From Alfred Hitchcock popping up in as an extra to Pac-Man chomping the scenery in Tron, film, TV and video games are full of secret nods to the audience. What better time than Easter to explore the ...

The glitzier details of Irish author Edna O’Brien’s life are given more space than her work in Sinéad O’Shea’s new documentary. But with anecdotes like these, how could you resist?

Filmmakers from Martin Scorsese to, soon, Terrence Malick have attempted their own cinematic versions of the life of Christ. How might the version Carl Theodor Dreyer wrote but never made have ...

As Ryan Coogler’s Sinners - in which Michael B. Jordan does double duty in two lead roles – hits cinemas, we look back at the rich history of dual performances.

Louise Courvoisier’s sensitively observed début feature sees a laddish 18-year-old gradually mature when he is faced with new responsibilities as the family breadwinner.

The festival opens with a glorious dye-transfer original British release print of Star Wars, and will close with a pristine 35mm print of the original US pilot episode of Twin Peaks, screening for the ...

BFI’s collection of Victorian 68mm film – the “IMAX of their day” – afforded protected status as part of a collection of 300 titles that will be added to UNESCO’s register.

Set in a lonely house on a Scottish clifftop, the windswept Tom Conti thriller Eclipse has returned from 50 years of obscurity. It now looks like a forerunner of Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men.

The Oscar-winning composer behind Black Panther and Oppenheimer talks about bringing the blues to work on director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.

One hundred years after he was born, we salute the fury and intensity of Rod Steiger’s presence on screen, from On the Waterfront to In the Heat of the Night.

Uberto Pasolini trades a fantastic voyage for an intense portrait of a marriage as the long-suffering Odysseus, played by Ralph Fiennes, returns from the Trojan War.

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