Kristina Tarasova

Jul 31, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Leigh Singer |Maha Albadrawi |Neil Young |Kristina Tarasova

“I was in Tbilisi, Georgia where I saw a cartoon mascot of a rooster running with a roast chicken on a plate,” recalls Robin McNicholas, the director of immersive exhibition specialists Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF). “And I remember thinking, it’s so weird, like celebrating cannibalism. How is this possibly a tantalizing offer to buy something inside this particular takeaway?

Jul 29, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Maha Albadrawi |Neil Young |Kristina Tarasova |Stephen Morgan

Sixty years old this year, Richard Lester’s musical comedy – in which The Beatles good-naturedly weather the storm of their early fame – helped establish the idea of a pop star persona. Through the Fab Four to Take That, One Direction and Taylor Swift, the lines between public and private, star and fan, reality and fantasy have been blurry ever since. 29 July 2024About halfway through A Hard Day’s Night (1964), George Harrison gets lost in a TV studio.

Jul 24, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Neil Young |Kristina Tarasova |Stephen Morgan |Anne Billson

¡Que viva Kafka! On 3 June 2024, the 100th anniversary of his death, the Prague literary giant featured in one biopic playing in European cinemas – Judith Kaufmann and Georg Maas’ romantically oriented The Glory of Life. Meanwhile, cameras were rolling on another, Agnieszka Holland’s “kaleidoscopic mosaic” Franz, at Barrandov Studios on the outskirts of the city where he was born in 1883.

Jul 23, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Kristina Tarasova |Stephen Morgan |Anne Billson |Michael Brooke

The European leg of the streaming giant's biannual gathering took place in Rotterdam this year. Showcasing events by popular streamers like CDawgVA and Sweet_Anita, it captured and reflected the lives of Twitch’s 30 million users and highlighted the importance of archiving a ballooning sector of our screen culture. 23 July 2024“You’re making the Truman Show.

Jan 4, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Ian Christie |Neil Young |Kristina Tarasova |Stephen Morgan

Cinema has few martyrs today – perhaps fortunately. Although there are Chinese and Iranian film-makers who may be silenced by their overbearing governments, most censorship is no more than economic. But in the Russian Soviet era, filmmaking could be a life-threatening occupation, and no one exemplified this better than Sergei Parajanov, whose imprisonment and persecution attracted worldwide concern throughout the 1970s and early 80s.