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Ava Gardner: 10 essential films
One hundred years after her birth, we remember the toughness, intelligence and glamour of golden age Hollywood icon Ava Gardner.
By Chloe Walker
Mike Hodges obituary: the British outsider auteur behind Get Carter
By David Parkinson
10 great films about queens and empresses
By Georgina Guthrie
5 things to watch this weekend – 16 to 18 December
By Samuel Wigley
Naughty list: screen culture’s bad guys strike at Christmas
By George Bass
Connect: a grisly offering from Takashi Miike that feels like the work of a modern-day media Frankenstein
By Anton Bitel
Crimes and misdemeanours: Liv Ullmann on Faithless
By Geoffrey Macnab
10 great films set outside our solar system
By Anton Bitel
BFI and Film4 launch Future Takes, a new fund to support original short films
BFI and Film4 launch Future Takes, a new fund to support original short filmsRRR: a delirious epic of Tollywood mythmaking
By Samuel Wigley
Yoshishige Yoshida obituary: leading light of the Japanese New Wave
By Jasper Sharp
Anime: the little word that conquered the world
By Nick Bradshaw
Horror in fancy clothes: the 1990s cycle of prestige monster movies
By Anna Bogutskaya
The Silent Twins: this true-life tale is visually rich, musical, and not a little disturbing
By Michael Brooke
The best British TV of 2022, as picked by BFI curators
By James Bell, Ros Cranston and others
Dates announced for 37th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Dates announced for 37th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film FestivalWhere to begin with James Cameron
By Josh Slater-Williams
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and the stop-motion renaissance: an interview with co-director Mark Gustafson
By Arjun Sajip