Matthew Thrift

Jan 24, 2025 | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Brogan Morris |Matthew Thrift

Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideReleased in cinemas the day after it clocked up 10 Oscar nominations, Brady Corbet’s epic new drama is an imposing Great American Novel in cinematic form. John Dos Passos might have dreamt it up, but in fact it’s an original screenplay, which Corbet co-wrote with Mona Fastvold. Adrien Brody plays the Holocaust survivor and visionary architect who emigrates to the New World in the post-war era.

Jan 23, 2025 | bfi.org.uk | Brogan Morris |Sam Wigley |Matthew Thrift |Anton Bitel

Having clocked the parallels between construction and filmmaking – a small army of craftspeople labour months and perhaps years, at great cost, to realise an individual’s vision – filmmakers have long seen the architect as analogous to the movie director. However, the movie architect – often brilliant, independent-minded and more than a little self-involved – is rarely ever content to design anything as mundane as a mere habitable space.

Jan 17, 2025 | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Matthew Thrift |Anton Bitel |Pamela Hutchinson

Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideReteaming his Forrest Gump (1994) stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright 30 years later, Robert Zemeckis’s new film has been harshly received in many quarters but is surely bolder, more suggestive and more aesthetically adventurous than many of this year’s more feted awards candidates.

Jan 17, 2025 | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Matthew Thrift |Anton Bitel |Pamela Hutchinson

Chalamet as Dylan... Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunited... and a gorgeous Alpine drama. What are you watching this weekend? 17 January 2025Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideReteaming his Forrest Gump (1994) stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright 30 years later, Robert Zemeckis’s new film has been harshly received in many quarters but is surely bolder, more suggestive and more aesthetically adventurous than many of this year’s more feted awards candidates.

Jan 16, 2025 | bfi.org.uk | Matthew Thrift |Anton Bitel |Pamela Hutchinson |David Parkinson

There’s no separating the past from the present in Robert Zemeckis’s extraordinary Here (2024). One of the most adventurously experimental studio pictures to emerge this century, the film retains the unique formal gambit of its source material, a 2014 graphic novel by Richard McGuire. As on the page, a fixed perspective surveys millions of years of history, from the primordial era all the way through to the creation of a suburban home.