10 great erotic British films | BFI
WEBFeb 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 ...
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From girlhood to adulthood: 6 French films about sexual awakening
WEBAug 11, 2014 · Director: Chantal Akerman. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) In Chantal Akerman’s magnificent exploration of one woman’s need to contain her emotions in a fortress of control, she gives us a female protagonist who is a single mother, devoted housewife and afternoon …
The 30 Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time | BFI
WEBMar 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 ...
Sex, sin and striptease: the hidden history of British film erotica
WEBJan 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 in which the leading lady stops short in her shift ...
10 great British gay films | BFI
WEBMay 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 ...
John Barry: 10 essential soundtracks - BFI
WEBNov 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.
Where to begin with British smut | BFI
WEBNov 2, 2018 · Eskimo Nell is a terrific example of a film having its cake and eating it, amply delivering on the promised titillation while also gleefully spoofing the mid-70s British sex film industry.Armstrong plays a high-minded film school graduate who can only find work in softcore, and finds himself making four different versions of the same film to please backers with differing requirements, ranging ...
10 great films about female desire | BFI
WEB19 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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