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Nov 5, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Sinead Gleeson |James Bell |Thomas Flew |Georgia Korossi
The actor’s first film since Oppenheimer is a quiet, pained drama about the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, where young pregnant women were sent to work and their babies were sold for adoption. Updated: 5 November 2024After the huge success of Oppenheimer, which has included Oscar, Bafta, Sag and Golden Globe wins for Cillian Murphy, many were curious to know where the actor would go next.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Thomas Flew |Georgia Korossi |Nick Bradshaw |Thomas FlewInterviews
There is something otherworldly about Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and it’s Franz Rogowski. As free spirit Bird, he hops, skips, spins his way into town – we’re in Kent, just down the road from where Arnold grew up – and into the life of young Bailey (newcomer Nykiya Adams).
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Georgia Korossi |Nick Bradshaw |Lou Thomas
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things opens on a portrait of an old woman – “outdoorsy” is how Mark Cousins describes her in his softly spoken narration. He describes her appearance from a distance, inviting us to question his narrative – and our perception – about her age and looks before uncovering a colourised photograph of her spectacularly beautiful and younger self.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Nick Bradshaw |Lou Thomas |Georgia Korossi |Lillian Crawford
The makers of DreamWorks Animation’s wild escapade talk about bringing nature and technology together. 15 October 2024The Wild Robot screened in the BFI London Film Festival as a special presentation on 13 October and is released across the UK on 18 October. “Nothing beats hearing live musicians, especially here in this city, which is just remarkable when it comes to the level of musicianship,” says Kris Bowers, the composer for DreamWorks Animation’s new production The Wild Robot.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas |Georgia Korossi |Lillian Crawford |Katie McCabe
Having broken through with a small role as one of the Manson family in Quentin Tarantino’s Once upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019), Mikey Madison has a rising-star status akin to that of her young OUATIH co-stars Sydney Sweeney, Austin Butler and Margaret Qualley. Her lead role as livewire New York City stripper Ani in Sean Baker’s electrifying Palme d’Or winner Anora is one of this year’s most vibrant performances.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Georgia Korossi |Lillian Crawford |Katie McCabe
Gian, the protagonist of Sara Fgaier’s debut feature Weightless, is a music professor who is diagnosed with temporary amnesia. His condition, it seems, was triggered by the death of his wife Leila, and he’s unable to remember his marriage or recognise the people around him. To help him remember his old love, Gian’s daughter Miriam hands him an old diary that he’d written years ago, which prompts fragmented recollections of his long-forgotten younger self.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Lillian Crawford |Katie McCabe |Georgia Korossi |Sam Wigley
What does an autistic film look like? The Wellcome Trust-funded project Autism Through Cinema at Queen Mary, University of London aimed to answer that question, spawning a number of art pieces, essays, a podcast and a feature film. This film, The Stimming Pool, is the work of Sam Chown-Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker and Steven Eastwood, billed together as the Neurocultures Collective.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Barrett |Lou Thomas |Georgia Korossi
Béla Tarr is not a man for small talk. When our Zoom call connects, I begin by thanking him for his time and telling him I was pleased to have this opportunity – to which he replies that I shouldn’t be too polite, but simply tell him what I want. The smile on his face betrays a cheerful mood, even as his words suggest we get straight down to business. So we do. The occasion of our conversation is the 30th anniversary of his magnum opus Sátántangó (1994).
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas |Georgia Korossi |Carlos Clarens
Storming its way through the sparsely populated blockbuster prairies of summer 2024, Twisters blows into town with a sexy young cast and a handful of destructive set-pieces. Tornadoes, it seems, are back. Five years after student storm-chaser Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) saw three of her pals killed by a tornado, she’s lured back to Oklahoma by survivor friend Javi (Anthony Ramos), under the impression they can save lives by using clever tracking devices to help predict future tornadoes.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Georgia Korossi |Lou Thomas |Elhum Shakerifar |Kevin Le Gendre
On the morning of 18 June 1984 striking miners started to arrive at the picket line at the Orgreave coking plant in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, to try to revert the closing of British collieries and to maintain their jobs and livelihoods. Forty years on, BAFTA-winning director Daniel Gordon, who was 12 at the time, has complemented his 2014 account of the Hillsborough disaster by revisiting another traumatic chapter of modern Yorkshire history for his new documentary, Strike: An Uncivil War.
