Happyend unfolds in a dystopian near-future where a title card informs us that systems are crumbling. It’s here, beneath a subtly Blade Runner-ish skyline and amidst intermittent earthquakes, that a ...
A stinging satire on the British film industry, a Netflix thriller that delivers the goods, and a glowing tale of ageing romance. What are you watching this weekend?
As London’s Open House Festival offers a glimpse inside the capital’s most impressive buildings, we take a look at the modern house on film.
Despite its impressive cast, this portrait of surrealist artist and wartime photographer Lee Miller can at times feel a little lifeless.
Brisk genre movies made on the cheap, British ’quota quickies’ were a proving ground for talents including Michael Powell and David Lean. As a set of early Powell films arrives on Blu-ray, we went ...
New releases screening at BFI IMAX in late October and November will include Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips, 2024) and Gladiator II (Ridley Scott, 2024), plus The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) ...
That time when Ealing pretended Camden was Bethnal Green... We go in search of the streets where Robert Hamer’s classic man-hunt thriller It Always Rains on Sunday was filmed.
A 70-year-old widow in Tehran shakes up her predictable existence when she pursues a relationship with a lonely taxi driver in Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha‘s defiant tale of late-in-life ...
Director Clio Barnard takes us behind the scenes of the second series of acclaimed Nottingham-based crime drama Sherwood.
Critics scolded Ken Russell for the excesses of his Tchaikovsky biopic The Music Lovers, but his unfettered celebration of the music now looks like the flamboyant model for recent composer movies.
Clapham and Streatham provide the setting for David Lean’s exquisite family drama This Happy Breed – one of Martin Scorsese’s hidden gems of British cinema. Would today’s south Londoners recognise ...
Adrien Brody stars as a Bauhaus architect and Holocaust survivor who flees Europe for Pennsylvania in this beautifully constructed post-war epic.