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New BFI Release: AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD (7 June 2013)
A new restoration of Werner Herzog’s extraordinary account of the quest for El Dorado.
New BFI Release: JOURNEY TO ITALY (10 May 2013)
Arguably the very greatest of Rossellini's films, this piercing study of a marriage on the rocks is also one of the cinema's most miraculous love stories.
New BFI Release: THEOREM (12 April 2013)
A handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives at a bourgeois household in Milan and seduces each family member in turn.
New BFI Release: POINT BLANK (29 March 2013)
An old-style gangster (Lee Marvin), more sinned against than sinning, takes violent revenge on those who betrayed him.
New BFI Release: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (1 March 2013)
A beautiful new restoration of Pasolini's masterpiece in which Christ is portrayed as a peasant outcast fuelled by social injustice. The use of music - from Bach to Billie Holliday - is highly inventive and profoundly moving.
New BFI Release: A PLACE IN THE SUN (1 February 2013)
George Stevens' adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, widely regarded as one of postwar Hollywood's most affecting and genuinely adult love stories.
New BFI Release: MADAME DE... (15 February 2013)
Now newly restored, Max Ophuls' searing study of fateful passion was described by Andrew Sarris as "the most perfect film ever made".
New BFI Release: BABETTE'S FEAST (14 December 2012)
A mouth-watering Christmas treat, BABETTE’S FEAST is re-released on 14 December in a beautiful new digital transfer.
BFI Release: A DAY IN THE LIFE: FOUR PORTRAITS OF POST-WAR BRITAIN
This award-winning collection of four of John Krish's finest achievements finds him dealing with a Britain in transition.
New BFI Release: THE FIRST BORN (1 January - 31 March 2012)
The sex lives of the upper classes come under scrutiny in this sophisticated melodrama, a tour de force of late silent cinema starring Miles Mander and Madeleine Carroll.
New BFI Release: THE SHINING (2 November 2012)
Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of modern horror is widely considered to be the most terrifying movie of all time. Previews available for Halloween.
New BFI Release: IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY (26 October 2012)
Robert Hamer's skilful mix of noir thriller and vivid social tapestry is rightly acclaimed as one of the finest -and frankest- films made in and about postwar Britain.
New BFI Release: F FOR FAKE (24 August 2012)
Having begun his filmmaking career with the groundbreaking Citizen Kane, Orson Welles conjured up, in the last decade of his life, another hugely innovative masterpiece.
New BFI Release: LONDON THE MODERN BABYLON
London – The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple’s epic time-travelling voyage to the heart of his hometown.
New BFI Release: ROLL OUT THE BARREL
This fascinating 5-hour-plus collection of entertaining short dramas, humorous trade films, perceptive documentaries and archival newsreel items is an essential history of the British boozer on film.
New BFI Release: THE OLYMPIC GAMES LONDON 1908
The BFI would like to offer you a 4-minute archival short – edited highlights of the 1908 Olympic Games in London – to play on any plasma screens you may have in your cinema foyers or other public spaces. The BFI can supply the film free of charge on standard DVD, QuickTime or MPEG 2.
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Booking from November: THE HITCHCOCK SILENTS
The following titles will be available for booking from November 2012 as silent DCPs. Information and advice on live musical accompaniment available on request. (NB: The Lodger is released on 10 August with new score by Nitin Sawhney.)
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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: RED DESERT (27 JULY 2012)
Restored to reveal once more its remarkable use of colour and electronic soundtrack, Antonioni’s study of a woman faltering in a rapidly changing environment was an influential landmark in the development of a modern cinema
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.
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.
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