This 1947 budget sheet for Black Narcissus shows exactly where the money went on Powell and Pressburger’s classic tale of nuns in the Himalayas.

And all the major studios were at work integrating their businesses, so they could control their films from studio to cinema, a consolidation of power that set the conditions for the Golden Age of ...

In 1980, Lynch left behind the American heartland to make a film on British soil – his devastating story of The Elephant Man. We went looking for the hotspots of Lynchian London.

Tina McFarling, our Head of Strategic Communications until July 2025, and David Thomas Gurney, our Film Laboratory Lead until summer 2025, are both made MBEs, while former BFI governor Idris Elba ...

These original cut-out creations for her film Cinderella reveal the painstaking craft behind Lotte Reiniger’s distinctive animation style.

Bardot became a global icon of post-war France. From her scandalous breakthrough in And God Created Woman and the ensuing Bardomania, her bold, brazen screen image embodied a new freedom and made her ...

Ahead of the latest in the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas strand airing on Christmas Eve, we revisit the atmospheric locations for the original series to see how time has changed them.

It’s not all fond recollection at year’s end, however, and a handful of screenings mark the passing of some of cinema’s major figures. David Lynch, Robert Redford, Terence Stamp, and Tom Stoppard are ...

Ari Aster's Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix's conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal's tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The ...

As an annual tradition throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Ealing Studios’ advertising director S. John Woods designed a special Christmas card. The results were typical of the studio’s graphic design ...

James Cameron’s sprawling ensemble piece sees the Na’vi fighting against diabolical human colonisers once again, but it’s more concerned with scale than sophistication.

£1.19bn upturn in final quarter signals significant recovery in film and high-end TV production, while pandemic closure for cinemas reduce admissions by 75%. 1917 led 2020 UK box office, with The ...