As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives in cinemas, we revisit 10 films that journeyed into Greek mythology before it, finding enduring inspiration in an ancient world of gods, monsters and epic ...

A world premiere of the restoration including a Q&A with band members will take place at BFI Southbank, before the film returns to cinemas nationwide on 2 October.

Slade in Flame both confounded and delighted audiences when it was originally released, at the height of the legendary glam-rock band’s fame, following their incredible six No.1 UK singles from ...

Given Frankenstein’s status as a foundational horror text and the richly gothic visual aesthetic of Guillermo del Toro’s work, the story would seem to be an ideal fit for the Mexican director. It’s ...

At the end of 2011, I drove out to Virginia Water with a colleague, to collect a film donation to the BFI National Archive. Meeting actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes at his Surrey home is a treasured ...

British filmmakers of the 1960s began to see a different capital to their predecessors. Instead of the melancholy gloom of the immediate postwar period, vibrancy and colour took precedence. A new ...

During the opening sequence of Rubika Shah’s exhilarating new documentary White Riot, which charts the rise of the Rock Against Racism movement, a sequence of familiar, grainy footage plays. Groups of ...

The British Film Institute (BFI) was founded in 1933 and constituted under Royal Charter on 18 July 1983 (amended April 2000). One of our key objectives is to establish, care for and develop ...

“Eeurgh, that was horrible!” says a schoolgirl during a class on cinematic presentations of World War II, complaining about Come and See (1985), Elem Klimov’s notoriously confronting story of ...

In the early 1980s Britain was besieged by a moral panic, with the coming of VHS leading to previously unclassified films flooding the market. That these videos were available unrestricted for all ...

Stanley Kubrick was undoubtedly a child of the Bronx, but the great director – who died 25 years ago on 7 March 1999 – spent much of his creative life in Britain, in particular in the outer orbit of ...

At the top of our best films of 2023 poll stands Scorsese’s late masterpiece, an epic story told in intimate terms about the systematic robbing and murder of the Osage of Oklahoma in the 1920s. Here ...