As an alternative to the Netflix/amazon prime series binge-watch frenzy trend, I recently took out a subscription to the BFI Player. There are three sections - free films, subscription (?49 a year) and rentals. Just watched Emily Beecham and Ben Whishaw in Little Joe (2019) - riveting lo-fi sci-fi. The other night I watched an Icelandic film, A White, White Day (also 2019) - a Nordic study in grief and misty atmospherics.
There's a decent international selection of old and new movies, and I feel like I want to watch them all. Scrolling through in itself feels like a hugely refreshing change from scrolling through Netflix where the same half dozen plots and ideas seem to be in a permanent state of being recycled, at great length over six series with 15 episodes in each series.
There's a decent international selection of old and new movies, and I feel like I want to watch them all. Scrolling through in itself feels like a hugely refreshing change from scrolling through Netflix where the same half dozen plots and ideas seem to be in a permanent state of being recycled, at great length over six series with 15 episodes in each series.
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