Joachim Trier's melancholy, playful film, which examines the reckoning that takes place between a selfish film director and his estranged daughters in the wake of their mother's death, is exquisitely ...
Ring in the new year with a trio of Buñuels, a wealth of Wisemans and a subscription exclusive: Marion Cotillard in the acclaimed dark fairytale The Ice Tower.
Ari Aster's Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix's conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal's tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The ...
Inspired by his experience of being interrogated in prison in Iran, Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just an Accident feels like the dissident filmmaker's most direct attack on the regime to ...
No filmmaker has been as preoccupied as Cronenberg by flesh and the many ways it can be transformed. In his latest film, the 82-year-old looks at the last transformation flesh undergoes, through the ...
As a new collection curated by Sofas & Stuff arrives on BFI Player, we spoke to the Sofas & Stuff team about their favourite festive films and viewing traditions.
Director Josh Safdie has pulled together a vibrant gallery of New York characters for a never-say-die American story that’s bursting with humour and that trademark Safdie kineticism.
Alfred Hitchcock often preferred sets to real locations and – eerily empty of actors and action – these photographs show his constructed backdrops for the Highlands, train and Palladium sequences of ...
Reviewing the now classic rom-com for its first UK release, critic Pam Cook showed admiration for the acerbic touch of Nora Ephron’s writing and Reiner’s intimate style of direction.
Steven Soderbergh’s smart, fun spy thriller Black Bag is the kind of mid-budget, star-led adult entertainment that has become an endangered species in cinemas. Here the director explains why the box ...
The Phoenician Scheme returns Wes Anderson to the straightforward pleasures of the caper movie. He talks about writing the film for its star, Benicio del Toro, his fascination with charismatic, ...
James Cameron’s sprawling ensemble piece sees the Na’vi fighting against diabolical human colonisers once again, but it’s more concerned with scale than sophistication.