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3 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Ramon |Dominic Lees |Rachel Pronger |Katie McCabe
Frederic Raphael is a writer so renowned for waspish wit that the prospect of interviewing him is exciting and intimidating in about equal measure. One of his Cambridge contemporaries, Jonathan Miller, identified a “piranha-like savagery” in Raphael’s work.
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2 months ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |David Parkinson |Alex Ramon
Irish tragicomedy, a story of sex and publishing, and a Hitchcock classic on TV. What are you watching this weekend? 4 April 2025Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideBy a quirk of scheduling, two films about budding gay novelists and the publishing world open in cinemas this week.
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2 months ago | 
bfi.org.uk | David Parkinson |Sam Wigley |Alex Ramon
Poor old Ringo Starr. George Harrison was commemorated by Martin Scorsese, while Paul McCartney is about to be profiled by Morgan Neville, and Kevin Macdonald’s One to One: John & Yoko and Alan G. Parker’s Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade are the latest in a long line of tributes to John Lennon –in the last year alone, these included Daytime Revolution, Revival 69, and the three-part John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Alex Ramon |Michael Brooke
Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideMisericordia is the eccentric new comic murder drama from Alain Guiraudie, the French director best known for his humid 2013 cruising-ground thriller Stranger by the Lake. Like most of his films, it’s set in France’s rural south, where Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) returns to his hometown to attend the funeral of the baker, a former boss.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Ramon |Sam Wigley |Michael Brooke |Carmen Gray
Between the Sex Pistols’ first live performance and Margaret Thatcher making history by defeating Edward Heath in the Conservative leadership contest to become the first female leader of a major UK political party, 1975 offered some clear indications of the contending cultural forces shaping British life.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Barrett |Adam Scovell |Jan Asante |Alex Ramon
In the years since his death in 1968, an aura of austere Christianity has surrounded the reputation of the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer, and his late masterpiece Ordet is central to this mystique. Premiered 70 years ago in January 1955, the film focuses on the rivalry between two Christian factions – the lively followers of Grundtvig (or “Glad Christians”, as Dreyer called them) and those of the dour Inner Mission (“the sour-faced ones”).
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
bfi.org.uk | Adam Scovell |Jan Asante |Alex Ramon |Josephine Botting
Richard Linklater’s ‘Before trilogy’ is concerned with walking and talking. Following many years in the lives of Parisian Céline (Julie Delpy) and American Jesse (Ethan Hawke), the three films show the ups and downs of a relationship as well as how such relationships interact with the exploration of places on foot.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Ramon
The many tributes published following Sidney Poitier’s death on 6 January 2022 tended to focus, naturally enough, on the actor/director’s status as a pioneering figure in 20th century American cinema.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Jill Forbes |Alex Ramon |Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham
Despite its name, Stephen Soucy’s new documentary Merchant Ivory focuses not just on the hugely successful partnership (personal, as well as professional) between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, best known for their period dramas and literary adaptations, such as A Room with a View (1985), Howards End (1992) and The Remains of the Day (1993).
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Jill Forbes |Alex Ramon |Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham |Sam Wigley
Ian McEwan first became well known as an author of short stories with the publication of First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Between the Sheets (1978) and of novels with The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers. His writing has been described as ‘shocking’ and ‘morbid’; his fiction has a pronounced interest in perversity arid depravity and specialises in the portrayal of private worlds such as those created by lovers and children.
