British Film Institute

Best movie of all time: The world’s critics crown a new winner

Sight and Sound’s influential list of the 100 greatest films of all time is voted on by more than 1,600 professionals around the world

Thu Dec 01 2022 - 19:00

Harry Wootliff: ‘That’s my genre – smart, strong women making bad choices’

The British film-maker on her new drama True Things and being true to herself

Wed Mar 30 2022 - 05:00

Film star, humanist and ... vindictive lover? Who was the real Charlie Chaplin?

The closer you look, the more unknowable the once-in-a-generation comedian appears to be

Mon Nov 22 2021 - 06:00

Cannes film festival 2021: Irish-produced movie secures place in prestigious Directors’ Fortnight

Element Pictures’ The Souvenir Part II stars Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton

Tue Jun 08 2021 - 11:45

Helping children – and adults – to explore and understand grief

Sol is the story of a boy trying to find light in the darkness after the death of his grandmother

Wed Dec 16 2020 - 06:01

Poll-topper: Is this a film you’d watch and rewatch?

Four Weddings and a Funeral’s director says yes. Richard Curtis, its writer, prefers... Elf

Mon Dec 07 2020 - 09:00

Why are all these useless films now being declared classics?

I cannot pretend that Hocus Pocus is any more deserving of affection now than it was in 1993

Sat Nov 21 2020 - 05:00

Oscars to introduce diversity targets for best picture hopefuls

Beginning in 2024, inclusion standards will have to be met by films hoping to qualify for the category

Wed Sept 09 2020 - 10:41

London Calling 40 years on: How The Clash rewrote the rule book

The Clash filleted rock, politics and history with swagger and biting social commentary

Sat Dec 14 2019 - 06:30

Irish movies feature strongly at Toronto International Film Festival

Canadian event is the most important cinema festival in North American calendar

Fri Aug 09 2019 - 08:45

‘Astonishing’ video footage of smiling ‘famine queen’ Victoria’s Dublin visit found

Film archivists are amazed at the quality of film showing Victoria’s 1900 visit

Thu Aug 01 2019 - 14:10

British Film Institute streams trove of Victorian era silent film

Collection of 500 digitally restored films available as free archive

Thu Jun 06 2019 - 07:35

Ready for their Cannes close-up? Irish film-makers in the spotlight

Cinema is an increasingly puzzling market. So what counts as success for an Irish release?

Sat May 18 2019 - 05:00

Can you guess what the biggest film in Irish cinemas was last year?

Ireland had the highest cinema attendance in Europe in 2018, with 3.3 visits per person

Fri Feb 08 2019 - 06:00

Michael Collins plays a starring role as Irish historic films go free-to-view online

Irish Film Institute brings together 150 films from 1900 to 1930, showing key events of Irish history

Thu May 03 2018 - 15:38

British film director Lewis Gilbert dies aged 97

Tributes paid to the Oscar-nominated maker of three James Bond films

Tue Feb 27 2018 - 19:57

Dublin International Film Festival: the must-see movies

Films you should see at the tri-located 2018 Audi Dublin International Film Festival

Wed Jan 24 2018 - 19:00

Too many critics still regard television as an inferior medium

The inclusion of 'Twin Peaks: The Return' on such lists is bizarre: it’s a TV series. Right?

Fri Dec 08 2017 - 05:00

An abundance of entrepreneurial talent

The Irish Times Innovation Awards have again showcased innovative excellence across a range of products and services

Thu Oct 19 2017 - 06:45

Connecting marketing with the cinema ticketing process

Innovation awards finalist: Usheru creates film specific websites which are connected into cinemas

Thu Oct 05 2017 - 06:45

The strange, true story of Ghana's modern-day camps for witches

For her new film, Rungano Nyoni spent more than a month in a real-life witch camp, that works as a tourist attraction, labour camp and women’s refuge

Thu Oct 05 2017 - 05:00

Like ‘Brokeback Mountain’, but with Yorkshire weather

Francis Lee’s ‘God’s Own Country’ feels like a career-launching film

Sat Sept 02 2017 - 05:00

Harry Potter actor Robert Hardy dies aged 91

Star also played Siegfried Farnon in BBC series All Creatures Great and Small

Thu Aug 03 2017 - 19:24

Irish film industry glued to unfolding Brexit drama

Co-productions with UK should survive, but free movement vital, says film board

Fri Jun 23 2017 - 06:00

Cannes festival, day three: Let the booing commence

This time it was for a technical hiccup and not for Bong Joon-ho’s fine film ‘Okja’

Fri May 19 2017 - 16:57

Best new Irish writers: Hennessy Literary Awards shortlists, 2017

We name the 18 nominees for this year’s Emerging Poetry, First Fiction and Emerging Fiction prizes

Sat Mar 04 2017 - 05:00

Hipsters and artists are the gentrifying foot soldiers of capitalism

The hipster may be a capitalist but they are also crafty, ethical and mobile

Wed Sept 14 2016 - 17:03

‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ voted best British sitcom of 21st century

Brendan O’Carroll show beats ‘The Office’, ‘The Thick of It’ and ‘Gavin & Stacey’ in poll

Tue Aug 23 2016 - 08:57

Where did it all go right? The secret of Irish cinema’s success

Global acclaim and a fistful of Oscar nominations: we ask four industry heavy hitters what is going on

Mon Feb 22 2016 - 06:00

And the best British actor is . . . Saoirse Ronan? Really?

Why does the London Film Critics’ Circle refer to Irish actors as British? It’s baffling

Sun Dec 20 2015 - 17:42

Lost Walt Disney film last seen in 1928 found in British archive

Six-minute film Sleigh Bells, featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, was feared lost forever

Wed Nov 04 2015 - 14:49

British actor Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93

Lee devoted long career to portraying villains including Dracula

Thu Jun 11 2015 - 14:24

Jane Lythell: ‘Flawed people are interesting. It doesn’t matter if your readers dislike them’

Brought to Book Q&A: Former Bafta CEO on her favourite authors and writing her own novels

Tue Jan 27 2015 - 16:00

Review: A Night at the Cinema in 1914

Fri Aug 01 2014 - 01:00