In Yield to the Night, Diana Dors plays a woman facing the death sentence for killing her boyfriend’s mistress. It proved a formidable acting flex from a star who’d been underrated as a ‘bombshell’.
Director Sarah Friedland explores the human mind in all its frailness and glory with her exquisite drama about a woman with dementia adjusting to a new life at an assisted living facility.
Broadcast on BBC2 in 1984, Threads dramatised the fallout from a nuclear attack on Sheffield with harrowing realism. We look back on a TV movie that scarred a generation of viewers for life.
Paul Duane, the director of modern Irish folk horror All You Need Is Death, speaks to Robert Wynne-Simmons, whose haunting 1982 film The Outcasts has re-emerged after decades of obscurity.
Happyend unfolds in a dystopian near-future where a title card informs us that systems are crumbling. It’s here, beneath a subtly Blade Runner-ish skyline and amidst intermittent earthquakes, that a ...
A stinging satire on the British film industry, a Netflix thriller that delivers the goods, and a glowing tale of ageing romance. What are you watching this weekend?
As London’s Open House Festival offers a glimpse inside the capital’s most impressive buildings, we take a look at the modern house on film.
Director Clio Barnard takes us behind the scenes of the second series of acclaimed Nottingham-based crime drama Sherwood.
Lee’s film adapts the graphic novel by her ex-partner Chester Brown, creating a candid his-and-hers narrative of their open relationship and its break down.
A 70-year-old widow in Tehran shakes up her predictable existence when she pursues a relationship with a lonely taxi driver in Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha‘s defiant tale of late-in-life ...
Despite its impressive cast, this portrait of surrealist artist and wartime photographer Lee Miller can at times feel a little lifeless.
New releases screening at BFI IMAX in late October and November will include Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips, 2024) and Gladiator II (Ridley Scott, 2024), plus The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) ...