The Spanish director Jonás Trueba finds humour in the ephemerality of romance with the story of a longterm couple who are planning a big party to celebrate their break-up.

Influential film theorist and filmmaker Peter Wollen was a compulsive list-maker. His notebook contains fascinating lists on many themes, including this rundown of ’diabolical doctors’.

To say that such success was unprecedented in the UK is an understatement. It took 50 years of stop-start development for the first British animated feature film, Animal Farm (1954), to emerge, and it ...

Two stand out. The tortured making of John Huston’s The Red Badge of Courage (1951) was famously recounted in the book Picture by Lillian Ross. The movie itself was mauled by the studio and an ...

I did two introductions, for Point Blank [1967] and The Long Goodbye [1973]. We shot them in the Lloyd’s building with these massive postmodern interiors and huge escalators going up and down. And ...

In many ways, the UK ’s strong foundation in creative technology – home to over 13,000 creative technology companies – means that the UK screen sector is well-positioned to adapt to this technological ...

Expanding the UK Global Screen Fund which the BFI administers on behalf of the DCMS to £18 million annually (2026-2029) to develop international business capabilities, enable co-productions and ...

While a musical adaptation is perfectly suited to a well-known story like this, it’s undermined by Juliet & Romeo’s hollowness and condescension. This is a movie made by adults who think they know ...

What I love about watching Jaws now is that for all the technology that exists, which didn’t exist 50 years ago, there’s nothing new that’s been invented that makes moving that pneumatic shark on a ...

Elio may fail to find a following for that reason – its box-office opening was Pixar’s worst. Its trailers suggested little more than a comedy-adventure about a lonely boy (the titular Elio) and his ...

With a collection of films, talks and industry workshops curated by disabled programmers, the We Crip Film Festival – formerly known as Busting the Bias – advocates for authentic representation on ...

Following sprints 1 and 2, we felt we were ready to test a more refined prototype with a fuller journey – still not fully interactive, but much closer to a real experience. We conducted sessions with ...