This 1947 budget sheet for Black Narcissus shows exactly where the money went on Powell and Pressburger’s classic tale of nuns in the Himalayas.

And all the major studios were at work integrating their businesses, so they could control their films from studio to cinema, a consolidation of power that set the conditions for the Golden Age of ...

In 1980, Lynch left behind the American heartland to make a film on British soil – his devastating story of The Elephant Man. We went looking for the hotspots of Lynchian London.

These original cut-out creations for her film Cinderella reveal the painstaking craft behind Lotte Reiniger’s distinctive animation style.

Tina McFarling, our Head of Strategic Communications until July 2025, and David Thomas Gurney, our Film Laboratory Lead until summer 2025, are both made MBEs, while former BFI governor Idris Elba ...

Bardot became a global icon of post-war France. From her scandalous breakthrough in And God Created Woman and the ensuing Bardomania, her bold, brazen screen image embodied a new freedom and made her ...

Ahead of the latest in the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas strand airing on Christmas Eve, we revisit the atmospheric locations for the original series to see how time has changed them.

A century after the release of the Expressionist horror landmark, we peer inside the cabinet to assess why Caligari had such a huge impact on the cinema. As Paul Rotha once said, Caligari hit the ...

£1.19bn upturn in final quarter signals significant recovery in film and high-end TV production, while pandemic closure for cinemas reduce admissions by 75%. 1917 led 2020 UK box office, with The ...

Although perhaps under-explored by critics and commentators, connections between reggae music and cinema were established early on. It was, after all, the soundtrack to Perry Henzell’s Jimmy ...

April to June was the business part of the production year with £2.29 billion of film and high-end television production spend, the highest 3-month period for film and HETV spend on record, ...

The BFI sets out its commitment to support industry address long-standing practices negatively impacting the health and wellbeing of the industry’s workforce. Today it launches WorkWise for Screen, a ...