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Interviews

Monica Sorelle: ‘I’m working through my grief about Miami changing so rapidly and violently’

by Juan Barquin

As her debut receives a UK pre­mière as part of the BFI’s Black Debu­tants sea­son, Mia­mi film­mak­er Mon­i­ca Sorelle reflects on the mak­ing of Mountains.
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Podcast

The Wedding Banquet | Seeking Mavis Beacon | The Wedding Banquet (1993)

On Truth & Movies this week, we dis­cuss The Wed­ding Ban­quet, a film­mak­er goes on a quest to meet a touch typ­ing icon in Seek­ing Mavis Bea­con, Rógan Gra­ham is here to talk to us about her BFI sea­son The Black Debu­tantes and final­ly, for film club, we revis­it Ang Lee’s The Wed­ding Ban­quet (1993).

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Acting Up

The many faces of Sidney Poitier

by John Livesey

As the BFI cel­e­brates the lega­cy of an act­ing icon, we delve into Poitier’s com­plex legacy.
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Festivals

Trauma ripples through time at the London Film Festival

by Erin Mussett

Jesse Eisen­berg, Mal­colm Wash­ing­ton and Christo­pher Andrews explored the diverg­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions of gen­er­a­tional trau­ma at this year’s Lon­don Film Festival.
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Festivals

20 Hidden Gems at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival

by Little White Lies

Our hand-picked haul of must-see titles from out­side the main gala and com­pe­ti­tion strands.
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Exhibitions

A new exhibition shows off the invisible processes behind stop motion

by Kambole Campbell

LAIKA’s Frame x Frame exhi­bi­tion is a com­pact but detailed deep dive into how the stu­dio approach­es the mechan­ics of the medium.
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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.
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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.
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Festivals

Chasing Chasing Amy – first-look review

by Soma Ghosh

Sav Rodgers weaves per­son­al and pop cul­ture his­to­ry togeth­er as he unpacks the lega­cy of Kevin Smith’s 1997 roman­tic comedy.
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Festivals

Baltimore – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Imo­gen Poots shines in this angu­lar, frag­ment­ed por­trait of Eng­lish rose-turned-fire­brand activist Rose Dug­dale from Irish film­mak­ers Joe Lawlor and Chris­tine Molloy.