John Ford’s acclaimed, troubling western stars John Wayne as a racist army veteran on an obsessive quest to find and kill the Comanche who abducted his niece. Ford’s western, acclaimed by many as his ...
In silent-era Hollywood, stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is brought to a hospital after an on-set accident leaves him paralysed. There, he befriends a young girl called Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) and ...
Hijackers have taken over LA’s towering Nakatomi skyrise, but they didn’t bank on the presence of Bruce Willis’s John McClane, in this action masterpiece. Become a BFI Member and enjoy £2 off BFI IMAX ...
Milos Forman’s uproarious, Oscar-winning satire, which takes place in a mental health facility is a darkly funny and ultimately profoundly humane work of art. Randle McMurphy pleads insanity to avoid ...
The Academy Award-winning Godzilla Minus One stomps its way back to BFI IMAX in its acclaimed black and white Minus Colour edition, introduced by kaiju scholar Steven Sloss. Giant monsters deserve a ...
The second and arguably best of Miller’s post-apocalyptic Mad Max films, this sees former cop Max caught up in the deadly conflict between an oil-refinery compound and a marauding biker gang attacking ...
Deeply moved by the suicide of poet-activist Vilas Ghogre, who was driven to despair by the police shooting of Dalit slum dwellers in Mumbai, Patwardhan spent over a decade investigating the ...
We are delighted to welcome Daniela Berghahn to discuss her latest book Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
Jack Skellington of Halloween Town finds scaring people just isn’t fun anymore, so sets his sights on neighbouring Christmas Town, a place covered in snow and full of joy. However, his attempts at ...
Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films. A confused pre-teen finds imaginatively ambiguous answers in a bottle, in this singular portrait of a precocious young girl.
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