BFI London Film Festival 2026 preview
The 70th edition of the BFI London Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday 7 October with another captivating programme of over 250 features, shorts, series and immersive works from around the world. The Opening and Closing Night Galas each shine fascinating light on the world of theatre. Simon Stone’s lovingly crafted Elsinore stars Andrew Scott...
Virginia Woolf and science fiction
They rode in the dark, arriving at Yorkshire in the pre-dawn. The Astronomer Royal had set up a camp directly on the line of totality. In Southport, on the beach, a quarter of a million people gathered. Woolf and her group left their train and walked uphill towards Richmond. Everybody waited. The sun came up,...
Before the beginning of years
A chorus from Swinburne’s 1865 play Atalanta in Calydon was once an almost self-standing poetic topos, the expression perhaps of a particular moment in the progression of the human psyche – or of the temporal course of eternity, to fiddle with T.S. Eliot’s famous take on the pastness of the past and its presence. Before...
