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60th BFI London Film Festival programme announced
The full Festival programme has been unveiled and will take place between 5-16 October at venues across the capital – including the beautiful new Embankment Garden Cinema.
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Florence Foster Jenkins on BFI Player
Meryl Streep plays the wealthy socialite determined to make it as an opera singer despite being tone deaf, in a delightful comedy from Stephen Frears.
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Sight & Sound October 2016
October’s Sight & Sound features Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, a look at female road movies and a celebration of the great Kirk Douglas as he approaches his 100th birthday. Plus: Víctor Erice’s incomplete 1983 film El sur and an interview with John Carpenter.
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Julieta
Pedro Almodóvar’s ravishing study of love and loss is now screening at BFI Southbank and across the UK.
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Behemoth on BFI Player
Zhao Liang’s extraordinary documentary is a visually spectacular missive from the forefront of China’s industrial explosion.
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Sid and Nancy
See a newly restored version of Alex Cox’s depiction of the life and times of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen now on BFI Player.
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Florence Foster Jenkins
Meryl Streep plays the famously tone-deaf aspiring opera singer.
Behemoth
Meet the workers powering China’s unprecedented rush for industrialisation.
Sid and Nancy
Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb excel as punk’s doomed lovers.
Black
Pulsating urban romance.
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1,000s of films, preserved.
120 years of British life, many unseen for decades. -
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Explore Britain on Film map
Discover. Watch. Share.
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Hidden histories and forgotten stories of people and places from the UK’s key film and TV archives.
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20 snapshots of a changing city: Leicester in 1971
In the year that On the Buses topped the box office, one city was on its way to representing the real and diverse reality.
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37 pictures showing what punk Britain was really like
From the late 70s, punk fashions and attitude spread agitation round the nation.
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Explore Britain on Film map
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