Shiraishi Kazuya’s brutal Boshin War period piece about a group of death-row criminals recruited to defend a dilapidated fortress challenges the notion of the noble samurai.
Reviewing Victor Fleming’s now-classic musical upon its original UK release, our critic was full of praise but felt the film skewed towards a grown-up audience.
Our Mediatheque at BFI Southbank provides access to the digital collections of the BFI National Archive, enabling viewers to travel back in time to other televisual eras.
From fronting his own cookery show to rapping on the lead single from the biggest album of all time, the late career of horror legend Vincent Price took many unexpected directions.
The BFI has made 18 new awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, supporting international opportunities for the UK ’s independent screen sector. Financed through the Department for Culture, Media and ...
Hong Kong’s comedy kings Dayo Wong and Michael Hui reunite for a surprisingly serious-minded drama exploring family dynamics and the burden of tradition.
The last film from Tibetan director Pema Tseden takes on a mystical quality as a Chinese television crew arrives in Tibet to report on a farmer who has taken a snow leopard captive for killing his ...
Elizabeth Sankey’s candid personal reflection on post-partum psychosis is at its strongest when it moves away from the fiction of witchcraft in cinema, and to the real-life experiences of the women ...
In an era preoccupied with misinformation, a new book tells the story of how the moving image has been wielded to shape opinion and push British political interests. Here, author Scott Anthony looks ...
He was the kid trained by Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon, but he went on to become one of Hong Kong’s most acclaimed action choreographers. Stephen Tung Wai looks back over 50 years of kung fu and ...