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Positively shocking: Film season issues caution for ‘outdated’ language in James Bond films

Film watchers are being warned about potentially offensive content ahead of new retrospective

The Independent UK

Licence to offend: BFI season gives James Bond films trigger warnings

The season celebrating the work of British composer John Barry flags films from the 60s and 70s that contain outdated language, images and stereotypes that will cause offence

The Guardian - UK

‘Scorsese says The Red Shoes is in his DNA’: Thelma Schoonmaker on her life and work with Michael Powell and his friend Marty

With her late husband’s 1948 classic back in cinemas, the editor is keen to preserve his legacy and modest about her own phenomenal career

The Guardian - UK

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Christopher Nolan to receive BFI Fellowship after blockbuster year

Nolan said he is ‘thrilled and honoured’ to accept film organisation’s highest honour

The Independent UK

Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan to receive BFI fellowship

Director behind Dunkirk, Inception and the Dark Knight trilogy awarded honour for ‘pushing limits’ of cinema

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s been the craziest moment of my life’: the 2023 British independent film award nominees on risk, romance, and why UK film is on fire

From buzzy romcom Rye Lane via the psychosexual noir Femme to the teen thrills of How to Have Sex, six nominees take us behind the scenes of the exciting new wave of British cinema

The Guardian - UK

NBA's tango with BFI will help Indian cagers slam dunk the world's best basketball players

NAGPUR: Here is some happy news for the Indian hoopsters. The National Basketball Association (NBA), the organisers of the world's best basketball league in America, will soon join hands with the Basketball Federation of India (BFI). The development will see basketball undergo a major facelift to match world standards.

The Times of India

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Thelma Schoonmaker: Cinemas showing Killers of the Flower Moon with intermission 'a violation'

Director Martin Scorsese has defended the length of his latest work, the acclaimed Killers of the Flower Moon

Evening Standard

‘He showed our lives in ways that had never been seen’: Horace Ové, pioneer of black British cinema

As the BFI dedicates a new season to his ‘radical vision’, friends, family, colleagues and contemporaries remember the director and explain the revolutionary and liberating force of his films

The Guardian - UK

BFI to run basketball affairs in Maharashtra; appoints three-member ad-hoc body

NAGPUR: To clear the mess in Maharashtra's basketball associations, Basketball Federation of India (BFI) has appointed a three-member committee on Friday to run the affairs in the state.

The Times of India

‘Rejecting hatred and fear’: why Powell and Pressburger’s weird, confounding films are perfect for our times

They made 24 often morally complex pictures before falling out of fashion. Now, as a monumental BFI retrospective kicks off, can their stricken pilots and posh ballerinas speak to our divided era?

The Guardian - UK

Martin Scorsese defends 3hr 26m runtime of Killers of the Flower Moon: ‘Give cinema some respect’

Veteran filmmaker’s latest release beats Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ by nearly half an hour

The Independent UK

Madras High Court played a role in selecting the Indian Men’s Bridge team that clinched silver in Asian Games 2023

Congrats to Indian Men's Bridge Team for Silver Medal at Asian Games; Madras High Court played key role in selection. Bench dismissed writ appeal of OCI seeking to represent India in international tournaments. Court concurred with BFI that only Indian citizens can represent country. Judges stated OCI cardholders cannot seek…

The Hindu

Great new British directors: five acclaimed debut films to watch

UK film-makers such as Molly Manning Walker, Charlotte Regan and Luna Carmoon are part of a new wave taking top awards at the film festivals

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Lucy Frazer: This London Film Festival will be like no other

I started this week at Conservative Party Conference where I made a speech celebrating the fantastic achievement of our Creative Industries over the last decade. I described how we were in a Golden Age for British Culture and this had been supported by Government action, from tax reliefs to the…

The Guardian - UK

‘A secret no one talked about’: Michael Morpurgo on discovering his real father – and hating Spielberg’s War Horse

As he turns 80, the prolific children’s author takes us on a tour of his Devon village, to talk about family bombshells, the burning of Joan of Arc – and finally getting a film adaptation he likes

The Independent UK

Steve McQueen defends four-hour runtime of new Nazi documentary: ‘An hour and a half wouldn’t do it a service’

A24-produced documentary looks at 130 locations in Amsterdam that relate to the Jewish community

Evening Standard

BFI Screen Talks: Martin Scorsese and Greta Gerwig among the star directors jetting in for on-stage interviews

Tickets are available now for a star-studded line up that includes some of the world’s most celebrated directors

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Stephen Herbert obituary

Other lives: Expert in the technical aspects of the film industry who worked for the National Film Theatre

Evening Standard

BFI London Film Festival unveils 2023 free programme with Marvel and Chicken Run events

Tickets for the free events run out quickly, so get booking from 10am on Monday

Evening Standard

BFI London Film Festival’s Kristy Matheson: ‘The scope and the scale of the LFF is a thrilling challenge’

The new director talks about her first year running the festival, looking for different voices and missing Australian supermarkets

The Guardian - UK

Sir Horace Ové obituary

Director who examined life in multicultural Britain in pioneering films such as Pressure, a defining work of black British cinema

The Times of India

BFI issues show cause notice to Panghal, Sagar and Rohit for 'poor discipline'

NEW DELHI: The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) has issued show cause notice to world championships silver medallist Amit Panghal and two others for leaving the national camp without approval, a day before they were to fly out for the Asian Games pre training camp in China.

The Times of India

Amit Panghal, two others get notice for indiscipline

NEW DELHI: Three elite boxers - 2019 World Championships silver medallist Amit Panghal (51kg), Birmingham CWG silver winner Sagar Ahlawat (+92kg) and 2021 national champion Rohit Mor (57kg) - have been issued show cause notices by the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) for leaving the national camp in NIS Patiala…

Evening Standard

BFI London Film Festival 2023: when is it, what’s on and how to get tickets?

This year’s line-up also boasts 252 titles from 92 countries

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