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  1. BFI Player’s August 2026 line-up: A major Mark Jenkin retrospective, the welcome return of La notte and an eclectic selection of world cinema highlights make for an unforgettable August on BFI Player.

    letterboxd.com/roddie/list/bfi

    #filmMastodon #BFIPlayer #BFI

  2. Otherworldly visitors meet radical homegrown visions in a July line-up spanning sci-fi classics, Free Cinema landmarks and early Peter Weir gems.

    letterboxd.com/roddie/list/bfi

    #film #filmMastodon #BFIPlayer

  3. My brief review of Australian western ‘The Proposition’. Brutal and beautiful watched via #BFIPlayer boxd.it/6yPco1

  4. Watching 1990 crime thriller ‘King of New York’ via #BFIPlayer

  5. Watching #Ska documentary ‘Dance Craze’ via the #BFIPlayer

  6. #DailyStream: the West Bank we don’t see on the news. Oscar-nominated 2012 doc #5BrokenCameras is a distressing portrait of everyday Palestinian life, where kids’ birthday parties are the same sort of ordinary events as Israeli soldiers arresting children. #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer UK

  7. #DailyStream: desperate women, desperate measures. Courtney Hunt’s 2008 film #FrozenRiver, with an incredible Melissa Leo, straddles moralities, gender motivations, and ideas of poverty and despair in such a way that you’re not sure, by the end, what’s “right” and what isn’t. #Hulu US, #BFIPlayer UK

  8. #DailyStream: finding necessary purpose in elderhood. Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nom'd doc #TheMoleAgent -- about a man who goes undercover in a nursing home to suss out possible abuse -- is an unusual combination of clever and touching. #Hulu #Kanopy US, #BFIPlayer #DogwoofOnDemand UK

  9. The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: meta horror about how scary movies infect us. 2021's ambiguous, introspective #Censor examines on multiple levels how we digest horror movies, and how they linger with us. #Kanopy #Hulu US, #BFIPlayer #CurzonHomeCinema UK

  10. "Juan Diego Escobar Alzate’s luminously left-field Colombian feature is an ambiguous fable of faith and fanaticism": the morally untethered, magical realist LUZ: THE FLOWER OF EVIL (2019) is now on #BFIPlayer projectedfigures.com/2022/05/2

  11. "a dark Christmas parable of projection and performance, where art is sacrifice": Fabrice Du Welz's CALVAIRE (2004) is available on #BFIPlayer from today projectedfigures.com/2014/08/1

  12. Untamed true story: Rodrigo Sorogoyen's THE BEASTS ( As Bestas, 2022) gives a real-life saga of simmering masculine violence a feminine tailspin. Now on #BFIPlayer. Full review for #LittleWhiteLies lwlies.com/reviews/the-beasts/

  13. "Its whole outlook on human desire is jaded and cynical, and yet the tone is breezily charming throughout. Here, love is bittersweet all round."
    Max Ophüls' LA RONDE (1950), on #BFIPlayer from today projectedfigures.com/2019/05/2

  14. "projects onto the viewer an immigrant population’s impatient longing for liberty, equality and success, concocting a dish that is no more bitter or half-baked than cultural exile itself": Abdellatif Kechiche’s COUSCOUS (2007) on #BFIPlayer from today projectedfigures.com/2023/08/1

  15. "LA neo noir/Hollywood satire packages angst and alienation for the online age": Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe's THE BETA TEST (2021) is on #BFIPlayer from today projectedfigures.com/2022/12/0

  16. Memento mori: Amy Seimetz's bleakly satirical existential horror SHE DIES TOMORROW (2020) makes dread out of our mortality salience. On #BFIPlayer from today. projectedfigures.com/2021/01/0

  17. "Andrew Legge’s found-footage sci-fi feature debut portrays sisterly love and independence in an alternative, ever potentially fascist Britain": LOLA is great - don't miss it... On #BFIPlayer from today projectedfigures.com/2022/08/1

  18. "projects onto the viewer an immigrant population’s impatient longing for liberty, equality and success, concocting a dish that is no more bitter or half-baked than cultural exile itself": Abdellatif Kechiche’s COUSCOUS (2007) on #BFIPlayer from today projectedfigures.com/2023/08/1

  19. Handheld horror: Dany and Michael Philippou's TALK TO ME (2022) "mediates adolescent angst and alienation through a terrifying rite of passage." Essential horror, on #BFIPlayer from today. Full review for #SciFiNow scifinow.co.uk/cinema/talk-to-

  20. "a sweaty, hallucinatory trip through the male persona in panic": Gerard Johnson's MUSCLE (2019) makes a mirror image of Cavan Clerkin and Craig Fairbrass' machismo. On #BFIPlayer from today. projectedfigures.com/2021/12/2

  21. Vietnam at home: DEAD OF NIGHT (aka DEATHDREAM, 1973) is "horror with a strong, accusatory sociopolitical message attached, as Andy’s reemergence comes also to represent a whole nation’s return of the repressed." Now on #BFIPlayer projectedfigures.com/2019/02/1

  22. "projects onto the viewer an immigrant population’s impatient longing for liberty, equality and success, concocting a dish that is no more bitter or half-baked than cultural exile itself": Abdellatif Kechiche’s COUSCOUS (2007) on #BFIPlayer from today projectedfigures.com/2023/08/1

  23. "a dialectic between a late filmmaker and a long-time admirer, mediated through the latter’s sharp engagement with the former’s considerable body of work": Mark Cousins' MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK now on #BFIPlayer. vodzilla.co/reviews/vod-film-r

  24. "Lynchian psychodrama tracks a disturbed man’s search for his missing mother in a forest both real and folkloric": Fridtjof Ryder's INLAND (2022) is on #BFIPlayer from today projectedfigures.com/2023/05/2