10 great erotic British films | BFI
Feb 5, 2015 · 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 Songs (2004) being the ...
Sex, sin and striptease: the hidden history of British film erotica
Jan 13, 2017 · The first known example of British ‘cheesecake’ top ends The Pleasure Principle, a new collection on BFI Player exploring the history of British film erotica. Appropriately shot on a Kinetoscope or ‘peepshow’ camera, the Brighton-based pioneer Esme Collins’ A Woman Undressing (1896) is, in effect, a three-minute long stripshow …
10 great films about female desire | BFI
19 April 2018. Let the Sunshine In (2017) By Sophie Monks Kaufman. 10 great. The most persuasive charm of French maestro Claire Denis ’s latest and lightest film is the way it presents a middle-aged woman as open to casual sex. Parisian artist Isabelle, sensually embodied by Juliette Binoche, succumbs to a slew of interested men.
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10 great British gay films | BFI
May 30, 2013 · Watch a selection of LGBT titles on BFI Player. This list should really be a Top 11 – the omission of Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), the first British film to feature a gay kiss, is borderline inexcusable. Tom Shkolnik’s beautifully observed The Comedian (2012), in which a possibly gay, possibly bi thirtysomething (Edward Hogg) tries to make ...
10 great bisexual films | BFI
Mar 12, 2015 · Bisexual men and bisexual women are depicted very differently in cinema. In the worst examples, films can be downright squeamish about their characters’ bisexuality – see (or don’t) Oliver Stone’s timid biopic of Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell played a more interesting bi character in 2005’s A Home at the End of the World). Tinto Brass’s notorious Caligula was …
10 great films set in Britain during the Second World War
Apr 20, 2017 · Fires Were Started (1943) British cinema perfected the docudrama during the Second World War, with Charles Frend’s San Demetrio London (1943) and Pat Jackson’s Western Approaches (1944) among those to take their cues from Humphrey Jennings’ tribute to the Auxiliary Fire Service, which also featured in Basil Dearden’s The Bells Go Down ...
The 30 Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time | BFI
Mar 15, 2016 · Over 100 film experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as well as past and present BFI Flare programmers, have voted the Top 30 LGBTQ + Films of All Time. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as well ...
John Barry: 10 essential soundtracks - BFI
Nov 3, 2014 · Goldfinger (1964) Goldfinger (1964) Reputedly Barry’s favourite of his own soundtracks, his second full 007 score gleams with brassy panache and features some of his most striking background music, like the vivacious ‘Into Miami’, as well as the Shirley Bassey hit that remains for many the archetypal Bond theme song.
100 best films streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime | BFI
Jan 29, 2022 · Bombay (1995) An interfaith romance set against the backdrop of the Bombay (now Mumbai) riots of late 1992, this Tamil-language classic sees director Mani Ratnam pull off his unusual trick of balancing real-world politics with sweeping big-screen melodrama.