As a new collection curated by Sofas & Stuff arrives on BFI Player, we spoke to the Sofas & Stuff team about their favourite festive films and viewing traditions.

Now in its ninth year, our annual poll showcases 255 vital video essays, nominated by 72 international voters.

Director Josh Safdie has pulled together a vibrant gallery of New York characters for a never-say-die American story that’s bursting with humour and that trademark Safdie kineticism.

James Cameron’s sprawling ensemble piece sees the Na’vi fighting against diabolical human colonisers once again, but it’s more concerned with scale than sophistication.

Alfred Hitchcock often preferred sets to real locations and – eerily empty of actors and action – these photographs show his constructed backdrops for the Highlands, train and Palladium sequences of ...

BFI curators select their favourite new programmes and series from a year on British TV. How many have you watched?

Steven Soderbergh’s smart, fun spy thriller Black Bag is the kind of mid-budget, star-led adult entertainment that has become an endangered species in cinemas. Here the director explains why the box ...

From a seven-and-a-half hour masterpiece to one of the most beautiful colour films ever made: as a trio of István Szabó films arrive on Blu-ray, we present a 10-film primer on the glories of Hungarian ...

As three silent cases for Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth emerge in new restorations, we place a magnifying glass over some of the finest Sherlock Holmes dramatisations to grace big screens and ...

The Phoenician Scheme returns Wes Anderson to the straightforward pleasures of the caper movie. He talks about writing the film for its star, Benicio del Toro, his fascination with charismatic, ...

As the classic Ealing comedy turns 70, we went walking around King’s Cross to see whether Alec Guinness and his motley band of robbers would recognise it today.

James L. Brooks’ first film as director in 15 years has some great comic moments, but feels like it’s sleepwalking through its sentimental story of a young state Governor thrown in the deep end of ...