, Adam Elliot’s tale of separated twins in 1970s Australia is a funny and moving stop-motion triumph. Grace and Gilbert are separated as...…
This in-depth discussion with Richard Eyre will focus on his film and television career. The discussion, hosted by Samira Ahmed, focuses on what makes good television drama, the contrast between television and film, and the state of the UK and global film and television industry. The recipient of multiple Olivier...…
Chantal Akerman is best known for her second feature, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, the minimal masterpiece. But there’s more to this maverick. Explore the breadth of this fascinating director’s career with a comprehensive season of her work, taking place across BFI Southbank and and online in...…
8 January 2025 BFI Distribution releases the UK trailer for the 50th anniversary rerelease of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles directed by Chantal Akerman. Voted Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time in the 2022 Critics’ poll (the first time a female filmmaker has taken the...…
Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin visit BFI Southbank to discuss their witty and heartfelt portrait of two estranged cousins honouring their roots. Benji and David travel to Poland to pay respects to their Jewish grandmother. No sooner are they on the road than they realise why they don’t spend much...…
Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent and Richard Eyre visit BFI Southbank to introduce a screening of their compelling biographical drama. Richard Eyre and Charles Wood adapted John Bayley’s Iris: A Memoir and Elegy for Iris, which chronicles the enduring relationship between the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and her husband, the...…
The cast and crew of Rumours, a riotously hilarious satire on the inefficiency of political summits talk about their film at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival. During a G7 summit, world leaders are hard at work trying to draft a joint statement on the latest global crisis. Such is...…
Director, writer and producer Denis Villeneuve talks to actor, writer and podcaster Brett Goldstein about his career, which includes films like Dune, Enemy, Sicario and Blade Runner 2049. A filmmaker renowned for exploring the subtleties of human relationships within the wider canvas of large-scale, visually stunning epic narratives, Denis Villeneuve...…
The latest film from master documentarian Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela). Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward. Through Kossakovsky’s lens, the grandeur...…
The 68th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express ran from 9 to 20 October 2024 and showcased the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling. From red-carpet world premieres to a programme of free events – everyone was invited. Be part of the film event of...…
Director Jon Spira, producer Hank Starrs and Christopher Lee’s biographer Jonathan Rigby visit BFI Southbank to talk about a documentary about the star that tells his intriguing story through animation and archive footage. Produced in association with the BFI, The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee features exclusive interviews, previously...…
The director of Layla, a drama about the nature of modern relationships and coming to terms with differing values, talks to Shon Faye at BFI Southbank. The question of how love alters our identity lies at the heart of this debut from one of London’s best-loved drag queens. Amrou Al-Kadhi’s...…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f36sGiqO4-4 The star of Lee, a biopic about the fashion photographer turned world war II reporter, Lee Miller, visits BFI Southbank to talk about the making of the film. Ellen Kuras’ powerful drama details Lee Miller’s journey as an artist and photographer who would chronicle the worst moments of the...…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZCk8sIcCVI The creators and stars of The Franchise, a satire of the making of superhero franchise movies, talk about their series at last month’s BFI London Film Festival. The Franchise, available on Now TV, is Jon Brown’s (Succession, Veep) sidesplitting series, directed by Sam Mendes and Liza Johnson. It follows...…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGUzlPPU0XA An extended conversation between actor and musician Ashley Walters and actor, writer, producer and director Daniel Kaluuya, focused on Kaluuya’s career. An actor, writer, director and producer, Daniel Kaluuya has, in the space of a few short years, made an indelible impact in cinema. Alongside his formative, performance across...…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ViBZdRXBE Echoes in Time: Korean Films of the Golden Age and New Cinema is a landmark film season, offering an introduction to Korean cinema through 30 essential films produced during the Golden Age of the 1960s and the New Korean Cinema era of the 1990s-2000’s. Showing at BFI Southbank Oct-Dec....…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf1jAx6VhZ8 Payal Kapadia’s 2024 Cannes Grand Prix award winning film comes to cinemas across the UK & Ireland from 29 November. Starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam. A beautiful, sweeping, emotional film that explores the complexities of female friendship and captures the frantic pace, the vibrant colours and...…
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