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

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Ish is the first feature by Imran Perretta, who received the prestigious Turner Prize bursary in 2020 for his work The Destructors.

Vivien Leigh spent two days in Paris being fitted for the luxurious costumes she wears in the 1948 version of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, which were designed by the renowned photographer and designer ...

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.

The mid-90s saw home consoles, including Sony’s blockbuster PlayStation, pushing cabinet gaming close to extinction. Yet one arcade game was ready to call ‘Action!’ on a revival. Thirty years old this ...

Watching Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s documentary portrait of investigative reporter Seymour Hersh – the pressman who exposed the My Lai massacre – you can just about believe in the power of ...

In her latest film, French documentary-maker Claire Simon turns her lens on Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux. Eschewing the biopic format, Simon captures candid classroom debates across France and Guiana, ...

The 50 best films of 2025 – how many have you seen? A packed double issue with Lucile Hadžihalilović interviewed by Peter Strickland, Park Chan-wook on No Other Choice, Chloé Zhao on Hamnet, Richard ...

As Andrzej Żuławski’s freaky psychodrama Possession arrives on 4K UHD, we track down the original locations in what was then a divided Berlin – including the subway which provides the setting for that ...

The 4K restoration of Jean Vigo’s tale of two newlyweds arrives in UK cinemas this week. Revisiting the film, originally released in 1934, our critic was struck by its inventive blend of “spontaneous” ...

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 ...

This week is a special tribute to long time BFI colleague and friend, Ian Betts.