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BFI Southbank

Call Me by Your Name

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. Many critics were enamoured of Luca Guadagnino’s last two features, I Am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015), both of which set T...

June 7, 2026 | Big Screen Classics

The Misfits

‘Help.’ Marilyn Monroe’s Roslyn utters this simple yet profound plea with a mixture of worry, exhaustion and sadness, but also a mysterious strength. For she, whether she wants it or not, is the c...

June 5, 2026 | Re-releases

Hiroshima mon amour

When chance brought together Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras, he found in the writer that essential which he had been looking for in the commentaries to all his films – a kind of unforced lyrici...

June 5, 2026 | Big Screen Classics

The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão

Director’s statement I was deeply moved when I discovered the book. It triggered vivid memories of my own life. I was raised in the conservative Brazilian Northeast in the 60’s, in a family with a ...

June 4, 2026 | Brazil on Film

Tuner

Leo Woodall impresses as a shy piano tuner whose perfect pitch and hearing prove invaluable to a group of thieves. Niki (another superb turn by White Lotus and One Day star Woodall), a piano tuner,...

June 3, 2026 | Seniors’ Matinee

Reason, Debate and a Story

Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (Reason, Debate and a Story) was officially dated a year later than A River Called Titas (1973) but in fact started before that project. It was specifically the story of a gro...

June 3, 2026 | Revolutionary Cinema
The Passion of Ritwik Ghatak

Incomplete Works

Bagala’s Discovery of Bengal A comedy on mistaken identity, this film remained incomplete a week after filming. The Knave of Trumps A compassionate portrait of the trials and tribulations of women...

June 3, 2026 | Revolutionary Cinema
The Passion of Ritwik Ghatak

The Pathetic Fallacy

Ritwik Ghatak on ‘The Pathetic Fallacy (Ajantrik)’ For 12 long years, I had thought about this story before I made it into a film. When it first came my way, accidentally, I was a green boy, newly ...

June 2, 2026 | Revolutionary Cinema
The Passion of Ritwik Ghatak

Barren Lives

Walter Salles on ‘Barren Lives’ ‘This film singlehandedly founds and justifies a Nation. Brazil has, at last, been discovered. It is a masterpiece.’ These were the words of the writer Otto Lara Res...

June 2, 2026 | Brazil on Film

Nightmare Alley

It was 1993 when Guillermo del Toro first discovered Nightmare Alley. The 29-year-old Mexican director had just finished post-production on his debut film, the baroque vampire tale Cronos, and was ...

May 23, 2026 | Guillermo del Toro