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Find out moreAlien: Romulus at BFI IMAX
The franchise returns to its roots with this deep-space scare-fest.
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The 68th BFI London Film Festival
Discover the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling – from 9 to 20 October 2024 in London and around the UK.
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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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5 things to watch this weekend – 6 to 8 September
Dark deeds, dangerous encounters and a vintage audience with the Master of Suspense. What are you watching this weekend?
By Sam Wigley
David Lean’s This Happy Breed: how the wartime London locations look 80 years later
By Adam Scovell
Sight and Sound: the October 2024 issue
Sight and Sound: the October 2024 issueHow we made The Third Man: ”Welles came out with the line about the ‘cuckoo clock’. Nobody knew what was going to come out of his mouth”
By Sam Wigley
Starve Acre: English folk traditions take root in this disturbing horror set in 1970s Yorkshire
By Anton Bitel
Wolfs: Pitt and Clooney’s laboured, low-effort crime caper
By Jessica Kiang
10 great technothrillers
By Rory Doherty
Events
Director Daniel Kokotajlo and actors Morfydd Clark and Robert Emms visit BFI Southbank to dig into their new British folk horror.
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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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