Sound archiveOzu Yasujiro

Sep 5, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Michael Brooke |Stuart Isaac Burnside |Sound archiveOzu Yasujiro |Nia Childs

British cinema, like British society at large, has always been concerned with class issues – though not always those of the working classes. For a long time, middle, upper and officer classes tended to dominate screens, at least until the late 1950s and 60s.

Sep 1, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Stuart Isaac Burnside |Sound archiveOzu Yasujiro |Tony Rayns |Richard G. Combs

Technology has advanced to the point where we can finally experience the terror of being chased by an chainsaw-wielding maniac for ourselves. As a new video game adaptation of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre joins recent takes on Friday the 13th and The Evil Dead, Stuart Burnside tracks down the allure of killers v victims online gaming.