Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Judy Garland became one of the undisputed icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Yet behind that success was a darker tale, one of innocence exploited. In Rupert Goold’s elegant and probing biopic, Renée Zellwegger delivers a career-defining performance. Battered but not beaten, financial ruin forces Garland to return to the stage. Setting ‘60s London […]

Vad får du om Woody Allen lägger vantarna på en jönsig japansk James Bond-plankning som han dubbar om till engelska med helt ny och galen dialog? Svar: 1. Du får den då 31-årige Woodys debutfilm. 2. Du får en milstolpe i filmhistorien, olik allt annat som tidigare gjorts 3. Skrattkramp! Som i alla bra agentfilmer […]

The Parallax View, a superb drama about one man’s paranoia that turns out to be total, incredible fact, ranks among the best political thrillers. Warren Beatty is a news reporter who, along with seven others, witnesses the assassination of political candidate. When the other seven die in “accidents,” the newsman begins to doubt the official […]

Molly Dineen is one of Britain’s most acclaimed contemporary documentary filmmakers, known for her intimate and probing portraits of British individuals and institutions, and recipient of numerous accolades, including BAFTA, Grierson and RTS awards for documentary Being Blacker (2018) was Dineen’s first film in a decade. It tells the story of the renowned Brixton reggae […]

The BFI is proud to present Ingmar Bergman’s The Touch available here for the first time on Blu-Ray worldwide. Happily married mother Karin (Bibi Andersson) surprises herself by responding in kind to a sudden profession of love from David (Elliott Gould), an archaeologist visiting Sweden, whom her doctor husband (Max von Sydow) has befriended. But […]

Witness the rise of KNEECAP – the Belfast trio who became the voice of a generation. This is the real life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save and reinvigorate their mother tongue. Based on the origin story of the riotous and ground-breaking Irish-language […]

The Conversation is regarded as one of Francis Ford Coppola’s greatest films. Two-time Academy Award winner Gene Hackman (Unforgiven, The French Connection) plays a paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert who has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.  This tense thriller makes some remarkably advanced […]

Ruth kan inte hjälpa att hon måste mörda. Det är hennes ofödda misantropiska barn som tvingar henne, och som anser att det är samhällets fel att hen inte har någon far. Barnet kommunicerar med Ruth genom livmodern, och lär henne hur hon ska snärja och till slut mörda de intet ont anande offren. I en […]