Josh Slater-Williams

4 days ago | bfi.org.uk | Rachel Pronger |Isabel Stevens |Sam Wigley |Josh Slater-Williams

How do you plan a retrospective around a filmmaker with a limited body of work? This question lies at the heart of Wanda and Beyond: The World of Barbara Loden, a new season screening at BFI Southbank this June. Many fans of feminist and US independent cinema will have heard of Wanda, a low budget 1970 US indie road movie, and the sole directorial feature of actor turned filmmaker Barbara Loden.

2 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Isabel Stevens |Sam Wigley |Josh Slater-Williams |Leigh Singer

More than just one of the world’s most bankable stars, Tom Cruise is an impresario and a powerful advocate for the big-screen theatrical experience. On the occasion of the BFI awarding him a Fellowship, he talks about his lifelong devotion to cinema and his unforgettable work with Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick and Paul Thomas Anderson. Updated: 23 May 2025It took just a pink shirt, white socks and a slide.

2 weeks ago | indiewire.com | Josh Slater-Williams

Twelve features deep into a filmography now stretching back almost 25 years, the work of director (and usually writer) Koji Fukada can broadly be defined by an interest in the illusion of stability or momentum being overturned by one single decision or event changing everything for the core characters, often a family unit. In his Un Certain Regard prize-winning “Harmonium” (2016), the welcoming of a former acquaintance into a couple’s home sets off a devastating chain reaction.

2 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Josh Slater-Williams |Leigh Singer |Katie McCabe

Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint. 20 May 2025The film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 25 years ago, on 20 May 2000, was not the one that Wong Kar Wai had envisaged when he set out on the project sometime around 1997. Far from it. In the Mood for Love emerged from a succession of rapidly evolving projects. One was called Summer in Beijing – it was a comedy.

2 weeks ago | indiewire.com | Josh Slater-Williams

Despite our best efforts to go into a film completely blind, sometimes we’ll catch online chatter or a snippet of a promotional interview that inevitably colors something about our first viewing of an anticipated movie. It could be gossip about stars not getting along that might affect your perception of their onscreen rapport, or the knowledge that a director was replaced by someone else partway into production due to creative differences.