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A new free-to-access digital archive exclusively available in UK public lending libraries. Discover thousands of digitised videos and television programmes from the 1960s to the 2010s, offering a glimpse into Britain’s past, its people and places.
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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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Motherboard: Victoria Mapplebeck’s decades-spanning document of single motherhood finds beauty in the passage of time
Using a DV camera and successive iPhones, Mapplebeck threads together 20 years of her and her son’s lives with humour, warmth and honesty.
By Saskia Baron
Together: Alison Brie and James Franco find funny, skin-crawling horror in a love that binds
By Nicolas Rapold
The Ice Tower, starring Marion Cotillard and Clara Pacini, to released by BFI Distribution
The Ice Tower, starring Marion Cotillard and Clara Pacini, to released by BFI Distribution10 great Eastern European sci-fi films
By Michael Brooke
Laura Mulvey to receive a BFI Fellowship
Laura Mulvey to receive a BFI FellowshipUK premiere of Hikari’s Rental Family announced as American Express Gala at the 69th London Film Festival
UK premiere of Hikari’s Rental Family announced as American Express Gala at the 69th London Film FestivalInside the Archive #37: Firebreaks and Graveyard Shifts
By John Carino, Jo Molyneux and others
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Alex Cox, Nick Freand Jones and Tornado director John Maclean talk to Samira Ahmed about an influential and inspirational series that brought a huge range of "cult" cinema into peoples' homes.
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Our Screen Culture 2033 strategy for the BFI and ten-year National Lottery funding strategy from 2023 to 2033.
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