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.

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 ...

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

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, ...

This stark black-and-white design for the Sidney Poitier classroom drama is the work of Maria Ihnatowicz, one of the few female artists at the celebrated Polish School of Posters.

Our first releases of 2026 include a 5-film collection of the great American documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman and a 1960s British B-film much loved by Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright.

I Swear, Kirk Jones’s biographical drama based on the life story of John Davidson, a Scottish man with Tourette’s syndrome, took 9 nominations, while Lynne Ramsay’s latest film Die My Love got 8.

Read about the BFI User Experience (UX) team’s focus on cross-department collaboration and user-centred design.

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 ...

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.

Daniel Day-Lewis brings potent realism to an otherwise uneven debut about a broken veteran, directed by the actor’s son Ronan Day-Lewis.