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BFI / Sight and SoundUKA home movie for Planet Earth: Ed Sayers on his Super 8 odyssey Super Nature The director of Super Nature discusses shooting wildlife on Super 8, finding hope amid climate crisis and why the grainy home-movie format is uniquely suited to capturing a world at risk of disappearing.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKBFI Distribution acquires Cannes winner Everytime for UK and Irish cinemas Written and directed by Sandra Wollner, the film won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes 2026.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUK10 great age-gap friendship films As Late Fame arrives in cinemas, we revisit 10 films that explore the intergenerational dynamics of age-gap friendships, from Harold and Maude to Cinema Paradiso.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKFull programme announced for 70th BFI London Film Festival The festival will present 251 titles – comprising features, shorts, series and immersive works – from 88 countries, opening with Simon Stone’s Elsinore and closing with Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKThe UK’s first arthouse boom: how Contemporary Films blazed a trail in bringing world cinema to British viewers Celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, Contemporary Films helped to pioneer the distribution of cinema from around the globe, bringing films by directors including Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman and Satyajit Ray to
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BFI / Sight and SoundUK“He is the blockbuster given human form”: J. Hoberman on Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Schwarzenegger cemented his status as the reigning Hollywood superman with Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which returns to cinemas this week. In this essay from our September 1991 issue, J. Hoberman explored the reas
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKIn pictures: Vivid behind-the-scenes shots from the jazz club in The L-shaped Room These rarely seen colour photos – likely taken by director Bryan Forbes himself during the filming of the nightclub scene in his 1962 drama The L-shaped Room – offer a beautifully detailed glimpse of early 60s fashions a
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKSuper Nature: Ed Sayers’ Super 8 documentary is a beautiful ode to nature’s restorative power Threading together striking Super 8 footage shot by contributors from 25 countries, Ed Sayers’ textured documentary explores our connection with nature through the alchemy of capturing it on celluloid.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKLate Fame: Kent Jones’s playful drama pokes gentle fun at New York literary circles old and new A self-styled society of young aesthetes leap at the chance to ‘rediscover’ retired poet Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe) in this poetic meditation on the transience of literary fame.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKCastration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts – Premorphic Drift: Louise Weard has created a new trans cinematic language Vancouver couple Izzy and Trent’s relationship begins to fracture when Trent comes out as transgender and Izzy becomes increasingly transphobic in this hypnotically absorbing addition to Louise Weard’s ongoing DIY film s
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKI Want Your Sex: Gregg Araki’s wild art-world satire unspools as an enjoyable kinky-sex detective yarn Araki’s first film in ten years brings his spirit of transgression back to the screen with a wink-wink plot surrounding an artist’s assistant who gets caught up in S&M games with his boss.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKNowhere to Lay My Eyes: Hong Sang-soo’s meditative family drama is familiar in all the right ways An experimental filmmaker takes an eventful trip to Jeju Island with her family in this quiet addition to the Hong Sang-soo oeuvre that paints the inner lives of its characters into every subtle gesture.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKBFI supports 6 UK Black and Global Majority producers to attend TIFF: The Market as part of programme of activity during the festival Delegation of producers with projects in active development will travel to Toronto International Film Festival’s inaugural Market thanks to the BFI National Lottery International Connections Fund.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUK10 great films about screenwriters When screenwriters write screenplays about screenwriters... As Pedro Almodóvar’s meta melodrama Bitter Christmas arrives in cinemas, we look at films that put script-writing in the spotlight, from Sunset Blvd to Adaptati
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKGregg Araki on I Want Your Sex: “The despair of the bad makes the euphoria of the good even more intense” After more than a decade away from the big screen, Gregg Araki returns with I Want Your Sex, a provocative screwball comedy that doubles as a defence of messy desire. The New Queer Cinema pioneer reflects on sex positivi
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKBFI Player’s September 2026 line-up Alongside exclusive new titles including Ish, the Oslo Stories Trilogy and Riefenstahl, we celebrate French cinema’s master of suspense with a collection of thrillers, mysteries and psychological dramas.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKSight and Sound: the October 2026 issue On the cover: Jane Schoenbrun talks genre, desire, remaking reality and building Camp Miasma Inside: Nicolas Winding Refn and Dario Argento in conversation, at the movies with Salman Rushdie, David Ayer's The Heart of th
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKA. Rimbaud: Patrick Wang’s wildly unconventional biopic of the 19th century poet Patrick Wang’s richly experimental film about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud stars just one actor telling his life story to a series of musical instruments. The result is extraordinary.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUK10 great films about making a horror film From Super 8 to Berberian Sound Studio... As Jane Schoenbrun’s meta-slasher movie Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma arrives in cinemas, we turn a lens on the surprisingly rich history of dramas and horror films about
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKAward-winning Filipiñana will be released by BFI Distribution in UK and Irish cinemas Rafael Manuel’s debut feature, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at this year’s Sundance, will be in cinemas on 20 November.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUK“We wanted the film to have a vibrancy, to be larger than life”: Danny Boyle on Trainspotting Thirty years after its release, Trainspotting is returning to cinemas. In our February 1996 issue, Geoffrey Macnab spoke to director Danny Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald about drugs, class a
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BFI / Sight and SoundUKInside the Archive #75: Bristol, Bologna and the Elsewhere in India project This month, read a selection of on-the-ground reports from festivals in the UK and internationally and dive into an exciting BFI-supported transmedia project.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUK12 new BFI Film Academy Hubs launch across the UK with support from UK Government and National Lottery funding The new delivery model for 2026 to 2029 increases opportunities for underrepresented young people to access free year-round training, networking opportunities and career development closer to home.
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BFI / Sight and SoundUK& Sons: a twisty domestic drama that never quite transcends its own gimmickry An ageing father (Bill Nighy) makes a bizarre confession to his two eldest sons (Johnny Flynn and George MacKay) in Pablo Trapero’s handsomely made but ultimately tiresome drama.
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