Reading Time: 2 minutesArchivist William Fowler and BFI programmer Justin Johnson have curated a
wonderfully varied roster showcasing the campest, sexiest and trashiest of 20th century cinema.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA powerful and inspiring documentary about boxing as a sport and a metaphor for life.
Reading Time: 2 minutesReview: Maricel at the Manchester Film Festival — a powerful story of Filipino OFWs, family sacrifice, blending emotional depth with authentic storytelling.
Reading Time: 2 minutesD is for Distance is a strange, beautiful meditation on memory, truth and family, bound with tender fragility around the experiences of a young man with epilepsy, tracing his story from pre-condition to the current day.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLady, directed by Sam Abrahams, is a mockumentary that blends satire, surrealism and character-driven storytelling into something that feels both unusual and refreshingly confident.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPsychopomp is Kit Harington's directorial debut is a dark comedy short, shot in Northern England, starring Harry Melling as a desperate man who’s decided to end his own life with the help of hired assassin Liam.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down with Cathy Waller to talk about Cathy Waller Company’s new triptych of live dance, film and visual art, You & Us that asks timely and urgent questions about invisibility, identity and what it truly means to be seen.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA newly restored “Pink Narcissus,” the once-anonymous 1971 film by James Bidgood, returns to UK screens through the British Film Institute, reframing a cult artefact as both a recovered artwork and a reclaimed authorship.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn International Women’s Day, the Women’s Voices Arts & Culture Festival opened its programme at the Playhouse Theatre with an evening dedicated to the formidable legacy of Lynn Seymour, a dancer whose dramatic intensity helped reshape narrative ballet in the twentieth century.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSeen on the vast screen at BFI IMAX as part of Emerald Fennell’s February programme “Love Stories,” The Beguiled plays like a quiet act of sabotage.