BFI DVD

Lynsey Ford 22 January 2019

Jane Magnusson’s new Directorial offering, Bergman: A Year in a Life, looks at the tempestuous life and career of the legendary...

Paul 9 January 2019

Harold Pinter (1930-2008) was one of the most important and influential British playwrights of the last century. While best known...

Georgia May 15 September 2018

"My father was a very big man. And he wore a black moustache." With is being the 10th anniversary of...

Zach Roddis 26 March 2018

With a mix of queer representation through archive documentary and fictional narratives taken from more than fifty sources, 'Queerama' tells...

Paul 20 April 2017

Following an acclaimed career in TV drama (much of which was made available in last year’s BFI box set release,...

Ian Schultz 28 April 2016

The Beatnik phenomenon is often considered exclusively American but in reality Britain had its own form of it. The UK...

Sandra Harris 7 April 2016

This is an extraordinary film, I Am Belfast. It manages to be moving, rich with imagery, thoughtful and as lyrical...

Ian Schultz 3 March 2016

Emir Kusturica since the early '80s has remained one of the most singular voices in World Cinema. Underground is a...

Ian Schultz 29 February 2016

Ken Russell was one of Britain's few cinematic renegades but Valentino is a film he publicly said he rather forget. It's...

Ian Schultz 20 November 2015

Biopics are hard to pull off but often the best are ones that don't get full cooperation from the person's...

Andrew McArthur 23 April 2012

★★★★☆ It is excellent news that the BFI have decided to restore John Cassavetes seminal 1959 classic, Shadows. The film...