BFI Boss Ben Roberts, Picturehouse’s Clare Binns on Gen Z’s Cinema Renaissance, AI Slop and British Indie Film: “We’re Not Great at Comedy”
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Isabel Davis Appointed Director of the BFI Filmmaking Fund
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‘The Odyssey’ Smashes ‘Star Wars’ Record Over London’s BFI Imax Opening Weekend
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British Film Institute: Chronically online criticism: how we’re archiving the video essay boom. “Pithy, playful, provocative – video essays have emerged as a major form of cultural commentary since the dawn of online video sites in the mid 2000s. Here we introduce the five video essay makers whose work we’ve selected for preserving in the BFI National Archive.”
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PetaPixel: Badger Badger Badger Video Officially Preserved by British Film Institute. “The flash animation video that first went live on the website B3ta.com back in September 2003 has been officially preserved by the British Film Institute (BFI). Another early viral internet hit, ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’, has also been preserved as the BFI pushes to preserve internet lore.”
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U.K. Production Spend Hits $9B in 2025, Film Investment Sets Record Thanks to ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Beatles Movies and ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
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British Film Institute Launches BFI America as Barbara Broccoli and Terry Gilliam Join Board
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Bowen Yang Says “It’s a Miracle” That ‘Wicked’ Is Out Given the Political Climate: “It’s About Racism and Fascism”
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Tom Cruise Will Receive BFI Fellowship — and Has “No Plans” to Stop Making Films in the U.K.
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U.K. Film, TV Production Spend Rebounds in 2024 Thanks to ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘Knives Out’
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BFI Chair Raises Alarm Over Trump’s “Protectionist Language Around Hollywood”
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Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone Dramedy ‘The Wedding Banquet’ to Open London’s LGBTQIA+ Film Fest
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BFI Chair Jay Hunt Riffs With Claudia Winkleman on U.K. Film and TV Success: “We Are Unmatched”
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Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson Lead Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz,’ Set to Open London Film Festival
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King Charles Renews His Patronage of the British Film Institute
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Hidden gems
Suppose you wanted to be surprised and delighted (and possibly intrigued and befuddled) in some field. You could start with the Top 10. Today, I’m talking about movies, so find some list of the 10 Greatest Films. This sort of listing is ubiquitous: 10 Greatest Dramas, 100 Films preserved by the U.S. Library of Congress, The British Film Institute’s (BFI) 100 Greatest Films, and on and on.
The following list from BFI is not that sort of list. Not at all.
Each of these films is one of the greatest according to just one voter in our recent Greatest Films of All Time poll; they are some of the hidden gems among the more than 4,300 films voted for by more than 2,000 participants. (For the pedantic reader, the films that got one vote each – more than we can fit in here – are all technically joint 1,956th greatest film of all time, combining the tallies of our critics’ and directors’ polls.)
~ from 101 hidden gems: the greatest films you’ve never seenslip:4uousi2.
Effectively, that’s a list of 101 movies which all tied for last place, in list of the top 2,000-or-so movies. Above, the BFI is showing an entirely different way to be surprised and delighted (and possibly intrigued and befuddled): Find one person who is into the thing way more than you, and ask them for a list of the greatest. On their list, it is likely there will be one which they recommend, that no one else would recommend. What is up with that one recommendation?
Any big list is created by many people collaborating and, in the end, averaging out their individual tastes. But if you ask that one really-into-it person, you’ll get a very surprising and delightful (and probably intriguing and befuddling) opinion.
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Elliot Page on Fame, How Hollywood Is “Pretty Toxic” and Why LGBTQ+ “Is Not Niche”
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Cillian Murphy Presents BFI Fellowship to “True Legend” Christopher Nolan
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Yorgos Lanthimos on ‘Poor Things,’ His Friendship with Emma Stone, Unleashing Mark Ruffalo and Why He Doesn’t Like Labels
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Bradley Cooper on ‘Maestro,’ Music “Seeping” Into Next Film and Attending Glastonbury With Michael Fassbender to See Metallica
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Jay Hunt Named British Film Institute Chair
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