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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 ...

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 ...

The story of Christine Norden’s road to fame is a publicist’s dream. While queuing to see a Ray Milland film in the Edgware Road in August 1945, this glamorous daughter of a Sunderland bus driver was ...

Robert Eggers brings fresh eyes and potent dread to Murnau’s silent vampire classic, but this Count Orlok can’t match the menace of the original.

While these shows grow ever-prescient (and almost prophetic given recent broadcasting news), they are far from the only programmes concerned with corruption and speaking truth to power. Defiance: ...

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At the BFI we champion new talent and unfamiliar stories from unfamiliar voices. We’re passionate about projects that reach new audiences, and we back the international promotion of the UK industry.

In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed.

Every decade since 1992, Sight and Sound has complemented its celebrated critics’ poll by formally sounding out the world’s leading directors on the ten films they believe to be the greatest of all ...

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A great action film for every year, 1924 to now ...