Three Black queer femmes hit the open road in the special presentation film at this year’s BFI Flare. Filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford tells us about the influence of Paris, Texas, and how they created ...

Psycho shocked and terrified its early audiences, reinventing a kind of cinema with the qualities of a rollercoaster ride. But how did Hitchcock school and discipline his viewers? From our December ...

As the prestigious talent programme celebrates its 10th year with BAFTA, several alumni have films in BFI Flare’s Official Selection this year.

From erotic thrillers to queer coming-of-age dramas, François Ozon has proven to be one of modern French cinema’s most prolific and shape-shifting auteurs. As his latest drama When Autumn Falls comes ...

At this year’s Oscars, films from Pixar and Aardman were beaten as best animated feature by a Latvian film called Flow. As Gints Zilbalodis’s heartbreaker goes on release, we track the contemporary ...

The Emmy-nominated comedian, actor and writer will discuss his career, including his latest role in Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet.

Based on an avant-garde wartime play, The Lost People was scripted by the pioneering filmmaker Muriel Box (who also directed some sequences) and presents an unusual depiction of the turmoil of ...

As Ken Russell’s Tommy turns 50, we explore the world of hit albums that have expanded into their own movies, from A Hard Day’s Night to Purple Rain.

Robert Pattinson is cloned over and over, a remarkable debut puts a human face on dehumanising work, and Bob Dylan gets a night of TV. What are you watching this weekend?

Karan Kandhari’s wild debut feature about a newly married Mumbai woman whose life takes a surreal turn when she is bitten by a mosquito is bursting with cinephilic enthusiasm, but at times puts the ...

Love and espionage go hand in hand for married agents Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender in a sophisticated spy thriller packed with secrets, paranoia and romance.

A withdrawn care worker has her life turned upside down when a hard partying neighbour moves in next door in Jed Hart’s shapeshifting suburban revenge feature.