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 (2004) being the ...

Dec 6, 2024 · We said: “From having their first single banned from Irish radio for ‘drug references and cursing’ to riling unionist politicians with their ‘Brits out’ slogan, Kneecap are unapologetically brash and republican. So is the film, which provokes the audiences with gleeful chants of ‘Tiocfaidh ár lá’ (‘Our day will come’) – the only phrase used more often may be ‘Fenian ...

Jan 9, 2025 · The UK ’s largest festival for young, emerging filmmakers, the BFI Future Film Festival 2025 returns from 20 February to 6 March with a hybrid format that maintains a tradition of live and in-person screenings and events at BFI Southbank (20 to 23 February) alongside a globally accessible online programme, kindly supported by main sponsors Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery’s CrewHQ.

Apr 19, 2018 · 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 ...

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 …

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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.

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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 Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as well ...

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 clear of cinemas altogether and ...