Derek Jacobi (Actor), Daniel Craig (Actor), John Maybury (Director, Writer).

John Maybury’s audacious film charts the powerful and dangerous relationship between Francis Bacon and his lover and muse George Dyer.

The main feature was first released in 1998. This BFI re-issue includes a commentary with Derek Jacobi and John Maybury, an interview with the film’s producers and a short documentary about the Colony Room.

German release of Bacon’s Arena, with German subtitles.

In his London studio, the British painter discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester, a friend and close observer of his art since the late 1940s. Central to their conversation are Bacon’s controversial, horrifying subjects and style. His representations of the human figure in portraits and triptychs link him, in his view, to the distorted realism of Van Gogh and Picasso, who also portrayed the intensity of life that Bacon calls ‘the brutality of fact’.

Re-released as New York and London prepared to celebrate the centenary of Francis Bacon’s birth, this documentary retraces the life and artistic career of one of the greatest painters of the 20th century, from his childhood in Ireland to ‘most expensive painter in the world’. French version.

First broadcast on 10 July 10 2009.

Bacon’s Arena is widely acclaimed as the definitive documentary on the life of Francis Bacon. This special edition DVD with bonuses was released in 2009 to mark the centenary of his birth.

Author Melvyn Bragg accompanies the painter throughout his day. This begins in his London atelier, leads us on to his favourite pub and ends up in a gambling club in Soho.