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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Ros Cranston |Chloe Walker |Kieron Corless |Stuart Isaac Burnside
As part of the BFI’s Film on Film Festival – our festival honouring the medium of film itself, where every film is projected from a print – we are also celebrating the creativity of Ruby and Marion Grierson, sisters who have been overshadowed by their brother John Grierson, a legendary figure in the history of documentary filmmaking.
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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Stuart Isaac Burnside |Chloe Walker |Nick James |Christopher Bird
Nintendo can often seem a company led by contradictions. For every fresh trail the Kyoto giant blazes, there’s an example of them being stubbornly stuck in the past. 2015 was the age of the Wii U, their ambitious but flawed follow-up to the mega-successful Wii.
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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Chloe Walker |Nick James |Christopher Bird |Stuart Isaac Burnside
On what would have been her 100th birthday, we remember model-turned-actress Martha Vickers and her scene-stealing performance – playing younger sister to Lauren Bacall – as the flirtatious Carmen Sternwood. 28 May 2025“You’re not very tall, are you?”In the opening scene of 1946 noir classic The Big Sleep, Carmen Sternwood makes quite the impression. After disparaging the height of private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart), the two trade more flirtatious words.
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2 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Christopher Bird |Stuart Isaac Burnside |Anton Bitel |José Arroyo |Jose arroyo
As part of the BFI’s Film on Film season, BFI National Archive Curator Rosie Taylor and I will be presenting an event about a film format very few people have even heard of: 28mm. Most people know about Kodak’s 16mm gauge, brought out in 1923, and a few know about Pathé’s 9.5mm, brought out the year before. But a decade earlier was a truly pioneering film gauge, designed to take films out of cinemas and into schools, churches and even homes.
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2 weeks ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Stuart Isaac Burnside |Anton Bitel |José Arroyo |Jose arroyo |Josephine Botting
How do you begin to discuss a video game as seminal as Pac-Man on its 45th anniversary? Pac-Man is a rare gaming beast that has managed to transcend its trappings to become something of a cultural shorthand for the medium of video games as a whole. Titles are rarely as impactful as Namco’s 1980 masterpiece, and the little circular hero shows no signs of retiring any time soon.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Kevin Lyons |Jacob Heayes |Juana Albina |Stuart Isaac Burnside
Vincent Price remains best remembered for his string of horror film appearances in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, in films like Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe derived classics for American International Pictures and his macabre British duo Witchfinder General (1968) and Theatre of Blood (1973). But he was a man of many passions and interests beyond both horror and cinema in general. Art was a particular obsession, but cooking seemed to be his real love.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Kevin Lyons |Jacob Heayes |Juana Albina |Stuart Isaac Burnside
Vincent Price remains best remembered for his string of horror film appearances in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, in films like Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe derived classics for American International Pictures and his macabre British duo Witchfinder General (1968) and Theatre of Blood (1973). But he was a man of many passions and interests beyond both horror and cinema in general. Art was a particular obsession, but cooking seemed to be his real love.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Stuart Isaac Burnside |Juana Albina |David Parkinson |Craig Mann
In a 2020 interview with BAFTA following his receipt of the BAFTA Fellowship, celebrated game director Hideo Kojima reflected on the influence of the Rambo series on the Japanese games industry of the late 80s. “At the time, my company’s instruction was to, ‘Make a war game like that popular arcade game Rambo!’ But I was against that”, he reflected.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ibrahim Azam |Michael Chanan |Emily Maskell |Stuart Isaac Burnside
At his LFF Screen Talk, the Dune director spoke of the formative influence of Steven Spielberg, the female characters at the centre of the Dune franchise, and the scar that reminds him not to act. 14 October 2024For a filmmaker who eschews heavy dialogue in his work, Denis Villeneuve certainly has a way with words.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Michael Chanan |Emily Maskell |Stuart Isaac Burnside |Faye D. Effard
Though scholars of early film have been much preoccupied with the emergence of storytelling and narrative, the dominant mode of early cinema – beginning with the first films of the Lumières in 1895 – was in fact the actuality, or what might be called documentary before documentary.
