Joachim Trier's melancholy, playful film, which examines the reckoning that takes place between a selfish film director and his estranged daughters in the wake of their mother's death, is exquisitely ...

Ring in the new year with a trio of Buñuels, a wealth of Wisemans and a subscription exclusive: Marion Cotillard in the acclaimed dark fairytale The Ice Tower.

Ari Aster's Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix's conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal's tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The ...

Director Josh Safdie has pulled together a vibrant gallery of New York characters for a never-say-die American story that’s bursting with humour and that trademark Safdie kineticism.

Inspired by his experience of being interrogated in prison in Iran, Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just an Accident feels like the dissident filmmaker's most direct attack on the regime to ...

As a new collection curated by Sofas & Stuff arrives on BFI Player, we spoke to the Sofas & Stuff team about their favourite festive films and viewing traditions.

Alfred Hitchcock often preferred sets to real locations and – eerily empty of actors and action – these photographs show his constructed backdrops for the Highlands, train and Palladium sequences of ...

BFI curators select their favourite new programmes and series from a year on British TV. How many have you watched?

Steven Soderbergh’s smart, fun spy thriller Black Bag is the kind of mid-budget, star-led adult entertainment that has become an endangered species in cinemas. Here the director explains why the box ...

From a seven-and-a-half hour masterpiece to one of the most beautiful colour films ever made: as a trio of István Szabó films arrive on Blu-ray, we present a 10-film primer on the glories of Hungarian ...

The Phoenician Scheme returns Wes Anderson to the straightforward pleasures of the caper movie. He talks about writing the film for its star, Benicio del Toro, his fascination with charismatic, ...

As three silent cases for Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth emerge in new restorations, we place a magnifying glass over some of the finest Sherlock Holmes dramatisations to grace big screens and ...