Later this month the BFI are set to give Giuseppe Patroni Griffi’s The Driver’s Seat (aka Identikit) on Blu-ray. Never before released in the UK, the film remains the most obscure, bizarre and wildly misunderstood…
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BFI Giving Menelik Shabazz’s Burning An Illusion A Blu-ray Release
Menelik Shabazz‘s pioneering first feature Burning An Illusion (1981) comes to Blu-ray. With simultaneous release on BFI Player Subscription, iTunes and Amazon Prime in September. The film was marked as a coming of age for…
Robert Bresson’s L’Argent (1983) Getting Blu-ray BFI Release
Robert Bresson fans will be delighted they can now upgrade their collection with L’Argent. Following the Blu-ray release of Pickpocket (1959), the director’s 1983 film comes to Blu-ray next month. Restored from the original negative, this…
BFI Set To Release Marlon Brando’s First Film The Men On Blu-Ray
Later in May the BFI are set to release Marlon Brando’s first feature film, The Men. The film set for release on Blu-ray for the first time in a Dual Format Edition (Blu-ray & DVD…
François Truffaut’s 400 Blows Getting 4K Blu-ray Release
Earlier today we brought you news about the 4K Blu-ray release of François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim from the BFI. Now the French filmmaker’s directorial debut The 400 Blows is also set for 4K Blu-ray release…
BFI Giving The Year of the Sex Olympics A DVD Release
First broadcast by the BBC on 29 July 1968, The Year of the Sex Olympics is one of the most original pieces of television drama ever written, foreshadowing both the likes of Big Brother and…
BFI Releasing Barbra Streisand’s Yentyl On Blu-Ray For First Time
Based on Isaac Bashevis Singer‘s play, Yentl was directed, produced, co-written by, and stars, the legendary Barbra Streisand as a girl living in eastern Europe in 1904. Despite the customs of her community forbidding it,…
BFI Can Can In November With John Houston’s Moulin Rouge Blu-Ray
Nineteenth-century Paris comes colourfully to life in this lavish, high-kicking, gorgeously shot portrait of tormented artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, directed by screen-legend John Huston. On 18 November 2019, a new 4K restoration of Moulin Rouge comes…
BFI Releasing Jacques Demy’s Les Demoiselles de Rochefort On Blu-Ray
The delightfully light-hearted Les Demoiselles de Rochefort is Jacques Demy’s large-scale tribute to the Hollywood musical. With a plot of pure Shakespearean farce, witty dialogue and lyrics by Demy and a magnificent jazz score by…
BFI Releasing Varda by Agnès On Blu-Ray
Agnès Varda was a visual storyteller who eschewed convention and prescribed approaches to drama. In Varda by Agnès , her final film, she offers a personal insight into her oeuvre, using excerpts from her work to…
BFI Releasing Jack Clayton’s Room At The Top 60th Anniversary Blu-ray
A mature treatment of sex and class, Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top is a landmark of the British New Wave. Winner of two Academy Awards®, from six nominations, including Best Actress for Simone Signoret…
Bergman: A year in a life
Jane Magnusson’s new Directorial offering, Bergman: A Year in a Life, looks at the tempestuous life and career of the legendary Swedish film maker Ingmar Bergman, to mark his centenary year. Widely regarded as Sweden’s finest…
BFI To Release Pinter At The BBC On DVD
Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was one of the most important and influential British playwrights of the last century. While best known for his work for the stage, this collection celebrates Pinter’s significant contribution to television. Pinter…
Film Review – ‘Queerama’ (2017)
With a mix of queer representation through archive documentary and fictional narratives taken from more than fifty sources, ‘Queerama‘ tells us of the queer identities within Britain over a number of years. Director Daisy Asquith…
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