Features and reviews

Discover the latest from the BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image.

Interviews

“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

“It was a way of understanding my own generation”: Manuela Martelli on her snowbound Chilean drama The Meltdown

Interviews

Mahershala Ali on Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother and the impact of representation

By Whelan Barzey

Mahershala Ali on Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother and the impact of representation

Interviews

Danny Boyle on his tabloid chronicle Ink: “The attention economy, clickbait, the dopamine economy – this is its hatching point”

By Lou Thomas

Danny Boyle on his tabloid chronicle Ink: “The attention economy, clickbait, the dopamine economy – this is its hatching point”

Interviews

Robert Eggers on Werwulf and his career in film: “Everybody is a bit of an island”

By Ibrahim Azam

Robert Eggers on Werwulf and his career in film: “Everybody is a bit of an island”

Interviews

Javier Bardem on Bunker and The Beloved: “I’ve been in some toxic environments”

By Lou Thomas

Javier Bardem on Bunker and The Beloved: “I’ve been in some toxic environments”

Interviews

Michael Winterbottom on The Trip to the Northern Lights: “Steve’s not worried about appearing grumpy or lonely”

By Sam Wigley

Michael Winterbottom on The Trip to the Northern Lights: “Steve’s not worried about appearing grumpy or lonely”

Interviews

John Malkovich on Wild Horse Nine and “the most terrible line I’ve ever had to give”

By Brogan Morris

John Malkovich on Wild Horse Nine and “the most terrible line I’ve ever had to give”

Festivals

“There’s such a sense of helplessness right now in America”: Beth de Araújo on Josephine

By Katie McCabe

“There’s such a sense of helplessness right now in America”: Beth de Araújo on Josephine

Interviews

Naomi Ackie on I Love Boosters and her approach to acting: “Talent is one thing, but the practice and the craft is completely different”

By Baneet Sarai

Naomi Ackie on I Love Boosters and her approach to acting: “Talent is one thing, but the practice and the craft is completely different”

From the Sight and Sound archive

“You can show a range of emotion that you don’t usually get in the cinema”: Derek Jarman on Edward II

By Michael O'Pray

“You can show a range of emotion that you don’t usually get in the cinema”: Derek Jarman on Edward II

Interviews

Andrew Scott on Hamlet, Elsinore and his career in film: “Shakespeare was thinking of me the whole time”

By Baneet Sarai

Andrew Scott on Hamlet, Elsinore and his career in film: “Shakespeare was thinking of me the whole time”

Interviews

Sofia Coppola on Making Marie Antoinette and her career in film

By Josh Slater-Williams

Sofia Coppola on Making Marie Antoinette and her career in film

From the Sight and Sound archive

“My one political film”: Ken Russell on The Devils

By Ken Russell

“My one political film”: Ken Russell on The Devils

Interviews

“We’re being asked to check our humanity at the door”: Cate Blanchett and Shahrbanoo Sadat on cinema’s power to reconnect us

By Lou Thomas

“We’re being asked to check our humanity at the door”: Cate Blanchett and Shahrbanoo Sadat on cinema’s power to reconnect us

Interviews

Beatrice Gibson on her Paris nocturne At Night: “One woman’s liberation can be another woman’s oppression, and vice versa”

By Sophia Satchell-Baeza

Beatrice Gibson on her Paris nocturne At Night: “One woman’s liberation can be another woman’s oppression, and vice versa”

Interviews

Take It Or Leave It: the making of Madness

By Stephen Dalton

Take It Or Leave It: the making of Madness

From the Sight and Sound archive

“It comes out of an anger about the way things are”: Martin Scorsese on The Departed

By Ian Christie

“It comes out of an anger about the way things are”: Martin Scorsese on The Departed

From the Sight and Sound archive

On Bresson: Olivier Assayas, Paul Schrader, Aki Kaurismäki and more discuss the French director

By Michael Brooke

On Bresson: Olivier Assayas, Paul Schrader, Aki Kaurismäki and more discuss the French director

Interviews

“There were riots in theatres”: how Exorcist II became horror’s most notorious sequel

By James Mottram

“There were riots in theatres”: how Exorcist II became horror’s most notorious sequel

Interviews

“I realised any attempt to replicate is going to be a failure”: Sophy Romvari on Blue Heron

By Hope Rangaswami

“I realised any attempt to replicate is going to be a failure”: Sophy Romvari on Blue Heron

Interviews

Saoirse Ronan on Bad Apples, bad teachers and her ambitions as a director

By Lou Thomas

Saoirse Ronan on Bad Apples, bad teachers and her ambitions as a director

Interviews

Desert of the disappeared: Patricio Guzmán on Nostalgia for the Light

By Chris Darke

Desert of the disappeared: Patricio Guzmán on Nostalgia for the Light

Interviews

“I never made a movie to just go make a movie, it was always an exploration of filmmaking”: our world exclusive interview with Tom Cruise

By Isabel Stevens

“I never made a movie to just go make a movie, it was always an exploration of filmmaking”: our world exclusive interview with Tom Cruise

Interviews

All about my mother: Annouchka de Andrade on Sarah Maldoror

By Annouchka de Andrade

All about my mother: Annouchka de Andrade on Sarah Maldoror

From the Sight and Sound archive

The making of a super-producer: Jeremy Thomas interviewed in 2014

By Nick James

The making of a super-producer: Jeremy Thomas interviewed in 2014

From the Sight and Sound archive

The discreet murderer of the bourgeoisie: an interview with Claude Chabrol

By Rui Nogueira and Nicoletta Zalaffi

The discreet murderer of the bourgeoisie: an interview with Claude Chabrol

Interviews

A home movie for Planet Earth: Ed Sayers on his Super 8 odyssey Super Nature

By Brogan Morris

A home movie for Planet Earth: Ed Sayers on his Super 8 odyssey Super Nature

Interviews

Gregg Araki on I Want Your Sex: “The despair of the bad makes the euphoria of the good even more intense”

By Blake Simons

Gregg Araki on I Want Your Sex: “The despair of the bad makes the euphoria of the good even more intense”

From the Sight and Sound archive

“We wanted the film to have a vibrancy, to be larger than life”: Danny Boyle on Trainspotting

By Geoffrey Macnab

“We wanted the film to have a vibrancy, to be larger than life”: Danny Boyle on Trainspotting

Interviews

The Incomer: director Louis Paxton on his darkly funny tale of siblings, islands and isolation

By Lou Thomas

The Incomer: director Louis Paxton on his darkly funny tale of siblings, islands and isolation