With a season celebrating Dorothy Dandridge opening at BFI Southbank, her biographer talks about the trail-blazing Black Hollywood actress whom Whitney Houston once called ”our Marilyn Monroe”.

Already a military hero by the age of 20, where else could Audie Murphy go but into a Hollywood movie career? One hundred years after he was born, we remember an actor who – although plagued by PTSD ...

Focusing on a boy who must retrieve his cousin’s body after he is beheaded by the mujahideen, Red Path is a potent and precise examination of loss.

As Chicken Run turns 25, we place Aardman’s classic within a history of British animated feature films. They don’t come along very often, but when they do they can be very special.

Dean Eschler and Lori Hurley, who worked with David Lynch on different seasons of Twin Peaks, recall the pleasures of collaborating with the great director: his infectious sense of wonder, his bold ...

Posy Sterling’s layered performance as a single mum battling for her children’s custody after being released from prison carries Daisy-May Hudson’s film through frustrated sobs and cathartic laughs.

The second edition of the BFI’s Film on Film Festival takes place at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX, and includes a rare showing of an original print of Star Wars, among other treasures.

Although its rapacious great white shark appears only briefly on screen, Spielberg masterfully builds suspense through the interplay between what’s seen above the surface and what lurks below. Scenes ...

Frustrated in his Warner Bros career, gangster movie star Edward G. Robinson came to the UK in the 1930s to play a brash marketing man visiting from across the pond. Robinson’s arrival caused much ...

Known for his idiosyncratic tales of yakuza and swordsmen, the great Takeshi Kitano has now made a period epic exploring queer desire among samurai in 1500s Japan. Following Kubi’s UK premiere, we ...

As the BFI Film on Film Festival came to a close with a 35mm screening of Twin Peaks with special guest Kyle MacLachlan, we announced our plans to honour David Lynch with a forthcoming BFI season.

Shot through with beauty and joy, Lollipop is a story of motherhood in a broken system told in the urgent tradition of Ken Loach and Clio Barnard. Director Daisy-May Hudson tells us how the film is ...