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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.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Kieron Corless |Ben Walters |Michael Koresky |Sam Wigley
In tribute to the late Terence Davies, Kieron Corless recalls the overwhelming experience of watching Davies’ 2008 film Of Time and the City, his witty and opinionated ode to Liverpool. 9 October 2023By Kieron CorlessWhen was it? 2006? 2007? Memory lane is full of cracks and potholes nowadays. The tube pulls up. I step in, sit down. I’m soon aware there’s no-one else in the carriage apart from a bespectacled white-haired man sitting right opposite. “You’re Terence Davies!” I blurt it out involuntarily.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Jessica Kiang |Kieron Corless |Adam Nayman
Bradley Cooper’s lively performance as composer Leonard Bernstein is filled with chatter and sparkle, but the film never really gets to the heart of the man, or the compositions that lay within. 13 September 2023By Jessica KiangNews, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Kieron Corless |Adam Nayman |Nicolas Rapold |Simran Hans
News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Reviewed from the 2023 Venice International Film Festival ’I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring’ JG Ballard once drily remarked, an idea that French director Bertrand Bonello riffs on to mixed effect in his new film The Beast, a dystopian genre-hopping sci-fi cum melodrama.
