Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter the global success of 1975’s JAWS, Steven Spielberg was the most celebrated man in Hollywood and could have made anything he wanted. It turns out he had been working on a pet project for some time, which would turn into the 1977 smash hit Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPart of Pride Month at Woolwich Works, Beanfest celebrated the 30th anniversary of Beautiful Thing.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the launch of BFI’s Stephen Spielberg season and his new film Disclosure Day, Jaws was screened at the IMAX, preceded by the new documentary Shark Kingdom (in 3D!).
Reading Time: 3 minutes"A great performance piece, especially from Monroe"
Reading Time: 2 minutesA beautiful, hypnotic, and intense exploration of trauma and identity Kristen Stewart’s feature film directorial debut is an adaptation of American writer Lidia Yuknavitch’s autobiography, showing her escape from her abusive family home through competitive swimming, college…
Reading Time: 2 minutesCotton Queen is a coming-of-age story, but it is also about inheritance, women’s power and the long afterlife of colonialism. At the BFI preview screening of Cotton Queen, film journalist Leila Latif introduced the film by situating…
Reading Time: 2 minutes"Something in between nostalgia and initiation, the 50th anniversary screening felt less like revisiting a classic than being enthusiastically recruited into its ever-growing cult"
Reading Time: 2 minutesA mind-melting modernist masterpiece as fresh as ever- the very best of Weimar era German cinema
Reading Time: 2 minutesA richly intelligent excavation of early cinema’s dream logic that fascinates throughout, even as its length and restraint hold it back from full sensory immersion At BFI Southbank, Kinaesthesia arrives as both film and manifesto. Directed by…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs part of the BFI’s ‘The Cinematic Life of Boxing’ season, a screening of Million Dollar Baby (2004) was followed by a Q&A with broadcaster and former athlete Jeanette Kwakye