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FLASHBACKS: Made to feel like recommendations shared with you by a mate down the pub, ‘Moviedrome’ – which broadcast cinema’s wildest, strangest films – left late-night BBC Two audiences spellbound on Sunday nights from 1988 to 2000. As it inspires a season of screenings at London’s BFI, Alex Deller reminisces…

The director said he’s ‘beyond excited’ about the new drama

‘He definitely felt like a father figure to me’ said Dana Ashbrook

Five months on from David Lynch’s death, his Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost takes us behind the scenes on the show ahead of a special screening at the BFI

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The original print of Star Wars has screened for the first time since the '90s

‘Remarkable’ showing presented movie exactly how it was experienced by audiences in 1977

Ten years ago I was at a preview screening at the British Film Institute (BFI) of short films shot and set in London. My smartphone-filmed short, 160 Characters, was part of the programme and told the story of me raising my son Jim alone.

Film institute’s report raises fears AI will eliminate junior roles in film, TV, video game and special effects industries

A new report analyses how the screen sector is using and experimenting with rapidly evolving generative AI technologies.

Tom Cruise said being honoured with the British Film Institute’s most prestigious accolade, a BFI fellowship, is “absolutely extraordinary”.