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Paul King on Timothée Chalamet as Wonka: “This movie allowed him to scratch an itch that he’s probably had for a long time”

Dec 7, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas |Katie McCabe |Amy Taubin |Axel Madsen

Following his much-admired Paddington films (2014 and 2017), Wonka sees British director Paul King adapt another story focusing on an eccentric yet beloved character from children’s literature.
Savanah Leaf on Earth Mama

Dec 5, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Katie McCabe |Amy Taubin |Axel Madsen |Patrick Russell

News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. In Earth Mama, the heavily-pregnant lead Gia is seen working at a photo portrait shop, selecting softly-painted backdrops of clouds and toy baby blocks for smiling families as they pose for the camera. For those brief picture-perfect moments, the suspended photo canvases offer a flimsy alternate reality, a glimpse of the family idyll Gia is trying so hard to cultivate for herself.
Behind the curtain on the modern public health film: “They’re rooted in the power of storytelling to help people walk in others’ shoes”

Dec 1, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Patrick Russell |Axel Madsen |Sam Wigley

BFI Player’s NHS on Film collection presents a rich history of filmmaking in and for our National Health Service, from its founding in 1948 across the rest of the 20th century. Much of it was carried out, often by gifted filmmakers, through the auspices of the Central Office of Information, the state communications agency throughout that period.
Kenneth Tynan on Greta Garbo

Nov 7, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Kenneth Tynan |Charles Higham |Axel Madsen |Josh Slater-Williams

What when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober. She is woman apprehended with all the pulsating clarity of one of Aldous Huxley’s mescalin jags. To watch her is to achieve direct, cleansed perception of something which, like a flower or a fold of silk, is raptly, unassertively and beautifully itself.
Alma Pöysti on working with Aki Kaurismäki

Oct 12, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Leigh Singer |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Axel Madsen |Patrick Russell

News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. One of the great recent joys in world cinema, was the news that legendary Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki had reversed his 2017 decision to retire from feature filmmaking.