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Interviews

Carol Morley: “I could tell straight away that Audrey Amiss was a completely fascinating person”

by David Jenkins

The intrepid British director on being one of the first people to lay their eyes on the archives of the late artist Audrey Amiss – subject of Typist, Artist, Pirate, King.
In Praise Of

Sadness with Pizzazz: The Saddest Music in the World at 20

by Theo Rollason

Two decades after its release, Guy Maddin’s eccentric Prohibition era satire speaks to a contemporary obsession with corporatising pain.

Why contemporary filmmakers can’t stop copying Jacques Demy

by Oisín McGilloway

From La La Land to Past Lives, filmmakers are still drawing inspiration from the vivid emotional worlds of Jacques Demy. What is it about his films that continues to inspire directors?
What's On

Put on your red shoes and dance: the enduring euphoria of Powell & Pressburger

by Lillian Crawford

A new season organised by the BFI in partnership with Thelma Schoonmaker brings many classic Powell & Pressburger films – including new restorations – to the big screen once more.
Interviews

Martin Scorsese: ‘What is it about us as human beings that allows for us to be so compartmentalised?’

by Christina Newland

Speaking at the global press conference for Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese provides insights into his research process and use of music, as well as discovering Lily Gladstone via Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women.

A brief history of America according to Martin Scorsese

by Paul Risker

Across seven decades, Martin Scorsese has been constructing his own vision of the United States’ bloodstained mythology.
Not Movies

The Curse is Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s unsettling suburban house of mirrors

by Charles Bramesco

Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone star as an unscrupulous property developing couple who find themselves cursed by a small child in this A24 and Showtime collaboration.
Home Ents

What to watch at home in October

by Anton Bitel

Cannibals, ghosts, demons and housewives are on the schedule for this special spooky season round-up of all the latest in Blu-Ray and DVD releases.
Interviews

‘Tom understood this wasn’t a film about being tough, it was about fairies’ – Nicolas Winding Refn on Bronson at 15

by Simon Bland

The Drive director reflects on smuggling Bronson’s actual moustache out of prison and the personal story behind his ethereal biopic of the UK’s most notorious inmate.
Interviews

Thelma Schoonmaker: ‘Powell left a little furnace burning inside of me’

by Lillian Crawford

Ahead of the BFI’s landmark Powell & Pressburger retrospective, the legendary film editor speaks about her relationship with Michael Powell, the process of restoring film, and how Powell & Pressburger influenced Killers of the Flower Moon.