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 ...
10 great films about female desire | BFI
Apr 19, 2018 · 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.Her life is all the richer for these flings. By the end of Let the Sunshine In she has found her – to use the film’s more poetic French ...
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 set in Britain during the Second World War
Apr 20, 2017 · 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 clear of cinemas altogether and ...
Two of Us uncovers a hidden romance between two elderly …
Jul 14, 2021 · Two of Us is not unlike many stories of a devoted queer love threatened by the outside world, but here the threat isn’t intolerance – Nina outs Madeleine to their estate agent, whose nonplussed reaction proves her point that “…no one cares” about two old lesbians – …
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The Count of Monte Cristo review: a grand swashbuckler
Aug 30, 2024 · The Count of Monte Cristo: the latest adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s novel is a grand, robustly entertaining spectacle . Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s rollicking, expensive French blockbuster is a fittingly bold take on …
10 great American lesbian films | BFI
Nov 26, 2015 · Morally conservative Hollywood cinema has had an anxious yet intriguing relationship with depicting lesbians in the cinema. Heterosexual directors have offered audiences glimpses and whispers of lesbianism through a leering gaze, more invested in a sexual mistrust of Sappho’s sisters (what do lesbians do in bed?) rather than anything honest or real.
The many merry eras of Disney | BFI
Feb 18, 2021 · The golden era began with the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, putting Walt Disney Productions on the international map and proving that animation had great potential outside the realm of 5-minute cartoon gag reels.
The 50 best films of 2023 | Sight and Sound
Dec 8, 2023 · We said: “The film’s central segment takes place in Paris in 2044; Bonello’s rendering of this era is counterintuitive but intriguing – no screens, internet, cars or social media, a world where relationships are disembodied and isolation is the norm. The past’s lingering impact in the present has been a recurrent and resonant Bonello theme, but …