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4 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Ivie Uzebu |Ros Cranston |Chloe Walker |Kieron Corless
A sudden, deafening crack rings out at the start of Mountains, the debut feature from Haitian-American director Monica Sorelle. A monstrous crane’s jaws unhinge wide, preparing to rip apart a roof with ravenous greed before swallowing up large gulps of water from a pool. It’s a moment of sheer violence, but the tension dissipates as we are introduced to Haitian construction worker Xavier (Atibon Nazaire), sitting on a makeshift seat made of disfigured scrap and sucking sweet juice from a mango.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Ros Cranston |Chloe Walker |Kieron Corless |Stuart Isaac Burnside
As part of the BFI’s Film on Film Festival – our festival honouring the medium of film itself, where every film is projected from a print – we are also celebrating the creativity of Ruby and Marion Grierson, sisters who have been overshadowed by their brother John Grierson, a legendary figure in the history of documentary filmmaking.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Kieron Corless |Chloe Walker |Stuart Isaac Burnside |Kieron Corless Festivals
I’ve been an on-and-off attendee at IndieLisboa film festival for nigh on 20 years, and although personnel and programming structures have altered considerably during that time, other elements happily remain constant.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | pollsThe best Blu-rays |Kieron Corless
We asked 106 contributors – British and international – to pick the top ten movies they'd seen in 2023. You can browse all 363 choices they nominated here.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | pollsThe best Blu-rays |Kieron Corless
We asked 106 contributors – British and international – to pick the top ten movies they'd seen in 2023. You can browse all 363 choices they nominated here.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | pollsThe best Blu-rays |Kieron Corless |Grace Lee
I’ve been so heartened by the response to Killers of the Flower Moon. To have been able to make this picture, at this time in my life, and to see it so appreciated by so many, and by the Osage community in particular… for me, it’s grace. When I was told that it had topped the critics’ poll at Sight and Sound, I have to say that I was moved. The magazine has been so important to me, for such a long time. As far back as I can remember, I’ve seen the cinema ridiculed in so many different ways.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Kieron Corless |Isabel Stevens |Lisa Kerrigan
It’s been another strong year for DVD/Blu-ray releases, as evidenced by our top ten list and the full submissions below it, attesting to what has most excited our contributors this year. If there’s a sense of buoyancy in the industry in terms of continued quality of output, that’s not to say there aren’t problems and issues I often hear raised.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Elena Lazic |Maria Paradinas |David Robinson |Kieron Corless
Werner Herzog has many great films to his name, but these days he has become perhaps even more famous as a cultural figure or meme than as a director. In The Ecstatic Truth, the extensive exhibition about Herzog and his work that ran from June to October this year at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, that dispiriting fact was turned to its own advantage. In the first room were three screens featuring extracts from Herzog’s own films and from documentaries about him.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Maria Paradinas |Elena Lazic |David Robinson |Kieron Corless
Khabur begins with a series of photographs seen through a magnifying glass. They are of Tell Halaf, an archaeological site in the valley of the Khabur River in north-eastern Syria. Taken to document the excavation led and financed by German diplomat, ancient historian and archaeologist Baron Max von Oppenheim from 1911 to 1913 and again in 1927 to 1929, these photographs form an ideological arm of the archaeological campaign.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | David Robinson |Kieron Corless |Ben Walters |David Thomson
News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. It may have been different for audiences of fifty years ago; but most modern spectators need at least a couple of films to accustom themselves to Fairbanks. The first sight of him can produce a certain bewilderment, that this was the superstar of all times, the world’s hero, the one-man American dream.
