The German director, who died aged 83 on 17 December 2025, was best known for his bold contributions to queer cinema. In 1990, Mark Nash explored how von Praunheim’s films “activate and mobilise” ...

Five ‘Lynchian’ films that pre-date Lynch’s work, and five modern films that share fascinating connections with his wild at heart and weird on top world.

The Turin Horse was the last testament of the legendarily uncompromising Béla Tarr. In 2012, he discussed retirement, Nietzsche and wanting to change society.

Jonathan Romney pays tribute to the Hungarian auteur whose uncompromising vision reshaped the possibilities of cinematic time and space, most famously in his seven-hour magnum opus Sátántangó.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

1987 USA Directed by John McTiernan Produced by John Davis, Joel Silver, Lawrence Gordon Written by John Thomas, Jim Thomas Featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo Running ...

Over £763,000 of funding has been awarded to UK independent companies to co-produce with seven territories, with a further £776,000 allocated through the International Distribution Strand. The latest ...