#British Film Institute

[michaelsheendaily]

Michael Sheen with the cast of new BBC drama "The Way" at the BFI Southbank on February 5, 2024 in London, England

#michael sheen #michaelsheenedit #directed by michael sheen #the way #the way screening #british film institute #british broadcasting corporation #michaelsheendaily

[world-of-celebs]

Hayley Atwell attends the 'Howards End' photocall at BFI Southbank on November 1, 2017 in London, England. 

#hayley atwell #british film institute #2017 #photocall #howards end

[tazskylardaily]

❗️DOUBLE NEWS❗️Gassed Up, that won the BFI Audience Award for Best Feature, will be in theaters on FEBRUARY 9th, 2024!

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[whovianderson]

🎉I got the BEST news today!! 🎉

Since I’ve decided to go into television production as a career, I applied for a filmmaking course at the British Film Institute a little while back.

And yesterday, I received an email saying… that they’ve selected me for an interview on Tuesday!!!!!

#so so so so so so happy!!!! #LIKE WHAT THE FUCK!!!! #I can’t believe this is real!!!! #obviously I’m nervous too #and imposter syndrome is kicking my ass #but I COULD ACTUALLY CRY IM OVER THE MOON #british film institute #bfi

[brian-in-finance]

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BFI and CHANEL Filmmaker Awards announces the winners for 2023

Tilda Swinton, Savanah Leaf, Nadira Murray, Ben Roberts and Ella Glendinning at the BFI and CHANEL Filmmaker Awards 2023. Courtesy of Oliver Holms

The winners of the second annual BFI and CHANEL Filmmaker Awards were announced (Thursday), celebrating the creative audacity of three emerging UK filmmakers:

writer/director Ella Glendinning (director and cast of Is There Anybody Out There?)

writer/director/producer Savanah Leaf (writer/director of Earth Mama)

producer Nadira Murray (Winners)

Since 2022, CHANEL has partnered with the BFI and together they have created the Filmmaker Awards. The awards build on the House’s century of cultural patronage to inspire creativity, advance the new and the next, activate history to define the future, and supports the BFI’s mission to back the next generation of UK independent filmmaking talent.

These awards celebrate creative audacity and provide winning filmmakers with financial support of £20,000 each, allowing them to expand their practice and explore new ideas, cultivate co-creation and knowledge exchange, and widen the representation of voices in today’s cultural community.

The winners of the 2023 awards were selected by this year’s jury: Tilda Swinton, Academy Award winner, BFI Fellow and Global CHANEL Ambassador, Edward Enninful OBE, Editor-in-Chief, British Vogue and European Editorial Director, Vogue; Marie-Louise Khondji, producer and founder of Le Cinéma Club and Ben Roberts, BFI Chief Executive.

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Remember these “amazing new and audacious filmmakers?”

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[ellisthomaslavigne]

Cillian Murphy smiling portrait at the BFI screening of Oppenheimer yesterday!!

Polychromos pencils and alcohol markers!

#cillian murphy #realistic art #oppenheimer #artists on tumblr #irish actor #christopher nolan #oppenheimerpromo #british film institute #oscar nominee #golden globe winner #pretty man

[my-shipping-knows-no-bounds]

“I will make you my queen”

#galadriel #sauron #morfydd clark #haladriel #saurondriel #rings of power #halbrand x galadriel #galadriel x halbrand #amazon rings of power #British film institute

[denimbex1986]

'At the start of our interview, Andrew Scott and I are squeezing into a booth in the restaurant at the British Film Institute. It is very similar to the one occupied by Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan's characters in When Harry Met Sally. Quick as a flash, the actor smiles at me and says, “I'll have what she's having.”

Scott goes on to remark that he often dreads reading interviews with actors and hopes this won't be another that he recoils from. “Sometimes talking about acting can be reductive and a bit boring. Of course,” he adds, breaking into a wry, self-mocking grin, “I'm not like that. I'm completely fascinating. Everything I say is a bon mot. It's epigram after epigram. It's like sitting with Oscar Wilde... Although I have better hair!”

Witty. Mischievous. Charming.

These are precisely the qualities that catapulted Scott to stardom as Moriarty in BBC1's worldwide hit drama, Sherlock. People were already talking about him as a striking new talent after his first brief, if completely scene-stealing, 10-minute appearance in Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's compelling modern-day reworking of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective stories.

His performance as Holmes's dastardly foe – by turns mesmerising and menacing – won Scott the best supporting actor Bafta award last year, beating his co-star Martin Freeman (who plays John Watson in Sherlock) in the process.

It was not exactly an overnight success for Scott – the 37-year-old Irishman had for many years been turning in very creditable, if not such conspicuous performances in dramas such as Lennon Naked (in which he gave a memorable Paul McCartney opposite Christopher Ecclestone's John Lennon), The Hour, John Adams and Band of Brothers.

But Moriarty, who appeared to come to a sticky end at the end of the last series on Sherlock, transformed Scott's profile. Moriarty is the archetypal baddie who has all the best lines, and his popularity meant that the actor was soon being offered leading roles in ITV1 dramas such as The Town and The Scapegoat.

Scott, who was raised in Dublin, where his father worked in an employment agency and his mother was an art teacher, has the volume turned down in real life and has no need to turn the dial up to 11 in the way that Moriarty does. But you can see that he still possesses the same razor-sharp instincts as Sherlock's arch-enemy.

The actor is the first to acknowledge that playing the role of Moriarty has moved his career up several notches. Picking at a croissant, he reflects that: “Sherlock has changed all our careers, and I'm really pleased about that. It gives you the benefit of the doubt because executives like to see recognisable faces.

“It was overwhelming to be on a TV show that is quite so popular. That took me totally by surprise. People had an instant affection for it from the first episode. The reaction was extraordinary. People still come up to me in the street all the time, wanting to talk about it.”

Sherlock fans are known as some of the most passionate in the business, but Scott says they are generally delightful. “There is this impression that the fans are crazy, but they're not – they're very respectful. They don't overstep the mark. I get a lot of fan mail. Of course, some of it is a bit creepy, but mostly it's very moving and creative. People send me drawings and their own versions of Sherlock stories. It's a source of escapism for people and that's great.

“I'm an enthusiast for people, and I don't want them to become the enemy. I've seen that happen to colleagues who are disturbed the whole time, but there's a certain degree of control you can have if you keep yourself to yourself. The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres. That's the kind of actor I try to be. If you want that, you have to be circumspect about your private life.”

Scott thinks the character made such an impact because, “Moriarty came as a real surprise to people”. He adds: “He doesn't have to do the conventional villain thing. He is witty, and people like that. He is also a proper match for Sherlock. He's very mercurial, too. I have since been offered to play a lot of different characters, and that's because Moriarty is a lot of different characters. He changes all the time.”

The next legacy of the “Sherlock Effect” is that Scott is starring in a one-off BBC2 drama entitled Legacy. An adaptation by Paula Milne of Alan Judd's bestselling 2001 espionage novel, this is an absorbing contribution to the BBC's “Cold War” season. In this film, set at the height of the conflict between the UK and the USSR in 1974, which goes out on Thursday 28 November, Scott plays Viktor Koslov, a KGB spy.

Charles Thoroughgood (Charlie Cox), a trainee MI6 agent, tries to reconnect with Viktor, an old friend from their Oxford days, in an attempt to “turn” him. However, Victor adroitly turns the tables on Charles with a shocking revelation about the British spy's family. Deliberately shot in Stygian gloom, Legacy captures the murky world of the secret services where cynicism and duplicity are part of the job description. Its tagline could well have been: “Trust no one.”

The film convincingly conjures up the drabness of the 1970s, all three-day weeks, petrol rationing and power cuts. Scott says: “Characters in those days called from phone boxes – whoever does that now? The film fits the era. It has a melancholic tone. It's very brown and downbeat.”

Scott particularly enjoyed playing the ambiguity of Viktor's character. “I like the idea that you don't know who he is. It's important that you feel for Viktor and his predicament. You have to feel he's a human being with a family. But both he and Charles are elusive figures – it's not clear whose side they're on. It's not at all black-and-white, and that's why the film is so shadowy.”

The actor boasts a terrific Russian accent in Legacy. Where did it come from? “There isn't a huge amount of footage of Russians speaking English as a second language, so I started looking at Vladimir Putin videos on YouTube. But then Putin introduced anti-gay legislation this summer – so, being a gay person, I switched to Rudolf Nureyev videos instead. It was another Nureyev defection of sorts!”

Scott is low-key on the subject of his sexuality. “Mercifully, these days people don't see being gay as a character flaw. But nor is it a virtue, like kindness. Or a talent, like playing the banjo. It's just a fact. Of course, it's part of my make-up, but I don't want to trade on it. I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person. Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.”

Scott is very much getting on with the job at present. He has many intriguing projects in the pipeline, including starring in Jimmy's Hall, the new Ken Loach movie about a political activist expelled from Ireland during the “Red Scare” of the 1930s. He is also appearing with Tom Hardy and Ruth Wilson in Locke, a film about a man whose life is falling apart, and in The Stag, a movie about a stag weekend that goes horribly wrong. In addition, he is headlining alongside Bill Nighy, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton in Matthew Warchus's movie Pride, a true story about an alliance between the mine workers and the lesbian and gay community during the 1984 miners' strike.

If he can possibly find any spare time, Scott is also open to comedy offers. “Everything in life has to have an element of comedy about it. I did Design for Living at the Old Vic in 2010 – Noël Coward was a master of comedy. The audience were convulsing every night. It's such a joyous feeling to hold a pause and wait for the laughter. There is no better high. Forget about drugs!”

But despite the fact that producers are now cold-calling him like overeager mis-sold PPI salesmen, Scott won't be rushing into the first role he's offered. One positive by-product of his success is his ability to be choosy about what he does. He observes: “You have to be brave to turn things down, but there is a certain power to that. I've had offers to do more regular TV series, but I don't regret rejecting them. If money and fame are not your goals, then it becomes easier. American agents use the expression, 'this could be a game-changer'. The implication is that you want the game to change. But I don't. I don't have a plan. I like unpredictability and randomness.

“People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers. Of course, it's nice to get a big cheque and be able to buy a massive house, but my view is that we're not here long, so why not do something of value?”

So Scott is very happy with where he's at. “To do all these different things is a dream for me. My idea of a successful actor is not the most recognisable or the richest – it's someone who is able to do a huge amount of different stuff. I don't want to be known for just one thing.”

It's true that Scott is now broadening his career far beyond Moriarty. But I can't resist one final question on the subject: Is there any chance that Moriarty will, like his nemesis, be making a Lazarus-like comeback in the new series of Sherlock? Scott has, after all, been photographed filming scenes for the upcoming third season.

“People ask me that every day. It's a small price to pay for having been in such a wonderful show,” he teases. But he is forbidden from spilling the beans about Moriarty's fate in Sherlock even to close family members.

So has Moriarty played one more dastardly trick on us by faking his own suicide? Or are the scenes the actor has been shooting merely flashbacks? Scott could tell us, but then – like some ruthless Cold War spy – he would have to kill us...'

#Legacy #Andrew Scott #Moriarty #John Adams #The Hour #Lennon Naked #Martin Freeman #Benedict Cumberbatch #Steven Moffat #Mark Gatiss #British Film Institute #Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #Christopher Eccleston #Band of Brothers #Paul McCartney #The Town #The Scapegoat #Design for Living #The Old Vic #Noel Coward #Paula Milne #Alan Judd #Viktor Koslov #Charlie Cox #Jimmy's Hall #Locke #The Stag #Matthew Warchus #Pride #Imelda Staunton

[tentothemonkeynine]

On October 2, 2022, Eddie Izzard attended an event in London at the British Film Institute: “Madly, Deeply: A Celebration Of Alan Rickman”.

Pictured here with Dame Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci (left image) and with Sir Ian McKellen (right image).

Both of these photos are by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images. You can view more photos from this event on Getty Images.

#eddie izzard #emma thompson #stanley tucci #ian mckellen #alan rickman #david m benett #dave benett #getty images #event #photo #image #british film institute

[randomluck-ofthe-universe]

Highlights from 'Bones and All' UK premiere.

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#timothée chalamet #bones and all #luca guadagnino #taylor russell #bfi london film festival #british film institute

[creative-time]

Since we probably won’t get anymore info about the BFI Southbank event that happened on September 28th 2022. Here are some photos taken by Robert Young on Twitter

#dhmis #don’t hug me i’m scared #dhmis BFI #british film institute #dhmisspoilers #dhmis spoilers

[tazskylardaily]

Taz’s newest movie, Gassed Up, will premiere at BFI Film Festival NEXT TUESDAY (October 10th).

Here are the official trailer and poster:

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[thefugitivesaint]

“In the 1950s, Japanese cinema enjoyed what is widely discussed as its second “golden age” – a period in which the country’s filmic output was considered among the best in the world. This was a time when directors like Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon), Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu) and Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri) were winning top awards in Europe. Japanese genre classics were transforming the shape of Hollywood – as Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and The Hidden Fortress were soon-to-be adapted to create The Magnificent Seven, A Fistful of Dollars and Star Wars in the West. And as Godzilla was born out of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yasujirō Ozu (Tokyo Story) was creating gentle cinematic works that are today admired as some of the greatest of all time.

But while the stars of the screen were both male and female, the influential figures behind the cameras were predominantly men; the effect of a deeply patriarchal society historically bound by tradition. Most discussions of this deeply influential period of global cinema, in fact, will have little to say about female filmmaking at all – there were so few figures consistently working in the field. It was not until a young Naomi Kawase (Suzaku) won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes in 1997 that women filmmakers of Japan truly found sustained recognition overseas.

Much-welcomed, then, is the BFI’s latest film season, in collaboration with Edinburgh Film Festival (EIFF) and Janus Films. Titled Kinuyo Tanaka: A Life in Film, it explores the outstanding works of one of the country’s first-ever female auteurs – whose incredible and under-seen films have been newly restored in 4K. A screen icon in her own right (highlights from her incredible acting career, including collaborations with nearly all of the aforementioned filmmaking giants, are to be shown in September), Tanaka defied the male gatekeepers of the industry to carve out her own career behind the camera. She thrived in the process, delivering works that matched those of her male counterparts and often surpassed them.

Though her directing career was short (Tanaka completed six films in nine years in total), the stories she told were vital tales of female agency and desire that were essential to the cinematic development of one of the world’s great filmmaking nations.“

#kinuyo tanaka #japanese directors #japanese filmmakers #japanese cinema #female auteurs #janus films #edinburgh film festival #british film institute

[brian-in-finance]

Video 📹 from Instagram

Remember… you're so gorgeous it actually hurts (Honey, it hurts). — Taylor Swift, Gorgeous (2017)

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[beccacantdraw]

Gassed Up Film Posters.

This is a fan project, thank you!

Photo credit to Din and Christian Moreno on Pexel dot com

#design #graphic design #movies #film #movie poster #movie poster art #movie poster parody #film poster #taz skylar #gassed up film #gassedupfilm #british film institute #london film festival

[panicinthestudio]

Appetite, BFI Future Film Festival 2024 Directed by Peiying Wang, UK, China Appetite explores the link between food and sex and the conflict between instinct and social discipline. A woman and a man are quietly advancing their relationship while eating at a restaurant. BFI

#British Film Institute #Peiying Wang #Chinese #art #film #short #relationships #animation #food #sexuality #2020s #21st century #Youtube