When the BFI announced the establishment of the National Film Library (now the BFI National Archive, which turns 90 this year), its first curator, Ernest Lindgren, outlined the need for its existence.

Thirty years on, Clueless director Amy Heckerling looks back at remodelling Jane Austen in modern Beverly Hills, her struggles to get a foothold in the film industry, and why she’s nothing like the ...

Cardiff as a city of clubbing and hedonism, Human Traffic is a cult classic of the Cool Cymru era. Twenty-six years later, how have its locations changed?

Beginning with one of the all-time great character entrances, Dandridge sashays with brazen confidence through her turn as the sassy protagonist of Otto Preminger’s Deep South romance.

After years of run-ins with the authorities, the Iranian director was forced to direct his most recent film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, remotely and in secret. But the methods are at odds with the ...

As the new adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel Harvest opens in cinemas, we gather in a bounteous crop of previous films that have captured life on the land and the rolling beauty of the British ...

Actor Fiona Shaw and director Rebecca Lenkiewicz go behind the scenes on their humid summer drama Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s acclaimed novel about a mother-daughter relationship fraying ...

Influential film theorist and filmmaker Peter Wollen was a compulsive list-maker. His notebook contains fascinating lists on many themes, including this rundown of ’diabolical doctors’.

Less than a minute long, this sound test from 1929 offers precious on-set footage of Alfred Hitchcock on mischievous form nearly 100 years ago.

Director Rian Johnson’s third instalment of the Netflix Knives Out series is the LFF Opening Night Gala, hosted at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall with screenings around the UK.

This special edition celebrates our 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll, as voted for by the world’s most influential filmmakers and critics ...

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s visceral historical drama about the undoing of a rural British community shines in its gorgeous, disorienting details.