BFI Archives - The F-Word

Girlhoods, Margaritas and Björk: watching women at the London Film Festival

Sophie Mayer10 October 2014

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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Teenage Kicks: August season @ BFI Southbank

Guest Blogger6 August 2014

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...

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From Tehran with love: the cinema of Mania Akbari @ BFI PLUS competition

Ania Ostrowska9 July 2013

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...

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27th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival PLUS COMPETITION

Ania Ostrowska10 March 2013

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 ...

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Stories from the sea and beyond

Sophie Mayer13 February 2013

Sophie Mayer delights in archival documentary about British seaside, masterfully put together by director Penny Woolcock ...

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New review and COMPETITION: Lawrence of Arabia

Ania Ostrowska28 November 2012

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...

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Paula Milne: the personal as political season at BFI Southbank

Ania Ostrowska4 September 2012

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...

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New review: Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Ania Ostrowska31 August 2012

"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...

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Feeling dizzy? Hitchcock’s Vertigo strikes again

Agata Frymus31 August 2012

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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Jafar Panahi and Mohamad Rasoulof at BFI Southbank (plus COMPETITION!)

Ania Ostrowska5 August 2012

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...

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Joanna Hogg: a very British outsider

Selina Robertson24 May 2012

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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Future Sex panel at BFI in London

Jess McCabe14 June 2010

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...

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