Cinema, TV, and Everything in Between
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se8Pq_FrGMA Steve McQueen, director of 12 Years a Slave, Hunger, Widows and now Blitz – a tapestry of British life during the decisive moments of the Second World War – talks to Danny Leigh about his film-making career. An artist and filmmaker, McQueen has never distinguished between his artwork and...…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AkClD-DlY Rediscover Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s favourite screen Sherlock – and 47 classic Sherlock Holmes adaptations – via this major BFI National Archive restoration project. Coming soon! BFI…
8 October 2024 – At 12 noon today, BFI Distribution releases a brand-new trailer for POINT BREAK. The cult action thriller from 1991, starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves, directed by Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow (THE HURT LOCKER, ZERO DARK THIRTY) returns to the big screen, newly restored in 4K and re-released by BFI Distribution in cinemas in...…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0tw7Sws3lw Francis Ford Coppola and archaeologist and author David Wengrow visit BFI IMAX to talk about Megalopolis and Coppola’s legacy. Francis Ford Coppola’s film, a deeply personal project that has taken him decades to make, plays out on a scale that one has come to expect from the director of...…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkQIMRjcFlQ The stars of Nightsleeper – a high-octane thriller by Control Room writer Nick Leather – join Leather and executive producer Kate Harwood for a Q&A at BFI Southbank. Nightsleeper asks what would happen if the UK railway network experienced a cyber-attack. A real-time thriller, it details the hacking of...…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKHIipWCGCc A short extract from our new documentary ‘Inside the Archive: the early films of Michael Powell’, discussing the rediscovery of Behind the Mask (1936). Watch the full documentary for free on BFI Player and on the BFI Blu-ray ‘Michael Powell: Early Works’ from 23 September 2024. Inside the Archive:...…
BFI Distribution releases brand new trailer for the 4K restoration of WATERSHIP DOWN today ‘Watership Down stands alone as a horizon never reached – a portal into what animation can be, could be: an art form. It fuels the hope for that future. A delicate, violent, savage confection – perfect...…
Director Guillermo Del Toro visits BFI Southbank, as part of the BFI’s Stop Motion season, to talk about his love of hand-crafted animated film. Initially joined by key crew from his Oscar-winning version of the Pinocchio story, Del Toro goes onto talk about his history with animation and his doubts...…
How is a 1915 nitrate print reclaimed from a ship wreckage in 1982 providing insights on film preservation in 2024? Image Quality Specialist, Louise Allum tells all about this unique film reel discovered on the ill-fated ocean liner RMS Lusitania. BFI…
Director Robert Morgan visits the BFI Southbank…
The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Coraline and Wendell and Wild all share the DNA…
Director Enrique M. Rizo visits BFI Southbank alongside producer Cathia Cuevas…
Director Henry Selick and Teri Hatcher visit BFI Southbank…
Filmmaker Rosanagh Griffiths talks to BFI Film Academy Young Programmer Phoebe Yemi Ara about making Dope Fiend…
New 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s influential epic…
Director Moin Hussain and producer Michelle Stein visit BFI Southbank…
Watch this conversation led by award-winning BFI NETWORK and Filmmaking Fund-supported producer, Hollie Bryan…
Writer-director Moin Hussain reviews scenes from his short, Naptha, and his debut feature, Sky Peals…
Walter Murch, the Oscar-winning film editor and sound designer, talks about his work on The Conversation…
Actor, producer and director Griffin Dunne has appeared in some of the most iconic American films…
‘An arresting first feature – unsettling and effective’ Xan Brooks, The Guardian…
Stop Motion: Celebrating Hand-Crafted Animation on the Big Screen…
The stars of a new ITV drama about cancel culture join writer Steven Moffat…
Learn about the art of sound restoration with this short video, exploring the work completed by specialists at the BFI…
A trailer for the BFI’s upcoming season, which contemplates those films that challenge us the most…
The directors of Sasquatch Sunset, a year-in-the-life drama about a family of Bigfoot…
Watch this masterclass with casting director Mary-Ellen O’Hara…
The BFI’s Douglas Weir talks to director Murray Grigor, actor Bill Paterson…
Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark star in this stylish adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s folk horror novel…
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