Features and reviews

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5 things to watch

5 things to watch this weekend – 17 to 19 March

Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer take us back to 1870s New York again, while love runs just as unsmoothly on the streets of Peckham.

By Samuel Wigley

5 things to watch this weekend – 17 to 19 March
News

May programme revealed for BFI Southbank

May programme revealed for BFI Southbank
Then and now

60 years of Billy Liar: how the Bradford locations have changed today

By Adam Scovell

60 years of Billy Liar: how the Bradford locations have changed today
Reviews

Tetris: falling blocks escape the Eastern Bloc – via licensing agreements

By Mark Asch

Tetris: falling blocks escape the Eastern Bloc – via licensing agreements
Reviews

Winners: an optimistic Iranian cinephile drama

By Philip Kemp

Winners: an optimistic Iranian cinephile drama
Reviews

Allelujah: a woolly, wobbly Alan Bennett adaptation

By Caspar Salmon

Allelujah: a woolly, wobbly Alan Bennett adaptation
Reviews

Words of Negroes: a bitter documentary about the lingering poison of servitude

By Oris Aigbokhaevbolo

Words of Negroes: a bitter documentary about the lingering poison of servitude
Reviews

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom: gentle Bhutanese drama

By Leigh Singer

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom: gentle Bhutanese drama
News

BFI and Cinecittà present Dario Argento: Doors into Darkness

BFI and Cinecittà present Dario Argento: Doors into Darkness
Interviews

Walter Hill: stories from 50 years of Hollywood action filmmaking

By Matthew Thrift

Walter Hill: stories from 50 years of Hollywood action filmmaking
News

Budget 2023: UK tax reliefs to be remodelled as expenditure credits

Budget 2023: UK tax reliefs to be remodelled as expenditure credits
Reviews

The Middle Man: this morbid, mordant comedy plumbs the psychosis of the Trump era

By Anton Bitel

The Middle Man: this morbid, mordant comedy plumbs the psychosis of the Trump era
Reviews

The Wife and Her House Husband: a scattershot drama in need of more narrative discipline

By Will Webb

The Wife and Her House Husband: a scattershot drama in need of more narrative discipline
Festivals

Calls from Moscow: this documentary about Cuban migrants in Russia feels thin and overly repetitive

By Ela Bittencourt

Calls from Moscow: this documentary about Cuban migrants in Russia feels thin and overly repetitive
Festivals

Typist Artist Pirate King: this portrait of Audrey Amiss is by turns riotous and touching

By Catherine Wheatley

Typist Artist Pirate King: this portrait of Audrey Amiss is by turns riotous and touching
Features

Why this Moroccan tailoring drama is a boost for queer culture in Africa and the Arab world

By Abiba Coulibaly

Why this Moroccan tailoring drama is a boost for queer culture in Africa and the Arab world
Interviews

“One politician threatened to burn down the theatre and beat me publicly”: an interview with S.S. Rajamouli

By Arjun Sajip

“One politician threatened to burn down the theatre and beat me publicly”: an interview with S.S. Rajamouli
Features

Ron Peck honoured as BFI Flare returns

By Ben Walters

Ron Peck honoured as BFI Flare returns
News

Oscars 2023: the winners in full

Oscars 2023: the winners in full
Reviews

Y Sŵn: this dramatisation of the struggle for S4C is worth tuning into

By Glyn Morgan

Y Sŵn: this dramatisation of the struggle for S4C is worth tuning into
5 things to watch

5 things to watch this weekend – 10 to 12 March

By Samuel Wigley

5 things to watch this weekend – 10 to 12 March
Interviews

“All these prizewinning Iranian movies are complicit”: an interview with Holy Spider director Ali Abbasi

By Arjun Sajip

“All these prizewinning Iranian movies are complicit”: an interview with Holy Spider director Ali Abbasi
Festivals

Borderlines Film Festival: 10 to watch

Borderlines Film Festival: 10 to watch
Features

How Saim Sadiq and Joyland beat the censors in Pakistan

By Sanam Maher

How Saim Sadiq and Joyland beat the censors in Pakistan
10 great

10 great Indian LGBTQIA+ films

By Omar Ahmed

10 great Indian LGBTQIA+ films
From the Sight and Sound archive

‘The most self-aware slasher ever made’: Scream reviewed in 1997

By Kim Newman

‘The most self-aware slasher ever made’: Scream reviewed in 1997
Festivals

Manodrome: this unedifying portrait of toxic masculinity rings hollow

By Jessica Kiang

Manodrome: this unedifying portrait of toxic masculinity rings hollow
Festivals

On the Adamant: a thought-provoking portrait of a refuge for Paris’s mentally unwell

By Travis Jeppesen

On the Adamant: a thought-provoking portrait of a refuge for Paris’s mentally unwell
News

Kristy Matheson appointed as new BFI festivals director

Kristy Matheson appointed as new BFI festivals director
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