10 great erotic British films | BFI
2015年2月5日 · 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
2018年4月19日 · 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 ...
10 great British gay films | BFI
2013年5月30日 · So what key British gay films are out there? We’ve narrowed down the list to films easily available on DVD, although honourable mention must go to the über-rare Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969), a swinging slice of the 60s that hinted at interracial homosexuality.And if you like Vicious (millions seem to), you may get a perverse kick out of Staircase (1969), a dreadful vehicle for Richard ...
The 30 Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time | BFI
2016年3月15日 · 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 ...
10 great films set in Britain during the Second World War
2017年4月20日 · 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 …
2021年7月14日 · 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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10 peerless funny women of British TV comedy - BFI
2018年12月3日 · The grande dame of the hilariously unhinged, Davis became part of British comedy royalty with the likes of Simon Pegg, Mark Heap, Kevin Eldon and Rebecca Front in the ensemble cast for the weird and wonderful late-90s sketch show Big Train. Front and Eldon returned for Davis’s first sitcom, Nighty Night, where …
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