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13 short films commissioned through Animation 2018 programme
Each of the films will receive production grants between £2,000 and £10,000 and the opportunity to be broadcast on BBC Four following a premiere at BFI Southbank.
Friday 20 July 2018
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Up on the roof: 16 classic rooftop scenes on film
From Vertigo to The Matrix: 16 reasons the rooftop is the place to be.
Friday 20 July 2018 -
Greed is no good: how money movies have tackled the post-recession era
Have films been up to the job of reflecting changing public attitudes around greed and materialism since the financial crisis?
Friday 20 July 2018 -
Video: Ryuichi Sakamoto on his soundtrack work
The experimental musician and composer behind the soundtracks for Merry Christmas Mister Lawrence, The Last Emperor and The Revenant visited the BFI to talk about Coda, a documentary about his life and work directed by Stephen Nomura Schible.
Thursday 19 July 2018
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10 great Second World War films about Nazis in Britain
Terrifying alternate-history drama It Happened Here imagines a defeated Britain occupied by Nazis. With its debut on Blu-ray, we look at other Second World War films featuring German spies and invaders at large in the UK.
Thursday 19 July 2018 -
Salomé Lamas on her threshold foray Extinction: “I can’t tell apart my life from filmmaking”
The Portuguese filmmaker travelled to the disputed territory of Transnistria in eastern Europe to make a film that questions the veracity of borders between fiction and documentary. She talks to Ben Nicholson about her work and her ‘parafictions’.
Thursday 19 July 2018 -
Film of the week: A Prayer Before Dawn delivers total sensory redemption in a Thai jail
Joe Cole trades violence for self-acceptance as a meth-addicted boxer in Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s spiritual prison drama, a hypnotic spectacle that achieves an impressive degree of realism, writes Trevor Johnston.
Thursday 19 July 2018 -
Industry-led BFI report proposes measures to boost British independent film
The report makes four key proposals alongside five recommendations for the BFI and UK government to consider.
Wednesday 18 July 2018
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Five trails for navigating Westworld
From Tarkovsky to Kurosawa, the world of Westworld is rich with references to the great films and directors of the past. Here are some useful signposts to point your way.
Wednesday 18 July 2018 -
Impressions of Agnès: Varda impresses London
As the celebratory centrepiece of a two-month retrospective, and en route to unveiling a new commission at the Liverpool Biennale, cinema’s great impressionist regaled the audience at BFI Southbank with a demonstration of her creative leaps and bounds. So Mayer reports.
Tuesday 17 July 2018
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