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Tarsem Singh: ‘I went bankrupt making The Fall, and I’d go bankrupt another ten times to do it’

By Christina Newland

The visionary Indian director behind modern cult favourite The Fall reflects on the film finding its audience after 17 years, and the production of Dear Jassi – his first feature film in almost a decade.

Green Snake and the search for belonging in a hostile world

By Xuanlin Tham

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Tsui Hark's take on a Chinese folktale is a breathtaking allegory for our inhospitable world.

Taking Up Space: cinematic adventures in male-dominated sports

By Nora Murphy

Emma Seligman's Bottoms promises a queer female fight club – how does it perform in the canon of films about women carving out space for themselves in hyper-masculine worlds?

Little Women: the trials of girlhood in contemporary cinema

By Meg Walters

With more and more women taking an active role in film production, depictions of young women are changing. What can they tell us about the modern world?

Close Encounters: 50 years of UFO cinema

By Nick Herrmann

With our galactic neighbours in the news as of late, it's a good time to look back at half a century of cinema about the potential for inter-planetary friendships (or not).

Why are so many British feature debuts about childhood trauma?

By Billie Walker

An excellent crop of debut films in the past couple of years all explore painful childhoods. What does this say about the interests of the British film industry?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

Misan Harriman: “There is grace in the process of having open wounds.”

By David Jenkins

The famed photographer turns his hand at filmmaking with a study of extreme trauma and slow healing in The After.

Inside the strange, enthusiastic world of YouTube’s fake trailer community

By Kyle MacNeill

For the last decade, a small group of video editors have spent hours toiling over concept trailers, delighting and duping fans eager to catch a sneak peek of an upcoming film.

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