BFI Player+
VOD film review: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
March 24, 2019 | David Farnor
Powell and Pressburger’s remarkable war epic explores friendship, life and patience with compassion.Read More
VOD film review: The American Friend
February 27, 2019 | David Farnor
Bruno Ganz is the real star of the show in this stylish adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novel.Read More
VOD film review: The Wild Pear Tree
December 2, 2018 | David Farnor
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s poetic, novelistic piece of cinema depicts the arrogance of youth with funny, moving nuance.Read More
VOD film review: Pili
November 10, 2018 | David Farnor
This thoughtful, moving drama about a Tanzanian woman with HIV carries a gently powerful documentary realism.Read More
VOD film review: Scanners (1981)
September 14, 2018 | Anton Bitel
David Cronenberg’s coolly clinical sci-fi Scanners is mind-blowing art for outsiders.Read More
VOD film review: Lucky
September 14, 2018 | Matthew Turner
Harry Dean Stanton delivers a wonderful penultimate performance in this delightful, low-key indie drama.Read More
VOD film review: Beast
August 25, 2018 | David Farnor
Powered by two superb rising stars, this swooning, sinister gothic romance is a killer directorial debut.Read More
VOD film review: I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba)
August 5, 2018 | Laurence Boyce
Mikhail Kalatozov’s astonishing portrait of Cuba transcends its propaganda origins and deserves a more prominent place in cinema history.Read More
VOD film review: Loveless
June 11, 2018 | Anton Bitel
In Andrey Zvyagintsev’s film of wintry loss, the lack of love in a disintegrating family gives way to a more haunting absence.Read More
VOD film review: Zama
May 25, 2018 | Matthew Turner
Daniel Giménez Cacho delivers a stirring performance in Lucrecia Martel’s entrancing, Kafkaesque drama.Read More
