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A father in search of his lost daughter enters a world of illegal desert raves in the Spanish director’s teeth-rattling sensorial experiment.
A young woman struggles to conceal the depth of her loss when her lover-in-secret suddenly dies in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s assured feature.
The Brazilian director’s stellar filmmaking and sharp storytelling make this portrait of life under dictatorship as politically incisive as it is entertaining.
Inspired by a lunchtime pizza, Bandai Namco’s bright yellow mascot has endured remarkably since he first started chomping 45 years ago. From Saturday morning cartoons to cereal, pop songs to pyjamas, ...
Twenty-five years on from the premiere of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar Wai looks back on the complicated genesis of his masterpiece of desire and restraint.
As the controversial debut film by British auteur Thomas Clay comes to BFI Player, we look back on the outrage it caused in 2005, the method behind the film‘s upsetting impact, and its parallels with ...
Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone’s comic talents are lost to one-dimensional roles in a misguided pandemic satire filled with dated jokes and disingenuous political messaging.
The German director’s gorgeous, drifting study of a woman taken in by a stranger after a car crash has faint echos of Vertigo, but is more concerned with unnerving family dynamics than romance.
Before Lost in Translation there was Tokyo Pop, which – after decades in rights limbo – is now restored and ripe for reappraisal. We speak to director Fran Rubel Kuzui (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) about ...
Not much is said on the father-daughter hiking trip that takes place in India Donaldson’s slow-burn drama Good One, but it’s the silences that tell us most about the growing rift between parent and ...
The redesigned digital programme experience will be integrated with our third-party box office and ticket booking platform, and is underpinned by a new content management system, tailored to the ...
It made the Observer film critic laugh until her ribs ached, but its scenes of women fighting and men licking their lips caused trouble with the 1940s censors. Curator Josephine Botting digs into the ...