As we gear up for next year’s festival, we’re reminiscing on how memorable this year’s festival was. Check out our full #THFF24 recap video on youtube: youtu.be/FvHBnsGnG_A?si… What was your favorite memory from #THFF24? ✂️🎞️ Edit by Yaphet Jackman

A reminder on this day that the first US woman to become president was Janet Jagan, née Rosenberg. Chicagoan, Marxist, and president of Guyana from 1997-1999

Tickets on sale now for Sidney Poitier: His Own Person, BFI Southbank in January. It was an honour to curate this season of 16 of Poitier's films—groundbreaking early works, star-maing vehicles, career-defining blockbusters and more. Get your tickets: tinyurl.com/2p9ppmc7

My ten films for Sight and Sound magazine’s best films of 2024 feature.

La restauración BFI/The Film Foundation de PRESSURE (Horace Ové, Reino Unido, 1975) se proyecta en FestivalCineLaHabana – jueves 12 de diciembre, 17.30 h, Cine Acapulco. Esta innovadora película fue el primer largometraje realizado por un director británico negro youtube.com/watch?v=Y6n805…

Tickets are on sale, guests are being announced, and here's the rather smashing trailer for Sidney Poitier: His Own Person, BFI Southbank in January. I couldn't be happier to have curated this season celebrating a true-blue icon. Get on board: theb.fi/3DA17mo

Has all the wonderful things you would expect, and at least one thing you might not: a very Jamesian analysis of Dog Day Afternoon and the motivations of Al Pacino’s Sonny (“that young man”).

A great way to see in 2025 with a month of films celebrating the work of film legend, Sidney Poitier. As a season of the actor & directors work opens tonight with 50s classic Noir thriller, No Way Out whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default… at BFI.

To mark the third anniversary of Sidney Poitier's passing and to launch the Poitier season, join us BFI Southbank on Mon 6 Jan for a discussion about Poitier's life and legacy with Jonathan Ali Jana Sante @RyanCalaisC & Nicole-Rachelle Moore whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/article…

January's London repertory cinema spreadsheet + newsletter are out! Become a supporter from just £2.99 a month and view 600+ repertory film screenings across 35+ London cinemas, sorted by: 🎞️Films On Film 🎬Release Year 🎬Title 🎬Date 🎬 Cinema repcinema.com/post/repertory…

#bestfilminlondontoday Jan 5 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Nickel Boys' fans will want to catch this. THE DEFIANT ONES (1958) on 35mm in Sidney Poitier season BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/12/capita…

Although most celebrated for his civil rights era dramas, a younger generation of viewers first discovered Sidney Poitier via late-career video-shop favourites like Sneakers and Deadly Pursuit. theb.fi/3Pl4650

Duel at Diablo was a film I left out of the Sidney Poitier season at BFI last month (another was Buck and the Preacher) knowing it would be in the Black Rodeo season. Poitier’s first western, and a fascinating film worth seeing on the big screen.

Lovely little write-up by Richard Brody on Malaury Eloi-Paisley’s brilliant L’Homme-Vertige, which we’re screening tomorrow at BAM in Brooklyn in our Caribbean Film Series. The Pedro Costa comparison is spot on.

Terribly sorry to learn of the passing of the great Michael Roemer, at the age of ninety-seven—a true independent, of mind and spirit, whose work, though little-seen in its time, will long outlive most films loudly acclaimed then.