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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

The story of Christine Norden’s road to fame is a publicist’s dream. While queuing to see a Ray Milland film in the Edgware Road in August 1945, this glamorous daughter of a Sunderland bus driver was ...

A Florida orange hangs sweetly from its tree: the camera pans left, and it becomes clear that the person gazing at it is horizontal, lying on the grass below. Assuming this person’s point of view, ...

Marisa Paredes, who has died at the age of 78, oozed old school Hollywood glamour. She had verve, style and a veritable sense of mischief. Her presence and poise were deployed to compelling effect by ...