BFI (British Film Institute)

Close to a nuclear power station, inside his modest, sparsely furnished home on the barren, windswept Dungeness coastline, Derek Jarman dreams. This intimate insight into Jarman’s inner world was beautifully shot on fragile Super 8 film with the help of friends and collaborators. Shifting from the personal to the political, it culminates in a near-mythic […]

Mozart’s immortal opera is masterfully reworked for the screen by the great Ingmar Bergman in this sublime rendering of one of the composer’s best-loved works a cheerful and charming operatic celebration of love, forgiveness and humanity. This marvellously melodic visual treat is available for the first time on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK, The […]

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 […]

In 1953, before any American studio exec used the phrase “high concept”, Henri-George Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear boasted a premise…

The Werner Herzog Collection an extensive DVD box set compiling 18 films from the legendary German director. Features digitally remastered High Definition presentations of…..

The Werner Herzog Collection an extensive DVD box set compiling 18 films from the legendary German director. Features digitally remastered High Definition presentations of…..

Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Agnés Varda was a visual storyteller who eschewed convention and prescribed approaches to drama. In Varda by Agnés – the director’s swansong film – she offers a personal insight into her oeuvre, using excerpts from her work to illustrate her unique ideas and artistic vision. ‘Two […]