Vic Pratt

Apr 26, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Gayle Sequeira |Vic Pratt

Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideA bewildering 18 new films enter UK cinemas this week – not far off the tally of 23 that made headlines in 2015. In between wide releases like Luca Guadagnino’s tennis romance Challengers and the Ariana DeBose space-station thriller I.S.S., there are a slew of smaller films that will reward you seeking them out. Somewhere near the top of the pile is this exquisitely observed rural drama from Irish filmmaker Pat Collins, making the move from documentary.

Apr 25, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Gayle Sequeira |Sam Wigley |Vic Pratt |Georgina Guthrie

What could go wrong? Ahead of the release of the new Ryan Gosling action comedy The Fall Guy, we look at movies that put stunt people centre stage – from Drive to Once upon a Time in Hollywood. 25 April 2024By Gayle SequeiraThe fact that few films have stunt performers as their protagonists might seem an unfair lot for cinema’s unsung heroes – those men and women who put their bodies on the line but whose faces are never seen.

Apr 19, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Sam Wigley |Vic Pratt |Georgina Guthrie

All You Need Is Death (2023)Where’s it on? Cinemas nationwideVIDEOIan Lynch of the Mercury Prize-nominated dark Irish folk band Lankum provides an appropriately ominous score to this inspired – if uninspiredly titled – horror film from director Paul Duane. It centres on two Alan Lomax-style ethnomusicologists who travel Ireland recording folk songs. One day, they hear tell of a woman who has had a song handed down to her through the generations over 1,000 years, but which has never been recorded.

Apr 19, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Vic Pratt |Georgina Guthrie |Sam Wigley

Do you remember the Children’s Film Foundation? It was one of the most fantastic British filmmaking initiatives of the 20th century, crafting hundreds of hours of high-quality, eclectic entertainment for the young – fabulous films shown at the cinema in the old days before TikTok. It began in the post-war period, decades before the internet was a gleam in the eye of Tim Berners-Lee – back when even television was a novelty.