This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.

Over half a century and around the globe, Laura Mulvey’s influence on thinking about film, through her writing and her own filmmaking practice, has been unparalleled. As she receives a BFI Fellowship, ...

Eros and Thanatos battle it out in these horny Halloween horrors, where monstrosity, repressed sexuality and devilish decadence feed into some truly transgressive movies.

Ahmed stars Ash, a go-between for corporate whistleblowers, in Justin Piasecki and David Mackenzie’s smart surveillance conspiracy plot.

Coming to BFI Player this November are films by Bong Joon Ho, Gaspar Noé and Ken Loach, plus a subscription exclusive for Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun.

The stars of Guillermo del Toro’s inimitable new spin on the Frankenstein story tell us why, like the creature itself, the director’s reimagining is pieced together from some unexpected parts.

Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari’s vibrant documentary about everyday life in Gaza circa 2001 is an act of preservation and resistance writes Arron Kennon, one of the critics on this year’s LFF ...

Learn more about an exciting new exhibition shining a light on the BFI National Archive, some recent study days and what the archive looked like in the 1980s.

American producers the Danziger brothers established a hive of brisk, low-budget genre movies and cult TV in 1950s Britain. Son of a Stranger was a crime melodrama that tapped into the current vogue ...

The line-up leads with a season dedicated to James Cameron, the multi-Academy Award-winning mastermind behind the biggest films in the history of cinema.

To play or not to play? This toy theatre was produced to help publicise Laurence Olivier’s Oscar-winning version of Hamlet. Ian McKellen remembers getting one for Christmas.

Ninety years after his birth, and as a season of his films begins at the ICA, we suggest a beginner’s path through one of the heavyweights of European arthouse cinema: Greek master Theo Angelopoulos.