BFI Player's April line-up includes The Voice of Hind Rajab, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You and Kristen Stewart's The Chronology of Water
https://letterboxd.com/roddie/list/bfi-players-april-2026-line-up/detail/
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BFI Player’s April 2026 line-up
It’s an offer you can’t refuse – a season dedicated to trash cinema. One highlight is the 1930s pearl-clutcher Reefer Madness, warning of the evils of addiction. That’s something Sherlock Holmes ignores when solving classic cases in our newly restored dramas, which complement more recent works, exclusive to subscribers, including Rose Byrne coming apart in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You… If you haven’t signed up yet, head to player.bfi.org.uk and get a 14-day free trial. www.bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-player-april-2026-line-up
After reading the #NYRB "Shithole Cinema" article (paywalled) a couple of months ago, I was looking forward to #RaduJude's "Kontinental '25". It is now on #BFIPlayer and doesn't disappoint. The disturbing collision between self-regard and real events, and the multiple ways to seek to use others to assuage guilt. After viewing the film, David Ehrlich 's IndieWire review added more appreciation.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/19/shithole-cinema-radu-jude-romania/
https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/kontinental-25-movie-review-radu-jude-1235096944/

Shithole Cinema
In Radu Jude’s Romania, people don’t have a good word to say about the country or its citizens; on the contrary, they curse the place with a vehemence as
The New York Review of Books
Prime Time: Lady Macbeth (2016)
Movies young and old, from fright flicks to cracking comedies, from the latest blockbusters to the rarest cult treats.
My brief review of Australian western ‘The Proposition’. Brutal and beautiful watched via
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A ★★★★ review of The Proposition (2005)
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Watching 1973 Italian
#culthorror film ‘Black Magic Rites’ via the
#BFIPlayerWatching 1990 crime thriller ‘King of New York’ via
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