Packed with notes, sketches and Polaroids, this shooting script for Sally Potter’s film of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando illustrates the complexity of one of cinema’s undersung roles: the script supervisor ...

Director Shoshannah Stern’s documentary about Marlee Matlin, the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, offers thought-provoking insights into the history of disability inclusion (and exclusion) in America ...

A young couple move to the countryside and are overcome by a magnet-like attraction that threatens to fuse their bodies together permanently in Michael Shanks’s gruesome yarn.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a novel written by Jane Austen must be in want of an adaptation. Or several. Two hundred and fifty years after Austen was born, and with Ang Lee’s Sense and ...

Early action films, such as the swashbucklers of Douglas Fairbanks, introduced audiences to chase sequences, protagonists in peril and literal cliffhangers and would have a great influence on ...

All but one child from the same Pennsylvania elementary school class disappears overnight in this twisty creeper from Barbarian director Zach Cregger.

From Stalker to Hard to Be a God: as a wild Czech New Wave sci-fi farce surfaces on Blu-ray, we survey the unhinged dystopias and mind-bending metaphysics of the best science fiction films from ...

England’s most-adapted dead lady novelist” – was a pleasing departure from other recent takes, argued our critic upon the film’s release. From our March 1996 issue.

Billy Wilder’s zany cross-dressing comedy begins with a massacre – resembling the gangland St Valentine’s Day killings of 1929 – and ends with one of the most celebrated last lines in cinema history.

A camel sits among the punters in a small London cinema in these unique promotional photos from 1962 – all intended to drum up excitement for the upcoming release of David Lean’s desert epic Lawrence ...

The BFI Filmography project ran from 2012 to 2017, with these main aims: identify all film works that meet the inclusion criteria – British, feature-length, released in cinemas catalogue those works ...

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