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Discover the latest from the BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image.
Walter Hill: stories from 50 years of Hollywood action filmmaking
From his beginnings running safety and security on the Bullitt car chase, the legendary writer and director looks back over a career in the driving seat of American genre cinema.
By Matthew Thrift
“One politician threatened to burn down the theatre and beat me publicly”: an interview with S.S. Rajamouli
By Arjun Sajip
“All these prizewinning Iranian movies are complicit”: an interview with Holy Spider director Ali Abbasi
By Arjun Sajip
How we put Berlin’s gay clubbing scene on film
By Lou Thomas
“Let the bodies speak for themselves”: an interview with Creature producer Uzma Hasan
By Joseph Wallace
Hirokazu Koreeda on Broker: “I’m interested in this innate human desire to form a familial unit”
By Lou Thomas
Asif Kapadia on Creature: “I’m an Indian Muslim, Hackney boy who never went to the ballet”
By Lillian Crawford
“Actors don’t work to win prizes”: an interview with Song Kangho
By Thomas Flew
Blue Jean: Georgia Oakley on creating a “conversation with the present” about Section 28
By Sam Smith
Darren Aronofsky on The Whale: “No one’s seen this side of Brendan”
By Lou Thomas
Jerzy Skolimowski on his surreal donkey drama Eo: “I took Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar like a lesson from the old master”
By David Thompson
The company of wolves: how we made snowbound mystery January
By Josh Slater-Williams
Rye Lane: Raine Allen-Miller on her south London not-quite romcom
By Lou Thomas
All that is light: Stan Brakhage on film
By Suranjan Ganguly
Crimes and misdemeanours: Liv Ullmann on Faithless
By Geoffrey Macnab
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and the stop-motion renaissance: an interview with co-director Mark Gustafson
By Arjun Sajip
“Desire is violence”: Claire Denis on Beau Travail
By Chris Darke
Nikyatu Jusu on Nanny: “I’ve learned the rules of horror, and done what I need to do to break them”
By Riley Wade
Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio on Aftersun: “It’s rare to see a single-parent drama where the centre point is love”
By Lou Thomas
In the beginning was the image: an interview with Peter Greenaway
By Lillian Crawford
The indispensable Nadine Marsh-Edwards
By June Givanni and Jan Asante
Shaunak Sen on All That Breathes: a documentary about trans-species kinship
By Zahra al Hadad
Cartoon Saloon’s Nora Twomey on My Father’s Dragon
By Callie Petch
Martin Scorsese on The Age of Innocence
By Ian Christie
John Waters interviewed by Kim Morgan
By Kim Morgan
Why everyone should make a Super 8 movie
By Caitlin Smith
Aubrey Plaza and John Patton Ford on Emily the Criminal, getting into trouble and classic crime films
By Lou Thomas
Guy Maddin on Haunted Hotel: “If you see Björn from ABBA looking behind a curtain, you too are curious about what’s behind the curtain”
By Samuel Wigley