A ‘60s teen flick featuring Lovejoy, an infamous character from Coronation Street and Klaus Kinski? It has to be The Pleasure Girls.
Tag: bfi
Coffee bar classics: BFI Flipside reissues Beat Girl and Expresso Bongo
Perhaps a little cheesy now, but coffee bar rebellion in the late 1950s was captured for the big screen with both Beat Girl and Expresso Bongo. Both are getting a serious reissue from the BFI very soon.
Extensive Jean-Luc Godard season at the BFI plus Anna Karina Q&A sessions
Fans of French new wave cinema might want to put some time aside early next year as the BFI is running Jean-Luc Godard season over three months.
Patrick McGoohan season at the BFI
Yes, the man from The Prisoner. But there’s a lot more than that at the Patrick McGoohan season at the BFI.
The Flipside presents The Sorcerers on the big screen
A bit last minute with this, but if you are free and in London this Thursday, you can check out The Flipside presents The Sorcerers.
More (1969)
I first saw this as a late night channel 4 screening many years back. Fasty forward and More is now out on Blu-ray. Does this Pink Floyd-soundtrack movie still cut the mustard?
Peter Cook season at the BFI
Not sure it’s been advertised all that much, but starting in March is a Peter Cook season at the BFI, featuring a couple of cracking movies.
More (1969) gets a Blu-ray release
It’s a film that would probably have been long-forgotten but for its soundtrack. However, More has that early Pink Floyd soundtrack (when they were called The Pink Floyd) and is being issued on Blu-ray by the BFI for the first time soon.