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Multiple Maniacs: Mink Stole and Peaches Christ on BFI's new Trash cinema series

A new season at the BFI on the Southbank celebrates underground American cinema in all its lurid glory, as defined by John Waters. Here two of its guest stars putting on a special appearance guide is through this world of shock and awe.

Evening Standard

LGBTQIA+ lives on film: Top 8 highlights from the BFI Flare festival

Diana Cipriano, one of the programmers for the 40th Anniversary of BFI Flare, chooses her highlights of the UK largest LGBTQIA+ film festival

Evening Standard

Boom time for anti-racist TV: how an £84 bottle of wine triggered an explosion in British broadcasting

In the 1980s, spearheaded by Channel 4, British TV stopped telling Black and Asian people how to assimilate and gave them a voice. A golden age of dissent, activism and culture ensued – but have we since gone backwards?

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UK and Ireland’s most popular films of 2025 revealed

A Minecraft Movie, Wicked: For Good and Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy were among the top films at the box office, the British Film Institute said.

Evening Standard

90s films that defined the decade: nine incredible cult classics

The 1990s gave rise to the blockbuster film as we know it. But in the shadow of these cinematic giants, a crop of cult hits made their way into film history

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Can’t stand subtitles? These 11 international masterpieces will change your mind

Subtitles are everywhere on social media, but on film some see them as an obstacle. In fact, they are an opportunity – containing the potential to unlock cinema’s universality

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Queer cinema: 10 landmark LGBTQ+ films to stream now

From Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane to Céline Sciamma’s instantly iconic Portrait of a Lady on Fire, here are 10 of the films that have defined the history of queer cinema

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Melania documentary debut box office takings in UK and Ireland revealed

The documentary of the president’s wife, titled Melania, focuses on the 20 days leading up to her husband’s return to the White House in January 2025.

Evening Standard

Tariq Ali claims BFI has frozen him out of multicultural TV season

Editor of groundbreaking Channel 4 show says he was shocked not to be invited to participate in new season

The Guardian - UK

Working with David Lynch: 'He was a visionary ahead of his time'

As a new David Lynch season hits the BFI Southbank, his producer and collaborator Sabrina Sutherland reveals what it was like to work with the film icon

Evening Standard

Guillermo Del Toro To Receive BFI Fellowship for His Contributions to the Film Industry

Guillermo del Toro will receive the BFI Fellowship in 2026 for his cinematic impact. The award honors his visionary films like "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy."

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Guillermo del Toro to receive the British Film Institute’s highest honour

‘This is the honour of a lifetime and a thrilling moment in a storyteller’s life,’ says the Mexican director

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Guillermo del Toro to be given BFI Fellowship for ‘extraordinary contribution’

The Mexican director will be honoured at a dinner next year.

Evening Standard

Mediocre movies, millions in taxpayer cash: how scores of films from low-profile UK producer were funded mainly by public money

Creative industries are ‘crucial to the economy’ but film-making and tax have long had an uneasy relationship in Britain

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George MacKay addresses James Bond casting speculation as Denis Villeneuve’s 007 era looms

The British actor, 33, reflects on long-running 007 speculation, and shares his thoughts on director Denis Villeneuve taking over the franchise

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David Jonsson reveals how Tom Blyth helped him through ‘intense’ filming for prison thriller Wasteman

The Industry star opened up to The Standard about the gruelling 18-day shoot for Cal McMau’s debut film Wasteman

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Neurodiverse collective wins award for ‘creative audacity’ at London film festival

The BFI and Chanel film-maker awards were won by a docufiction film, a queer BDSM biker romance and a film about police corruption in India

Evening Standard

Daniel Craig joins Mila Kunis and Kerry Washington at Knives Out 3 premiere as London Film Festival 2025 opens

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery launched the 69th BFI London Film Festival, with stars including Andrew Scott and Daryl McCormack walking the red carpet

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Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A breathtaking Yayoi Kusama retrospective in Switzerland, a deep dive into Nigerian modernism at London's Tate Modern, and the neon-dipped dystopia of 'Tron: Ares' hits big screens. Here are this week's cultural highlights.

Evening Standard

Daniel Day-Lewis, Bradley Cooper and more set for BFI London Film Festival 2025

The Evening Standard are partners on what looks like being one of the most exciting LFF’s ever

International Business Times UK

Billy Connolly's 'Big Banana Feet' Resurfaces: Inside His Health Battle, Wife and Children, and the Truth About His Net Worth

Billy Connolly's lost film 'Big Banana Feet' resurfaces as fans revisit his health, wife and children, and the truth about his net worth in 2025.

Evening Standard

Stars of Fantastic Four: First Steps hit the blue carpet for London premiere of new Marvel blockbuster

Pedro Pascal, Julia Garner and Vanessa Kirby among the all-star cast at the BFI IMAX at Waterloo

Evening Standard

BFI London Film Festival to open with premiere of third Knives Out film

Daniel Craig reprises his role as Benoit Blanc in Wake Up Dead Mean: A Knives Out Mystery.

The Independent UK

Moviedrome: the cult BBC film strand that changed how we watched movies

FLASHBACKS: Made to feel like recommendations shared with you by a mate down the pub, ‘Moviedrome’ – which broadcast cinema’s wildest, strangest films – left late-night BBC Two audiences spellbound on Sunday nights from 1988 to 2000. As it inspires a season of screenings at London’s BFI, Alex Deller reminisces…

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Shane Meadows: Celebrated British director returns with first film in 17 years

The director said he’s ‘beyond excited’ about the new drama

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