“The end of the world… is kind of perversely attractive”. Professor Brian Cox ponders why we find disaster films so compelling. #BFIPlayer #ProfessorBrianCox #BFI #BritishFilmInstitute #Film #TheCut (at The Royal Society)
Mark Kermode welcomes a drifter from the arid sands in Paris, Texas – his new BFI Player choice.
“I’m off to the Outer Hebrides and I’m going to listen to a bit of Mark Knopfler” Which film soundtrack is a Professor Brian Cox favourite? Watch as he shares his film recommendations. #BFIPlayer #LocalHero #MarkKnopfler #ProfessorBrianCox #FilmRecommendation #BritishFilmInstitute #BFI #TheCut (at The Royal Society)
“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other 22 in dreams.” - Luis Buñuel, the provocative surrealist director behind Un Chien Andalou and Belle de Jour
“A lot of my work wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t seen it” - @esdevlin on the films that matter to her. This video is part of ‘The Cut’, a brand new BFI Player series that brings together superstar cultural creators to explore the films that have made them who they are.
“I think it is essential viewing” - @esdevlin on her rediscovery of Charlotte Gainsbourg and her performance in Nymphomaniac. Watch this film and more on BFI Player as part of ‘The Cut’, a brand new video series that brings together superstar cultural creators to explore the films that have made them who they are.
“I first discovered Jean Cocteau’s Orphée when I was working on an opera version of it.” Watch stage designer @esdevlin discuss how the celebrated filmmaker’s magical retelling of the Orpheus myth has influenced her work. ‘The Cut’ is a brand new BFI Player series that brings together superstar cultural creators to explore the films that have made them who they are. Watch the full length video and find out more on BFI Player.
Peter Lorre stalks Berlin in Fritz Lang’s M. It’s Mark Kermode’s BFI Player choice this week, with an exclusive introduction.
Mark Kermode boots up Andrew Bujalski’s “bizarre mock-doc-cum-existential-rom-com.”
In episode one of The Cut, Es Devlin picks Nymphomaniac vol. I & II, Orphée and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as her film inspirations on #BFIPlayer
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