The Dream

Mar 21, 2025 — Along with conversations with David Cronenberg, Alain Guiraudie, and Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, the week offers a dossier on “the cinema of the senses.”

Dec 11, 2024 — In this semiautobiographical meditation on the fickle nature of creative genius, Federico Fellini opens his arms wide to the enigmas of childhood, religion, art, sex, and love—mysteries with no solution.

Jan 18, 2024 — Revival screenings mark the anniversary, and critics list their most-anticipated films from this year’s lineup.

Oct 12, 2023 — The director completes her “trilogy on Italian identity” by offering an outsider’s point of view.

Jan 24, 2023 — The German contingent is strong: Margarethe von Trotta, Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, Christoph Hochhäusler, and Emily Atef.

May 11, 2022 — Louis Feuillade’s influential serial Les Vampires reflected the French national subconscious at the time by depicting a madcap world of anarchy and violent spectacle.

Apr 13, 2021 — This month’s round spans from the earliest days of cinema, through Hollywood’s golden age and Scorsese’s Raging Bull to Sharon Stone’s memoir.

Nov 15, 2018 — If you loved the adventurous curated programming we’ve been doing with our friends at FilmStruck, we have good news for you.

May 18, 2018 — The young Chinese director transports critics to a state of “melancholic bliss.”

Feb 10, 2017 — Did You See This? The BFI ruminates on ten masterful portraits of loneliness, including Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring, David Lean’s Summertime, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express. For Eye on Design, Emily Gosling...