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AUG 2019
BFI SOUTHBANK
PAIN AND GLORY
NOTORIOUS
NO DIRECT FLIGHT
CARY GRANT
NINETIES: YOUNG CINEMA REBELS
THIS MONTH AT BFI SOUTHBANK
Welcome to the home of great film and TV, with a world-class library, free exhibitions and Mediatheque and plenty of food and drink
IN PERSON & PREVIEWS NEW RELEASES SEASONS
Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance The best new cinema for you to enjoy, with plenty of screening Carefully curated collections of film
for you to catch the latest film and TV before dates to choose from and TV, which showcase an influential
anyone else genre, theme or talent
Shake It Up (p24)
Hail Satan? (p8)
Transit (p5)
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Cover: Pain and Glory
Talent Q&As and rare appearances,
plus a chance for you to catch the
latest film and TV before anyone else
IN PERSON & PREVIEWS
DOC
Varda by Agnès Varda par Agnès
France 2019. Dir Agnès Varda. 115min. Digital.
EST. Cert tbc. A BFI release
In this inspirational documentary,
her final work, the great visual
storyteller Agnès Varda shares her
observations on cinema, art and life.
Recordings of public appearances Preview: The Last Tree + Q&A with director Shola Amoo*
and conversations with Varda’s UK 2019. Dir Shola Amoo. With Sam Adewunmi, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Denise Black, Tai Golding.
collaborators are weaved in with film 99min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Picturehouse Entertainment
clips and installation footage as we’re Directed by Shola Amoo, The Last Tree He must decide which path to
guided through her oeuvre as a is the semi-autobiographical story adulthood he wants to take, and find
photographer, filmmaker and artist. of Femi (played by young newcomer out what it means to be a young black
Full of illuminating wisdom, moving Tai Golding), a British boy of Nigerian man in London during the early 00s.
stories and amusing anecdotes, this heritage who, after being fostered in Part of our No Direct Flight season (p20), also
rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city screening as part of SOUL Fest (see p42)
is an unmissable self-portrait of
London to live with his birth mother. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less)
a unique talent.
‘A HAUNTING Continued from July
Also available on
In his teens, Femi (Sam Adewunmi)
struggles with the culture and values
FILM FOR OUR of his new environment.
TIMES’
SIMON DUFFY,
PROGRAMME AND
RESEARCH MANAGER THU 1 AUG THU 1 AUG FRI 2 AUG SAT 31 AUG
Transit (p5) 18:20 NFT3 20:40 NFT3 18:10 NFT1* 18:20 NFT1
book online at bfi.org.uk
Preview: Transit TV Preview: Sanditon + Q&A with screenwriter Andrew Davies,
IN PERSON & PREVIEWS
Germany-France 2018. Dir Christian Petzold. With Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, exec producer Belinda Campbell and cast TBC
Lilien Batman. 101min. Digital. EST. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye Red Planet Pictures-ITV-MASTERPIECE 2019. Dirs Olly Blackburn, Lisa Clarke,
Petzold’s adaptation of Anna Seghers’ When he crosses paths with the Charles Sturridge. With Rose Williams, Theo James, Anne Reid, Kris Marshall. Ep1 46min
1944 novel centres on a German writer’s mysterious wife an obsessive Emmy and BAFTA-winning to the up-and-coming coastal resort
refugee (a mesmerising Rogowski) as desire begins that will change both screenwriter Andrew Davies adapts of Sanditon, it exposes her to the
he escapes to Marseille carrying the their destinies. Brilliantly blurring Jane Austen’s incomplete 11-chapter intrigues and dalliances of a seaside
papers of a famous writer, Weidl. past and present, this atmospheric novel, written in 1817, for this town, and the characters whose
When he discovers that Weidl has film reflects the historic rise of sumptuous, eight-part series. fortunes depend on its commercial
taken his own life, he’s faced with nationalism and brings it bang up to Sanditon tells the story of the success. The series also includes Kate
the dilemma of whether or not to date. A haunting film for our times. joyously impulsive, spirited and Ashfield, Jack Fox, Charlotte Spencer,
assume the author’s identity and take Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) unconventional Charlotte Heywood Crystal Clarke, Lily Sacofsky, Leo
advantage of the transit pass he’s and her spiky relationship with the Suter and Adrian Scarborough
been issued by the Mexican embassy. charming and mercurial Sidney among the talented cast.
Parker. When an accident transports
Charlotte from her rural hometown
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early ’80s become romantically involved
with a complicated and untrustworthy
man (Tom Burke).
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TV Preview: The Dark Crystal: Programme Launch:
Age of Resistance + Q&A The 63rd BFI London Film Festival
USA-UK 2019. Dir Louis Leterrier. With the TRT 70min
voices of Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, The BFI London Film Festival in
Helena Bonham-Carter. RT and cert tbc
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TALK The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance brings the best new cinema to venues
returns to the world of Jim Henson’s across London from 2-13 October
Member Salon: Do the Right Thing beloved 1982 movie with a brand 2019. Join the festival team as they
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Join us to celebrate Spike Lee’s Members can book a joint ticket to the new, epic adventure set before the share some of the highlights from the
influential feature on its 30th Member Salon screening and discussion on events of the iconic movie. This world programme, and be among the first
Tue 6 Aug for themselves and their guests premiere public screening of the
anniversary. Together with your in advance for just £6. Members who have to see exclusive clips and trailers.
fellow members, we’ll discuss watched the film on another date are also
brand new Netflix series, alongside Tickets £6 (limited to two per booker), available
the film’s impact upon release, welcome to come along to the free discussion an exhibition of puppets and props on a first-come, first-served basis as soon as
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themselves and a guest on a first-come, followed by a Q&A with the creators.
legacy and resonance today.
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booking opens.
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The best new cinema for you to Hail Satan?
enjoy, with plenty of screening USA 2019. Dir Penny Lane. 95min. Digital.
dates to choose from Cert tbc. A Dogwoof release
(see pull-out calendar) An unexpectedly funny, charming and
thought-provoking documentary about
a group who celebrate difference,
and challenge the link between religion
and state in the US
The Satanic Temple, a nontheistic
religious and political activist group,
was founded in 2013 in Salem,
Massachusetts, but has since
spread across the USA and Canada.
Filmmaker Penny Lane focuses less
on ritualistic and religious aspects
and more on campaigning and being
satirical as she follows a group of
misfits who challenge the old notion
of state and church, and confront
– among others – the Westboro
NEW RELEASES
Baptist Church, which is known for
its hate speech. Hail Satan? is an
intriguing exercise in not judging
‘THIS DEEPLY a book by its cover.
Justin Johnson, Lead Programmer
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Pain and Glory (p10)
book online at bfi.org.uk
Bait + Q&A with director Mark Jenkin
and guests*
UK 2019. Dir Mark Jenkin. With Edward Rowe,
Mary Woodvine, Giles King, Simon Shepherd.
89min. Digital/35mm (see pull-out calendar
for further info). 15. A BFI release
Bait, which premiered at Berlin,
is a highly original, stylistically bold
first feature from independent
writer-director Mark Jenkin
Gruff and taciturn Martin (Rowe)
is a fisherman without a boat since
his brother repurposed their father’s
vessel for tourist trips. As Martin
struggles to buy his own boat he
must also cope with family rivalry
and the influx of London money,
stag parties and holiday homes
that is displacing the locals in his
picturesque Cornish harbour village.
Summer brings simmering tensions
to a head within the community,
NEW RELEASES
with tragic consequences. Stunningly
shot on a vintage 16mm camera using
monochrome Kodak stock, Bait is
timely and poignant, yet full of
humour as it gets to the heart of a
community facing unwelcome change.
Julie Pearce, Head of Distribution and
Programme Operations
+ Travelogue (c.2min)
Footage from the BFI National Archive,
showing Cornish fisherman in the 1920s.
*Preview + Q&A Wed 28 Aug 18:15 NFT1
Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less)
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Pain and Glory Dolor y gloria + Q&A
with director Pedro Almodóvar*
Spain 2019. Dir Pedro Almodóvar.
With Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas,
Leonardo Sbaraglia, Asier Etxeandia. 113min.
Digital. EST. 15. A Pathé-Twentieth Century
Fox release
A vivid portrait of a filmmaker confronting
age-related anxieties, Almodóvar’s latest
is surely one of his most personal works
Director Salvador Mallo (Banderas at
his very best) is so preoccupied by
various physiological and psychological
ailments that he’s put his career on
hold. Then a retrospective of his work
leads him not only to remember his
past, but to contact the long-estranged
lead actor of an early seminal work...
a troubled reunion with unexpected,
fateful consequences. Almodóvar,
who also wrote the screenplay, is
here at his most mature and reflective,
NEW RELEASES
exploring the lore of desire, creativity,
addiction and memory through a single,
somewhat self-centred character.
Bold in its narrative structure,
restrained yet expressive in its
colours and compositions, and with
intense, naturalistic performances,
this is exemplary film artistry.
Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
*Preview + Q&A: Fri 9 Aug 18:10 NFT1
Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less)
See p37 for screenings of All About My Mother
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IN CINEMAS JULY 5 www.modernfilms.com/neverlookaway 15 STRONG SEX,
NUDITY, THREATWe’ve selected these key
classics (many newly restored)
for you to enjoy, with plenty of
screening dates to choose from
(see pull-out calendar)
Do the Right Thing
RE-RELEASES
USA 1989. Dir Spike Lee. With Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee. 120min.
Digital 4K. 15. A Park Circus Release
Spike Lee’s bold third feature firmly placed him as a cinematic force
to be reckoned with
Do the Right Thing is a gripping and Despite being 30 years old, Lee’s film
relevant tale of racial tension in is as astute, funny, moving and
‘CARY GRANT, Brooklyn, with Spike Lee playing thought-provoking as it was upon
Mookie, a delivery man who works for release, and features great
INGRID BERGMAN Sal (Aiello), the long-standing owner performances across the board.
AND ALFRED of an Italian restaurant in a largely
African-American neighbourhood.
Justin Johnson, Lead Programmer
See p26 for our nineties season
HITCHCOCK: IT’S What starts as a spat in the restaurant
WHAT CINEMA soon escalates into a tragic event that Also available on
touches the whole community.
WAS MADE FOR’
JUSTIN JOHNSON,
LEAD PROGRAMMER FROM FRI 2 AUG
Notorious (p13)
book online at bfi.org.ukNotorious
USA 1946. Dir Alfred Hitchcock.
With Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman,
Claude Rains, Louis Calhern. 101min.
Digital 4K. U. A BFI Release
What better way to celebrate the career
of Cary Grant than by watching one of
Hitchcock’s most impressive films?
It’s just after WWII and a number of
Nazis have been tracked down to Brazil.
Grant plays a US spy who persuades
the American daughter (Bergman) of
a convicted Nazi criminal to infiltrate
the group – one of whom (Rains) was
a friend of her father’s. The resulting
romantic tangle features great
chemistry between our leads, and
an ingenious way of dealing with
the Production Code’s ban on kisses
longer than three seconds. With the
winning combination of Grant,
RE-RELEASES
Bergman and Hitchcock, Notorious
might just be a perfect film.
Justin Johnson, Lead Programmer
See p14 for our Cary Grant season
Seniors’ matinee + illustrated intro
by author and academic Mark Glancy
Mon 12 Aug 14:00 NFT1
FROM FRI 9 AUG
@BFI 13Carefully curated collections of
film and TV, which showcase an
influential genre, theme or talent
‘SEE HOW ONLINE
SEASONS
CONNECTIVITY
HAS CREATED
A BRAND NEW
GLOBAL AFRICAN
AESTHETIC’
GAYLENE GOULD,
HEAD OF CINEMAS
AND EVENTS
No Direct Flight season (p20)‘I PRETENDED TO BE SOMEBODY
I WANTED TO BE, AND, FINALLY,
I BECAME THAT PERSON.
OR HE BECAME ME’
CARY GRANT
Cary Grant was the UK’s secret weapon in Hollywood, emerging
from a troubled childhood into a suave, dapper movie star that
everyone wanted to work with, writes season programmer
Justin Johnson
Despite being seen by many as quintessentially American,
sporting snappy suits and talking in a memorably irresistible
mid-Atlantic accent, Cary Grant was born in Bristol and
maintained a strong relationship with the UK throughout his Blonde Venus
USA 1932. Dir Josef von Sternberg.
life. This is where he learned his craft in the world of variety; With Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich,
acrobatics and slapstick later merged to inform his physical Herbert Marshall, Dickie Moore. 97min.
Digital. PG
comedy and presence on the big screen. He was more than
Forced to work in a club to pay her
just a star, however; he was a true acting giant capable of husband’s medical fees, Helen
delivering dark and light performances with enough depth to (Dietrich) embarks on an affair with I’m No Angel
create rounded and complex characters. Hollywood’s leading a rich politician (Grant) and takes
CARY GRANT
USA 1933. Dir Wesley Ruggles.
ladies clamoured to work with him, as did the great directors part in one of Hollywood’s most With Cary Grant, Mae West, Gregory Ratoff,
memorable scenes dressed as a Edward Arnold. 86min. Digital. U
of the time – many doing so on a number of occasions. Enjoy monkey to the tune of ‘Hot Voodoo’. Mae West wrongly claimed to have
these selected works in part one of our two-month showcase. At this stage in his career, Grant discovered Cary Grant (they appeared
appeared in star vehicles for in She Done Him Wrong earlier in the
Paramount’s leading ladies but it year) but she certainly helped him,
wasn’t long before the studio and the fortune of Paramount, with
recognised his worth. this self-penned tale of a vaudeville
WANT MORE? WITH THANKS TO performer trying to stay on the right
side of the law while falling for a rich
See p13 for screenings of Notorious, Charlotte Crofts and the Cary Comes Home
p36 for our Big Screen Classics, and p54 Festival, Bristol
playboy (played by Grant, of course).
for a special library collections display
Coming in part two in Sep: Arsenic and
Old Lace, Bringing Up Baby, Monkey Business,
North by Northwest and more...
THU 1 AUG SUN 4 AUG SAT 3 AUG SAT 10 AUG WED 21 AUG
Image: Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief.
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@BFI 15Topper The Awful Truth
USA 1937. Dir Norman Z McLeod. USA 1937. Dir Leo McCarey. With Cary Grant,
With Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D’Arcy.
Roland Young, Billie Burke. 97min. 91min. Digital. U
35mm U Dunne and Grant play a married
Now in the unusual position of couple who divorce and then consider
operating as an independent in the trying again in this consistently
heavily dominated studio-contract funny, well-paced film. The Awful
system, Grant worked for Hal Roach
CARY GRANT
Truth actually started its shoot with
Studios and was rewarded with his an unhappy cast awaiting a final
first big success as a bona fide lead. script and wasting their rehearsal
Grant and Constance Bennett star time, but within days they realised
as a couple of ghosts whose comic that they were on to something
antics enliven the existence of special and that McCarey was a force
Sylvia Scarlett a rich banker, whom they believe to be reckoned with.
USA 1935. Dir George Cukor. With Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Brian Aherne,
is their ticket to the hereafter.
Edmund Gwenn. 90min 35mm Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. U Restored by the UCLA Film & Television
Archive with funding provided by The Stanford
On loan to RKO, Grant plays a cockney This early role, a compelling balance Theatre Foundation
alongside Hepburn’s Sylvia Scarlett of light and dark, is a fine example of
(their first on-screen pairing), a con how Grant began to recreate himself
artist’s daughter who dresses as a film by film in order to become the
boy and flees to the UK to escape star he was destined to be.
the authorities.
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16 book online at bfi.org.ukOnly Angels Have Wings
USA 1939. Dir Howard Hawks.
With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur,
Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth.
120min. Digital 4K. U
Grant plays Geoff Carter, boss of
an aviation business who, with his
Holiday colleagues, risks his life to transport
mail crates across the Andes in
CARY GRANT
USA 1938. Dir George Cukor. With Cary Grant,
Katharine Hepburn, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres. dangerous weather conditions.
95min. Digital 4K (restoration). U It’s a macho environment and the
Holiday is one of the great screwball stakes are high, yet Howard Hawks
comedies, a quick-fire, fast-talking delivers on every level in a film
delight that reunites Hepburn and that has romance, drama and some
Grant to fine comic effect as an impressive air sequences too. His Girl Friday
independently-minded everyman USA 1940. Dir Howard Hawks. With Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy,
who falls for a woman from a Gene Lockhart. 92min. Digital. U
wealthy, old-money family with Howard Hawks’ masterpiece sees about a wrongly convicted inmate
particular views on social hierarchy. Grant as a newspaper editor who on death row – thus sabotaging
Amid the hullaballoo, Cukor’s film makes a play to win back his ex-wife her plans to move away and marry
questions social responsibility (Russell), who also happens to be his another. His Girl Friday is as dark
and position. best reporter. He engineers one last as can be, yet also funny, fresh
job for her, covering a story and rewarding.
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@BFI 17My Favourite Wife Penny Serenade
USA 1940. Dir Garson Kanin. With Cary Grant, USA 1941. Dir George Stevens. With Cary Grant,
Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick. Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan.
87min 35mm U 120min 35mm U
Returning from many years stranded A married couple find themselves at
on a desert island, Ellen Arden finds the receiving end of tragedy and bad
that her husband Nick has re-married luck and struggle to stay together
The Philadelphia Story and left on his honeymoon. My Favourite against all the odds. Penny Serenade is
CARY GRANT
USA 1940. Dir George Cukor. With Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey. Wife was a troubled production which a melodrama all the way, and quality
112min. Digital. U thankfully resulted in a funny and shines through in its direction and
Katharine Hepburn stars as a It’s a beautifully choreographed innovative film, incorporating the performances – with Grant receiving
wealthy socialite who finds herself comic treat, but it’s worth noting that best elements of farce and slapstick a well-deserved Oscar® nomination
the object of affection of three men: while Stewart won a Best Actor and giving Grant the physical comedy for his role.
her ex (Grant); her intended (John Oscar® for his role, Grant, in a huge element he so relished.
Howard); and a reporter covering oversight, wasn’t even nominated.
her wedding (Stewart). Also available on
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18 book online at bfi.org.ukTALK
Cary Grant: From Knockabout Film at the BFI: Cary Grant:
CARY GRANT
to Knockout Hollywood’s Leading Man
TRT 90min Cary Grant was the quintessential
Cary Grant is famously quoted as movie star – excelling at action,
saying, ‘Everybody wants to be Cary comedy and romance until his
Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.’ screen persona was changed
In this illustrated talk Dr Charlotte forever by Hitchcock, who pushed
Suspicion Crofts, academic and director of the him to a new and darker level.
USA 1941. Dir Alfred Hitchcock. With Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce. Cary Comes Home festival, will This eight-week evening course,
99min. Digital. PG
discuss how Bristol-born Archie led by John Wischmeyer, will explore
Building on the fact that many of wealthy new wife. Although Grant’s Leach, son of a tailor’s presser, the background, career, talent
Grant’s lighter roles often have an casting was a masterstroke, it may reinvented himself as a global film and legacy of one of Hollywood’s
enigmatic, darker side to them, also have cost Hitchcock the ending star and style icon, whose image greatest leading men.
Hitchcock cast him as a penniless that he wanted when RKO imposed still circulates as the epitome To book a place, please quote course code
charmer who may or may not have their own. of elegance. HF040 when you call 020 7831 7831 or visit
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@BFI 19‘OUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WILL
BE SEEN THROUGH THE CONTENT
WE CREATE’
JEPCHUMBA, KENYAN TECH PIONEER
How has the digital world shaped the visual aesthetics of
the African diaspora? ask season curator Gaylene Gould
and co-programmer Tega Okiti
The global Pan-Africanism movement was nearly a century
old by the time the internet arrived. No surprise then that
diasporic African filmmakers, visual artists and music-video
directors annexed the virtual space early on. This season
explores the themes and visual motifs virally traded between
Africa, the US and Europe that gave rise to a bold, black,
globally influential aesthetic. We might be seduced by the
style but do we know the influencers? Touching down in
the UK, then Kenya and the US, we’ll reveal who’s trending.
Classic pan-African features paired with their daring short-
form offspring, new commissions, virtual discussions and
a get-down party IRL will connect artists and audiences
around the world in a way that transport links cannot.
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See p4 for a preview of The Last Tree,
p45 for African Odysseys, and p42 for
SOUL Fest
A cross-platform project in partnership with the
British Council, Nowness, Black Star Festival
Artwork: Jebet Naava and Pervasive Media StudioTHE LANDING SITE
No Direct Flight’s founding ideas explored
Hello Rain
The Last Angel of History
Touki Bouki + intro by curator Mothership Connection:
Tendai John Mutambu* Shorts Programme
Senegal 1973. Dir Djibril Diop Mambéty. + filmmaker discussion
With Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang, TRT 110min
Aminata Fall. 88min. Digital. EST
Afrofuturism’s roots lie deep in
Djibril Diop Mambéty’s fantasy-
African-American culture, but these
drama playfully and profoundly
shorts imagine a future world from
reflects post-colonial Dakar – No Direct Flight Global Meet-up the African perspective. Satirical,
NO DIRECT FLIGHT
the muddle of enduring cultural TRT 5hrs (including intervals) beautiful, glitchy and profound, this
influences, its style and youthful John Akomfrah’s afro-fiction doc We’ll investigate how the internet is how the world’s youngest continent
rebellion. Young lovers Mory and The Last Angel of History (1996, 45min) allows new languages to develop predicts our destiny.
Anta hatch wildly adventurous heralded the dawning of the new across a global filmmaking community,
and indulgent schemes to facilitate digital age. Almost 30 years on, this and seek to find out if there’s a lineage
their escape to glamorous Paris. Hello Rain Dir CJ Obasi
afternoon of ideas, which includes of diaspora aesthetics. Is memetic
This daring film is widely regarded a screening of Akomfrah’s film, will culture affecting production, and Pumzi Dir Wanuri Kahiu
as a philosophical and aesthetic virtually connect speakers across is the internet now a much-needed We Need Prayers: This One Went
wellspring for global African visual the African diaspora. archive for black filmmakers? To market Dir Njeri Gitungo
culture, from screen to stage Join us to take the debate further. Loop Count Dir Michael Omonua
to fashion editorial.
Afronauts Dir Nuotama Bodomo
Restored by The World Cinema Foundation
in association with the family of Djibril
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Diop Mambéty
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Beauty as the new global African aesthetic
Embroidery for a Long Song
Swimming in Your Skin Again: Shorts Programme + filmmaker discussion Restless City + intro by cinematographer Joel Honeywell
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TRT 90min USA 2011. Dir Andrew Dosunmu. With Sy Alassane, Sky Grey, Anthony Okungbowa,
Where does black beauty reside? Process Dir Rhea Dillon Hervé Diese, Momo Dione. 80min. Digital
Is it in the Florida swamps with a Contact Dir Seye Isikalu Andrew Dosunmu’s feature debut worker. Acclaimed cinematographer
spiritual siren, in an artist’s studio delves into the fringes of New York’s Bradford Young (Arrival, Selma) –
Embroidery for a Long Song
in Lagos, with a wash-to-style hairdo, thriving pan-African community. a founding father of contemporary
Dir Amirah Tajdin
or on the block with the mandem? Djbril, a West African immigrant, Black aesthetics – adds a touch of
Serious Tingz Dir Abdou Cisse hopes to make it as a musician, but magic to this rich study of complex
What do you see? These films offer
studies of black beauty on screen, Brood Dir Michael Omonua his dreams are thwarted by the community dynamics.
from a set of transatlantic audio- Swimming in Your Skin Again harsh realities of urban life and
visual auteurs who discard the Dir Terence Nance star-crossed love with a local sex
rulebook altogether.
Tickets £6.50
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22 book online at bfi.org.ukHOMEGOING TIMECIRCLES
The African longing for elsewhere. The diasporic longing for home Non-linearity and African People’s Time
America
Entitled
Black Girl La noire de... + intro by Homegoing: Shorts Programme Sankofa + intro by lecturer and Timecircles: Shorts Programme
June Givanni, curator June Givanni + filmmaker discussion filmmaker Imruh Bakari + filmmaker discussion
Pan African Cinema Archive* TRT 120min USA-Ghana-Burkina Faso-UK-Germany TRT 100min
Senegal-France 1966. Dir Ousmane Sembène. For any diaspora, the ties that bind 1993. Dir Haile Gerima. With Kofi Ghanaba, In African culture, time comes
With Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Oyafunmike Ogunlano, Alexandra Duah.
you to your homeland also have 124min. 35mm 15 full circle. The connection between
Jelinek, Robert Fontaine. 65min. Digital.
EST. 15
the power to create conflict and the past, present and the future
On a work trip to Ghana, Mona
separation: you’re neither here nor is a deeply-mined seam that
The seminal first feature from (Ogunlano), an African-American
there, yet always motivated by a deep offers up visual and sonic
fashion model, is transported into
NO DIRECT FLIGHT
Ousmane Sembène dealt with the
sense of belonging. This curated experimentations employed
fraught relationship between Europe the body of an enslaved plantation
collection presents the work of by countless African makers.
and Africa. Diouana’s dream of girl 100 years prior. There she must
filmmakers who, with artistic flare, You’re in for a timeless experience...
freedom is cruelly undermined by learn, the hard way, how to claim her
precision and playfulness, reflect the
the life of servitude she faces as a forgotten identity. Much of today’s
bittersweet diasporic condition. Giverny I Dir Ja’ Tovia Gray
house girl in France. The dehumanising black visual aesthetic can be laid
effect of post-colonialism was a at the feet of Haile Gerima, who Highlands Dir Zandile Tisani
persistent theme for Sembène’s Entitled Dir Adeyemi Michael trained a new generation of America Dir Garrett Bradley
generation. The associated shorts House Girl Dir Koby Adom filmmakers to ‘decolonise the gaze’, Black Mary Dir Khalil Joseph
programme, ‘Homegoing’, shows Process Dir Khalil Joseph including lauded cinematographer
The Ancestors Came
how today’s filmmakers subvert Polyglot Dir Amelia Umuhire Bradford Young, and director-
Dir Cecile Emeke
that perspective. producer Jenn Nkiru.
Appreciation Dir Tomisin Adepeju
Restored by The Film Foundation’s World
Cinema Project Tickets £6.50
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Music and the aesthetic baseline
FREE
Belly + intro by Creative Director No Direct Flight Sonic Party
Grace Ladoja MBE After dancing in your seat, take the
Shake It Up
Jamaica-USA 1998. Dir Hype Williams. dancing to the street – well, the
With Nas, DMX, Taral Hicks, Tionne ‘T-Boz’ BFI Bar & Kitchen and our No Direct
Watkins, Method Man. 96min. Digital. 18
Flight Party. As the line between
Acclaimed music video director a visual and music artist blurs,
Hype Williams’ feature debut stars this after-party will celebrate the
legendary rappers Naz and DMX Sonic Shorts Programme + filmmaker discussion next generation of global African
NO DIRECT FLIGHT
as friends and gangsters ‘Buns’ and TRT 110min rhythms and dance inspired by the
Sincere, who navigate the dangerous Music is the baseline of the black Shake It Up Dir Tracy Sada contemporary visual music artists
underworld on the path towards aesthetic – so no surprise that some like Baloji, Blitz the Ambassador
Peau de Chagrin / Bleu de Nuit Dir Baloji
spiritual awakening. Twenty-three of the leading visual creators are and Tracy Sada.
years on, Belly exists as a genuine Soak it Up Dir Filmawi
musicians themselves, or work Until the Quiet Comes Dir Khalil Joseph
artefact of hip-hop culture at the closely with music artists. This loud
dawn of the millennium, and it still Black to Techno Dir Jenn Nkiru
and proud mixtape flings down some
has a visual influence on black La Maison Noir: The Gift and the Curse
daring creations designed to push
cinema today. Dir Petite Noir
boundaries and shift souls.
See p26 for part two of our nineties season Gallons Dir Kojey Radical
As Told to G/d Thyself
Dirs Jenn Nkiru, Bradford Young, Terence
Nance, Marc Thompson
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24 book online at bfi.org.ukPAST SPIRITS VIRTUAL REALITY
Folklore, tradition and the ancestral realm Explore new ways of seeing...
You and I and You
Future Spirits: Shorts Programme
+ filmmaker discussion
TRT 110min
The close link between the human
and the spirit world grounds the work
FREE
of African diaspora makers. The spirits
walk among us, sometimes as guides
Kati Kati + Q&A with director Mbithi Masya and at other times as demons, but The (Un)real World
NO DIRECT FLIGHT
Kenya-Germany 2016. Dir Mbithi Masya. With Nyokabi Gethaiga, Elsaphan Njora, Paul Ogola. they always provide inspiration for During our No Direct Flight season,
75min. Digital. EST view artworks that highlight future
the imagination.
Kaleche (Gethaiga) wakes up in the Mbithi Masya’s impressive work innovation in VR, establishing a
Diasporadical Trilogia Dir Blitz Bazawule
wilderness with little memory. deftly navigates the spiritual network for creation and new forms
She stumbles to Kati Kati, a nearby conventions of traditional African Klein – Marks of Worship
Dir Crack Stevens
of communication. Experiences will
lodge, where she meets an assorted storytelling to create a modern include Ng’endo Mukii’s Nairobi Berries
group of residents, but realises she and deeply affecting tale of love Waves/The Water Dirs Sutra, Edem Dotse
(2017), which is Kenya’s first 360°
must find out how to break free. and redemption. Shaitan Dir Abba Makama virtual-reality film incorporating
Boneshaker Dir Nuotama Bodomo animation and live-action.
You and I and You Dir Terence Nance Additional dates to be confirmed, please
check bfi.org.uk for details
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@BFI 25‘WHEN YOU WAKE UP, WIPE THE SLUGS OFF YOUR FACE. BE READY FOR A NEW DAY!’ MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO Witness the work of these ‘new kids on the block’ – a disruptive cinematic force with plenty to say, invites season programmer Anna Bogutskaya In the 1990s a new generation of cinema and TV rule-breakers were fueled by changing (and cheaper) production methods and by a youthful creative energy. In the final part of our season, we focus on these filmmakers and their approach to their own generation’s outlook on life. From street hustlers, slackers, bohemians and hackers, to dreamers and nihilists, these films often focused on youthful frustration in its many iterations, with the filmmakers attempting to capture that energy truthfully and artistically. The generation that grew up in the 90s was a very particular breed, and this month we celebrate their coming of age. WANT MORE? MEDIA PARTNER See p12 for screenings of Do the Right Thing, and p20 for our No Direct Flight season Image: My Own Private Idaho
Courtesy of The Criterion Collection
Clueless
90s Teen Film Quiz Slacker
TRT c.120min USA 1991. Dir Richard Linklater.
10 Things I Hate About You. She’s All That. With Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan, Mark James,
Mark Harris. 100min. 35mm 15
House Party. But I’m a Cheerleader…
The 90s were truly a golden decade Before he became a critically acclaimed
for the American teen film – and to powerhouse director, Linklater made
celebrate, the Forever Young Film Slacker, a low-budget feature following
Club present a fun-packed evening to a day in the life of young bohemians in Young Soul Rebels + Q&A with director Isaac Julien (work permitting)*
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flex your 90s teen movie knowledge. Austin, Texas, the director’s hometown. UK-France-Germany-Spain 1991. Dir Isaac Julien. With Valentine Nonyela, Sophie Okonedo,
Will you be top of the class, prom The film is often credited with Jason Durr, Mo Sesay. 100min 35mm 18
queen or totally Clueless? kickstarting the American indie Artist Isaac Julien’s first narrative ambitious girlfriend Tracy (Okonedo),
Tickets £5 per person film movement of the 90s, and its feature revolves around four characters and Chris’ friend Caz (Sesay), who
In partnership with Forever Young Film Club low-budget production and naturalistic in 1977 London, where class and embarks on a romance with punk
vibe influenced many of Linklater’s racial tensions simmer. A murder Billibud (Durr).
contemporaries, including Kevin Smith. mystery intersects the lives of Also available on
Courtesy of the Sundance Collection at the aspiring DJ Chris (Nonyela) and his
UCLA Film & Television Archive
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Gas Food Lodging + intro by Dr Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary University Brother Brat
of London* Russia 1997. Dir Aleksey Balabanov. With Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Yuriy Kuznetsov,
USA 1992. Dir Allison Anders. With Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk. 101min. Digital. 15 Svetlana Pismichenko. 95min. Digital. EST. 18
A delicate portrait of teenage sisters: Anders’ moving portrait of three When young ex-soldier Danila Filmed on a low budget and with
rebel Trudi (Skye) skips school to women, each on a journey of (Bodrov) returns home, aimless and a thumping rock soundtrack, Brother
hang out with boys, while daydreamer self-discovery, stands out as one of trying to make sense of a messy became a cult film in Russia, as both
Shade (Balk) wants to find a good the most underappreciated gems system, he gets embroiled in local a portrait of a lost generation and a
boyfriend for their mother. of the Sundance class of 92. gang operations. symbol of the early post-Soviet era.
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28 book online at bfi.org.ukLes Amants du Pont-Neuf The Lovers on the Bridge
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France 1991. Dir Leos Carax. With Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Daniel Buain.
127min. 35mm EST. 18
This portrait of an explosive, Set on the oldest public bridge in
all-consuming love between two Paris, Carax’s third and most costly
vagrants – drug-addicted street feature offered a fresh direction
performer Alex (Lavant) and painter for 1990s French cinema.
Michèle (Binoche), who is gradually The Doom Generation
losing her sight – is full of energy USA-France 1995. Dir Gregg Araki. With James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech.
and emotion. 83min 35mm 18
Amy Blue (McGowan) and Jordan violence and endlessly quotable
White (Duval), two teenagers in love one-liners. Gregg Araki’s unique
and on the run, pick up a handsome blend of genres, teen angst and
drifter, Xavier Red (Schaech). After deadpan comedy is a strange trip
accidentally killing a store clerk, the in more ways than one.
trio set off on a road trip full of sex,
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@BFI 29My Own Private Idaho Bhaji on the Beach
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USA 1991. Dir Gus Van Sant. With River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert. UK 1993. Dir Gurinder Chadha. With Kim Vithana, Jimmi Harkishin, Sarita Khajuria. 101min.
104min. Digital. 15 Digital. 15
Narcoleptic hustler Mike (Phoenix) society, and avant-garde in its style When a group of British women, the day trip to look at issues within
and his friend Scott (Reeves), who’s (partly inspired by William mostly Punjabi, take a trip to the British Asian community, where
secretly from a wealthy family, ditch Burroughs’ cut-up technique), Blackpool, tensions rise between the old traditions and new ways make for
the streets of Portland and hit the My Own Private Idaho is considered younger girls and the older women. uncomfortable situations.
road, heading for Mike’s home town a landmark in New Queer Cinema. Gurinder Chadha’s debut feature Also available on
of Idaho. Focusing on characters (co-written with Meera Syal) uses
living on the fringes of American
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30 book online at bfi.org.ukShow Me Love Fucking Åmål Go Fish
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Sweden-Denmark 1998. Dir Lukas Moodysson. With Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecka Liljeberg, USA 1994. Dir Rose Troche. With Guinevere Turner, VS Brodie, T Wendy McMillan. 83min.
Erica Carlson. 89min. Digital. EST. 15 35mm 18
Agnes (Liljeberg) and Elin (Dahlström) begin to form a romantic bond and Young college student Camille ‘Max’ celebrated and showcased lesbian
are two very different girls, both a shared dislike of their hometown. West (Turner) becomes creatively culture on all levels, and its
attending school in small-town Åmål. Filmed in a sweet, naturalistic way, and romantically involved with Ely box-office success paved the way
Isolated and friendless, Agnes is this is a charming portrait of (Brodie), who also has a long-term, for the lesbian films that followed.
pining from a distance for pretty and first-time love. long-distance partner. The talk of
popular Elin, and tentatively the two Sundance at the time, Go Fish
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@BFI 314K Remaster: The Matrix TV Gamechanger: This Life + Q&A with creator and writer Amy Jenkins
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USA 1999. Dir The Wachowskis. With Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, and exec producer Tony Garnett
Hugo Weaving. 136min. Digital 4K. 15 BBC 1996/1997. Dir various. With Jack Davenport, Amita Dhiri, Andrew Lincoln, Daniela Nardini,
In a dystopian future where humanity A unique meld of influences from Jason Hughes. TRT 90min (includes 50min episode). 18
is controlled by artificially intelligent cyberpunk to anime, The Matrix is the This Life was one of the great British characters and the ensemble of
beings, hacker Neo (Reeves) is drawn perfect capsule-film for a decade that shows of the 1990s. Focusing on the young, talented actors that really
into a burgeoning underground broke formal and thematic ground. dysfunctional house-share between made it must-see TV week after
rebellion against the machines, Also available on a group of twenty-something law week. With only two seasons under
led by the mysterious Morpheus graduates, its depiction of casual sex its belt, it left its audience
(Fishburne) and his gang. and drug taking smashed taboos, wanting more.
but it was the smart, witty, insightful
dialogue, the multi-layered
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32 book online at bfi.org.ukTV Gamechanger: The Word + Q&A with presenters Terry Christian TV Gamechanger: Queer as Folk + Q&A with Russell T Davies
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and Katie Puckrik and actors Craig Kelly and Denise Black
TRT 90min Red Production Company-Ch4 1999. Dir Charles McDougall (4 eps). With Aidan Gillen,
Craig Kelly, Charlie Hunnam, Denise Black. TRT 135min (includes Eps 1 & 2). 18
Going on air in 1990, The Word both the margins of society, and
revolutionised youth TV and downright bizarre and outrageous As we mark Queer as Folk’s 20th an exhilarating decade and ushering
pre-dated reality TV by many years. studio stunts, and soon became loved anniversary it now seems impossible in a new, unapologetic and more
Deliberately aiming to achieve by its target audience and loathed to imagine the sense of shock and diverse world for the millennium.
something new and exciting, the by the press in equal measure. awe that accompanied its first Join writer Russell T Davies and cast
show pushed the boundaries of In this special discussion, chaired transmission in 1999. From its members as we celebrate this true
broadcasting to court controversy by Samira Ahmed, with plenty of uncompromising title to the unflinching TV game-changer.
and outrage the Establishment. It amazing clips, hear from the show’s and provocative celebration of three Check bfi.org.uk for updates on guests
combined a unique mix of cutting- main presenters and celebrate gay men’s lives in Manchester, the
edge bands, irreverent and anarchic this iconic and quintessentially series felt totally new and intoxicating
interviews of A-listers, stories from 90s TV show. – both building on the advances of
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@BFI 33My Own Private Idaho
TALK
1990s New Queer Cinema
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TRT 90min
£3
1992 saw the publication of B. Ruby defining cinema experiences,
Rich’s landmark article in Sight & and how it connected theory,
Sound in which she coined the term activism and practice to form
‘New Queer Cinema’. Join our invited ‘curatorial advocation’. CINEMA
speakers to discuss what impact the
article had on writing about queer
Tickets £6.50
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34 book online at bfi.org.ukMEMORIES ARE MADE IN FRONT OF A CINEMA SCREEN Name a seat at BFI Southbank bfi.org.uk /nameaseat
The timeless films we urge you
to see (for just £8), programmed
by theme
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
TURMOIL! Gloria + intro by Geoff Andrew,
Following on from last Programmer-at-large*
USA 1980. Dir John Cassavetes.
month’s look at obsession, With Gena Rowlands, John Adames,
our daily screenings of Julie Carmen, Buck Henry. 121min. Digital. 15
classic movies in August Gena Rowlands is magnificent as the
gangster’s moll reluctantly lumbered
and September will focus on Eyes Without a Face Les Yeux sans visage with a prematurely macho Latino boy
emotional and psychological France-Italy 1959. Dir Georges Franju. With Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli. 90min. whose family was killed by the Mob.
turmoil: on people (or Digital. EST. 15 As they wander New York seeking
Love, oppression, madness and Gruesome cruelty mixes with tender refuge from the hitmen who are
animals!) undergoing crises murder are the components of lyricism to create a memorably searching for an incriminating book
of confusion, fear, grief, Franju’s horror classic, in which a magical fable, while Scob, Brasseur in the kid’s possession, Gloria’s sense
crippling uncertainty or doctor, guilt-ridden for ruining his and Valli are all terrific. of responsibility – to herself, her
friends and the child – is conflicted.
turbulent, painful passion. daughter’s face in a car crash, Also available on
Thrilling, witty, unsentimental, this
repeatedly attempts to repair the
Film, which can range from damage with skin grafts. gem is far too seldom screened.
subtle realism to heady
expressionism, was
surely made for exploring
such extremes.
GEOFF ANDREW,
PROGRAMMER-AT-LARGE
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book online at bfi.org.ukAll About My Mother East of Eden Unrelated + intro Mildred Pierce
Todo sobre mi madre USA 1955. Dir Elia Kazan. With James Dean, by Dr Davina Quinlivan, USA 1945. Dir Michael Curtiz.
Spain-France 1999. Dir Pedro Almodóvar. With Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Jo Van Fleet. Kingston University London* With Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott,
Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz, 113min. Digital. PG Jack Carson, Ann Blyth. 111min. Digital 4K. PG
UK 2007. Dir Joanna Hogg. With Kathryn Worth,
Antonia San Juan. 101min. Digital. EST. 15 Elia Kazan’s adaptation of Steinbeck’s Tom Hiddleston, Mary Roscoe. 100min. Beginning with a murder – which
Devastated by the death of her novel – which updates the Cain and 35mm 15 is then explained by the titular
teenage son, a woman leaves Madrid Abel story to the California farmlands Hogg’s acclaimed first feature centres character’s confessional chronicle
for Barcelona in the hope that reunions at the time of WWI – boasts Dean’s on Anna (Worth), a middle-aged of passion, intrigue and betrayal –
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
with those once close to her will help feature debut as the ‘bad’ son, woman who joins a friend and her Curtiz’s somewhat loose adaptation
her deal with her loss. Partly inspired anxious that his devoutly religious extended family on holiday in of James M Cain’s novel is a blistering
by All About Eve, Opening Night, father (Massey) prefers his brother. Tuscany, where she finds herself blend of melodrama and film noir.
A Streetcar Named Desire and other He’s also shaken by suspicions about spending much of her time with As Mildred (Crawford) toils to raise
favourites, Almodóvar’s beautifully his late mother... Ted McCord’s ’Scope the party’s younger members, her daughters – the elder of whom is
crafted, semi-ironic melodrama camerawork richly evokes time and most notably Oakley (Hiddleston). wayward and ungrateful – her efforts
provides an exhilarating roller- place, while the performances are Subtle, understated and elusive, this are repeatedly undermined by the
coaster ride through love, pain and predictably superb. bold, decidedly different British film men in her life.
the whole damn thing. introduced both a highly original
See p10 for Almodóvar’s latest, Pain and Glory director and, in Hiddleston, an actor
Also available on of star potential.
Also available on
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@BFI 37Day of Wrath Vredens Dag + intro Camille + intro by artist and film
by Dr Claire Thomson, UCL* scholar Cathy Lomax*
Denmark 1943. Dir Carl Theodor Dreyer. USA 1936. Dir George Cukor.
With Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose, With Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor,
Preben Lerdorff Rye. 97min. 35mm Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell. 109min.
EST. PG Digital. PG
Set in 17th-century Denmark, where MGM’s sumptuous version of
Repulsion women are routinely persecuted for Alexandre Dumas’ La Dame aux
witchcraft, this film centres on the Camélias boasts what is arguably
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
UK 1965. Dir Roman Polanski. With Catherine Deneuve, Yvonne Furneaux, John Fraser. 105min.
Digital. 15 troubled relationship of an elderly Garbo’s greatest performance as
Roman Polanski’s deeply unsettling Most effective, however, is the parson cursed by someone sent to Parisian courtesan Marguerite
study of the psychological brilliance of the direction, camerawork the stake, and his young wife, the Gautier, kept by a wealthy baron but
disintegration of a shy, distracted and editing, transforming the daughter of a woman suspected of drawn to the young Armand (Taylor)
young Belgian when she’s left alone familiar world she inhabits into the sorcery. Dreyer’s unsensational who loves her despite her scandalous
for a few days in the Kensington flat stuff of expressionist nightmares. depiction of this world is masterly in past. Cukor’s characteristically
she normally shares with her sister its balancing of grim cruelty and rapt sensitive, sure-footed direction and
benefits enormously from Deneuve’s passion, dark superstition and the the luminous camerawork (by
superb lead performance. beauty of nature. William Daniels and Karl Freund)
Also available on make for elegance and
emotional depth.
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38 book online at bfi.org.ukWhite Dog Le Jour se lève Daybreak
Image: Derek Hill
USA 1982. Dir Samuel Fuller. France 1939. Dir Marcel Carné. With Jean Gabin,
With Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Arletty, Jules Berry, Jacqueline Laurent.
Burl Ives, Dick Miller. 90min. Digital. 15 92min. Digital 4K (except Studio). PG
Samuel Fuller’s greatest film deals A collaboration between Carné and
with racism in the form of an writer Jacques Prévert, this begins
Alsatian adopted by a young woman with Gabin’s foundry-worker holed
L’Age d’or after her car hits it; when she up in an attic surrounded by armed
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
France 1930. Dir Luis Buñuel. With Lya Lys, Gaston Modot, Max Ernst, Pierre Prévert. 63min. discovers it’s been trained to attack police: a lengthy flashback explains
35mm EST. 15 black skin, she asks an animal how love, lies, disappointment
Co-written by the director and + Porky’s Romance trainer to try to decondition the and jealousy brought him to such
Salvador Dali, this classic of USA 1937. Dir Frank Tashlin. 8min animal. The turmoil treated here is a predicament. Performances,
cinematic surrealism follows a A lovely Looney Tunes contemplation not only the dog’s but the world’s: production design (Alexandre Trauner),
couple whose desperate attempts on the consequences of love, as the film exudes both compassion camerawork, music (Maurice Jaubert)
to consummate their passion are experienced by Porky when he falls and anger. and script are orchestrated to create
repeatedly frustrated by the stalwart head-over-trotters for Petunia Pig. one of the pinnacles of French
pillars of civilisation: the law, the She, needless to say, is unimpressed. ‘poetic realism’.
bourgeoisie and, of course, the
church. Corrosive black humour
and consistent visual and narrative
invention produce a film that still
manages to delight and shock in
equal measure.
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@BFI 39Dates for your cultural diary,
from DVD/Blu-ray launches
to weekenders, film summits
and festivals
SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS
A Clockwork Orange
UK-USA 1971. Dir Stanley Kubrick.
With Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee.
136min. Digital. 18
Set in a flamboyant, stylised near-
future where gangs of disenfranchised
teenagers indulge in narcotic cocktails
and revel in acts of ‘ultraviolence’, Films to Be Buried With
Kubrick’s cult film centres on Alex TRT 80min
(McDowell) and his band of droogs.
Join comedian-actor-writer-plumber them cry; the films that scared them
Withdrawn after its initial release,
Brett Goldstein, creator of the hit and many more. You’ll laugh, you’ll
this adaptation of Anthony Burgess’
podcast Films to Be Buried With, as he cry, you’ll want to shout out your
decline-of-civilisation novel remains
takes his celebrity guest through own answers. Come and join the
chilling, thrilling and unsettling.
their ideal death and over to the cinematic fun for the ultimate chat
Also available on
other side... His guest will discuss about life, death and movies.
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