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Beautiful Laundrette Turns Forty, London Adds Service Charge
Beautiful Laundrette locations mark forty years as London proves that every cultural memory can acquire an estate agent.
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BFI Summer Holiday Requires An Emotional Passport
BFI Summer Holiday replaces the beach with Sophia Loren, French cinema and a deckchair that questions its own framing.
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Savages Film Lets Forest Outperform Development Plan
Savages film gives Borneo’s forest, an orangutan and a determined child more sense than a logging brochure.
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Helen Mirren Turns 80, Emergency Majesty Remains
Helen Mirren turns 80 with emergency majesty fully stocked, one raised eyebrow away from national reassurance.
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Human Traffic Gets 4K, Clubbers Need Reading Glasses
Human Traffic returns in 4K, allowing former clubbers to examine their favourite 1999 weekend in extremely sharp detail.
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Heatwave Films Explain Why Fan Has Given Notice
The BFI’s heatwave films explain why a warm tower fan and an unreachable remote have become serious cultural events.
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Battleship Potemkin Gets A Pet Shop Boys Mutiny
Battleship Potemkin returns with a Pet Shop Boys score, giving a classic mutiny the correct electronic urgency.
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Peter Wollen Notebook Gives Admin A Glass Display Case
The Peter Wollen notebook shows that lists on film and haircuts become culture if they survive long enough.
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BFI Archive Finds Missing Robot Film In Can Marked Shell
The BFI archive has recovered half a landmark robot film using the advanced detective method of opening a can marked Shell.
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BFI Player Gives July An Extremely Serious Swimming Pool
The BFI Player July lineup dives into La Piscine, Swimming Pool and Swimming Home, leaving subscribers culturally enriched and slightly damp.
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Jaws Film Still Benefits From A Shark On Strike
The Jaws film remains a masterclass 50 years later, helped by a mechanical shark that treated every shooting day as a formal grievance.
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British Animation Marks Chicken Run By Taking Attendance
British animation has marked Chicken Run’s anniversary by locating every feature film and checking none has escaped through a CGI fence.