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Film poster design across the decades.

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Saucy seaside-postcard humour and innuendo were the order of the day for these eye-popping designs from the heyday of the Carry On film.

Carry On posters

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Employing a striking visual style that frames Lawand’s development, from being voiceless to a voice representing others in the Deaf Community, Edward Lovelace’s (The Possibilities Are Endless) documentary is an inspirational and touching coming-of-age story.

A debut feature from writer and director Dionne Edwards, Pretty Red Dress has breakthrough performances from Natey Jones (National Theatre Live: Small Island), newcomer Temilola Olatunbosun, and the chart-topping singer and West End actor Alexandra Burke in her first film role.

Directed by Andrew Gaynord from a razor sharp script by Tom Stourton and Tom Palmer, with a cast of rising British talent, All My Friends Hate Me is a deliciously dark comedy about social paranoia.

BFI Releases

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Madhumati (1958) Director Bimal Roy’s biggest hit is a gothic-style ghost story in which a young man shelters in an old mansion and experiences flashbacks to a past life and a lost love, Madhumati. The film features one of the best, and best-loved, scores of Hindi cinema Credit: BFI National Archive

Daaka (1959) Credit: BFI National Archive

Song of Life (Bhikharan, 1935) Credit: BFI National Archive

The golden age of Indian cinema

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Poster for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) by Jerzy Flisak

Poster for Tiger Bay (1959) by Wojciech Wenzel

Poster for Cromwell (1970) by Jan Młodożeniec

Polish poster for classic British films

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The Tailor of Panama (2001) - Collaborating with John Le Carré, Boorman adapted his novel and stayed faithful to its iconoclastic spirit. After Beyond Rangoon and The General and before Country of My Skull, the film is part of a political tetralogy, and presents itself as a cruel satire of a general paranoia without forsaking the complexity of its main character. Facing Geoffrey Rush, Pierce Brosnan relishes his part as an anti-James Bond. An enthralling divertimento.

Deliverance (1972) - Four city men go for a weekend of river adventures in the Appalachians. The expedition turns into a nightmare after they meet two hillbillies and steer their canoes through turbulent rapids. James Dickey’s novel is the source of a terrifying cinematographic experience where Boorman debunks the myth of regeneration through violence so dear to the old west. As with earlier Boorman protagonists, Ed (John Voight) – in his quest for his own identity – lives out a bad dream.

Country of My Skull (aka In My Country, 2004) - Like The General, a film inspired by true events, but this time with a portentous subject: the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions investigating abuses of human rights under Apartheid.

John Boorman

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Lost in America: The Other Side of Reagan's 80s

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Pre-censor posters

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Doris Day: poster girl

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Vintage designs

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) poster

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) poster

80s sci-fi

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The Lady from Shanghai (1947), director Orson Welles “Some people can smell danger. Not me.” So says Orson Welles in hard-boiled voiceover of femme fatale Hayworth. Columbia slashed over 65 minutes from Welles’ rough-cut, but it still proved box-office poison. But the now celebrated noir-thriller has deep-focus cinematography, serious smouldering from paradoxically newly ice-blonde Hayworth and a dazzlingly surreal funhouse/hall of mirrors finale echoed in Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery.

Pal Joey (1957), director George Sidney. “I’ll sing to him, each spring to him, and worship the trousers that cling to him” was one of many Rodgers & Hart lyrics deemed too scandalous for Hollywood’s version of their Broadway hit musical. But gains included Sinatra swinging through ‘The Lady Is a Tramp’ for the delectation of Hayworth encased in orange fur. Now the classy older woman, she competes with Novak for Sinatra’s, er, favours.

You Were Never Lovelier (1942), director William A Seiter. Hayworth’s second pairing with Astaire – the only film in which anyone fell in love with him because of his voice – is a 30s mistaken-identity comedy in 40s (well-cut) clothing. Latin maestro Xavier Cugat heats up Jerome Kern’s score and highlights include Astaire’s tap solo all over his enraged boss’s office and Hayworth’s joy as she matches him in ‘Shorty George’ and ‘I’m Old-Fashioned’.

Rita Hayworth

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Eric Rohmer

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The best 60s sci-fi film posters

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The Hit (1984) | Director Stephen Frears Ten years after he betrayed his gangster colleagues, Willie Parker (Stamp) finds his retirement in Spain interrupted by a couple of hitmen (John Hurt and Tim Roth) determined to take him back to Paris – but it’s a long trip, and Willie, transformed by his years in exile, appears unafraid of death… Directed with unflashy expertise by Stephen Frears, the film also boasts a fine score by Paco de Lucia.

The Limey (1999) | Director Steven Soderbergh Wittily making the most of his star’s Cockney credentials, Steven Soderbergh cast Stamp as an ex-con flying to LA to investigate the mysterious death of his daughter; it’s not just his rhyming slang but his ingenuity and resilience that take the local hotshots by surprise. Suspense, drama and comedy are beautifully balanced, the supporting cast (Peter Fonda especially) is spot-on, and the judicious use of clips from Loach’s Poor Cow is quite inspired

Theorem (Teorema, 1968) Director Pier Paolo Pasolini

Terence Stamp: classic film posters

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Papers, plans, diagrams: the making of The Draughtsman’s Contract | BFI

BFI Re-releases

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Saucy seaside-postcard humour and innuendo were the order of the day for these eye-popping designs from the heyday of the Carry On film.

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The risqué art of the Carry On poster

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The risqué art of the Carry On poster

Saucy seaside-postcard humour and innuendo were the order of the day for these eye-popping designs from the heyday of the Carry On film.

The risqué art of the Carry On poster

Saucy seaside-postcard humour and innuendo were the order of the day for these eye-popping designs from the heyday of the Carry On film.

The risqué art of the Carry On poster

Saucy seaside-postcard humour and innuendo were the order of the day for these eye-popping designs from the heyday of the Carry On film.

Name Me Lawand

Employing a striking visual style that frames Lawand’s development, from being voiceless to a voice representing others in the Deaf Community, Edward Lovelace’s (The Possibilities Are Endless) documentary is an inspirational and touching coming-of-age story.

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Alexandra Burke stars in Pretty Red Dress

A debut feature from writer and director Dionne Edwards, Pretty Red Dress has breakthrough performances from Natey Jones (National Theatre Live: Small Island), newcomer Temilola Olatunbosun, and the chart-topping singer and West End actor Alexandra Burke in her first film role.

BFI

Film poster for All My Friends Hate Me (2021)

Directed by Andrew Gaynord from a razor sharp script by Tom Stourton and Tom Palmer, with a cast of rising British talent, All My Friends Hate Me is a deliciously dark comedy about social paranoia.

BFI

Cornish language poster for Enys Men (2023)

A wildlife volunteer’s daily observations of a rare flower take a dark turn into the strange and metaphysical, forcing both her and viewers to question what is real and what is nightmare

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Film poster for EO (2022)

Jerzy Skolimowski’s Academy Award nominated film is a journey through modern-day Europe seen through the eyes of donkey.

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Papers, plans, diagrams: the making of The Draughtsman’s Contract

Papers, plans, diagrams: the making of The Draughtsman’s Contract | BFI

12 dazzling vintage film posters from the golden age of Indian cinema

Madhumati (1958) Director Bimal Roy’s biggest hit is a gothic-style ghost story in which a young man shelters in an old mansion and experiences flashbacks to a past life and a lost love, Madhumati. The film features one of the best, and best-loved, scores of Hindi cinema Credit: BFI National Archive