Eisenstein’s debut feature, the labour drama Strike, which was released at the start of the year, well deserves a place on this list. However, 1925 was also the year that he directed the monumental ...

Film Forever was the BFI’s plan for 2012 to 2017. Film Forever covered all BFI activity and was funded by Grant in Aid from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and a share of National Lottery ...

Now in its eighth edition, the Sight and Sound poll for the best video essays of the year gives contributors the opportunity to share their personal highlights of videographic criticism. This year’s ...

British filmmakers have been producing Christmas pictures for more than 125 years, dating back to G.A. Smith’s Santa Claus in 1898. In 1901 came R.W. Paul’s Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost (1901), the ...

Part romcom, part weepie, director John Crowley’s melodrama We Live in Time explores the relationship between chef Almut (Florence Pugh) and corporate lackey Tobias (Andrew Garfield). It was shot ...

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Venue hire The BFI’s central London venues can be hired for screenings, meetings, conferences and events. Our venues include state-of-the-art cinema projection, unrivalled technical presentation and a ...

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal sci-fi, about a trio of travellers searching for wish fufilment by crossing into restricted territory, made a dystopian malady of life in the then Soviet Union. Forty years ...

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Chilean director Felipe Gálvez tells us about his period adventure drama The Settlers, based on a dark chapter in Chile’s colonial past.

What is Digital Library on Demand (DLD)? DLD is an electronic document delivery service which enables you to obtain scans of book chapters or journal articles from our collections without having to ...