From gravity-defying stunts to bullet-sprayed showdowns – as Ringo Lam’s blazing City on Fire returns in a new restoration, we remember the heyday of Hong Kong action movies.

A special post celebrating the 10th anniversary of the BFI National Archive’s digital preservation infrastructure.

In celebration of Rock Hudson’s centenary, we remember his golden decade of 1950s melodramas, when his robust physicality and warmth as a performer made him an irresistible romantic lead – and the hub ...

With her fifth feature, Die My Love, now in cinemas, we track back through the uncompromising career of Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay and her jagged tales of human complexity.

In a bumper year for screen adaptations of Stephen King’s work, the director of The Running Man, a dystopian thriller about a bloodthirsty TV gameshow, talks to the author about media manipulation, ...

Joel Edgerton gives a career-best performance as a travelling labourer in Clint Bentley’s extraordinary film about a period of extraordinary change in early 20th century America.

Rishi Coupland is appointed as Executive Director of new directorate Industry Development and Innovation and Deputy CEO Harriet Finney takes on an expanded remit, now overseeing Fundraising and ...

The BFI Online Shop is temporarily offline while we work on an all-new website, coming this winter. The new BFI Online Shop will offer improved security, functionality and accessibility, and we want ...

Applications for International Distribution P&A Support are currently open. Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis. We will aim to provide a funding decision within eight weeks of the date ...

The British director, who has died at 85, only got one shot at a feature film and it never had a cinema release, but The Appointment was rediscovered 40 years later and won fans in Martin Scorsese, ...