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3 days ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Jane Giles
In this playful performance film, Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini performs a set of songs inspired by a collection of real-life 1960s love letters discovered after the recipient’s death in 2018. 11 May 2025In an era when romantic missives have shrunk to the late-night ‘U up?’ text, it’s easy to see how a suitcase of elaborate love letters from the 1960s and 70s fired the imagination of singer Emilíana Torrini.
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5 days ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Alex Davidson |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Jane Giles |Adam Nayman
Director Andrew Ahn’s endearing and significantly queerer update of Ang Lee’s rom com hit lets its LGBTQ+ characters behave badly, and is all the better for it.
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5 days ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Giovanni Marchini Camia |Alex Davidson |Jane Giles |Adam Nayman
The French director’s mid-length homage to his own filmmaking presents a funny and provocative collage of cinema history, politics, and artistic introspection. 8 May 2025The title of Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me is, of course, tongue-in-cheek.
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6 days ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Jane Giles |Adam Nayman |Kim Newman |Catherine Wheatley
Like Visconti’s erotically charged directorial debut Ossessione (1943), Motel Destino can in part be seen as a loose version of James M. Cain’s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934). Director Karim Aïnouz sets the action in the province where he was born, Ceará on the north-eastern coast of Brazil; together with cinematographer Hélène Louvart (Pina, 2011; Rocks, 2019; La chimera, 2023) he portrays an equatorial landscape fundamental to the film’s story.
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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Adam Nayman |Kim Newman |Catherine Wheatley |Imogen Smith
Celebrity resentments and insecurities are portrayed with unusual tenderness in this clever Hollywood Hills satire featuring Elizabeth Reaser, Walton Goggins, and Pedro Pascal. 6 May 2025Nadia Conners’ The Uninvited is a Hollywood Hills psychodrama; its caustic, quippy vision of flawed showbiz professionals stumbling through a dark night of the soul sits at the intersection of The Player (1992) and Sunset Blvd. (1950).
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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | David Parkinson |Josh Slater-Williams |Chloe Walker |Rory Doherty
The papacy and cinema go back a long way. Leo XIII became the first moving picture pope in July 1896, with successor Pius X being filmed in 1907. He would become the first cine-saint when he was canonised in 1954, two years after Henri Vidon had played him in The Secret Conclave (1952), which was the first feature to recreate a papal election. Pius actually disapproved of moving images and forbade their exhibition in churches in 1909.
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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Leigh Singer |Katie McCabe |Lou Thomas |Sam Wigley
After Zoe Flower’s mother Geraldine died, she and her partner Simon Byrt discovered a case of treasured letters, photographs and memorabilia from Geraldine’s life in the 1960s and 70s: heartfelt correspondences from a life of travel and adventure, secrets and passionate love affairs, some even suggesting liaisons with spies… Sharing these with Byrt’s longtime musical collaborator, Icelandic-Italian songwriter Emiliana Torrini, provided the inspiration for an entire new album based on...
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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Kim Newman |Catherine Wheatley |Imogen Smith |Jessica Kiang
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has drifted since Avengers Endgame (2019), which tied up plotlines developed over a decade. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) – one of the series’ biggest hits – jokes about the underperformance of subsequent MCU projects. Proposed replacements for major characters like Captain America and Black Panther haven’t exactly been embraced. Marvel Comics had a similar wobble in the 1990s, when they launched the instantly-dated ‘Heroes Reborn’ reboot.
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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Catherine Wheatley |Imogen Smith |Jessica Kiang |Nicolas Rapold
There are several versions of the myth of Parthenope. In one, she was a siren, who, heartbroken by her failure to seduce Ulysses, threw herself into the sea. After fishermen recovered her beautiful drowned body, they buried her, and the site of her interment grew into the city of Naples. In another, Parthenope was a mere mortal, in love with the centaur Vesuvius.
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1 week ago | 
bfi.org.uk | Imogen Smith |Jessica Kiang |Nicolas Rapold |Jessica Winter
Zhao Tao embodies modern alienation as Qiao Qiao, an enigmatic figure drifting through time and space in contemporary China. 1 May 2025Certain actors hold our attention simply by the way they move through space. Zhao Tao never speaks in Caught by the Tides (2024), the latest film in her longrunning collaboration with her husband, the director Jia Zhangke.