Catherine Breillat’s Romance confronts sexual taboos and desire, explains Leslie Felperin, while Linda Ruth Williams interviews the director. From our October 1999 issue.

In the late 1940s and 50s, comedy horror was dominated by a series of films bringing Universal’s top-billing comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into corny collision with various old-school ...

Swinton was joined on the 2024 BFI & CHANEL Filmmaker Awards jury by Edward Enninful OBE, Editorial Advisor, British Vogue and Global Creative and Cultural Advisor, Vogue, Marie-Louise Khondji, ...

From Cat People to The Substance. How the depiction of monstrous women on screen has evolved and reflected society’s deeper fears about sexuality and the body.

Winner of the Golden Shell at San Sebastian Film Festival, the Spanish auteur’s mesmerising bullfighting documentary shows the beauty and the barbarism of the controversial tradition.

With his new film Abiding Nowhere screening at the BFI London Film Festival, we pick a beginner’s path through Tsai Ming-liang’s hypnotic cinema of loneliness and thwarted desire.

Meet this year's trailblazing writers, directors and producers selected to take part in BFI NETWORK@LFF talent development programme!

An audience study providing fresh insights into the role of film in the context of the wider viewing landscape – including measurement of all the ways audiences consume films, the factors that ...

Kieron Webb, Head of Conservation at the BFI National Archive, introduces our plan for a state-of-the-art heritage science laboratory – part of a major £80 million research and innovation investment ...

BFI Flare is the UK’s largest queer film event, screening the best in contemporary LGBTQIA+ cinema from across the globe, in addition to a rich selection of events and archive titles. The festival ...