Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Curzon Home CinemaĪs befits the UK’s leading arthouse cinema chain, Curzon Artificial Eye’s home streaming service is a classy affair, balancing a smallish back catalogue with a range of current cinema releases simultaneously available to view at home – a godsend to discerning film-goers who live outside metropolitan areas.

Subscriptions are £4.99 a month.īrigitte Federspiel in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1955 classic Ordet, available on BFI Player. A running strand, selected and introduced by the Observer’s Mark Kermode, covers classics like Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet and modern beauties such as Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Elena. Elsewhere, the film selection is rich on canon titles: the Italian Classics section includes works by Fellini, Pasolini, Antonioni, Rossellini et al, while Euro auteurs such as Éric Rohmer and Rainer Werner Fassbinder have their own dedicated collections. It is obviously the go-to platform for British cinema history, showcasing its extensive archive – including shorts, newsreels and assorted curios – for free. You’d expect a strong selection of classic and world cinema from the British Film Institute, and its attractively designed streaming service delivers – retaining the diverse, academic-but-accessible programming spirit of its cinema venues and DVD collection. Photograph: Collection Christophel/Alamy BFI Player Yannis Drakopoulos in Babis Makridis’s 2018 Sundance-acclaimed black comedy Pity, available on Mubi.

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