What an incredible evening, introducing Great Expectations at the BFI 🎥 I love this glorious film and Great Expectations is my favourite book of all time. A very wonderful, supportive, sold out audience. It was lovely to have members of the Dickens Fellowship in attendance too 😊

Terrific intro from Jade Evans to Lean’s Great Expectations BFI tonight. Full of insights and very warmly received by a sold out audience. I learned heaps.

'To make a film is to create a world.'

On what would have been his 101st birthday, we celebrate the life and career of Lindsay Anderson.

Our season dedicated to the director, O Dreamland! Lindsay Anderson’s Dark British Cinema, opens at BFI Southbank in May.

The biggest of congrats to our Clare Binns for winning the UNIC - International Union of Cinemas Achievement Award for all her many contributions to the UK cinema landscape — a more well-deserving recipient we could not imagine! ❤️

Due to popular demand, we added more screenings in the Gene Tierney season BFI Southbank: LAURA on 16 April & NIGHT AND THE CITY on 20 April whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default…

Friday night.

This festival is incredible. One of the very best actually.

There's a great movie released today BFI and elsewhere: Close Your Eyes, the fourth feature( in 50 years!) by Spanish-Basque maestro Víctor Erice. Read about its fascinating genesis in Sight and Sound magazine

Brilliant interview this by Geoff Andrew

Many thanks for the messages & photos, letting me know 'Family' is landing . A second batch went out yesterday, so all orders are now on their way. Email me at [email protected] if you're interested in a copy. Also now 'live' on Amazon too... amzn.eu/d/g2tBwSi

Can’t wait to dig into this from my comrade ⁦Mark Baxter⁩. Everything he does is special.

A massive thank you to all of our customers. After nearly 40 years we close our doors today and look forward to welcoming you all to our new venue in the heart of Brentford as soon as we can. bit.ly/4cWuKvF

I am truly thrilled to share news of a program I've wanted to do for a long time: “Uncharted Territories: Black Britain on Film, 1963-1986” runs BAM Film May 3—9 in advance of a run of Horace Ové’s restored Pressure (c/o Janus Films.) Tickets/info: bam.org/film/2024/unch…

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Exclusive: Chantal Akerman's films are coming to UK-Ireland cinemas through BFI Distribution: t.ly/o9wAI

Titles include:

• 'Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles'
• 'News From Home'
• 'Les Rendez-vous d'Anna'

Our BFI release of TARGETS is the one in the list of finalists for the Il Cinema Ritrovato – Blu-ray & DVD Awards 2024. Hearty congratulations and thanks to all the talented folks that contributed!

Hollywood can be a killer.

Mia Goth returns as Maxine F*cking Minx in Ti West’s MAXXXINE alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon. Exploding into theaters July 4th weekend.

Great interview now available to read here from Sight and Sound magazine by Geoff Andrew with Víctor Erice. His last film ⭐️CLOSE YOUR EYES ⭐️opens In Cinemas this Fri @bfi and here: newwavefilms.co.uk/where/269

Said it before, will say it again: Wim Wenders' The American Friend (1977), starring Dennis Hopper as a twitchy, thin-skinned, capricious, completely unpredictable Tom Ripley, is pretty much a perfect movie. On Criterion Channel now: criterionchannel.com/the-american-f…

Due to the tremendous response to EXOTICA (1994) leading to a SELLOUT event last weekend, we're adding an encore screening Institute of Contemporary Arts on Sun Apr 14! From the same stunning 35mm print a 2nd chance to see this masterpiece in a revelatory presentation. ica.art/films/exotica-…