Gerald Pratley

May 3, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Elhum Shakerifar |Rachel Pronger |Georgia Korossi |Gerald Pratley

Forty years ago, a landmark film by Lebanese director Heiny Srour centred the less visible stories and histories of women in Lebanon and Palestine through an audacious feminist rewriting.

May 3, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Rachel Pronger |Georgia Korossi |Gerald Pratley |Lou Thomas

French cinematographer Hélène Louvart has shot many of the most visually striking films of the past few decades. From working with legends such as Wim Wenders, Agnès Varda and Mia Hansen-Løve, to early-career collaborations with emerging directors – Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eliza Hittman, Alice Rohrwacher – Louvart’s back catalogue is full of distinctive, visually striking work which spans many styles and formats, from analogue to high definition 3D.

Apr 25, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Gerald Pratley |Rachel Pronger |Elhum Shakerifar |Georgia Korossi

Lindsay Anderson: I have done hardly anything for television before Glory! Glory!, except for one play, what they call a television play, The Old Crowd [1978], from a script by Alan Bennett. I had a very good time working on that with Alan, but it was received with great hostility by almost all the critics and I was labelled “the only man who had ever made Alan Bennett unfunny”.

Jan 11, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Nicole Flattery |Georgia Korossi |Gerald Pratley |Lou Thomas

There’s an assessment uttered by Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film Poor Things as she nears the end of her Grand Tour, after her time in Lisbon, her sojourn in Paris: “I’ve adventured and found nothing but sugar and violence.”‘Sugar and violence’ is a neat summation of Poor Things – the delectable, near-edible set design; Bella’s puffy, girlish costumes; the mesmerising dance sequence; all of it barely masking the brutality at its centre.

Oct 9, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Georgia Korossi |Gerald Pratley |Lou Thomas |Faye D. Effard

An adaptation of Irish author John McGahern’s last novel That They May Face the Rising Sun, the new film by Pat Collins centres on a creative couple, Joe (Barry Ward) and Kate Ruttledge (Anna Bederke), who have moved from London back to Joe’s remote Irish hometown to try out a new lifestyle away from the bustle of the metropolis.