This week we go back in time to the 1950s and 60s to explore the Archive's pioneering past and look ahead to Heritage Open Day.

Among a number of post-war British films testing the stereotypically wholesome depiction of mothers and daughters, The Woman in the Hall features Jean Simmons playing a young woman who is driven to ...

Mike Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation eschews horror for a life-affirming take on the end of the world. Stars Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor spoke to us about their favourite King ...

Packed with notes, sketches and Polaroids, this shooting script for Sally Potter’s film of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando illustrates the complexity of one of cinema’s undersung roles: the script supervisor ...

From Stalker to Hard to Be a God: as a wild Czech New Wave sci-fi farce surfaces on Blu-ray, we survey the unhinged dystopias and mind-bending metaphysics of the best science fiction films from ...

Using a DV camera and successive iPhones, Mapplebeck threads together 20 years of her and her son’s lives with humour, warmth and honesty.

A young couple move to the countryside and are overcome by a magnet-like attraction that threatens to fuse their bodies together permanently in Michael Shanks’s gruesome yarn.

Writer-director Hikari returns to the BFI London Film Festival with her second feature as American Express Gala, hosted at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall with screenings around the UK.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a novel written by Jane Austen must be in want of an adaptation. Or several. Two hundred and fifty years after Austen was born, and with Ang Lee’s Sense and ...

Director Shoshannah Stern’s documentary about Marlee Matlin, the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, offers thought-provoking insights into the history of disability inclusion (and exclusion) in America ...

England’s most-adapted dead lady novelist” – was a pleasing departure from other recent takes, argued our critic upon the film’s release. From our March 1996 issue.

During his final preparations for this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, festival director Paul Ridd joined us to talk about his new guiding principles for the programme and makes some ...