From Eyes Without a Face to Raw, French horror trips the line between realism and the uncanny, and pushes into a realm of profound discomfort.

One hundred years after she was born, we remember one of our favourite Angela Lansbury performances: as the malevolent mother working for the other side in John Frankenheimer’s chilling Cold War ...

From Akinola Davies Jr’s feature debut My Father’s Shadow to Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada, this year’s festival programme features the work of many alumni of our early-career support and funding ...

A young girl’s life is upended by tragedy in Belgian drama Têtes brûlées. Director Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama told us about avoiding the clichés of violent masculinity and the limits of storytelling as a ...

The Film Society, a monthly miscellany staged at West End venues in London between 1925 and 1939, played a critical role in helping to define film as the seventh art. Here are seven ways it did so, ...

This vintage filing system with its colour-coded film records holds an invaluable place on the shelves of the BFI National Archive. Have you checked the Kalamazoo?

Can’t decide what to make time for at the 69th BFI London Film Festival 2025? Discover some of the most intriguing films on the programme, reviewed and recommended by Sight and Sound critics.

The Oscar-winning Nomadland director joined an LFF Screen Talk to discuss her sensitivity to sadness, building pressure with the frame, and her acclaimed new adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet.

In the first of this year’s LFF Screen Talks, Lanthimos sat down with Succession creator Jesse Armstrong to reveal the secret ingredients and approach to actors that underpin his uniquely weird brand ...

Using old home video footage and re-enactments, Irish filmmaker Myrid Carten presents a frank exploration of her troubled relationship with her mother Nuala, who suffers from addiction and alcoholism.

Set in late 1990s New York, Emmi’s thriller about a cop who botches an arrest and ends up falling for his target (Russell Tovey) rattles with anxiety and paranoia.

Director Ben Leonberg adopts a dog’s POV for a crafty little haunted house horror that makes the most of its endearing canine star.