BFI Flare 2026

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Mar 18, 2026 The London festival celebrates forty years of showcasing great queer cinema.

Mar 12, 2026 A selection of fine writing on this year’s Academy Award nominees.

Mar 10, 2026 Metrograph presents a retrospective of work by a filmmaker championed by Godard, Rivette, and Bazin.

Look Who’s Back

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Mar 6, 2026 Jonathan Rosenbaum returns to the Reader, there’s a new Cineaste, plus: Hiroshi Shimizu, John Akomfrah, and Robert Vas.

Feb 25, 2026 The director of Civic and Now, Hear Me Good talks about how his experience as a first-generation Caribbean American and his love of Chantal Akerman’s short La chambre have influenced his work.

February Books

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Feb 25, 2026 A survey of Black cinema and memories of watching movies with John Ashbery are among this month’s highlights.

Feb 24, 2026 For this existential noir, Joel and Ethan Coen drew inspiration from crime-fiction master James M. Cain’s lean, hard-boiled style and interest in the quotidian world of work.

Feb 18, 2026 Among this month’s highlights are a celebration of VHS and how it revolutionized film culture, a spotlight on the Romanian New Wave, and a retrospective of pioneering queer filmmaker Monika Treut.

Feb 13, 2026 This week brings a tribute to Diane Keaton, notes on Taxi Driver at fifty, and three flights of the spirit.

Feb 3, 2026 Her passing has sparked an outpouring of appreciation for the hilarious ways she found to cut loose.

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