Long fêted for her ability to steal scenes from co-stars, even in her fleeting early roles, Viola Davis has gone on to establish herself as one of the finest actors of her generation. Here she speaks ...

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, which ...

Eisenstein’s debut feature, the labour drama Strike, which was released at the start of the year, well deserves a place on this list. However, 1925 was also the year that he directed the monumental ...

Film Forever was the BFI’s plan for 2012 to 2017. Film Forever covered all BFI activity and was funded by Grant in Aid from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and a share of National Lottery ...

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Chilean director Felipe Gálvez tells us about his period adventure drama The Settlers, based on a dark chapter in Chile’s colonial past.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal sci-fi, about a trio of travellers searching for wish fufilment by crossing into restricted territory, made a dystopian malady of life in the then Soviet Union. Forty years ...

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What is Digital Library on Demand (DLD)? DLD is an electronic document delivery service which enables you to obtain scans of book chapters or journal articles from our collections without having to ...