Dive into the outrageous, transgressive world of the 1970s midnight movie with a selection of films set to shock, scandalise and titillate.
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Was really happy to provide some recorded video introductions to 35mm print screenings @BFI for the Marilyn Monroe: Self-Made Star season. Niagara was yesterday, but see MM and Mitchum in River of No Return on 27 June: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default…
- Sanghita Sen, curator of our current Ritwik Ghatak season, on the appeal of the Bengali filmmaker who had made only six films, which were barely seen in his lifetime. Read on @EasternEye easterneye.biz/ritwik-ghatak-…
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Pierre Coffin, co-creator and voice of the Minions will be talking about his career & the new Minions film @BFI on Thursday 18th June at 6pm. Tickets have just gone on sale. @illumination @Minions
- As a selection of their work enters the BFI National Archive, we spoke to Guerrilla image‑makers Tim & Barry about turning street‑level collaboration into a visual language that carried a local scene to global reach.
- Imran Perretta's acclaimed debut film Ish, a stunning coming-of-age story, opens in cinemas 31 July and on BFI Player 8 September. Quad poster designed by @iamsamashby for BFI
- Debut director Sean Robert Dunn tells us about his melancholic satire, #BFIBacked The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford. #NationalLottery
- As World Cup 2026 kicks off in North America, we look back over some of the best football films made since the millennium. theb.fi/4eeHlf0
- In a place where night never comes, darkness has taken over. Watch the original Insomnia (1997), starring Stellan Skarsgård, on #BFIPlayer
00:00 - Watch the new trailer for Imran Perretta's acclaimed debut film, a stunning coming-of-age story in the tradition of The Apu Trilogy, Kes and Ratcatcher. In cinemas 31 July and on BFI Player 8 September. #BFIBacked #NationalLottery
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