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BFI / Sight and SoundUKAshley Walters on his prison-drama directorial debut Animol: “I wanted it to look like how it really is” As Animol, his first feature as director, reaches audiences, Ashley Walters talks to us about bringing authenticity to prison drama, nurturing young talent and broadening the stories told about Black…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKImran Perretta on community, collaboration and composing Ish: highlights from a BFI Film Academy masterclass Imran Perretta, cinematographer Jermaine Canute Edwards and location manager Aly Ripo joined a BFI Film Academy masterclass to discuss the making of Ish, from its roots in Perretta’s own teenage…
BFI / Sight and SoundUK10 great witch films From silent-era demons to modern folk-horror nightmares, witches have haunted cinema for well over a century.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKCannes winner Everytime coming to UK and Irish cinemas on 26 February Sandra Wollner’s third feature, the enigmatic Un Certain Regard prize-winner will open in UK and Irish cinemas through BFI Distribution.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKKiss kiss bang bang: Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet For the 30th anniversary of Baz Luhrmann’s visceral epic Romeo + Juliet, we republish José Arroyo’s essay on how the film turned Shakespeare into cinema. From our March 1997 issue.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKThe world moves on: Billy Wilder’s cinema of ageing and obsolescence From overlooked office workers to fading movie stars, ageing in Billy Wilder’s films is about more than growing old.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKWildwood: Laika’s ambitious fantasy shows off its spellbinding stop motion craft Laika animation studio’s film about a teen on an epic quest to save her baby brother is filled with astounding detail, but the magic lies in the craftsmanship rather than the story.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKBFI Player’s November 2026 line-up Settle into November with a feast of cinema, from the splendour of silent classics to bold new voices and rare discoveries.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKScotland’s rival to The Jazz Singer: the story behind a groundbreaking British sound film One hundred years after its Edinburgh cinema release, we tell the story behind Till the Bells Ring, a Scottish talking picture that included synchronised dialogue a full year before Hollywood’s own…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKSight and Sound: the December 2026 issue On the cover: Godzilla, from Gojira to Minus Zero: an interview with director Yamazaki Takashi, plus a look at the monster’s 70 years in film Inside: as the fifth anniversary of the Black Film…
BFI / Sight and SoundUK10 great East African films As this year’s Film Africa opens with Cannes prizewinner Ben’Imana, we explore 10 films that reveal the richness, diversity and transnational currents of East African cinema, challenging perceptions…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKWhalefall: Austin Abrams gives it his all in a passable film about a man swallowed by a whale Brian Duffield’s CGI-filled blockbuster production has moments spectral of sci-fi beauty behind the blubber, but can’t quite capture the evocative prose of Daniel Krauss’s source novel.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKNightborn: Finnish myths are lost in the thicket of this gory post-partum horror Director Hanna Bergholm’s monstrous exploration of new parenthood ends up feeling overstuffed writes George Townsend, one of the critics on this year’s LFF Critics Mentorship Programme.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKPortrait of a lady: Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette With The Making of Marie Antoinette arriving in cinemas this week, we revisit Pam Cook’s analysis of Sofia Coppola’s irreverent teen queen biopic. From our November 2006 issue.
BFI / Sight and SoundUK“It was a way of understanding my own generation”: Manuela Martelli on her snowbound Chilean drama The Meltdown The award-winning director of 1976 talks to us about her second feature, a wintry coming-of-age drama set during Chile’s uneasy transition to democracy.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKInside the Archive #77: Preserving Frankenstein, a new-look study store and a trip to Colorado via London This month, learn more about how we're preserving Guillermo del Toro’s latest creation, how funding is helping us transform vital archive facilities and a recent Colorado collaboration with actress…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKMahershala Ali on Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother and the impact of representation The two-time Oscar winner joined us for an LFF Screen Talk to discuss the cost of acclaim, portraying a Black father, and the challenge of finding fully realised roles now he's stepping up to play…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKWhere to begin with Billy Wilder As our season dedicated to Billy Wilder gets under way, we plot a beginner’s path through the bittersweet comedies and acerbic noirs of one of the most celebrated directors of the golden age of…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKCompetition winners announced at 70th BFI London Film Festival And the winners are...
BFI / Sight and SoundUKDanny Boyle on his tabloid chronicle Ink: “The attention economy, clickbait, the dopamine economy – this is its hatching point” Danny Boyle discusses adapting James Graham’s Ink, tracing the roots of Britain’s tabloid revolution and exploring how the Sun helped create the attention economy that now shapes social media and…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKRevisiting Pakeezah, Hindi cinema’s great tragedy of desire and entrapment Years in the making, Pakeezah is a haunting collaboration between a dying star and the artists around her.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKRobert Eggers on Werwulf and his career in film: “Everybody is a bit of an island” The director of The Witch, The Lighthouse and Nosferatu reflected on folklore, filmmaking and creative partnership at an LFF Screen Talk, where audiences were treated to the first footage from his…
BFI / Sight and SoundUK10 great black-and-white films of the 2020s Ahead of the release of Fatherland, Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest black-and-white vignette of mid-century Europe, we round up other films from the decade so far which reclaim monochrome from film…
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