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 ...

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.

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

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

Jennifer Lawrence stars in Lynne Ramsay’s first film in eight years: as a woman grappling with the emotional strain of early parenthood. She tells us about the influence of Cassavetes, her own ...

The Kwame Brathwaite Story is chosen as Best British Discovery in the annual audience vote at the end of this year’s BFI London Film Festival.

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.

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