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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Philip Concannon |David Parkinson |Josephine Botting |George Bass
What I love about watching Jaws now is that for all the technology that exists, which didn’t exist 50 years ago, there’s nothing new that’s been invented that makes moving that pneumatic shark on a sled any easier. It’s still as hard today as it was then. It’s all ‘in camera’, and to this day nobody has been able to really duplicate what was accomplished, even in the sequels.
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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | David Parkinson |Josephine Botting |George Bass |Pamela Hutchinson
It takes chops to steal a film from Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. But Derren Nesbitt – who turns 90 on 19 June – did exactly that in Brian G. Hutton’s film of Alistair MacLean’s Where Eagles Dare (1968). And he was only on screen for a fraction of the epic’s 155-minute running time. He had played Germans before, in The Blue Max (1965) and The Naked Runner (1967).
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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Josephine Botting Rarities |Josephine Botting |George Bass |Pamela Hutchinson
In September 1962, the Sunday Express reported on the presence of a fading Hollywood star in London. “Once he could not have stepped into a London street without being mobbed,” the article said. “Now at 8.30 on a busy morning in Oxford Street, no one pays the slightest attention to him. Who is he, this man with a beard who goes unnoticed in the crowd? He was once the greatest screen tough guy of them all.” The former ‘tough guy’ was Edward G.
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2 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | George Bass |Pamela Hutchinson |Adam Scovell |Tambay Obenson
Bringing claustrophobic dread and gory practical effects to an English village, The Quatermass Xperiment is the movie that put Hammer Films on the map and has proved an enduring inspiration to the likes of Stephen King and John Carpenter. 13 June 2025An experimental space rocket has returned to earth, crash-landing outside an English village.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
bfi.org.uk | George Bass |Kevin Harley |Linda Williams |Emily Maskell
The 1952 documentary Atoms at Work, available on BFI Player, describes the particle of the title as both a “source of destruction” and “one of the greatest creative sources known to man”. The accompanying black-and-white footage shows balloons measuring atmospheric cosmic rays, and technicians using tongs to handle radioactive material.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | George Bass
This Christmas, anyone trying to prepare a turkey dinner for their extended family should know that, according to a recent survey, cooking a festive spread is one of the main causes of holiday stress. Virtual caterers know what it means to feel the heat too. In restaurant management game and kitchen sim Overcooked (2016), the stirring and serving can build to such dizzying speeds that they feel more like a shooter than a culinary experience.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Rory Doherty |Duncan Wheeler |Lou Thomas |George Bass
Since Call Me by Your Name in 2017, at least one Luca Guadagnino project has premiered every year – be it a feature film, short, documentary or miniseries. While all of them align with his unique style of patient camerawork, severe colour grading and extended bouts of agony and eroticism, each release has adopted a new tone, a new type of conflict, a new thematic intensity.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas Festivals |Lou Thomas |Duncan Wheeler |George Bass
For cinephiles visiting Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, it’s worth a peek outside the cinema. Aside from the cobbled streets and medieval spires of the Estonian capital’s old town – a UNESCO World Heritage site – you can glimpse arthouse and blockbuster locations alike, including for Andrei Tarkovsky’s sci-fi drama Stalker (1979) and Christopher Nolan’s palindromic puzzler Tenet (2020).
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Duncan Wheeler |George Bass |Nick James |Michael Brooke
In the 2002 tragicomic faux western 800 Bullets, Basque filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia homes in on the life and fragmented family of an ageing stuntman in Almería who ekes out a living by recreating scenes from the mythical western films in which he once participated.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Soham Gadre |George Bass
Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideIs it too early to be watching Christmas films? No, not when they’re this good. Tyler Thomas Taormina’s film takes place in a fictional Long Island town sometime in the 2000s, as an extended Italian-American family gather for festivities on Christmas Eve. A mood and memory piece more than a traditional narrative, Taormina’s hilarious and warmly nostalgic film gives us beautiful vignettes and a sharply drawn sense of family dynamics.
