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Scorsese NYC!
It’s complicated: Martin Scorsese’s irresistible passion for the mean streets of his hometown show us not just the psyche of a city, but the soul of a nation.
By Leigh Singer
Maurice Pialat: three steps to magic – a video essay
By Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin
Roger Corman on making The Masque of the Red Death
Not in Kansas anymore: Warwick Thornton on Samson & Delilah
By Nick Bradshaw and So Mayer
Pasta as prologue: the Spaghetti House siege on film
By Charlie Shackleton
Critics’ talk: an introduction to anime (for BFI at Home)
By Michael Leader, Kambole Campbell and others
The long conversation: Richard Linklater on cinema and time
By :: kogonada
Video: BFI CEO Ben Roberts talks to Screen about navigating the ongoing COVID-19 crisis
Video: Misbehaviour director Phillipa Lowthorpe and producer Suzanne Mackie
Portraits of young women on fire: Céline Sciamma on female art, identity and intimacy
By Leigh Singer
Parasite director Bong Joon Ho and star Song Kang-ho
Fellini and fakery: the viral quote he never said, but sums up Il Maestro perfectly
Tim Burton on working with Danny Elfman and scoring strangeness
Carol Morley on Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria
I Am (Not) a Monster director Nelly Ben Hayoun
Criticism in the age of TikTok – a video essay
By Charlie Shackleton
A horror in the breach: Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day
Blackface, whitewashing and the grey zone – a two-part video inquiry
By Leigh Singer
Gotta film dance! The evolution of the movie musical – a video essay
By Leigh Singer
Hamilton star Jamael Westman on Spike Lee’s School Daze
Video: Monty Python’s Life of Brian composers André Jacquemin and John Altman
Video: Steven Knight and the cast of Peaky Blinders