Blows my mind that the BBC is still buying important works of world cinema and—because they’re documentaries—putting them out with unrecognisable clickbait titles.

SOFTIE premiered 6 months ago at Sundance, won a Special Jury Award for Editing, and now slips out as...
Also currently available: HEARTBOUND, which was well received at TIFF and IDFA but now goes by the name...
One of my favourite nonfiction films of recent years, (T)ERROR, won IDA and Emmy awards, received universal critical acclaim, then snuck out on the BBC as...
AN HONEST LIAR holds a 97% score on Rotten Tomatoes, but a potential viewer would've had a hard time finding that out if they googled...
Of course, this urgent need to make movie titles more appealing to the viewing public is not applied to fiction films, or else iPlayer would also be offering MARCHING WITH MARTIN and WHEN HONEYMOONS GO WRONG
This is the most frustrating part! I'd have raved about (T)ERROR being freely available to stream in the UK, but I only found out a year after it came down from the iPlayer. https://twitter.com/dscreationstv/status/1281573043018620928
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