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Elliot Page Screen Talk and Special Presentation of Dominic Savage’s Close to You announced for BFI Flare
BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival is thrilled to announce a Screen Talk with the award-winning actor, writer, director, and producer Elliot Page, alongside a Special Presentation feature of Close to You, written and directed by BAFTA-winning Dominic Savage and starring, produced and co-written by Page.
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Alfonso Cuarón and Gaspar Noé discuss Gravity
Writer-directors Alfonso Cuarón (Roma, Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) and Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void, Love, Irreversible) talk about Cuarón's 3D sci-fi masterpiece, Gravity, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.
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One of the most significant post-war developments in cinema, Italian neorealism rejected traditional cinematic canons.
Neorealism came to exist out…
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From restored film classics to new releases, we've released the following films in the UK and Ireland since 2018. How…
Discomfort Movies 15 films
Most people are familiar with the ‘comfort movie’; the feel-good, film equivalent of comfort food. Viewing that is pleasurable, familiar…
100 Shakespeare films 100 films
From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost…
Great films featuring a film within a film 26 films
Meta is murder: Tie yourself in knots with these movies about fictional movies. Read more.
Great films set over one night 37 films
'Different rules apply when it gets this late, you know what I mean? It’s like, after hours.'
Stay up late…
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Liked reviews
Love wins…. In this heartbreaking, eye opening and inspiring documentary. Where you hear both sides of the story.
Vicky and Esme had no right being that hot
Yeah! Julie and Rosalie from the Souvenir films in the milieu of a BBC 'Ghost Story for Christmas' film! Not a pastiche though. Instead, it's very much a Hogg film, the social mores of posh people on holiday, with the humour and strained naturalism she is known for. I was on board for the commentary on the uneasiness of writing from life also (truly placing it as a little Souvenir coda.)
She should've shot on 16mm though, for full 70s BBC vibes.
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Glad to see the billing and title card for Louis.
sad and spooky birthdays, real and imagined memories, people, places and spaces. i loved the wintery english landscapes, reminds me of when i went to bath.
this movie made me really sad :(
An exquisite exercise in restrained eerie elegance.
The Eternal Daughter grew and grew on me as I watched, much like The Souvenir did, actually, but this final part of that trilogy - in which Swinton plays both Julie and Rosalind - is a completely different kind of movie to the previous two. Director Joanna Hogg sets up an almost clichéd ghost story complete with haunted house vibes but it turns out to be much more thought-provoking than that.
The plot itself you could write on a Post-It but…
The Eternal Daughter (2022 #JoannaHogg)
An extraordinarily powerful duet exploring the dynamic between a mother & daughter*, time & space, love & regret, memory & storytelling, as well as weaving in tropes of gothic ghost tales.
*Sensational performances by #TildaSwinton.
Most people are familiar with the ‘comfort movie’; the feel-good, film equivalent of comfort food. Viewing that is pleasurable, familiar or undemanding. Films that offer us precious escapism or a soothing balm from our own realities. But what about the films that make us feel bad?
Discomfort Movies, curated by Kim Sheehan, takes place at BFI Southbank from 1-31 July 2024.
What are your Discomfort Movies?