10 great erotic British films | BFI
2015年2月5日 · There are no direct equivalents of Borowczyk, Brass, Franco or Radley Metzger in British cinema (the hardcore pornographer Ben Dover has different priorities), and serious British films about eroticism remain as rare as the more exotic butterflies on display in Strickland’s film, despite the considerable relaxation in censorship post-2000 – Michael Winterbottom’s 9 …
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10 great films set in Britain during the Second World War
2017年4月20日 · Richard E. Grant’s Ministry of Information mandarin has it spot on when he declares in Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest that wartime propaganda films should combine “authenticity with optimism”. Needing to get vital messages across to the public, the MOI sought to ensure that movies entertained as well as educated. But, with a third of the nation steering …
The best British television of 2024 - BFI
2024年12月13日 · 2024 was a year of confrontation and self-reflection for the British television industry. No fewer than four of the titles on our list represent TV-about-TV: Steven Moffat’s brilliant satire Douglas Is Cancelled (ITV); E4 ’s refreshing meta-reality show The Underdog: Josh Must Win; Prime Video’s retelling of Emily Maitlis’s fateful interview with Prince Andrew (A Very …
10 great British gay films | BFI
2013年5月30日 · So what key British gay films are out there? We’ve narrowed down the list to films easily available on DVD, although honourable mention must go to the über-rare Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969), a swinging slice of the 60s that hinted at interracial homosexuality.And if you like Vicious (millions seem to), you may get a perverse kick out of Staircase (1969), a …
From girlhood to adulthood: 6 French films about sexual awakening
2014年8月11日 · As part of BFI ’s Teenage Kicks season, we teamed up with I am Dora to present a special screening of Maurice Pialat’s À nos amours (To Our Loves) on Sunday 10 August. After the screening, we held a salon in the Teenage Kicks teen bedroom installation at BFI Southbank and discussed the idea of the young femme fatale in French cinema as a …
What’s on at BFI Southbank
BFI Reuben Library. Our library at BFI Southbank is available to everyone, free of charge. It contains a huge collection of books, journals and digitised material about the world of film, television and the moving image.
January 2025 programme highlights at BFI Southbank and BFI …
2024年11月14日 · Special events in January will include a preview of Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliott, 2024), which won the Best Film Award at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, followed by a Q&A with Adam Elliot on 17 January. This funny and moving stop-motion triumph, starring Sarah Snook, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver, follows twins Grace and Gilbert who are separated …
Here’s what we’ve got coming in 2025... - BFI
2024年12月17日 · From highly anticipated premieres and new releases, curated seasons and film festivals on the big screen, to the most exciting names in film and television live on stage, plus free, newly digitised archive film material in libraries and at home as well distinctive online collections, the BFI ’s 2025 cultural programme – including in cinemas at BFI Southbank, BFI …
The monstrous-feminine on screen: the changing face of cinema’s …
2024年10月2日 · Building on this evolution, in the 1960s, as the feminist movement began to gain momentum, the monstrous-feminine took on a bolder form. In Black Sunday (1960), Barbara Steele’s Asa Vajda charmed and wreaked havoc as a …