Ranked #1
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
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43mins
Ranked #2
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
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38mins
Ranked #3
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
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35mins
Ranked #4
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
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40mins
Ranked #5
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
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24mins
Ranked #6
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
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24mins
Ranked #7
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
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14mins
Ranked #8
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
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31mins
Ranked #9
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
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31mins
Ranked #10
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
13 Apr 2018
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34mins
Ranked #11
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
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31mins
Ranked #12
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
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29mins
Ranked #13
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
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32mins
Ranked #14
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
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31mins
Ranked #15
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
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30mins
Ranked #16
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
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26mins
Ranked #17
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
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23mins
Ranked #18
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
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25mins
Ranked #19
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
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28mins
Ranked #20
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
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1hr 44mins