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1 month ago | 
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.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Soham Gadre |Sam Wigley |George Bass |Josh Slater-Williams
Following the massive global popularity of RRR in 2022, there has been increased appreciation for Indian action cinema in the Western hemisphere. Some of it feels genuine, some of it a bit fetishised and attracted by its exotic novelty. But it has certainly opened the doors a bit for more exhibitors to be open to screening Indian action movies, which have been a major genre in Indian cinema for more than half a century.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |George Bass |Josh Slater-Williams
Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwide and BFI PlayerWhat if there was a gang of West Coast surfers who were also bank robbers? And what if they wore rubber masks of Nixon, Reagan and other former presidents to disguise themselves? Then what if Keanu Reeves played an FBI agent going undercover to infiltrate the surfing crew? Bodacious! Sometimes all you need is to throw enough fun and unexpected elements together and a kind of movie magic happens.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |George Bass |Sam Wigley |Josh Slater-Williams Lists
Since the first draw took place on 19 November 1994, good-cause funding raised through the National Lottery has been crucial to supporting almost 700,000 life-changing projects across the arts, sports, community and heritage. For the UK film industry, it has been transformational. Many beloved UK films of the last few decades have had significant financial backing thanks to National Lottery funding, with some going on to awards and box office success around the world.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | George Bass
The David Cronenberg movie that Francis Ford Coppola hated: “I have to bite my tongue”Known as the creator of body horror, director David Cronenberg knows how to get under people’s skin with his provocative and sometimes grotesque …
