From Sun Ra’s origins to the future of climate‑ravaged memory, this year’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival presented vital new works tackling archival practice and spotlighted early films by Bill ...

This week learn more about the latest stops on the Inside the Archive exhibition tour and the sequel to a BFI Replay workshop.

Bi Gan’s third feature is a chameleonic journey through a century of filmmaking. Here the director discusses finding inspiration in classic folk tales, and the fundamental mystery of perspective.

Directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard construct a fictional ’Ministry of Not Forgetting’ led by Tilda Swinton to investigate cultural legacy of Marianne Faithfull in a didactic documentary works ...

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s treacly alien buddy comedy about an astronaut stranded in outer space gives even the most curmudgeonly among us things to laugh at.

From The Searchers to It Was Just an Accident, kidnapping stories have provided tense movie drama ever since the silent era. As Gus Van Sant’s new thriller Dead Man’s Wire goes on release, we pin down ...

From hobbit to horror diehard, Elijah Wood dives into Ready or Not 2 and discusses working with David Cronenberg and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and the secrets of a good scare.

Baz Luhrmann’s all-raving Moulin Rouge – returning to cinemas this week for its 25th anniversary – is not just an ambitious stab at reviving the musical, it is also a rapturous blend of cultural ...

Look inside Derek Jarman’s scrapbook for Blue, where notes, drawings and clippings reveals the research, process and imagination behind his devastating and austere final film.

Commercial and licensing BFI distribution Archive content sales and licensing Venue hire BFI book releases and trade sales Selling to the BFI Commercial partnerships ...

Long overshadowed by 16mm and 8mm, the curious 9.5mm format once opened a doorway to cinema for home audiences and young filmmakers alike – and today stands as a vital archive of films that survive ...

Toggling between 2D and 3D animation, Hosoda Mamoru’s gender-swapped take on Hamlet takes admirably big swings but only skims the surface of its deeper thematic concerns.