Katie McCabe

4 days ago | bfi.org.uk | Katie McCabeInterviews |Katie McCabe |Rachel Pronger |Isabel Stevens

The Australian stop-motion animator discusses his latest film, a ‘clayography’ of a snail-loving hoarder whose difficult life has caused her to retreat into her shell. 30 May 2025Sadness is Adam Elliot’s happy place. In his stop-motion animated films, his oddball characters face all manner of misfortunes – a life-threatening lightning strike and testicular cancer for Harvey Krumpet (2003), bully-inflicted hearing loss for Ernie Biscuit (2015), despairing loneliness for Mary and Max (2009).

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.

3 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Anton Bitel |Tom Charity |Katie McCabe

Death is patient. Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s Final Destination Bloodlines has been a long time coming, some 14 years after the last in the franchise – and while every entry is inscribed with the sense of an ending, given that they are all chronicles of deaths foretold, Steven Quale’s Final Destination 5 (2011) seemed genuinely to bring the franchise’s narrative arc full circle, looping back to the start of James Wong’s Final Destination (2000).

3 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Leigh Singer |Katie McCabe |Lou Thomas

To speak with Fran Rubel Kuzui is to feast on fascinating stories from the international art and film worlds of the late 20th century, to the extent that a full transcript of our entire unedited conversation could plausibly sustain a small fanzine. I mention that specific type of publication for the scrappiness inherent to its form, where vibrant tributes to cultural scenes are born from people pulling together what they can out of sheer love for their subject.

3 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Tom Charity |Katie McCabe |Alex Davidson

It may not feature physical violence, but India Donaldson’s patient story of a teenage girl enduring the petty disputes and selfishness of her father and his best friend during a three-day hike is its own kind of backwoods horror. 14 May 2025The first feature by writer-director India Donaldson makes a virtue of simplicity. It’s set over the course of three days, and for the most part three characters share the screen.