A huge, bloodshot eyeball fills the screen and screams are heard as the camera pulls back to reveal a hideous carnival mask with one eye and a twisted mouth. The streets are packed with frenzied ...

At the end of 2011, I drove out to Virginia Water with a colleague, to collect a film donation to the BFI National Archive. Meeting actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes at his Surrey home is a treasured ...

During the opening sequence of Rubika Shah’s exhilarating new documentary White Riot, which charts the rise of the Rock Against Racism movement, a sequence of familiar, grainy footage plays. Groups of ...

Since then, we have had scores of emails and letters from film enthusiasts reporting sightings of the films and offering material. Many members of the public sent emails along the lines of “That film ...

At the start of Diana Dors’ career, she was constantly underestimated. Her formidable talent was wasted on lightweight films, and her whole vibrant persona usually sanded down to three words: ‘Britain ...

Returning to the serial format of earlier work like Night on Earth (1991), Jim Jarmusch’s prize-winning latest film looks at adult sibling relationships in the long shadow of a parent. It’s typically ...

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This unlikely UK box office smash from 1943 has a fabulous all-female cast. An all-female cast in a plot-thin feature celebrating the joys of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) was an unlikely UK box ...

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Diversity and inclusion: how we’re doing (2018 to 2019) Diversity data showing the extent to which the BFI is achieving its employment and funding inclusion targets in 2018 to 2019. Find out more ...

2006 France, Belgium Directed by Pascale Ferran Produced by Gilles Sandoz Written by Pascale Ferran, Roger Bohbot Featuring Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot Running time 168 ...