Features and reviews

Discover the latest from the BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image.

Then and now

Beautiful Thing: finding the Thamesmead locations for the classic 90s gay romance

Romance blossoms during a hot summer in south London in the 1996 film Beautiful Thing, filmed on some of the same locations as A Clockwork Orange. How do they look today?

By Adam Scovell

Beautiful Thing: finding the Thamesmead locations for the classic 90s gay romance
Reviews

The New Boy: realism is undercut by magic in Warwick Thornton’s Outback fable

By Jonathan Romney

The New Boy: realism is undercut by magic in Warwick Thornton’s Outback fable
Reviews

Banel & Adama: Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s elemental love story has the air of a parable

By Annabel Bai Jackson

Banel & Adama: Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s elemental love story has the air of a parable
5 things to watch

5 things to watch this weekend – 15 to 17 March

By Sam Wigley

5 things to watch this weekend – 15 to 17 March
Interviews

Banel & Adama: Ramata-Toulaye Sy on her Senegalese love story turned cautionary tale

By Rachel Pronger

Banel & Adama: Ramata-Toulaye Sy on her Senegalese love story turned cautionary tale
Reviews

Drive-Away Dolls: a lesbian road trip comedy that feels authentic to the 1990s but stuck there, too

By Simran Hans

Drive-Away Dolls: a lesbian road trip comedy that feels authentic to the 1990s but stuck there, too
From the Sight and Sound archive

Only a dream: Gene Tierney

By Dan Callahan

Only a dream: Gene Tierney
10 great

10 great LGBTQIA+ break-up films

By Alex Davidson

10 great LGBTQIA+ break-up films
Reviews

Monster: Koreeda Hirokazu’s elegant and imaginative expression of childhood

By Guy Lodge

Monster: Koreeda Hirokazu’s elegant and imaginative expression of childhood
Festivals

Layla: Amrou Al-Kadhi on their sparkling drag queen romance

By Lou Thomas

Layla: Amrou Al-Kadhi on their sparkling drag queen romance
News

SPOTLIGHT programme announced by BFI Film Audience Network to invest in culturally underserved communities

SPOTLIGHT programme announced by BFI Film Audience Network to invest in culturally underserved communities
Reviews

Imaginary: a sufficiently creepy domestic ghost story

By Kim Newman

Imaginary: a sufficiently creepy domestic ghost story
Festivals

Trans films in the spotlight as BFI Flare returns

By Ben Walters

Trans films in the spotlight as BFI Flare returns
Interviews

Chasing Amy and the LGBTQIA+ community: “There’s no consensus on this movie. It remains complicated to a lot of people”

By Josh Slater-Williams

Chasing Amy and the LGBTQIA+ community: “There’s no consensus on this movie. It remains complicated to a lot of people”
News

6 emerging LGBTQIA+ creatives selected for BFI Flare x BAFTA professional development programme 2024

6 emerging LGBTQIA+ creatives selected for BFI Flare x BAFTA professional development programme 2024
Where to begin

Where to begin with Warwick Thornton

By Stephen Morgan

Where to begin with Warwick Thornton
News

Oscars 2024: the winners in full

Oscars 2024: the winners in full
5 things to watch

5 things to watch this weekend – 8 to 10 March

By Sam Wigley

5 things to watch this weekend – 8 to 10 March
Interviews

Edge of Summer: Lucy Cohen on her dreamy Cornish holiday coming-of-age drama

By Jamie Dunn

Edge of Summer: Lucy Cohen on her dreamy Cornish holiday coming-of-age drama
Interviews

“Unsuitable for females”: Copa 71 and the story of the unofficial Women’s World Cup

By Faye D. Effard

“Unsuitable for females”: Copa 71 and the story of the unofficial Women’s World Cup
From the Sight and Sound archive

“You can’t let the audience get ahead of you”: Raoul Walsh interviewed in 1972

By James Childs

“You can’t let the audience get ahead of you”: Raoul Walsh interviewed in 1972
Reviews

High & Low: John Galliano: a thoughtful, expansive portrait of a disgraced fashion designer

By Nick Bradshaw

High & Low: John Galliano: a thoughtful, expansive portrait of a disgraced fashion designer
Then and now

Stanley Kubrick’s Britain

By Adam Scovell

Stanley Kubrick’s Britain
10 great

10 great Hollywood gangster films of the 1930s

By Matthew Thrift

10 great Hollywood gangster films of the 1930s
Reviews

Origin: Ava DuVerney’s book biopic presents an ambitious study of caste systems

By Kate Stables

Origin: Ava DuVerney’s book biopic presents an ambitious study of caste systems
Reviews

Copa 71: the fascinating story of the unofficial Women’s World Cup

By Rachel Pronger

Copa 71: the fascinating story of the unofficial Women’s World Cup
News

BFI and film industry welcome landmark move with increased expenditure credit to support UK film

BFI and film industry welcome landmark move with increased expenditure credit to support UK film
Features

The Taviani brothers on Bicycle Thieves: “It was like a course in directing”

By Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani

The Taviani brothers on Bicycle Thieves: “It was like a course in directing”
Obituaries

Paolo Taviani obituary: younger of the Palme d’Or winning Taviani brothers

By Pasquale Iannone

Paolo Taviani obituary: younger of the Palme d’Or winning Taviani brothers
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