Terence Davies’s sumptuous story of New York high society returns to UK cinemas this week. In our October 2000 issue, Philip Horne explored what made the film “an unpredictable, unformulaic success”.

Adapted from the acclaimed memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, Stewart’s directorial debut will be in UK and Irish cinemas from 6 February 2026.

Vesuvius tremors, tomb raiders and patient Neapolitan Fire Brigade workers all have a part to play in Gianfranco Rosi’s poetic meditation on the fragile nature of Naples.

The project rewrote the story of early film, revealing a thriving early 20th century industry of local, non-fiction filmmaking. Mitchell and Kenyon toured northern and central England, Scotland, ...

As our celebration of Terence Davies begins, we map a beginner’s path through Davies’s sublime cinema of music, memory and desire.

Voting for the ever-popular LFF Audience Awards closes on Monday 20 October. The winners of Best Feature Film and Best British Feature Film categories will be announced in due course. 2024 winners of ...

The LFF closing night film is a storybook fable based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel. We spoke to director Julia Jackman about a movie rooted in fairytales but with a very contemporary call to ...

The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general.

Highlights from the three-time Oscar winner’s rare appearance, in conversation at the BFI London Film Festival.

US indie great Richard Linklater joined the festival to talk time, hangouts and why the era when he made Dazed and Confused was ”a different world”.

The Oscar-winning Nomadland director joined an LFF Screen Talk to discuss her sensitivity to sadness, building pressure with the frame, and her acclaimed new adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet.

Mixing romance, bromance, crime, spaghetti western action and unforgettable musical numbers, Ramesh Sippy’s colourful classic remains one of Bollywood’s defining hits.