Film Forever was the BFI’s plan for 2012 to 2017. Film Forever covered all BFI activity and was funded by Grant in Aid from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and a share of National Lottery ...

Eisenstein’s debut feature, the labour drama Strike, which was released at the start of the year, well deserves a place on this list. However, 1925 was also the year that he directed the monumental ...

Born in Sunderland 100 years ago, Norden is little known today, but she exuded glamour and confidence in a string of ‘bad girl’ and femme fatale roles in post-war British cinema.

In key Almodóvar films The Flower of My Secret and All About My Mother, Paredes’ distinctive chiselled features, striking eyes and husky voice were matched by elegance and defiance.

Each December, we rifle through the packed festive telly schedules and try our best not to pick the same old chestnuts. You know the things we mean. They tend to feature Victorian misers, wonderful ...

A Florida orange hangs sweetly from its tree: the camera pans left, and it becomes clear that the person gazing at it is horizontal, lying on the grass below. Assuming this person’s point of view, ...

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh are a couple whose relationship we experience across three timelines in the new film from the director of Brooklyn, John Crowley. He explains how Nic Roeg movies ...

British filmmakers have been producing Christmas pictures for more than 125 years, dating back to G.A. Smith’s Santa Claus in 1898. In 1901 came R.W. Paul’s Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost (1901), the ...

This Christmas, anyone trying to prepare a turkey dinner for their extended family should know that, according to a recent survey, cooking a festive spread is one of the main causes of holiday stress.