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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Anton Bitel |José Arroyo |Jose arroyo |Josephine Botting |Carmen Gray
“Eeurgh, that was horrible!” says a schoolgirl during a class on cinematic presentations of World War II, complaining about Come and See (1985), Elem Klimov’s notoriously confronting story of Belarusian Holocaust. “Well maybe it was horrible,” responds her teacher Stuart Reeves (Stuart Laing), “but war is horrible.” This exchange, coming near the beginning of Thomas Clay’s debut feature The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005), also neatly reflects the film’s initial reception.
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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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Mar 21, 2025 | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Michael Brooke |Carmen Gray
Netflix’s harrowing incel drama, a tale of animals in a post-apocalyptic world, and a double dose of Kurosawa. What are you watching this weekend? 21 March 2025Where’s it on? NetflixGenerating huge buzz since it landed on Netflix last week, Adolescence is the harrowing new four-part drama co-created by Jack Thorne (This Is England) and actor Stephen Graham. Each episode offers a different angle on a horrific case in which a 13-year-old boy stands accused of murdering a female classmate.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
bfi.org.uk | Michael Brooke |Carmen Gray |Sam Wigley |Barry Levitt
The first-ever UK release of Peter Solan’s The Barnabáš Kos Case (1964), which has just been issued on Blu-ray, throws a spotlight on a still neglected but unimpeachably vital part of what is correctly called the Czechoslovak New Wave but too often casually abbreviated to ‘Czech New Wave’.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
bfi.org.uk | Carmen Gray |Sam Wigley |Barry Levitt
This year’s Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles sparked celebrations among Latvia’s film industry, as the small Baltic nation came away with its first Oscar, for Flow by Gints Zilbalodis, which won in the Best Animated Feature category.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Anton Bitel |Carmen Gray |Henry Barnes |Elena Lazic
By the 1980s, everybody knew what an action movie was. They had their own section in the video shop. And on the video box or the poster, there were star names written in a font nearly as big as the title’s. What kind of movies did Arnold Schwarzenegger make? Action movies. How about Sylvester Stallone or Jackie Chan or Jean-Claude Van Damme? Also action movies.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Anton Bitel |Henry Barnes |Carmen Gray
The decade began with a pandemic. A few smaller, socially distanced productions, like Rob Savage’s Host and Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth, were able to get made, but much of 2020 and early 2021 consisted of horror from 2019, watched at home.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Carmen Gray |Sam Wigley
The golden age of Korean cinema, spanning the 1950s and 1960s, marked a period of unprecedented artistic and commercial growth in the nation’s film industry. After the Korean war (1950 to 1953), filmmakers began crafting stories that captured the complexities of a nation in recovery. Directors from this era sought to push creative boundaries, garnering both domestic and international recognition.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Carmen Gray |Sam Wigley |Anton Bitel
Director Jonathan Ogilvie’s Head South is an offbeat tribute to the creative stirrings of New Zealand (Aotearoa) in the 1980s, when Flying Nun Records – an independent music label that now has worldwide cult status – was founded in the South Island.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Carmen Gray |Alex Barrett |Lou Thomas
Swedish-Georgian director Levan Akin discusses his sensitive trans drama Crossing, which presents a transformative journey though Istanbul’s LGBTQ+ underground. 23 July 2024In Levan Akin’s powerful follow-up to And Then We Danced (2019), taciturn, middle-aged Georgian woman Lia (Mzia Arabuli) meets a disaffected teen, Achi (Lucas Kankava) as she tries to track down her niece, a trans woman named Tekla.
