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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Nick Bradshaw |Josh Slater-Williams |Blake Simons |Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham
In The Act of Killing, the perpetrators of the massacres of millions of alleged communists in mid-1960s Indonesia re-enact their crimes – with extraordinary results. Here Oppenheimer talks about outing genocide, and the miasmic horror that binds us. From July 2013. 24 March 2025Criminals at large rarely volunteer their crimes for the camera; similarly, perpetrators of political atrocity tend not to make the kind of song and dance about their misdeeds that might constitute evidence for the record.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Blake Simons |Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham |Rachel Pronger
This article contains spoilers for the first two seasons of Gangs of London. On an early April morning in 2024, I arrive at a gated warehouse in Aberfeldy Village in east London. It’s very windy and noisy on the main road outside, but things on the premises are oddly quiet for the set of one of the more maximalist programmes to emerge from British television this century.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Blake Simons |Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham |Rachel Pronger |Lou Thomas
A producer, screenwriter, scholar, former studio head and director, James Schamus has an extensive, storied CV. His career was launched along with that of Taiwanese director Ang Lee, with whom he co-wrote the ‘Father Knows Best’ trilogy of Pushing Hands (1991), The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), and produced countless others.
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1 month ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham |Rachel Pronger |Lou Thomas |Josh Slater-Williams
In the follow-up to their 2019 relationship drama Test Pattern, director Shatara Michelle Ford continues their streak of humanist, political filmmaking. Where Test Pattern saw an interracial couple contend with sexual assault and the near impossibility of obtaining a rape kit in Texas, Dreams in Nightmares centres on a friendship group of Black queer femmes embarking on a trip across the states to reconnect with a friend who has fallen off the grid.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Jill Forbes |Alex Ramon |Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham
Despite its name, Stephen Soucy’s new documentary Merchant Ivory focuses not just on the hugely successful partnership (personal, as well as professional) between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, best known for their period dramas and literary adaptations, such as A Room with a View (1985), Howards End (1992) and The Remains of the Day (1993).
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Jill Forbes |Alex Ramon |Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham |Sam Wigley
Ian McEwan first became well known as an author of short stories with the publication of First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Between the Sheets (1978) and of novels with The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers. His writing has been described as ‘shocking’ and ‘morbid’; his fiction has a pronounced interest in perversity arid depravity and specialises in the portrayal of private worlds such as those created by lovers and children.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Ramon |Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham |Sam Wigley |David West
From working with a young Daniel Day-Lewis to multiple collaborations with Judi Dench, Richard Eyre has many stories from his distinguished career in British film and TV drama. Ahead of a new season of his work, we get to hear some of them. 29 November 2024Spend some time with actors and it soon becomes apparent that many don’t always hold directors in as high esteem as might be imagined.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham |Sam Wigley |David West |Lou Thomas
In her first feature The Taste of Mango, Sri Lankan-British director Chloe Abrahams excavates a matrilineal history of abuse within her own family via hypnotic handheld camera and intimate recollections.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
lwlies.com | Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham
About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. We believe in Truth & Movies.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
lwlies.com | Rogan Graham |Rōgan Graham
About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. We believe in Truth & Movies.
