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 …

Every decade since 1992, Sight and Sound has complemented its celebrated critics’ poll by formally sounding out the world’s leading directors on the ten films they believe to be the greatest of all time. Though it has always been global and inclusive in scope, the poll has expanded significantly each decade. In 1992, 101 directors voted; fast-forward to 2012, when 358 …

Feb 21, 2014 · Sex at the movies has been there from the start, with peep show titillations part of the illicit sideshows of early silent cinema. But censorship quickly became a buzz kill in the world of mainstream, commercial cinema, with the naughty suggestiveness of early 1930s Hollywood films soon snuffed out by the introduction of the Hays Code.

Mar 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 …

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May 30, 2013 · 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 …

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 …

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Nov 14, 2024 · Special events in January will include a preview of Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliott, 2024), which won the Best Film Award at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, followed by a Q&A with Adam Elliot on 17 January. This funny and moving stop-motion triumph, starring Sarah Snook, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver, follows twins Grace and Gilbert who are separated in …

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 – …