With a record-breaking number of female directors represented at this year's festival, Sophie Mayer offers a feministly subjective 'What to see' guide
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This is a guest post by Selina Robertson. Selina is a freelance film programmer and writer, curating queer film programmes in the UK and at international film f...
Between 14 and 28 July BFI Southbank is hosting a retrospective of Mania Akbari, one of Iran's most distinctive filmmakers.
Born in Tehran in 1974, in 2002 A...
The 27th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival bursts into spring (well, British spring...) from 14 to 24 March 2013.
The LLGFF will take place right ...
Among other things, December 2012 is the 50th anniversary of the theatrical release of David's Lean Lawrence of Arabia, a Hollywood epic that unfolds over almos...
Starting this Thursday, BFI Southbank will be hosting a season devoted to British screenwriter Paula Milne, known most recently for this year's BBC series Whit...
"I doubt there is a single film-goer who has never heard about Alfred Hitchcock," opens Agata Frymus her review of Vertigo for The F-Word.
Well, if there is, B...
Agata Frymus revisits Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, screened at BFI Southbank throughout September, and wonders why such a blatantly misogynistic film has just been voted 'best film of all time' by prominent industry critics
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This is a guest post by Sophie Mayer. She is the author of The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love, and a regular contributor to The F-Word and Sight & S...
Paying close attention to director Joanna Hogg's creative process, Selina Robertson praises the filmmaker's two feature films as both truly independent and of great import for the British cinematic landscape
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UPDATE: I forgot to link up the event page on the BFI website, here it is for those interested in purchasing tickets.
I'm so annoyed I can't make this one: the...
