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New BFI Release: THE LODGER (10 AUGUST 2012)

This classic ‘tale of the London fog’ has long been recognised, not least by its director, as ‘the first true Hitchcock movie’.

New BFI Release: LE QUAI DES BRUMES (4 MAY 2012)

Carné's newly restored classic of 'poetic realism' gave Gabin one of his most memorably iconic roles as an army deserter on the run, in this marvellously moody thriller.

New BFI release: The Bad and the Beautiful (20 APRIL 2012)

One of the most enjoyable movies Hollywood made about itself, this warts-and-all portrait of a ruthlessly ambitious producer is also, one suspects, among the most truthful.

New BFI Release: ORDET (9 MARCH 2012)

For many this adaptation of Kaj Munk's play about tensions within a Jutland farming family is the very greatest of all Dreyer's masterpieces, as suspenseful as it's emotionally devastating.

New BFI Release: LAURA (24 FEBRUARY 2012)

‘I shall never forget the weekend Laura died…’ So begins Preminger’s masterpiece.  

Valentine's Day Programming

Romantic classics available from the BFI for Valentine's Day bookings

New BFI Release: FRENCH CANCAN (5 AUGUST 2011)

A loving tribute to the Paris painted by his father Pierre Auguste and the other Impressionists, Renoir's digitally restored classic is one of the great colour films.

New BFI Release: LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD (8 JULY 2011)

X (Albertazzi) pursues A (Seyrig) through the endless corridors of a luxury hotel, trying to persuade her that they met last year.

New BFI Release: L’ATALANTE (20 JANUARY 2012)

Jean Vigo’s only full-length feature satisfies on so many levels, it’s no surprise it’s widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.

New BFI Release: LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (11 NOVEMBER 2011)

In the Parisian theatre world of the early nineteenth century, the fates of four men are intertwined.

New BFI Release: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (28 OCTOBER 2011)

A new digital restoration brings Minnelli's toe-tapping Gershwin-based musical to life once more. 

New BFI Release: DAYS OF HEAVEN (2 SEPTEMBER 2011)

Richard Gere stars in this new digital restoration supervised by writer-director Terrence Malick himself.

New BFI Release: THIS OUR STILL LIFE (18 NOVEMBER 2011)

15 years on from the last time we saw Kötting's daughter, Eden, we now watch her paint still lifes and sing along to the radio.

New BFI Release: MEET ME IN ST LOUIS (16 DECEMBER 2011)

Judy Garland stars in this wholesome family musical centred around a family's bond to St Louis.

New BFI Release: CRÍA CUERVOS (10 June 2011)

Shot in the summer of 1975 as General Franco lay dying, Saura’s masterpiece takes its title from a sinister Spanish proverb: ‘raise ravens and they’ll pluck out your eyes.’

New BFI Release: THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE (20 MAY 2011)

A new BFI National Archive restoration brings us back one hundred years to the British Antartic Expedition led by Captain Scott.

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