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Find out moreThe Odyssey at BFI IMAX
Experience IMAX 70mm screenings of The Odyssey on the UK’s biggest screen, from 17 July 2026.
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BFI London Film Festival
Discover the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling, in London and around the UK – 7 to 18 October 2026.
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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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Digger: an unwieldy but compulsively watchable satire
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s big, unsubtle film about an impending climate catastrophe caused by reckless oil drilling is short on laughs, but has a powerful weapon in Tom Cruise’s barnstorming performance as the ageing Texan oil tycoon Digger Rockwell.
By Philip Concannon
Take It Or Leave It: the making of Madness
By Stephen Dalton
“Sick and kinky”: The BBFC and Ken Russell’s The Devils
By Linda Ruth Williams
21 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 2026
21 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 202610 great South Korean sci-fi films
By Josh Slater-Williams
“It comes out of an anger about the way things are”: Martin Scorsese on The Departed
By Ian Christie
Competition juries announced for 70th BFI London Film Festival
Competition juries announced for 70th BFI London Film FestivalEvents
Mike Leigh discusses Bleak Moments at BFI Southbank, his powerful debut film about loneliness, routine and the search for connection.
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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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Our Screen Culture 2033 strategy for the BFI and ten-year National Lottery funding strategy from 2023 to 2033.
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