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BFI / Sight and SoundUK“It was a way of understanding my own generation”: Manuela Martelli on her snowbound Chilean drama The Meltdown The award-winning director of 1976 talks to us about her second feature, a wintry coming-of-age drama set during Chile’s uneasy transition to democracy.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKInside the Archive #77: Preserving Frankenstein, a new-look study store and a trip to Colorado via London This month, learn more about how we're preserving Guillermo del Toro’s latest creation, how funding is helping us transform vital archive facilities and a recent Colorado collaboration with actress…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKMahershala Ali on Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother and the impact of representation The two-time Oscar winner joined us for an LFF Screen Talk to discuss the cost of acclaim, portraying a Black father, and the challenge of finding fully realised roles now he's stepping up to play…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKWhere to begin with Billy Wilder As our season dedicated to Billy Wilder gets under way, we plot a beginner’s path through the bittersweet comedies and acerbic noirs of one of the most celebrated directors of the golden age of…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKCompetition winners announced at 70th BFI London Film Festival And the winners are...
BFI / Sight and SoundUKClub Kid: an outrageously funny crowdpleaser Jordan Firstman’s debut stays true to his irreverent humour while leaving just enough room for sincerity in its sweet story of a queer NYC club promoter who discovers he has a 10-year-old son.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKDanny Boyle on his tabloid chronicle Ink: “The attention economy, clickbait, the dopamine economy – this is its hatching point” Danny Boyle discusses adapting James Graham’s Ink, tracing the roots of Britain’s tabloid revolution and exploring how the Sun helped create the attention economy that now shapes social media and…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKRevisiting Pakeezah, Hindi cinema’s great tragedy of desire and entrapment Years in the making, Pakeezah is a haunting collaboration between a dying star and the artists around her.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKRobert Eggers on Werwulf and his career in film: “Everybody is a bit of an island” The director of The Witch, The Lighthouse and Nosferatu reflected on folklore, filmmaking and creative partnership at an LFF Screen Talk, where audiences were treated to the first footage from his…
BFI / Sight and SoundUK10 great black-and-white films of the 2020s Ahead of the release of Fatherland, Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest black-and-white vignette of mid-century Europe, we round up other films from the decade so far which reclaim monochrome from film…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKAll Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea: Jeanie Finlay’s documentary is a display of community solidarity in the face of ecological disaster With the help of the charismatic north-eastern fisherman Stan Rennie, Jeanie Finlay follows a coastal community in crisis after a series of mass shellfish die-offs along England’s Tees estuary.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKJavier Bardem on Bunker and The Beloved: “I’ve been in some toxic environments” Whether playing an abusive filmmaker or an architect consumed by ambition, Javier Bardem’s latest characters struggle to see the harm they inflict on those around them.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKOnce Upon a Time in Harlem: William Greaves and son preserve a Harlem Renaissance reunion with a marvel of cinéma vérité Using footage shot by his father in 1972, director David Greaves has completed a fascinating documentary that invites viewers to hang out with inspiring cultural revolutionaries.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKMichael Winterbottom on The Trip to the Northern Lights: “Steve’s not worried about appearing grumpy or lonely” As Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon return for another series of The Trip – this time bound for Scandinavia – we spoke to director Michael Winterbottom about the lines between fact and fiction, TV and…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKWhose side are you on?: Harlan County, U.S.A. reviewed in 1978 As Barbara Kopple’s miners’ strike documentary turns 50, we republish our original review of the film from Sight and Sound’s sister publication Monthly Film Bulletin.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKWinners announced at the 2026 BFI & CHANEL Filmmaker Awards Jessie Buckley and Gwendoline Christie joined the jury this year to present the awards to the winning filmmakers, who are selected for their creative audacity.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKLife of Jorge Luis Borges: a labyrinthian voyage through the work of Argentina’s best known writer Director Mariano Llínas’s five-hour documentary reads through the lines of Jorge Luis Borges’s work, digging into his archives to create a playful investigative literary mystery.
BFI / Sight and SoundUK“There’s such a sense of helplessness right now in America”: Beth de Araújo on Josephine As the second week of LFF gets underway, we speak to Beth de Araújo about taking a child’s eye view for her second feature, Josephine, a disquieting exploration of sexual violence based on a…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKBFI Film Academy launches expanded programme for 2026 to 2029 including free training courses and paid professional development placements Supported by UK Government and BFI National Lottery funding, the programme welcomes industry partners including Aardman, Amazon MGM Studios, Framestore, and Lucasfilm.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKWhere to begin with Lee Chang-dong Ahead of the UK release of his acclaimed new film Possible Love, we pick a beginner’s path through the work of South Korea’s master of slow-burn drama and the emotional gut-punch.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKNaomi Ackie on I Love Boosters and her approach to acting: “Talent is one thing, but the practice and the craft is completely different” Funny, self-deprecating and refreshingly down to earth, Naomi Ackie joined us for an LFF Screen Talk to discuss fame, failure, horror movies and the craft behind her acclaimed performances.
BFI / Sight and SoundUK“You can show a range of emotion that you don’t usually get in the cinema”: Derek Jarman on Edward II As Theo Rollason’s new making-of documentary Queer Edward II plays at the LFF, we revisit our 1991 interview with Derek Jarman about the intentions behind specific shots, costumes and lighting in…
BFI / Sight and SoundUKAndrew Scott on Hamlet, Elsinore and his career in film: “Shakespeare was thinking of me the whole time” At his LFF Screen Talk, the acclaimed actor reflected on fame, craft and queer representation as he discussed Elsinore, his deeply personal new film about the late Hamlet star Ian Charleson.
BFI / Sight and SoundUKSofia Coppola on Making Marie Antoinette and her career in film Talking at her LFF Screen Talk, Coppola spoke about the importance of point of view, a key purchase in a London record shop, and why she thought no one would like Lost in Translation.
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