Peter Hastings’s movie incarnation of the popular graphic novel series presents a cheerful whirlwind of goofball gags, silly puns and moments of real poignancy in an endearing, unpolished package.
Reviews were middling, but the film picked up a couple of Oscar nominations (including one for Holly Hunter, who had less than six minutes of screen time), and was a roaring success at the box office.
Set in Connemara, Christopher Andrews’s bloody debut stars Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott as two feuding shepherds caught in a cycle of patriarchal violence.
With Japan’s first full-colour film, Carmen Comes Home, screening around the UK, we dive into the luminous world of Japanese colour filmmaking in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt’s grotesque reworking of the Cinderella story creates a world where beauty is pain for some women, but life is pain for all of them.
The in-person events programme will include Hot Spot sessions with actor and filmmaker Alice Lowe (Timestalker, Prevenge), and theatre and film director Nadia Latif (The Man in My Basement).
Inspired by a treasure trove of archive healthcare films in the BFI National Archive, three filmmaking teams were tasked with making new short films tackling modern stories of the National Health ...