James R | On 01, Nov 2022

BFI Player is a gateway to global film, offering a collection of arthouse and world cinema to subscribers, alongside its pay-per-view rental releases and free archive titles and silent movie shorts.

This month, BFI Player hosts two film festivals and joins in with BFI Southbank’s two-and-a-half-month retrospective celebrating Peter Greenaway. Here’s what’s coming to BFI Player’s subscription service in November 2022:

Made in Prague Festival – until 3rd November

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Czech film composer Zdeněk Liška (1922-1983), the 26th Made in Prague Festival in collaboration with the BFI Player and Second Run presents three out of more than 200 films with scores composed by the great Czech composer Ennio Morricone: Invention for Destruction, The Devil’s Trap and The Shop on the High Street.

Film Africa 2022 – until 6th November

The Royal African Society is presenting the 10th edition of Film Africa – 48 films across seven venues including BFI Southbank for 10 days from 28 October – 6 November. The dazzling work of filmmakers from across Africa and the diaspora includes 22 UK, European and World Premieres. BFI Player will host these seven narrative and documentary features during the 10 days of the festival: Cesária Évora (2022), The Milkmaid (2020), The Last Shelter (2021), No Simple Way Home (2022), Bantú Mama (2021), In the Billowing Night (2021) and When Women Speak (2022).

The Belly of an Architect (1987) – 7th November

Brian Dennehy stars as an American architect slowly losing his grip on life while working in Italy on an exhibition for the eighteenth-century French architect Etienne-Louis Boullee. One of the most visually striking films of the 1980s, with a celebrated score by Glenn Branca and Wim Mertens, this is one of British cinema’s true visionaries at the height of his powers

Drowning by Numbers (1988) – 14th November

Cissy Coalpitts loves her husband to death and death is what he got. A very rude black comedy.

Prospero’s Books (1991) – 14th November

A free and exuberant adaptation of Shakespeare using an array of new technologies.

 

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