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The old movies again, in a different way: Christian Petzold shares 8 influences on Miroirs No. 3
https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/christian-petzold-influences-miroirs-no-3
Published: April 29, 2026 00:00
From Rebecca to Mulholland Dr. – Christian Petzold sorts through the older films that bubbled up into his imagination as he made his enigmatic new mystery drama Miroirs No. 3.
Object of the week: The retro-futuristic poster for The Man Who Fell to Earth
https://www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-archive/features/object-week-poster-man-who-fell-earth-david-bowie
Published: April 28, 2026 00:00
With its angular typeface and graphic elements that feel both space-age and like a throwback to the art deco era, this original quad for the David Bowie sci-fi – now 50 years old – is a classic of British film poster design.
RomerĂa: reality and fantasy intertwine in this ethereal drama about buried family histories
Published: April 27, 2026 00:00
Carla Simón’s story of a young woman untangling a web of family secrets cements the Galician filmmaker’s aptitude for naturalism while also marking a bold new step towards magical realism.
Hokum: Damian McCarthy’s horror finds a human story amid all the creepy grotesquerie
Published: April 24, 2026 00:00
A haunted Irish hotel becomes a site of personal reckoning for a haunted man played by Adam Scott in Damian McCarthy’s surreal horror-comedy.
10 great Brazilian horror films
https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-brazilian-horror-films
Published: April 23, 2026 00:00
From Coffin Joe’s blasphemous birth in the 1960s to today’s socially charged nightmares, Brazilian horror has repeatedly repurposed global genre tropes to confront religion, patriarchy, class and power in ways that are vivid, inventive and unmistakably…
This is not a Vivaldi biopic: Damiano Michieletto on Primavera
https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/damiano-michieletto-primavera-vivaldi
Published: April 22, 2026 00:00
Opera director Damiano Michieletto discusses bringing Antonio Vivaldi’s early Venetian years to the screen in Primavera, a film that blends Baroque music, modern soundscapes and a quietly radical story of art, ambition and female disquiet.
Object of the week: David Lean’s unmade Nostromo – the production designs
Published: April 21, 2026 00:00
Following A Passage to India, David Lean took a public vote for which big novel to adapt next. Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo proved a popular suggestion, but sadly Lean died before cameras rolled. These designs give a clue to how it would have looked.
Where to begin with Baz Luhrmann
https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/where-begin-with-baz-luhrmann
Published: April 20, 2026 00:00
As Moulin Rouge! turns 25 and with Strictly Ballroom returning to cinemas, we plunge into the giddying, maximalist cinema of Baz Luhrmann and his tales of glamour, showmanship and doomed love.
“The hope is you’ll feel you’re in a continuous dream”: Gerald Fox on Kinaesthesia
https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/gerald-fox-kinaesthesia
Published: April 17, 2026 00:00
A kaleidoscopic tribute to oneiric cinema, Gerald Fox’s Kinaesthesia reimagines the film-history documentary as a drifting dream, guided by the words and ideas of his former teacher, the great theorist Vladimir Petrić. Here, Fox digs into his innovative…
Miroirs No. 3 second look review: a glorious sun dappled noir from Christian Petzold
Published: April 17, 2026 00:00
Petzoldian alienation blends with a strangely restorative world view in the story of Laura (Paula Beer), a woman taken in by a family who seem to be keeping a tragic secret.
10 great films set in fishing towns
https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-great-films-set-fishing-towns
Published: April 16, 2026 00:00
From The Fog to Local Hero... Ahead of the release of Mark Jenkin’s new brine-encrusted time-loop mystery Rose of Nevada, we cast our net for other fine tales of fishing communities.