This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (3rd December)
David Farnor | On 03, Dec 2016
Heard of BFI Player? Well, there’s also BFI Player+, a subscription service that offers an all-you-can-eat selection of hand-picked classics.
Every Friday, Mark Kermode highlights one of the collection’s titles with a video introduction. This week, it’s Distant Voices Still Lives. Terence Davies’ 1988 debut goes back to his working-class autobiographical roots by chronicling a family’s life in Liverpool in the 1940s. Kermode hails it as “a masterpiece by one of the UK’s most lyrical film-makers”
What else is available to stream? Every week, we bring you a round-up of the latest titles on BFI Player+:
Highly Dangerous
Margaret Lockwood plays an entomologist who travels to a Balkan country to investigate claims of germs warfare, only to find herself in the midst of a deadly spy game.
Nightbirds
Dark drama about the doomed relationship of two down-and-outers living in the squalid East End of London in the early 1970s.
The Uncanny
An author becomes convinced he’s unearthed a feline conspiracy to control mankind.
The Hidden Fortress
Akira Kurosawa’s thrilling mix of fairy story and samurai movie – a story of rival clans, hidden gold and a princess in distress – was famously a key inspiration for George Lucas’ Star Wars.
Birthright
Dark drama about the doomed relationship of two down-and-outers living in the squalid East End of London in the early 1970s.
Land and Freedom
Ken Loach’s acclaimed 1995 film marks a rare departure from the director’s traditional British milieu, instead focusing on the Spanish Civil War – but his signature realist style brings a raw quality to the historical drama.
For Queen and Country
Denzel Washington stars as a British paratrooper who returns to the London council estate of his youth, only to find his wartime service counts for nothing.
A BFI Player+ subscription costs £4.99 a month with a 30-day free trial. For more information, visit http://player.bfi.org.uk.