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Tom Cruise and team return for another teeth-clenching, breathtaking, white-knuckle ride as Ethan Hunt faces down his toughest foe. See preview screenings at BFI IMAX.
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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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Wong Kar Wai on In the Mood for Love at 25 – a new interview: “Can an algorithm understand the weight of a glance between two people?”
Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.
By Sam Wigley
Eddington: Ari Aster’s Covid movie punches in all directions and misses
By John Bleasdale
Mirrors No. 3: Suspense melts away into golden summer days in Christian Petzold’s low-key psychodrama
By Savina Petkova
“I was thinking of the price you pay for being obedient”: India Donaldson on her debut film Good One
By Katherine McLaughlin
Idol of Paris: the lusty 1948 costume drama with a sensational whip duel
By Josephine Botting
What we’re doing to transform the digital service for our cinemas
By Katy Fife
“We inadvertently began the hip-hop movement in Japan”: Fran Rubel Kuzui on the return of her 80s indie gem Tokyo Pop
By Josh Slater-Williams
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Actor, producer and Hollywood legend Tom Cruise visits the BFI Southbank to talk to Edith Bowman about his career.
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The BFI National Archive has one of the most important film and TV collections in the world. Choose from a selection of 11,000 titles that cover 120 years of British life, and the history and art of film.
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