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Ben Roberts' BFI Player playlist

My first taste of films was of the Amblin/Don Bluth kind, so I've always had a sentimental soft spot, but then my eyes were opened by punks like John Waters and Derek Jarman, and my tastes have been darkening ever since.
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The Selfish Giant The Selfish Giant

Drama 2013 91 mins Director: Clio Barnard

Two Yorkshire tearaways struggle with life and friendship in this challenging, compassionate growing-up tale by the director of The Arbor.

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Flight of the Navigator Flight of the Navigator

Science Fiction 1986 90 mins Director: Randal Kleiser

1980s family sci-fi at its best, following a boy’s relationship with a talking spaceship that has filled his brain with intergalactic star charts.

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Jubilee Jubilee

Drama 1978 106 mins Director: Derek Jarman

The mythological past and a soon-to-be bleak future converge on the sparse, grey streets of London in Jarman’s personal vision of the punk movement.

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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Biopic 1998 87 mins Director: John Maybury

Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig star as artist Francis Bacon and his muse George Dyer in John Maybury’s darkly exquisite biopic.

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Stranger by the Lake Stranger by the Lake

Drama 2013 100 mins Director: Alain Guiraudie

A young man witnesses a violent crime at a gay cruising ground and becomes obsessed with the killer in Alain Guiraudie’s acclaimed mystery-thriller.

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Sightseers Sightseers

Comedy 2012 88 mins Director: Ben Wheatley

Young lovers Chris and Tina turn their first holiday together into a rural killing spree in Ben Wheatley's priceless black comedy.

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Under the Skin Under the Skin

Horror 2014 108 mins Director: Jonathan Glazer

An alien Scarlett Johansson prowls the streets of Glasgow in Jonathan Glazer’s astonishing, mind-bending mixture of existential sci-fi and inner-city realism.