Cinema, TV, and Everything in Between
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The cast of ‘Get Away’ talk about training in a circus school in Finland, Sebastian’s love for killing, the perks of Sky Original skincare & more. 🍿 You can catch ‘Get Away’, now on Sky Cinema. Find #SkyCinema on: 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkyCinema Sky Cinema
In Cinemas January 1 & 2 Theatrically exclusive Q&A with director Asif Kapadia and Carole Cadwalladr It’s the year 2073 where the worst fears of modern life have been realised. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarised police roam the wrecked streets, while humans hide away underground, struggling...
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=U8awd-LoZxQ Enjoy the full Q&A from the Beyond Fest 20th Anniversary screening of SAW featuring Tobin Bell, Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Mark Burg, Oren Koules, and Billy the Puppet A young man named Adam (Leigh Whannell) wakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a decrepit subterranean chamber....
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...
Director Robert Morgan visits the BFI Southbank to talk about his film Stopmotion, a grisly story of murder and madness on the set of a new stop-motion animated film. Ella is working with her mother, Suzanne, a legendary stop-motion filmmaker, on her final movie. When the bullying Suzanne is admitted...
Director Enrique M. Rizo visits BFI Southbank alongside producer Cathia Cuevas to talk about their documentary about the musical collaboration between Philip Glass and the Mexican Wixarika musician Daniel Medina. The film captures them in rehearsal and performance around the world. What shines through is how music is not only...
Director Henry Selick and Teri Hatcher visit BFI Southbank to discuss their groundbreaking adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s dark and hugely entertaining tale. The first film from animation powerhouse LAIKA, Coraline tells the story of a girl whose boredom and lack of attention from her parents find her enamoured of the...
Director Moin Hussain and producer Michelle Stein visit BFI Southbank to talk about a coming-of-age tale that details a father-son relationship that might just be out of this world. Moin Hussain’s highly anticipated feature debut blends realist drama with a playful suggestion of otherworldly science-fiction. Adam works nightshifts at a...
Walter Murch, the Oscar-winning film editor and sound designer, talks about his work on The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola’s Coppola’s thriller about our surveillance society. The Palme d’Or-winning film, 50 this year, is a film that continues to grow in relevance and stature. Gene Hackman has rarely been better than...
The stars of a new ITV drama about cancel culture join writer Steven Moffat, director Ben Palmer and executive producer Sue Vertue to talk about the drama at BFI Southbank Written by globally renowned screenwriter Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Sherlock), Douglas Is Cancelled introduces us to middle-aged current affairs news...
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