Normally I’d expect you all to go straight to the 1970s nudist colony news report, but now, as we think wistfully back to happier times, I predict it’ll be the toilet roll race.
The BFI Player has masses of films to rent or watch via their subscription service, as well as archive shorts to watch free of charge. Subscriptions come with a 14 day free trial and cost £4.99 a month, and you can cancel any time. Rentals start at only £2.50.
Check out what’s new, what’s coming up, intriguing freebies, and what you might have missed.
CADBURY’S ADVERT
Included free this week is Elsie & The Brown Bunny, an eight-minute Cadbury’s advertisement from 1921 about a young girl who has an adventure with a decidedly weird Easter bunny.
Young Elsie dozes off after reading Alice in Wonderland while snacking on a box of chocs, and dreams of a brown bunny who whisks her away by train to Bournville, “the factory in a garden”.
Watch the Cadbury’s Easter bunny ad!
RENTAL
Rent new and acclaimed films, without a subscription. Features start from just £2.50. New releases this week:
New releases to rent from this week include Ordinary Love, the acclaimed drama starring Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson as a couple facing a cancer diagnosis.
Pink Wall (2019) directed by Tom Cullen
Ordinary Love (2019) directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa
Available 20 April:
A Guide to Second Date Sex (2019) directed by Rachel Hirons.
Recent new releases you might have missed:
And Then We Danced (2019) directed by Levan Akin
The Street (2019) directed by Zed Nelson
Still available:
The Man from Mo’Wax (2017) directed by Matthew Jones. The exhilarating, no holds-barred story of Mo’Wax records founder James Lavelle, one of the most enigmatic yet influential figures in British music culture.
New release from the BFI on 20 April (also out on Blu-ray/DVD release):
The Battle of the Sexes (1960) directed by Charles Crichton. Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings and Donald Pleasence star in this satire on sexual politics in the 1950s workplace.
SUBSCRIPTION
Subscribers can, from this week, watch Jean-Luc Godard’s Sympathy fort the Devil, with Australian classic Picnic At Hanging Rock coming on 13 April.
New this week (links go to trailers / more information):
Glastonbury Fayre (1972) directed by Nic Roeg & Peter Neal
Sympathy for the Devil (1968) directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Winter Sleep (2014) directed Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Wild Pear Tree (2018) directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
New from 13 April:
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) directed by Peter Weir
Romance (1999) directed by Catherine Breillat
FREE TO WATCH
Explore over 10,000 free archive films on BFI Player from the last 120 years at https://player.bfi.org.uk/free
Last week’s free top 10, from a toilet roll race to those nudists. See them here:
1. A-tish-oo (Public Information Filler, 1941)
2. Britannia of Billingsgate (comedy, 1933, Southwark Park)
3. How to Use the Telephone (Public Information Filler, 1948)
4. Xcitement! (silent, 1960)
5. The Nudists (news, 1971, south Devon)
6. Lifestyle: The Three Peaks Race (documentary, 1976, Ingleborough)
7. Playground Express (1955, Brighton)
8. Farmer Rides Bull (news, 1972, Whittington)
9. Challenge of the Sack (1962, Ellesmere Port)
10. Woolco Toilet Roll Race (news, 1978, Newtownards)
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