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3 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Barry Levitt |Patrick Russell |David Parkinson |Josh Slater-Williams
There’s nothing like an escape to nature. There’s an innate sense of peace and relaxation when you conjure up images of the great outdoors, despite the dangers you can face in the wild. Forests, jungles and national parks have set the scene for cinema to explore humanity’s relationship with nature, allowing for quiet contemplation and shocking revelation in equal measure.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
woodfloorbusiness.com | Patrick Russell
“How are you doing?” is the common question. “I’m living the dream,” I say. I always wanted a hardwood floor company. So I’m living the dream—technically, right? I sanded my first floor with Jody Breeze in 2003 with a split drum Clarke 504. I had no clue what I was doing. George, the owner of Advanced Hardwood Flooring in Ocala, Fla., walked behind me, his hand on mine and telling me to make sure I didn’t leave the feathering handle down while stopping. One pass down and back ...
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Becca Voelcker |Jonathan Romney |Patrick Russell |Adam Scovell
Since his graduation feature in 2008, Passion, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke (born in Kanagawa, Japan, in 1978) has perfected a cinematic language that combines confident pacing, subtle yet fraught emotional expression and playful narrative twists. He has been a regular at Cannes, Locarno, New York and Berlin film festivals since his breakthrough epic Happy Hour in 2015. He is popular at home too, shooting films in Tokyo, Kobe, Hiroshima and elsewhere with a combination of first-time and seasoned actors.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Rebecca Vick |Patrick Russell |Jonathan Romney |Adam Scovell
From a Norwich City FC mental health video to an animated heartbreaker for Alzheimer’s Research UK, the winners at this year’s Charity Film Awards reveal some of the ways charities are innovating with film to deliver their vital messages.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Joseph McBride |Nicole Flattery |Adam Scovell |Patrick Russell
Like many cinephiles, I'd been wondering how Richard Lester has been doing. Since The Bed Sitting Room in 1969, his work has been confined to television commercials. One cherished film project, a spectacular adaptation of George Macdonald Fraser’s novel Flashman, was cancelled by United Artists a month away from shooting in 1970, after Lester had spent more than a year in preparation.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Adam Scovell |George Bass |Sam Wigley |Patrick Russell
With his new Conan Doyle ghost story airing on Christmas Eve, we pulled up a fireside chair with Mark Gatiss to discuss his favourite Ghost Story for Christmas and which other haunting short stories he’d love to adapt. 21 December 2023By Adam ScovellFew figures in television’s recent history have done more to fright us at Christmas than Mark Gatiss.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Patrick Russell |Lou Thomas |Catherine Wheatley |Sam Wigley
Our series of articles celebrating the NHS’s 75th anniversary has been a mix of looking back at 75 years of archived filmmaking, looking around us at the relationship between health and filmmaking today, and looking forward to how film and our National Health Service might evolve together in years to come, populating the archive of the future.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Katie McCabe |Amy Taubin |Axel Madsen |Patrick Russell
News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. In Earth Mama, the heavily-pregnant lead Gia is seen working at a photo portrait shop, selecting softly-painted backdrops of clouds and toy baby blocks for smiling families as they pose for the camera. For those brief picture-perfect moments, the suspended photo canvases offer a flimsy alternate reality, a glimpse of the family idyll Gia is trying so hard to cultivate for herself.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Patrick Russell |Axel Madsen |Sam Wigley
BFI Player’s NHS on Film collection presents a rich history of filmmaking in and for our National Health Service, from its founding in 1948 across the rest of the 20th century. Much of it was carried out, often by gifted filmmakers, through the auspices of the Central Office of Information, the state communications agency throughout that period.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Patrick Russell |Sam Wigley |Lou Thomas |Amy Taubin
Starring Hugh Laurie and Imelda Staunton, The Strange Case of Penny Allison was a short film aimed at training NHS staff in how to correctly handle blood. As part of our NHS at 75 series, we spoke to its director, Paul Katis. 24 November 2023By Patrick RussellIn 2004, Hugh Laurie hit transatlantic fame as the eponymous protagonist of US TV medical drama House. But who knew that two years before, he and Imelda Staunton had already flexed medical muscles on an NHS training film?
