Alex Davidson

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Tom Charity |Katie McCabe |Alex Davidson

It may not feature physical violence, but India Donaldson’s patient story of a teenage girl enduring the petty disputes and selfishness of her father and his best friend during a three-day hike is its own kind of backwoods horror. 14 May 2025The first feature by writer-director India Donaldson makes a virtue of simplicity. It’s set over the course of three days, and for the most part three characters share the screen.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Katie McCabeReviews |Katie McCabe |Alex Davidson |Giovanni Marchini Camia

When the Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray created her first building, a modernist villa in the Côte d’Azur, she coded a romantic gesture into its name: E.1027. It’s significant that she began by asserting her own name, E for Eileen, as the rest is a fusion of two lovers: numbers for her initials, and for that of her partner, the French architecture critic Jean Badovici.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Jane Giles

In this playful performance film, Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini performs a set of songs inspired by a collection of real-life 1960s love letters discovered after the recipient’s death in 2018. 11 May 2025In an era when romantic missives have shrunk to the late-night ‘U up?’ text, it’s easy to see how a suitcase of elaborate love letters from the 1960s and 70s fired the imagination of singer Emilíana Torrini.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Jane Giles |Adam Nayman

Director Andrew Ahn’s endearing and significantly queerer update of Ang Lee’s rom com hit lets its LGBTQ+ characters behave badly, and is all the better for it.

1 month ago | bfi.org.uk | Giovanni Marchini Camia |Alex Davidson |Jane Giles |Adam Nayman

The French director’s mid-length homage to his own filmmaking presents a funny and provocative collage of cinema history, politics, and artistic introspection. 8 May 2025The title of Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me is, of course, tongue-in-cheek.