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2 months ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Miriam Balanescu |Jasper Sharp
Punch-drunk romance, disobedient emotions and a dangerous scam in pursuit of a better life. What are you watching this weekend? 12 February 2025Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideThe second feature from Danish-Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel is a gripping and assured present-tense drama about two Palestinian men living in Athens but seeking fake passports to help get them to Germany.
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2 months ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Miriam Balanescu |Sam Wigley |Jasper Sharp
Do short story adaptations make better films than novel adaptations? Ahead of the release of a new film of Stephen King’s The Monkey, we look at 10 of the best. 13 February 2025There’s a certain neatness to the concept of Osgood Perkins’ gleefully gory The Monkey (2025), though the results are decidedly messy.
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2 months ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Jasper Sharp |Barry Levitt
Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwide, including BFI SouthbankThis commanding drama by fugitive Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is somewhere between The Ear and Lear – that is, between Karel Kachyna’s banned 1970 Czech film about a married couple driven to distraction by the fact that their house may have been bugged by the authorities, and Shakespeare’s tragedy about a father driven mad by the competing loyalties of his daughters.
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2 months ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Chloe Walker |Adam Scovell |Ryan Swen |Jasper Sharp
John Grisham had two careers before becoming one of the best-selling novelists in American history – first as a trial lawyer, and then as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives. His intimate knowledge of the law and of the South helped power his remarkable writing career, which began in 1989 with A Time to Kill. There have been nearly 50 bestsellers since then, between them shifting over 300 million copies.
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2 months ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Jasper Sharp |Barry Levitt
Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwide, including BFI SouthbankThis commanding drama by fugitive Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is somewhere between The Ear and Lear – that is, between Karel Kachyna’s banned 1970 Czech film about a married couple driven to distraction by the fact that their house may have been bugged by the authorities, and Shakespeare’s tragedy about a father driven mad by the competing loyalties of his daughters.
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2 months ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Jasper Sharp |Sam Wigley |Barry Levitt |Brogan Morris
“The Japanese people from time immemorial have had a fine sense and taste regarding colours”, claimed the writers of Japan Motion Picture Almanac 1957, an industry publication aimed at promoting its cinema overseas. Indeed, Japanese cinema’s relationship with colour stretched back to the silent era.
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2 months ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Ryan Swen |Jasper Sharp |John Taylor |Cristina Lopez |Cristina Álvarez López
There is perhaps no greater example of the emergence of a specifically 21st-century cinephilia than Edward Yang. A vanguard member of the Taiwan New Cinema movement – which included among its ranks Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wu Nien-jen and Ko I-chen – he made just seven feature films before his untimely death from cancer at the age of 59, and yet his impact looms large over world cinema, in spite of its long-term inaccessibility.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Bertolt Brecht |Chloe Walker |George Bass |Jasper Sharp
This poem comes from a set of seven called “Gedichte aus dem Messingkauf”. In each of these Brecht gives practical advice to those who work in the theatre. They thus offer a remarkably concise exposition of his aims and demands as a dramatist.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Chloe Walker |George Bass |Jasper Sharp |Adam Scovell
In Yield to the Night, Diana Dors plays a woman facing the death sentence for killing her boyfriend’s mistress. It proved a formidable acting flex from a star who’d been underrated as a ‘bombshell’. 19 September 2024At the start of Diana Dors’ career, she was constantly underestimated. Her formidable talent was wasted on lightweight films, and her whole vibrant persona usually sanded down to three words: ‘Britain’s Marilyn Monroe’.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | George Bass |Jasper Sharp |Adam Scovell
Forty years ago, the Soviet Union launched a salvo of nuclear warheads against its targets in NATO territories. Eight megatons fell on the UK with two single ballistic missiles hitting a key manufacturing and military target: Sheffield. The impact at 8:37am was beyond apocalyptic. Children and mothers en route to school screamed as a mushroom cloud rose above the city. Commuters, blinded by the nuclear flash, drove head on into brick walls. Everything electrical stopped working.
