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Top women boxers switch to Olympic weight divisions

Some top boxers, including World champions Nitu Ghanghas and Saweety Boora, have switched to Olympic weight divisions ahead of Paris 2024.

The Hindu

Studio Gauthier and 123V Bakery: Alexis Gauthier to open new plant-based restaurants

Alexis Gauthier is set to launch the new ventures in the BFI building in Fitzrovia this June

Evening Standard

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North East deals of the week: key contracts, investments and acquisitions

Companies in this week's round-up include North East Screen, Parkdean Resorts, The Storage Place, NunaBio, Tekmar and Melius Cyber

Birmingham Post

£2.3m BFI National Lottery Funding awarded to Screen Alliance North to build skilled workforce

North East Screen, Screen Yorkshire, Liverpool Film Office and Screen Manchester collectively form one of six UK BFI skills clusters

Birmingham Post

Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman – a freewheeling and insightful study of the film-maker’s allure

The former NME star writer rewatches the films of the German director and writes hauntingly about the way our tastes and passions change over time

The Guardian - UK

BFI accused of taking limited steps to address systemic racism

Film-makers Faisal Qureshi and Jonte Richardson question measures taken so far by British Film Institute

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‘Diana Dors screamed about George Best while rubbing herself against a young man’: how we made Deep End

‘A friend,’ recalls director Jerzy Skolimowski, ‘told me a story about a diamond that was lost for ever after being dropped in snow. I thought: “But you could grab the snow, melt it and get it back.” It seemed a great idea for a film’

The Guardian - UK

10 films to see at BFI Flare: Europe’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival

From Oscar nominees to 1970s eroticism: all the unmissable films at BFI Flare 2023

Evening Standard

Woolton Picture House 'in communication' with BFI about plans to reopen

The cinema's reopening saga has gone on for years

Liverpool Echo

Olympic champion Estelle Mossely among top boxers at IBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Delhi

Top female boxers, including 2016 Rio Olympics Gold medalist Estelle Mossely and 2020 Tokyo Olympics Silver medalist Nesthy Petecio, are among the seven Olympic medalists who will participate in the upcoming IBA Women's World Boxing Championships being held from March 15 to 26 at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in…

Dynamite News

Reopening plans dismissed as 'hot air' as fears for cinema mount

Woolton Picture House has not issued a public statement since October

Liverpool Echo

Michaela Coel says film industry misses out on marginalised communities

I May Destroy You writer and actor is set to take on new mentoring role for upcoming film-makers

The Guardian - UK

Derrick Knight obituary

Director known for a vivid documentary about the Watersons who brought fresh ideas to the British short-film industry in the 1960s

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The Guardian - UK

Ray Winstone and Gary Oldman on Nil By Mouth: ‘It’s a tough watch’

‘It’s a harrowing film, perhaps not one for a Saturday night with a pizza. But it’s stood the test of time – and that’s down to the genius of Gary Oldman’

Dynamite News

2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championship To Kickstart In Delhi From March 15 Onwards

The 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships is set to take place from March 15 to 31 in New Delhi as India gears up to host the biennial event for the third time in the tournament's history. Read on for details:

The Conversation

Jeanne Dielman: 'greatest film of all time' is a masterpiece of slow cinema that richly details life's quiet intricacies

Every ten years the British Film Institute’s (BFI) in-house magazine, Sight and Sound, polls a large number of critics and film-writers to produce a list of the greatest films of all time.

Wales Online

Female director tops poll of greatest films for first time in 70 years

Chantal Akerman’s 1975 film Jeanne Dielman claims top spot in the 2022 BFI Sight and Sound poll

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British Film Institute releases latest top 100 film list of all time, but why should you care?

The British Film Institute's once-a-decade Sight & Sound poll has named the greatest movie of all time, but with so many other top 100 film lists kicking about, ABC Radio film critic Matt Neal conducts a data crunch to determine which, if any, is the definitive list, and why they…

The Guardian - UK

Chantal Akerman first woman to top Sight and Sound’s greatest all-time films poll

Film-maker’s 1976 feature Jeanne Dielman pushes Vertigo into second place and Citizen Kane into third

Evening Standard

BFI Southbank Christmas Programme: What festive films are on offer and when are they showing?

This festive season, there are a number of Christmas movies showing at London’s BFI, as well as some non-traditional fare.

The Guardian - UK

Ron Peck obituary

British director of the 1978 film Nighthawks, which depicted London’s gay clubs and bars with compassion and candour

The Guardian - UK

‘The antique tea set was worth more than our entire budget’: How Peter Greenaway and Janet Suzman made The Draughtsman’s Contract

‘The costumes, the wigs and the dialogue are deliberately very stylised – people use 50 words when 20 would have done. If anyone went off-script they got their fingers slapped’

Evening Standard

UK’s biggest cinema screen reopens at BFI IMAX after major upgrade

The new 4K screen arrives just in time for the Black Panther sequel and Avatar 2

The Guardian - UK

Danny Boyle says the British may not be ‘great film-makers’

Speaking at the BFI Southbank, the director said the UK instead excelled at theatre and ‘extraordinary’ pop music

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