Thirty years on, Clueless director Amy Heckerling looks back at remodelling Jane Austen in modern Beverly Hills, her struggles to get a foothold in the film industry, and why she’s nothing like the ...

Less than a minute long, this sound test from 1929 offers precious on-set footage of Alfred Hitchcock on mischievous form nearly 100 years ago.

After years of run-ins with the authorities, the Iranian director was forced to direct his most recent film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, remotely and in secret. But the methods are at odds with the ...

This special edition celebrates our 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll, as voted for by the world’s most influential filmmakers and critics ...

Influential film theorist and filmmaker Peter Wollen was a compulsive list-maker. His notebook contains fascinating lists on many themes, including this rundown of ’diabolical doctors’.

When the BFI announced the establishment of the National Film Library (now the BFI National Archive, which turns 90 this year), its first curator, Ernest Lindgren, outlined the need for its existence.

Actor Fiona Shaw and director Rebecca Lenkiewicz go behind the scenes on their humid summer drama Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s acclaimed novel about a mother-daughter relationship fraying ...

Gunn shows just how much the concepts of Truth, Justice and the American Way have taken a battering with this playful interpretation of the Man of Steel that sees David Corenswet off to an encouraging ...

As the new adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel Harvest opens in cinemas, we gather in a bounteous crop of previous films that have captured life on the land and the rolling beauty of the British ...

Beginning with one of the all-time great character entrances, Dandridge sashays with brazen confidence through her turn as the sassy protagonist of Otto Preminger’s Deep South romance.

One hundred years after his birth, we pick a path through the films of the melancholy maestro of Indian cinema, Guru Dutt.

Director Rian Johnson’s third instalment of the Netflix Knives Out series is the LFF Opening Night Gala, hosted at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall with screenings around the UK.