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The Bigger Picture, presented by The British Film Institute

Hosted by BFI programmer Anna Bogutskaya and the BFI’s digital editor, Henry Barnes, The Bigger Picture covers the best in screen culture, from film to TV to gaming. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri... Read more

Ranked #1

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The BFI podcast: Greta Gerwig, Max von Sydow and Three Billboards editor Jon Gregory

The BFI podcast: Greta Gerwig, Max von Sydow and Three Billboards editor Jon Gregory

The BFI podcast returns, rewound and restarted with a new format: four sections, four stories from across the British Fi... Read more

20 Feb 2018

43mins

Ranked #2

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The Bigger Picture: Alien and (work)space horror

The Bigger Picture: Alien and (work)space horror

Ridley Scott's space slasher, Alien, was released 40 years ago this September. To celebrate Anna and Hen dive into the f... Read more

28 Feb 2019

38mins

Ranked #3

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Joker, masculinity and angry, lonely fools

Joker, masculinity and angry, lonely fools

Joker, Todd Phillips's gunky take on DC Comic's supervillain, gives us the origins story of a lonely guy with mental hea... Read more

3 Oct 2019

35mins

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The BFI Podcast: Andrew Haigh, Beast director Michael Pearce, interactive film and 80s cinema

The BFI Podcast: Andrew Haigh, Beast director Michael Pearce, interactive film and 80s cinema

We go wild this week with a menagerie of animal-based filmic bits and bobs from across the British film industry. Weeken... Read more

26 Apr 2018

40mins

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Desiree Akhavan, Joan Crawford, Nuts in May

Desiree Akhavan, Joan Crawford, Nuts in May

Writer-director-actor Desiree Akhavan (Appropriate Behaviour) joins Anna and Hen in the BFI's "glitzy" green room (there... Read more

30 Aug 2018

24mins

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Cannes 2019

Cannes 2019

Anna's in Cannes and calls from the Croisette to fill Hen and Pete in on the best new films that have premiered at this ... Read more

22 May 2019

24mins

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The BFI podcast #9 - James and Dave Franco on The Room and The Disaster Artist

The BFI podcast #9 - James and Dave Franco on The Room and The Disaster Artist

Film-making brothers James and Dave Franco popped into the BFI last week to screen The Disaster Artist, a good film abou... Read more

29 Nov 2017

14mins

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Little lies: American Animals and the 2010-12 docu-drama boom

Little lies: American Animals and the 2010-12 docu-drama boom

This much is true: we made a podcast about the film American Animals and the spate of docu-dramas (The Imposter, The Act... Read more

13 Sep 2018

31mins

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Heathers, Sharp Objects, The Rock

Heathers, Sharp Objects, The Rock

Check your damage at the door as we raise a cup of Hull Clean to the greatest, bleakest teen movie - Heathers. Thirty ye... Read more

1 Aug 2018

31mins

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The BFI Podcast: Hugh Grant, Rupert Everett and Robin Campillo - BFI Flare special

The BFI Podcast: Hugh Grant, Rupert Everett and Robin Campillo - BFI Flare special

The BFI Podcast: Hugh Grant, Rupert Everett and Robin Campillo We round up the highlights of BFI Flare, Europe’s largest... Read more

Ranked #11

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A Star is Born again

A Star is Born again

Hollywood resurrects A Star is Born - the story of a young woman shepherded into stardom by a self-destructive older man... Read more

4 Oct 2018

31mins

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The Matrix, the Nineties and searching for The One

The Matrix, the Nineties and searching for The One

Whoah. The Bigger Picture logs on for series 3. This episode we're plugging into The Matrix, the Wachowskis' cyber-hacki... Read more

19 Jul 2019

29mins

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Booksmart and high school besties

Booksmart and high school besties

Booksmart, Olivia Wilde's racous directorial debut, shows teenage girls being loud, funny, crass and disgusting. Anna an... Read more

9 May 2019

32mins

Ranked #14

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Bait, class and Brexit

Bait, class and Brexit

Hen, Anna and Pete get a line on a reel-y good film. Bait, BFI-backed and brilliant to boot, is written and directed by ... Read more

5 Sep 2019

31mins

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Singing the praises of Singin' in the Rain

Singing the praises of Singin' in the Rain

Dum-de-dum dum. Dum-de-dum de-dum dum-de-dum-de. Singin' in the Rain, the Gene Kelly classic, has been re-released by th... Read more

25 Oct 2019

30mins

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The BFI Podcast: McQueen, Vanessa Redgrave and Pin Cushion

The BFI Podcast: McQueen, Vanessa Redgrave and Pin Cushion

Archive chat this episode from Vanessa Redgrave, talking to Simon Callow in 1991 about Antonioni, the "terrifying" Briti... Read more

19 Jun 2018

26mins

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The BFI Podcast #6 - Dirk Bogarde, Victim and the fight for gay rights

The BFI Podcast #6 - Dirk Bogarde, Victim and the fight for gay rights

Simon McCallum, programmer of the BFI's Gross Indecency season, introduces Victim, the 1961 film, starring Dirk Bogarde,... Read more

2 Aug 2017

23mins

Ranked #18

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BFI NETWORK: Francis Lee on making God's Own Country

BFI NETWORK: Francis Lee on making God's Own Country

In this episode of the BFI NETWORK podcast Talent Development Manager Matimba Kabalika travels to Yorkshire to talk to w... Read more

5 Sep 2017

25mins

Ranked #19

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Pain and Glory: Making agony entertaining

Pain and Glory: Making agony entertaining

Pedro Almodóvar returns with Pain and Glory, a deeply personal film about an ageing film director (played by Antonio Ban... Read more

22 Aug 2019

28mins

Ranked #20

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BFI Experimenta Symposium: Artists’ film in Asia

BFI Experimenta Symposium: Artists’ film in Asia

A wide-ranging discussion on the past, present and future of artists' film in Asia with curators and artists active in t... Read more

6 Nov 2017

1hr 44mins

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