10 great erotic British films | BFI
WEBFeb 5, 2015 — The Pillow Book (1995) Director: Peter Greenaway. The Pillow Book (1995) “I’m obviously interested in pornography”, Peter Greenaway admitted in 1985, and 10 years later he made his most overtly erotic film, loosely inspired by the famous ‘pillow book’ by 10th/11th-century Japanese lady-in-waiting Sei Shōnagon.
From girlhood to adulthood: 6 French films about sexual awakening
WEBAug 11, 2014 — Director: Chantal Akerman. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) In Chantal Akerman’s magnificent exploration of one woman’s need to contain her emotions in a fortress of control, she gives us a female protagonist who is a single mother, devoted housewife and afternoon …
Sex, sin and striptease: the hidden history of British film erotica
WEBJan 13, 2017 — The first known example of British ‘cheesecake’ top ends The Pleasure Principle, a new collection on BFI Player exploring the history of British film erotica. Appropriately shot on a Kinetoscope or ‘peepshow’ camera, the Brighton-based pioneer Esme Collins’ A Woman Undressing (1896) is, in effect, a three-minute long stripshow in which the leading lady stops short in her shift ...
10 great films about female desire | BFI
WEB19 April 2018. Let the Sunshine In (2017) By Sophie Monks Kaufman. 10 great. The most persuasive charm of French maestro Claire Denis ’s latest and lightest film is the way it presents a middle-aged woman as open to casual sex. Parisian artist Isabelle, sensually embodied by Juliette Binoche, succumbs to a slew of interested men.
10 great bisexual films | BFI
WEBMar 12, 2015 — Bisexual men and bisexual women are depicted very differently in cinema. In the worst examples, films can be downright squeamish about their characters’ bisexuality – see (or don’t) Oliver Stone’s timid biopic of Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell played a more interesting bi character in 2005’s A Home at the End of the World). Tinto Brass’s notorious Caligula was far less timid ...
10 great films set in Britain during the Second World War
WEBApr 20, 2017 — Fires Were Started (1943) British cinema perfected the docudrama during the Second World War, with Charles Frend’s San Demetrio London (1943) and Pat Jackson’s Western Approaches (1944) among those to take their cues from Humphrey Jennings’ tribute to the Auxiliary Fire Service, which also featured in Basil Dearden’s The Bells Go Down ...
The 30 Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time | BFI
WEBMar 15, 2016 — Over 100 film experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as well as past and present BFI Flare programmers, have voted the Top 30 LGBTQ + Films of All Time. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as well ...
10 great British gay films | BFI
WEBMay 30, 2013 — Watch a selection of LGBT titles on BFI Player. This list should really be a Top 11 – the omission of Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), the first British film to feature a gay kiss, is borderline inexcusable. Tom Shkolnik’s beautifully observed The Comedian (2012), in which a possibly gay, possibly bi thirtysomething (Edward Hogg) tries to make ...
10 great American lesbian films | BFI
WEBNov 26, 2015 — The film comes in the wake of many superb films about jazz/punk/queer core girl bands starting with Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin’ Women (1989), Prey for Rock & Roll (2003), Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary (2003) and most recently The Runaways (2010), although Joan Jett’s sexuality barely gets a chord change.
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