Matt Igoe

Aug 22, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | June Givanni |Sam Wigley |Matt Igoe

To inaugurate a new BFB series in which critics excavate the minds of fellow critics, film journalist Leila Latif meets Ellen E. Jones, the author of Screen Deep: How Film and TV Can Solve Racism and Save the World. 22 August 2024Leila Latif: How has the reaction to the book been so far? Ellen E. Jones: I anticipated it being more confrontational, but people seem to be on their best behaviour.

Aug 22, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | June Givanni |Sam Wigley |Matt Igoe |Josh Slater-Williams

June Givanni: Your character Lady Danbury is central to both Bridgerton [2020-] and the Queen Charlotte [2023] historical drama series. How culturally significant was it to have these come out of the Shondaland development stable? Adjoa Andoh: I don’t think there would have been that interest in ‘swinging the lens’ on the narrative in this way without someone like Shonda Rhimes [the creator of Grey’s Anatomy, 2005-; and Scandal, 2012-18].

Aug 21, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Matt Igoe |Josh Slater-Williams |Katie McCabe

Named after a Coleridge poem about an eerie encounter in the woods, Chrystabell might have seemed destined to become one of David Lynch’s closest collaborators. She was introduced to him by an agent in the late 1990s, and although it took a few years for their partnership to get going, it has since produced music for Inland Empire (2006), two albums and an EP.

Aug 9, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Katie McCabe |Matt IgoeInterviews |Matt Igoe

Ahead of the release of his latest psychological thriller, Trap, M. Night Shyamalan spoke to young filmmakers from the BFI Film Academy about the challenges in starting out in the industry. 9 August 2024For a filmmaker whose work is preoccupied with the strange, the supernatural and the savage, it’s surprising that the unifying factor of M. Night Shyamalan’s work might just be love.