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“It was a way of understanding my own generation”: Manuela Martelli on her snowbound Chilean drama The Meltdown
The award-winning director of 1976 talks to us about her second feature, a wintry coming-of-age drama set during Chile’s uneasy transition to democracy.
By Georgia Korossi
Inside the Archive #77: Preserving Frankenstein, a new-look study store and a trip to Colorado via London
By Rosie Taylor, Alex Prideaux and others
Mahershala Ali on Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother and the impact of representation
By Whelan Barzey
Where to begin with Billy Wilder
By Ruby McGuigan
Competition winners announced at 70th BFI London Film Festival
Competition winners announced at 70th BFI London Film FestivalClub Kid: an outrageously funny crowdpleaser
By Barry Levitt
Danny Boyle on his tabloid chronicle Ink: “The attention economy, clickbait, the dopamine economy – this is its hatching point”
By Lou Thomas
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Mike Leigh discusses Bleak Moments at BFI Southbank, his powerful debut film about loneliness, routine and the search for connection.
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