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MAR 2019
BFI SOUTHBANK
BARBARA STANWYCK
STRAUB-HUILLET
EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS
RAY & LIZ
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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 RE-RELEASES SEASONS
Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance Key classics (many newly restored) for you to enjoy, with plenty Carefully curated collections of film
for you to catch the latest film and TV before of screening dates to choose from and TV, which showcase an influential
anyone else genre, theme or talent
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
Shakespeare Wallah
Girl
BOOKING DATES IN PERSON & PREVIEWS 4 REGULAR PROGRAMME
WOMAN WITH A MOVIE 8 AFRICAN ODYSSEYS 36
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EXPERIMENTA, 37
Mon 4 Feb (from 11:30) MEMBER EXCLUSIVES 9
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In person SILENT CINEMA
PUBLIC RE-RELEASES 12
Tue 12 Feb (from 11:30) 11:00 – 20:30 daily FAMILIES 40
SEASONS
FUTURE FILM, SENIORS 42
BARBARA STANWYCK 14
BFI PLAYER 44
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LIBRARY, MEDIATHEQUE, 46
EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS 26
MEZZANINE GALLERY
The BFI is proud to screen on film where possible, showcasing restorations
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 30 SHOP, IMAX 48
and sourcing archive prints from our partners.
Look out for 16mm, 35mm or 70mm in the film credits. SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS 34
Cover: Ray & Liz (p10)
Talent Q&As and rare appearances,
plus a chance for you to catch the
latest film and TV before anyone else
IN PERSON & PREVIEWS
Preview: Sauvage
France 2018. Dir Camille Vidal-Naquet. With
Félix Maritaud, Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla.
99min. Digital. EST. Cert tbc
TV Preview: Cheat + Q&A with actors Katherine Kelly and
Leo is a 22-year-old sex worker who
Tom Goodman-Hill, writer Gaby Hull and director Louise Hooper yearns for affection. In poor health
‘A STRANGER- ITV-Two Brothers Pictures 2018. Dir Louise Hooper. With Katherine Kelly, Molly Windsor,
Tom Goodman-Hill, Lorraine Ashbourne, Peter Firth, Adrian Edmondson. Ep 1, 54min + Q&A and with no fixed address, he finds
THAN-FICTION Brought to you by the makers of What begins as a seemingly
fleeting solace in the arms of his
clients. The crushing solitude of Leo’s
TRUE STORY The Missing and Fleabag, Cheat is
a brand-new psychological thriller
open-and-shut case of academic
deception quickly spirals out of
life is tempered when he falls for
MAKES LORDS written by rising star Gaby Hull control, triggering a devastating
fellow hustler Ahd. But when his
romantic feelings are violently
OF CHAOS A and screening in spring 2019.
At the heart of the drama is the
sequence of events that threaten
to engulf them both.
rebuffed, Leo spirals. Vidal-Naquet’s
COMPELLING, dangerous relationship between
arresting debut comes with its fair
share of both brutality and disarming
RAW AND university professor Leah (Kelly)
and her student Rose (Windsor).
fragility. Such compassion is in no
BRUTAL TAKE small part thanks to Félix Maritaud,
whose raw and vulnerable
ON THE BIOPIC’ performance is devastating.
Michael Blyth
ANNA BOGUTSKAYA,
EVENTS PROGRAMMER WED 6 MAR THU 7 MAR
Lords of Chaos (p6) 18:15 NFT3 20:50 NFT1
book online at bfi.org.uk
KERMODE LIVE IN 3D
Let’s talk about film...
Preview: Girl Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI
IN PERSON & PREVIEWS
Belgium-Netherlands 2018. Dir Lukas Dhont. With Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, TRT 90min
Katelijne Damen. 105min. Digital. EST. 15. Courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the Get involved by tweeting your
Fifteen-year-old Lara (Polster) is on picked up the Queer Palm at last BFI is a monthly conversation questions in advance to
the path to get the gender reassignment year’s Cannes Film Festival, as well between you (the audience) and one @KermodeMovie #MK3D.
surgery she so desperately wants. as the First Feature Award at the of the nation’s favourite and most Tickets £20, concs £16
Despite strong support from her London Film Festival. respected film critics. With the help (Members pay £2 less)
father and younger brother, the Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) of surprise guests from the industry,
physical and emotional pressures of Kermode will explore, critique and
her dance academy – as well her own dissect movies past and present and
impatience – are slowly starting to reveal his or his guests’ cinematic
take their toll. Girl is an extraordinary guilty pleasures.
coming-of-age tale that deservedly
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Preview: The White Crow Preview: Lords of Chaos
UK-France 2018. Dir Ralph Fiennes. UK-Sweden 2018. Dir Jonas Åkerlund.
With Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, With Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Sky Ferreira,
Louis Hofmann. 122min. Digital. EST. Valter Skarsgård. 112min. Digital. Cert tbc.
Cert tbc. Courtesy of Studiocanal Courtesy of Arrow Films
We meet Rudolph Nureyev (Ivenko) In the early 1990s, raven-haired
– who would become one of ballet’s nihilist Øystein Aarseth, aka
brightest stars – as an electrifying UK Premiere: Born Digital + Q&A with BBC Four’s Cassian Harrison Euronymous (Culkin), pioneered
and impulsive young dancer in the Norwegian black metal with his band
IN PERSON & PREVIEWS
and BFI’s Rhidian Davis
early 1960s, when the finest Soviet Mayhem. As he spreads a mantra of
TRT 100min
dancers are sent to Paris. It’s there chaos and suffering, making music is
that Nureyev, culturally ravenous Drama, documentary and experimental Each film received production grants just beginning for the megalomaniac
and unapologetically ambitious, are just some of the genres featured and the opportunity to be broadcast and aspiring mogul. He soon attracts
falls in love with the city and its in these short films commissioned on BBC Four. Be one of the first to the attention of superfan Varg (Cohen),
intelligentsia, which draws the to mark the 30th anniversary of the see these impressive new films and who takes Aarseth's vision to a
attention of the KGB. World Wide Web. Born Digital is the hear from some of the creatives dangerous extreme. Based on a true
Audio description is available at
prestigious programme from the BFI behind them. story, Jonas Åkerlund’s biopic of a
this preview and BBC Four, designed to find and band, a scene and a mood is raw,
Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) support some of the UK’s most exciting energising and devastatingly brutal.
new and emerging filmmakers. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less)
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RAY & LIZ
Dir. Richard Billingham
THE BFI
RAY & LIZ
8 MARCH
Renowned photographer Richard Billingham
makes his debut feature with this intricate family
portrait, inspired by his memories of growing up
in the West Midlands in the late 70s and early 80s.
OUT OF BLUE
22 MARCH
The stunning new film from visionary director
Carol Morley follows New Orleans homicide
detective Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson)
as she investigates the murder of a leading
astrophysicist. However, her quest for the truth
begins to destabilise both her view of the
universe and her very being.
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WOMAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
We celebrate women’s contribution to cinema and spotlight female stories
DVD Preview: Doctor Who – The Macra Terror (Animated) International Women’s Day Preview: Happy as Lazzaro Lazzaro felice
IN PERSON & PREVIEWS
+ Q&A with actor Anneke Wills Italy-Switzerland-France-Germany 2018. Dir Alice Rohrwacher. With Adriano Tardiolo,
UK 1967. Dir John Davies. With the voices of Patrick Troughton, Anneke Wills, Frazer Hines, Sergi Lopez, Alba Rohrwacher. 125min. Digital. EST. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Modern Films
Michael Craze. 4x25min. Courtesy of BBC Studios Lazzaro (Tardiolo) lives in an isolated Rohrwacher follows up The Wonders
The Doctor (Troughton) and his Although the majority of this story village ruled with an iron fist by the with a time and genre-bending meld
companions arrive on a human colony was believed to have been lost, by cruel Marchesa. He’s a happy-go- of themes, allegories, and pop-
in the far-flung future. The colony using a complete audio recording and lucky peasant whose sweet nature culture and folk references.
appears to be a giant recreational a new animation, we invite you to sit gets mistaken for simple-mindedness Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less)
complex – a holiday camp for rest back and enjoy The Macra Terror over by people around him – including the
and relaxation. Everyone looks happy 50 years since it was first broadcast. Marchesa’s petulant son Tancredi,
Supported by
and carefree, but all is not as it seems. All tickets are £27, restricted to two per booker who embroils Lazzaro in a kidnapping
The colony has been infiltrated and (Members pay £2 less, no concs). The price scheme to steal his mother’s money.
includes a copy of the DVD, which will be
its members brainwashed by a race
available to collect after the screening on
of giant parasitic crab creatures the day. Please note that the Blu-ray version
called the Macra. is not available with this offer.
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on Thu 7 Mar for themselves and their guests
sparked one of the most successful in advance for just £6. Members who have
film franchises ever. Join your fellow watched the film on another date are also Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Members to discuss the portrayal of welcome to come along to the free discussion USA 1986. Dir John Hughes. With Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck. 102min. Digital. 12A
female scientist Ripley (Sigourney and show their Membership card to admit
themselves and a guest on a first-come, John Hughes’ 1980s comedy proved ‘The characters and the gags are great.
Weaver), the influential production to a generation that good-looking, It has a lot of heart and there’s nothing
first-served basis.
design and the film’s significance 40 popular, rich guys can get away with to dislike about it'
years after its release. anything, and make it look fun in the Jorin Zankl, BFI Member
FILM: THU 7 MAR SALON: THU 7 MAR process. Ferris Bueller (Broderick)
18:10 NFT3 20:20 BLUE ROOM decides to skip school by pretending
to be ill and sets out with his two
All Member exclusive tickets are just £6 unless otherwise stated. friends in a ‘borrowed’ Ferrari, with
Champions and Members can book as soon as their priority booking opens an angry head teacher on his trail.
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Remaining tickets will be released to the public, as a taster of the benefits
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The best new cinema for you to
enjoy, with plenty of screening
dates to choose from
(see pull-out calendar)
NEW RELEASES
Ray & Liz
‘THIS UK 2018. Dir Richard Billingham. With Ella Smith, Justin Salinger, Patrick Romer. 108min. Digital.
A New Wave release
BITTERSWEET In this astonishingly personal film, Richard Billingham delves into his Black Country
TALE OF A upbringing to recreate visceral memories and desperate living in Thatcher’s Britain.
Two decades since his iconic Stunningly filmed in 16mm, Ray & Liz
TROUBLED INNER photography book Ray’s a Laugh is a painstakingly vivid testament to
CITY FAMILY IN documented his parents’ life in their
council flat, Billingham returns to
Billingham’s memories from his (and
his younger brother Jason’s) childhood,
THATCHER’S the same block on the fringes of and the desolation and impact caused
BRITAIN Birmingham. Justin Salinger is the
spitting image of Billingham’s dad,
by the government’s austerity measures.
Sophie Brown
HIGHLIGHTS while Daniel Landin’s cinematography
HOW LITTLE HAS (Under the Skin) and Beck Rainford’s
production design evoke a powerful
CHANGED SINCE’ sense of mood and place.
JUSTIN JOHNSON,
LEAD PROGRAMMER OPENS FRI 8 MAR
Ray & Liz (p10)
book online at bfi.org.uk12 – 14 April 2019 at BFI Southbank
The TV Festival returns this year to showcase
some of the biggest and best shows on British
television. Hear the stars and creators talk about
their work and see exclusive previews of some of
the most eagerly anticipated dramas of 2019.
Catch Jed Mercurio and cast revealing the
inside story of the new series of Line of Duty,
the stars of cult comedy chat show The Big Narstie
Show on their sudden rise to TV fame, Jamie Oliver
toasting 20 years since the Naked Chef, and a gala
evening with Joanna Lumley, who will join us
MEET THE STARS AND WATCH to celebrate her glittering career.
TOMORROW’S HITS TODAY More events to be announced.
Image: Line of Duty bfi.org.uk/TVfest #TVfestWe’ve selected these key
classics (many newly restored)
for you to enjoy, with plenty of
screening dates to choose from
(see pull-out calendar)
Aliens
USA 1986. Dir James Cameron.
With Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn,
Paul Reiser. Bill Paxton. 137min. Digital. 15
James Cameron brought ultimate
sci-fi heroine Ripley back, rescued
by a deep salvage team, with
Alien what feels like a tall tale about an
aggressive alien who didn’t warm
RE-RELEASES
UK-USA 1979. Dir Ridley Scott. With Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Tom Skerritt.
116min. Digital 4K. 15. A Park Circus Release to her colleagues. Despite suffering
Forty years on, Alien remains the greatest sci-fi-horror franchise of all time, nightmares following her ordeal,
with its classic status confirmed each year Ripley is persuaded to travel to
The Alien phenomenon begins on With HR Giger’s incredible imagining an isolated colony with a marine
‘NOMINATED the Nostromo, when the crew are of the alien, and great writing by Dan unit and – luckily for them – plenty
FOR EIGHT automatically woken from stasis
to investigate an unexpected
O’Bannon, there’s nothing quite like
seeing Alien on the big screen – and
of firepower.
Joint ticket available with Alien (Sun 3 and
BAFTAS, THIS transmission from a nearby moon. here, we present it in a new 4K digital
Sat 9 Mar only) £18, concs £15 (Members pay
£2 less)
BEAUTIFUL NEW A terrifying creature is soon on board version. Just remember: in space,
picking the crew off one by one, and no one can hear you scream.
RESTORATION Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley must step Justin Johnson, Lead Programmer
WEAVES A up and try to save the day.
MAGICAL SPELL’
JULIE PEARCE,
HEAD OF BFI DISTRIBUTION FROM FRI 1 MAR
SUN 3 MAR SAT 9 MAR
Heat and Dust (p13) 20:15 NFT1 20:25 NFT1
book online at bfi.org.ukShakespeare Wallah Heat and Dust
RE-RELEASES
India 1965. Dir James Ivory. With Felicity Kendal, Shashi Kapoor. 124min. Digital. PG. UK 1983. Dir James Ivory. With Julie Christie, Shashi Kapoor, Greta Scacchi. 130min. Digital. 15.
A BFI release A BFI release
Perhaps the most accurate account Shot by Subrata Mitra, Satyajit Ray’s This beautifully restored adaptation of The latter had an effect on a western
ever made of British India in its cameraman, and equipped with a Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s novel, winner sensibility in the 1920s and 1980s,
death-throes, Shakespeare Wallah score by Ray himself, the cast includes of the 1975 Booker Prize for Fiction, as well as the tug of feeling set up
(newly restored) remains a firm Shashi Kapoor and Felicity Kendal interleaves a young Englishwoman’s when a choice has to be made between
favourite in the Merchant-Ivory canon. as star-crossed lovers, and Madhur journey of discovery in the present- the beloved familiar and the
Their second film with writer Ruth Jaffrey doing a triumphant turn as day India with a scandalous incident mysteriously attractive unknown.
Prawer Jhabvala, its portrait of a an outrageous Indian movie queen. of family history, set in the 1920s Julie Pearce, Head of BFI Distribution
group of travelling players trying to Julie Pearce, Head of BFI Distribution in the Civil Lines of a backwater Seniors’ matinee + intro Wed 13 Mar 14:00
keep Shakespeare alive in the sticks Indian state. Amid the contrasting NFT3
is often superbly apt, based as it is on landscapes of the Deccan, Kashmir
the experiences of the Kendal family and London, this film – high-spirited
who play in the film. and romantic – deals with the colonial
and ‘Indian’ India.
FROM FRI 8 MAR FROM SAT 9 MAR
@BFI 13Carefully curated collections of
film and TV, which showcase an
influential genre, theme or talent
SEASONS
‘UNCOMPROMISING
EUROPEAN WORKS
FROM A SINGULAR
CINEMATIC
PARTNERSHIP’
MAGGI HURT,
ADVANCE PROGRAMME
CO-ORDINATOR
Straub-Huillet (p20)‘PUT ME IN THE LAST FIFTEEN MINUTES
OF A PICTURE AND I DON’T CARE WHAT
HAPPENED BEFORE... I’LL TAKE IT IN
THOSE FIFTEEN MINUTES’
BARBARA STANWYCK
From pre-Hays Code dramas to 1950s westerns, Barbara Stanwyck
consistently impressed with her poise, charisma and versatility,
writes season co-programmer Aga Baranowska
Comedies, melodramas, thrillers... Stanwyck adapted to
any genre, sparkling with natural wit and radiating sheer
presence and raw emotion. But it was the western that
became increasingly important as her career progressed.
She made 12 in all, and in the three screening this month The Miracle Woman Annie Oakley
USA 1931. Dir Frank Capra. USA 1935. Dir George Stevens. With Barbara
she plays resourceful, confident women holding their own With Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas.
in a male-dominated world. In the 1950s (her final decade Sam Hardy. 90min. Digital. PG 83min. 35mm U
in cinema before she moved to TV), she defied expectations Her faith shaken by her father’s The first western for Stanwyck (and,
of a female star working in Hollywood by selecting roles as death, a minister’s daughter indeed, Stevens) was based on the
(Stanwyck) teams up with a conman life of ‘Little Miss Sureshot,’ one of
a freelance actor not tied to one studio, and by portraying to stage evangelical shows in which the most famous sharpshooters
mature women who were passionate, motivated and
BARBARA STANWYCK
she performs ‘miracles.’ But then the in American history. It focuses on
possessed of minds very much their own. This second part unexpected happens... Stanwyck Oakley’s rise to fame with Buffalo
manages to make her character – Bill’s Wild West Show and her
of our tribute highlights the breadth and depth of Stanwyck’s
loosely based on Aimee Semple feelings for fellow star Toby Walker.
characters, whether in classics or in less familiar, rarely McPherson – both credible and Stanwyck oozes confidence in her
screened titles. sympathetic, notwithstanding the portrayal of the determined and
fake claims and tacky razzmatazz of spirited protagonist.
her circus; Capra’s sensitive direction
steers clear of facile moralising.
WANT MORE?
See p30 for our Big Screen Classics Film notes by season co-programmers
Geoff Andrew and Aga Baranowska
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@BFI 15The Mad Miss Manton Remember the Night
USA 1938. Dir Leigh Jason. With Barbara USA 1940. Dir Mitchell Leisen.
Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Hattie With Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray,
McDaniel. 80min. 35mm U Beulah Bondi. 94min. Digital. PG
A scatty but canny heiress (Stanwyck), A New York attorney (MacMurray)
whose claims to have discovered a takes pity on a shoplifter he’s
murder are dismissed by the police, prosecuting (Stanwyck); he gets
enlists a working-class journalist Union Pacific her out on bail and invites her
BARBARA STANWYCK
(Fonda) to help prove her case. USA 1939. Dir Cecil B DeMille. With Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Robert Preston. 135min. to his family home for Christmas –
This delightful screwball-mystery- 35mm U which somewhat complicates
romance paved the way for The Lady Characteristically, De Mille brought (Preston), and a train engineer’s their relationship. There’s genuine
Eve, and while Nic Musuraca’s an epic sense of scale to the western daughter (Stanwyck). The director chemistry between Stanwyck and
characteristically noir-ish camerawork with this story of the construction of was mesmerised by Stanwyck’s MacMurray in their first film
boosts the suspense, it’s the the First Transcontinental Railroad. performance, and she became together, an amusing and affecting
performances and Philip G Epstein’s Mixed in with all the historical one of his favourite stars. blend of courtroom drama, road
witty repartee that matter most. elements is a love triangle between movie and romance written
a troubleshooter (McCrea), a gambler by Preston Sturges.
Also available on
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16 book online at bfi.org.ukMeet John Doe
BARBARA STANWYCK
USA 1941. Dir Frank Capra. With Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Edward Arnold,
Walter Brennan. 123min. 35mm U
When a columnist (Stanwyck) invents becomes a celebrity – and a political
a story about a tramp planning to pawn. Capra’s anti-fascist parable,
commit suicide in protest against though naïve and conflicted, remains
the state of the world, the resulting relevant today; likewise, the starry
interest forces her paper to get cast still sparkles. Ball of Fire + intro by Isabel Stevens, Sight & Sound*
someone to fit the role. The fellow USA 1941. Dir Howard Hawks. With Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Oskar Homolka,
they find (Cooper) instantly Henry Travers. 111min. 35mm U
When nightclub dancer and gangster’s an A-list of collaborators on both
girlfriend Sugarpuss O’Shea (Stanwyck) sides of the camera for this delightful
needs to lie low, a house shared by screwball comedy inspired by the
eight professors researching American story of Snow White; razor-sharp
slang provides the ideal hideout. dialogue and perfect Hawksian comic
Producer Samuel Goldwyn assembled timing are the result.
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@BFI 17Sorry, Wrong Number There’s Always Tomorrow
USA 1948. Dir Anatole Litvak. USA 1955. Dir Douglas Sirk.
With Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, With Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray,
Ann Richards, Wendell Corey. 89min. Digital Joan Bennett, Jane Darwell. 84min.
Adapted (and greatly expanded) by 35mm PG
Lucille Fletcher from her acclaimed Stanwyck and MacMurray reunited
radio play, this noir thriller centres for another tale of adulterous
on a wealthy, rather complacent, temptation: he’s a toy manufacturer
feeling neglected by his wife and
BARBARA STANWYCK
bedridden woman (Stanwyck) who
overhears, on a crossed phone line, kids, and she is the ex-employee
a conversation involving a planned whose return to Pasadena reignites
murder. Will she be able to fathom illicit passions. This being Sirk, rather
who the victim is, and warn her? than film noir, any deadliness is
Stanwyck heads a superb cast that metaphorical; the claustrophobic
also includes Ed Begley, William conformism and complacency of the Forty Guns
Conrad and Leif Erikson. postwar American Dream are vividly USA 1957. Dir Samuel Fuller. With Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, Gene Barry.
conveyed by direction and 80min. Digital 4K. PG
performances alike. In a late-career highlight for Stanwyck, Beautifully shot in ’Scope, packed
she portrays a wealthy landowner with psychosexual subtext and
exerting influence over an Arizonian directed with characteristic bravura,
township by commanding a staff Fuller’s second western influenced
of 40 men. But the arrival of a new a generation of filmmakers,
US Marshal makes life difficult. including Godard and Leone.
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18 book online at bfi.org.ukSupported using public funding by
Principal Sponsor‘ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE,
CHALLENGING AND CONTROVERSIAL
COLLABORATIONS IN THE HISTORY
OF CINEMA’
JOSHUA SIEGEL, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Fired with conviction, Straub-Huillet produced an inimitable
body of films, retaining a single-minded faith in their art,
writes critic Nick Pinkerton
Paris, 1954. Jean-Marie Straub, an intimate of many critics
and future New Wave directors, met Danièle Huillet, an
aspiring ethnographic filmmaker, and a lifelong partnership
began. The films that they made together (until Huillet’s
death in 2006) collectively form a celebration and
interrogation of Europe’s cultural and political heritage,
linking classical and radical traditions. Almost every one of
their films would build from direct quotations of an original
text, making them adapters by trade – and, paradoxically,
among the most original filmmakers of the latter half of the
20th century. Obsessive perfectionists, they created and
reworked their austere visual approach and declamatory
performance style, exploring the text and the distinctive
cadence of their (often non-professional) performers,
recorded live. The result is a rigorous, disciplined cinema,
defined by a simple beauty and fierce political passion.
JE AN - MARIE WANT MORE? IN CULTURAL PARTNERSHIP WITH
Part of a complete retrospective (Mar – Jun 2019)
of Straub-Huillet, including many restorations,
organised by Goethe-Institut with BELVA Film,
ICA, Italian Cultural Institute, Institut Français,
Birkbeck, University of London, King’s College
London, and German Screen Studies Network
goethe.de/uk
DANIÈLE See p26 for our European Connections season
Image: Class Relations All images courtesy of BELVA Film GmbHNot Reconciled...
Not Reconciled... Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht
STRAUB-HUILLET
+ intro by academic and filmmaker Laura Mulvey
West Germany 1965. Dirs Straub-Huillet. 52min. Digital. EST
+ Machorka-Muff Not Reconciled..., which shuttles between
West Germany 1962. Dirs Straub-Huillet. the authoritarian rule of the Kaiser
TALK 18min. Digital. EST and the 1950s boom years, discovering
The work of Heinrich Böll provided both the early underpinnings of
The Intensive Materialism of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub the basis for Straub-Huillet’s first Nazism and the aftermath of National
TRT 90min films. In Machorka-Muff, a former Socialism in contemporary culture.
In an age in which Hollywood chases politics of the collaborators’ cinema colonel of the Third Reich gloats
after fragmented audiences, Huillet emerges from their ongoing of his easy lot in the new Federal
and Straub’s films constitute an commitment to the project and Republic of Germany. The interrogation
aesthetic re-education of the senses practice of materialist intensification. of Deutschland’s recent history
that demands undivided attention Tickets £6.50 continues in the wilfully disorienting
from viewers. In this introductory Image: © Heiner Roß Collection / Estate
lecture, artist and theorist Kodwo of Joachim Wolf (Kinemathek Hamburg) at
Munich Film Museum and BELVA Film GmbH
Eshun argues that the aesthetic
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@BFI 21Othon
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach Othon Les yeux ne peuvent pas en tout temps se fermer ou Peut-être qu’un jour
STRAUB-HUILLET
+ intro by long-time Straub-Huillet collaborator Misha Donat* Rome se permettra de choisir à son tour / Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times,
West Germany 1967. Dirs Straub-Huillet. With Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang-Drewanz. or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Permit Herself to Choose in Her Turn
93min. Digital (2 Mar), 35mm (12 Mar). English version. U + intro by season curator Ricardo Matos Cabo
A watershed film for Straub-Huillet, In single-take scenes, recorded with West Germany-Italy 1969. Dirs Straub-Huillet. With Adriano Aprà, Anne Brumagne,
their years-in-the-making feature live sound, Leonhardt works his way Olimpia Carlisi. 88min. Digital. EST
debut is an off-centre anti-biopic, through chronologically arranged + The Bridegroom, the Comedienne Fassbinder) performing an abridged
featuring acclaimed harpsichordist selections from Bach’s oeuvre – and the Pimp Der Bräutigam, version of Ferdinand Bruckner’s
Gustav Leonhardt as Johann Sebastian a portrait of the artist through his die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter Pains of Youth. Presented with another
Bach and Christiane Lang-Drewanz art and his art alone. West Germany 1968. Dirs Straub-Huillet. classically oriented work: their
as his eponymous wife. Her fictional With Irm Hermann, Kristin Peterson, adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s
journal gives the film its connective Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
tragedy Othon, which takes place
23min. Digital. EST
narrative tissue while emphasising amidst the power struggle following
the vital role played by the woman In The Bridegroom... Straub-Huillet the death of the Emperor Nero, a
behind the great man. record members of the Munich welter of skullduggery opposed by
Action-Theater (including Hanna Camilla, who Straub called ‘truly epic
Schygulla and Rainer Werner in the Brechtian sense.’
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22 book online at bfi.org.ukHistory Lessons
JOINT JOINT
TICKET TALK TICKET
History Lessons Geschichtsunterricht History lessons: Brecht, Straub-Huillet and the British context
STRAUB-HUILLET
+ intro by Martin Brady, King's College London* TRT 100min
Italy-West Germany 1972. Dirs Straub-Huillet. With Benedikt Zulauf, Gottfried Bold. 85min. The work of Bertolt Brecht has played films and British cinema, plus the
Digital. EST a key role in the development of impact of Straub-Huillet‘s work on
The image of an Alfa Romeo gliding markedly opposed insights into the radical cinema, including the oeuvre the British film culture in the 1970s,
around the streets of Rome recurs career of the late Roman despot. of Straub and Huillet. We welcome and their legacy today.
throughout this experimental and History, we are reminded, is both academics Martin Brady, Ian Christie, Tickets £6.50, for joint ticket offer see left
wilfully anachronistic film developed written by the victors and constantly Nicolas Helm-Grovas and Laura Presented in association with the German
from Bertolt Brecht’s unfinished novel in the making. Mulvey for a roundtable discussion Screen Studies Network
The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar. Joint ticket offer available with the History hosted by Erica Carter. They explore
We see a young man in contemporary lessons: Brecht, Straub-Huillet and the how Brecht's texts and concepts
British context talk on Sat 16 Mar at 15:50:
garb interview toga-clad acquaintances influenced both Straub-Huillet’s
£18, concs £15 (Members pay £2 less),
of the Emperor, including his ex-slave see right
and former banker, who give their
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@BFI 23Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s...
Fortini/Cani
Moses and Aaron Moses und Aron + intro by Sam McAuliffe, Goldsmiths, Fortini/Cani
STRAUB-HUILLET
University of London Italy-France 1976. Dirs Straub-Huillet. With Franco Lattes. 83min. Digital. EST
Austria-West Germany-France-Italy 1974. Dirs Straub-Huillet. With Günter Reich, Louis Devos. Communist writer Franco Fortini’s + Every Revolution is a Throw of
105min. Digital. EST readings from The Dogs of Sinai the Dice Toute révolution est un coup de dés
+ Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s with terrible clarity, the danger are heard over images of Italian France 1977. Dirs Straub-Huillet. 10min.
Accompaniment to a Cinematographic soon to be faced by European Jews. countryside where partisans clashed Digital. EST
Scene Einleitung zu Arnold Schoenbergs The ambitious and awesome Moses with fascists, a landscape marked Every Revolution... was filmed
Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene and Aaron films his unfinished opera by violence and counterposed in Père Lachaise, where free verse
West Germany 1972. Dirs Straub-Huillet. and offers a revisionist view of provocatively with his observations remembers those gunned down
15min. Digital. EST the Hebrews’ enslavement by the on Israel after the Six Day War of 1967. in the Paris Commune in 1871.
These two Straub-Huillet films Egyptians and the surpassing
engage with the work of iconoclastic of polytheism by monotheism –
composer Arnold Schoenberg. for Straub-Huillet, by no means
Introduction... combines recitations of an unalloyed instance of
Bertolt Brecht’s 1935 indictment of human progress.
anti-Semitism and a 1923 letter
penned by Schoenberg foreseeing,
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24 book online at bfi.org.ukClass Relations
Class Relations Klassenverhältnisse + intro by Helen Hughes,
STRAUB-HUILLET
University of Surrey*
West Germany-France 1983. Dirs Straub-Huillet. With Christian Heinisch, Mario Adorf,
Harun Farocki. 127min. Digital. EST
+ En rachâchant Of Kafka’s characters, Straub has
France 1982. Dirs Straub-Huillet. 7min. said they ‘appear helpless as they are
Digital. EST confronted with something that is
From the Cloud to the Resistance Dalla nube alla resistenza En rachâchant gets to the anti- difficult to grasp directly, something
Italy-West Germany 1978. Dirs Straub-Huillet. With Olimpia Carlisi, Mauro Monni, authoritarian heart of Marguerite that is not the “fate” of the Greeks,
Carmelo Lacorte, Mario di Mattia. 105min. Digital. EST Duras’ Ah! Ernesto!, about a boy who but produced by industrial society.’
Straub-Huillet engage with the radical partisans during World War Two. is wise beyond his years. Class Relations
mind of the Italian anti-fascist author Myth meets history, while gods and is a balefully beautiful black-and-
Cesare Pavese, here drawing from men speak in their turn as Straub- white film: Straub-Huillet’s imagining,
his Dialogues with Leucò, grounded in Huillet fix their camera on a pastoral featuring Harun Farocki, of Franz
Greek mythology, and his final novel, Italy so recently stained with blood. Kafka’s incomplete novel Amerika.
The Moon and the Bonfires, which
focused on the murder of Italian
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@BFI 25‘BRITAIN HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN
EXTRAORDINARY LABORATORY OF
CREATION – IN INDUSTRY, IN NOVELS –
AND HAS ALWAYS LOOKED OUTWARDS’
WALTER IUZZOLINO
As the debate continues on Britain’s relationship with Europe,
we look back at the great European classics on British TV and
how our TV represents Europe today, writes season programmer
Marcus Prince
From the 1950s to the 1990s, British TV, and in particular the
BBC, acted as a window to European culture by producing not
only great classic adaptations of the European novel, but also
single TV plays by major authors such as Sartre, Pirandello,
Lorca and Schnitzler. Acutely aware of the Reithian principle
to educate as well as entertain, these plays – viewed by
millions – were often people’s first introduction to the works
of important European writers. Happily for us, they attracted
the celebrated stars of the day: Paul Scofield, Dame Edith
Evans and Jeanne Moreau, to name a few. Here, we present
a selection of the finest of these European plays, as well as
a panel discussion that delves into what our representation
of Europe on British TV looks like now.
EUROPEAN
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CLASSIC PLAYS FROM EUROPE
BROUGHT TO LIFE ON BRITISH TVLa Ronde Henry IV
EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS
BBC 1982. Dir Kenneth Ives. With Dorothy Tutin, Michael Gambon, Daniel Massey, World Theatre. BBC 1959. Dir John Harrison. With Paul Scofield, Margaretta Scott,
Amanda Redman, Anthony Andrews. 122min André Van Gyseghem, Dennis Quilley. 85min
Arthur Schnitzler’s controversial 1897 This production is a lavish and As with his better-known Six Characters Henry IV of Germany and those
play of sexual manners was not to prestigious affair. It features music in Search of an Author, here playwright around him are enrolled to act out
receive its first production until 1920. by Carl Davis (sung by Kiri Te Kanawa), Luigi Pirandello addresses the blurring his fantasy... but just who is mad?
With a clever structure that unites all a superb cast and exquisite fin-de-siècle of fantasy and reality – and in this Seize the opportunity to see a rarely
the classes through sex and comments designs, which provide a suitably case, the very nature of insanity. performed European classic, and
on the nature of society’s pretensions, erotic visual flair to the proceedings. Following a riding accident, Scofield’s Scofield at the height of his powers.
it has inspired several film adaptations. character believes himself to be
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@BFI 27Image: Immediate Media
The House of Bernarda Alba Vicious Circle
EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS
Play for Today. BBC 1976. Dir Claude Whatham. With Mary Morris, Patience Collier, Betty Hardy, BBC 1985. Dir Kenneth Ives. With Omar Sharif, Jeanne Moreau, Cherie Lunghi,
Sylvia Kay, Jane Lapotaire. 95min Nickolas Grace. 100min
Federico García Lorca’s powerful to bring her daughters to heel and Frank Houser’s adaptation of Sartre’s clever conceit gives perfect
play of sexual repression and sibling uphold the tyrannical traditions by Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic play dramatic expression to the terrible
jealousy is given an impressive which she and her community have Huis Clos attracted a stellar cast. notion that ‘hell is other people’.
production by director Claude always lived. Such tyranny, however, Three totally incompatible people We offer a rare opportunity to see
Whatham. Mary Morris captures comes at a terrible cost. locked in a room torment each other these legendary stars in such
the full uncompromising force of about their pasts, and gradually complex and compelling roles.
Bernarda, a woman determined come to realise that they’re dead
and condemned to spend eternity
in each other’s company.
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28 book online at bfi.org.ukTALK
Time Remembered European Connections Today: a discussion with All4’s Walter Presents
EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS
BBC 1961. Dir Michael Elliott. With Edith Evans, Topsy Jane, James Maxwell. 85min supremo Walter Iuzzolino, actor Cherie Lunghi and producer John Wyver
Edith Evans gives a remarkable With many overtones of Pygmalion, TRT 90min
performance in Jean Anouilh’s the girl comes to win the prince’s What does the representation of of contemporary European favourites
sparkling comedy of manners. heart by learning to simply be Europe on our TV screens today tell such as Deutschland ‘83, Spiral, Versailles,
When a prince (Maxwell) loses the herself. Jane and Maxwell make us about how we view Europe, and The Last Panthers and the many
woman he loves, his aunt (Evans) a charming couple who perfectly will this change with Brexit? Our fascinating series brought to us by
recreates the special places of their capture a growing attraction. panel of experts address this and Channel 4’s Walter Presents strand, the
romantic meetings and hires a local explore the subject of European TV discussion examines the current
shop girl to play the part of his lover. drama. Illustrated with clips of taste for European drama and where
influential series such as Heimat and this might lead in the future.
Das Boot, as well as the current crop Please check bfi.org.uk for additional guest
announcements
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@BFI 29The timeless films we urge you
to see (for just £8), programmed
by theme
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
AND THE ACADEMY
AWARD® DIDN’T GO TO...
The Academy Awards® have The Searchers
been and gone for another USA 1956. Dir John Ford. With John Wayne,
Jeffrey Hunter, Natalie Wood, Vera Miles.
year, but this month we 113min. Digital. U
conclude our affectionate John Ford’s western masterpiece is
set in West Texas, 1868. Ethan
look at some of the classic Edwards (Wayne) returns to his
titles that didn’t quite cut the brother’s homestead to discover that
mustard when it came to it has been set on fire and many
Academy voters in the Best family members killed by Comanche
warriors. Edwards and his nephew
Picture category, and some set out on an epic cross-wilderness
of the great filmmakers who journey to search for his missing
didn’t get much more than niece – but must confront many
dangers on the way. To Kill a Mockingbird
an honorary award (having
USA 1962. Dir Robert Mulligan. With Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton. 129min. Digital. PG
been overlooked previously). Based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer The trial causes a divide among some
Some titles were up against Prize-winning novel published two of the townspeople with repercussions
very stiff competition – but years earlier, To Kill a Mockingbird for Atticus Finch, the lawyer who
others weren’t nominated takes place in a small town in 1930s defends him, and his family.
Alabama and follows the trial of This much-loved title lost out to
at all. Tom Robinson, a black man accused Lawrence of Arabia at the Oscars® –
JUSTIN JOHNSON, of raping a white girl. stiff competition indeed.
LEAD PROGRAMMER
TUE 5 MAR SUN 10 MAR TUE 19 MAR SAT 2 MAR TUE 5 MAR WED 6 MAR SUN 17 MAR
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book online at bfi.org.ukCity Lights + intro by film critic Pamela Hutchinson* The Color Purple
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
USA 1931. Dir Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee. 86min. USA 1985. Dir Steven Spielberg. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery,
Digital. With Chaplin score. U Oprah Winfrey. 154min. Digital 4K. 15
Charlie Chaplin’s classic features Chaplin chose to make City Lights A few eyebrows were raised when moving picture that helped raise to
some hilarious slapstick moments as as a silent film, which may have Spielberg was announced as the prominence some striking and
The Little Tramp falls for a flower been a reason for it being overlooked director of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer relatively unknown acting talent,
seller and tries to find the money to by the awards voters (this version Prize-winning novel focusing on a including Whoopi Goldberg and
pay for an operation to restore her features Chaplin’s own score). young African American woman in Oprah Winfrey.
sight. Despite being released in 1931, turn-of-the-century rural Georgia.
He successfully pulled off a powerful,
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@BFI 31Reservoir Dogs Singin’ in the Rain + intro by Justin Johnson, Lead Programmer*
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
USA 1992. Dir Quentin Tarantino. With Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi. USA 1952. Dirs Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. With Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds,
100min. Digital. 18 Jean Hagen. 103min. Digital. U
Quentin Tarantino’s audacious warehouse as they try to get to the Don Lockwood (Kelly) and Lina Supporting Actress for Hagen – is
feature debut was an important bottom of what went wrong. Perhaps Lamont (Hagen) are hugely considered one of the greatest
moment for American independent the film’s language and violence was successful silent film stars, but there musicals of all time, with many
cinema in the 90s, bringing a fresh too much for Academy voters, but are huge changes around the corner iconic song-and-dance sequences
blend of stylised violence, pop culture Tarantino made up for the loss with with the advent of sound technology beautifully delivered by Kelly,
references and non-linear his follow-up, Pulp Fiction. and the arrival of a young actress O’Connor and Reynolds.
storytelling. Following a failed Also available on who catches Lockwood’s eye. MGM’s See p40 for a family screening on Sat 9 Mar
jewellery shop heist, a group of men glorious Technicolor musical – **Family ticket price applies
find themselves holed up in a nominated for Best Scoring of a
Musical Picture and Best
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32 book online at bfi.org.ukHigh Noon
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
USA 1952. Dir Fred Zinnemann. With Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell. 85min. Digital. U
A former lawman (Cooper) suspends himself alone – and having to face
his plans to leave town when news them all. This classic western earned
reaches him that a newly released Gary Cooper an Oscar® for Best Actor,
criminal is coming back with his and was also awarded for its music,
men, looking for revenge. Despite his but it lost out on Best Picture to Cecil
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange + intro by Geoff Andrew, best attempts to recruit people to B DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth.
Programmer-at-large* face this threat, he ultimately finds
France 1936. Dir Jean Renoir. With René Le Fèvre, Jules Berry, Florelle. 80min. Digital. EST. PG
Jean Renoir’s left-leaning classic sees flees the authorities. With crime,
mild-mannered writer Monsieur romance and a hint of social
Lange work with his colleagues to commentary, this digital restoration
run their publishing company as a brings new life to a picture that has
co-operative when their crooked boss been rarely screened in recent years.
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@BFI 33HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019
Creating a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens
Dates for your cultural diary,
from DVD/Blu-ray launches
to weekenders, film summits
and festivals
SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS
UK Premiere: Screwdriver Mafak
Palestine-USA-Qatar 2018. Dir Bassam
Jarbawi. With Ziad Bakri, Areen Omari, Jameel
Khoury. 108min. Digital. EST. 15
Shot entirely on location in the West
Bank, award-winning Palestinian DOC
director Bassam Jarbawi’s debut
feature film tackles the physical and UK Premiere: Facing the Dragon
emotional toll of one man’s return Afghanistan-Turkey-Germany-Australia 2018. Dir Sedika Mojadidi. 81min. Digital. EST. 15
home after 15 years in an Israeli jail. Afghan-American filmmaker Sedika a journalist, and Nilofar, a local
This mesmerising drama examines
‘EDITH BOWMAN the trauma of reintegration after
Mojadidi pursues two awe-inspiring
women on the front lines as the
politician. They are soon forced
to choose between duty and
RETURNS TO imprisonment, together with the
unpredictable set of challenges faced
United States withdraws from love for their country, and their
THE BFI STAGE
Afghanistan and the Taliban regains families’ safety.
in modern-day Palestine. their hold. As the country’s fragile
TO DEEP DIVE democracy shakes, threats of
violence increase against Shakila,
INTO THE WORLD
OF FILM AND
SOUNDTRACKS’
TIM STEVENS,
HEAD OF BUSINESS
AND PRODUCTION
Soundtracking with FRI 15 MAR SAT 16 MAR
Edith Bowman (p35) 20:30 NFT3 18:10 NFT3
book online at bfi.org.ukSPECIAL EVENT
DOC
UK Premiere: Roll Red Roll Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
USA 2018. Dir Nancy Schwartzman. 81min. TRT 90min
Digital. 15 March sees us welcome back
In small-town Ohio, USA, a sexual Edith Bowman for another edition
assault involving members of of her Soundtracking live event.
the beloved high-school football Since the launch of the podcast
team gained global attention. in 2016, the great and good of the
With unprecedented access to film industry have shared inspiring
SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS
a local community struggling to and in-depth stories about the
reconcile disturbing truths and relationship between what you
the journalist using social-media see on screen and what you hear.
evidence to reveal them, this Expect a bumper edition this
true-crime thriller cuts to the heart month – in the coming weeks,
of debates around engrained rape we announce several special guests.
culture, and unflinchingly asks: UK Premiere: The Sweet Requiem Kyoyang Ngarmo
‘Why didn’t anyone stop it?’ India-USA 2018. Dirs Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam. With Tenzin Dolker, Jampa Kalsang Tamang,
Tashi Choedon. 93min. Digital. EST. 15
At the age of eight, Dolkar fled her colony in Delhi, where an unexpected
home with her father to escape encounter with a man from her past
Chinese armed forces, and faced an awakens long-suppressed memories,
arduous journey across the Himalayas. propelling Dolkar on an obsessive
Now 26, she lives in a Tibetan refugee search for the truth.
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@BFI 35AFRICAN ODYSSEYS
Inspirational films by and about the people of Africa, from archive classics to new cinema and docs
We have something for
everyone – whether you’re
into silent treasures, LGBTQ+
cinema, experimental works
or want to bring the kids to
a Funday preview…
REGULAR PROGRAMME
Image: David Attie
International Women’s Day: UK Premiere: Lorraine Hansberry:
Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart + intro Dr. Althea Legal-Miller, FHEA,
Canterbury Christ Church University + Skype Q&A with director
Tracy Heather Strain
USA 2017. Dir Tracy Heather Strain. With Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Harry Belafonte, Louis
Gossett Jr. 118min. Digital
To mark International Women’s Day, defiant battle against injustice in
‘WISE-CRACKING we screen a new documentary 20th-century America.
CRIME CAPER feature about Lorraine Hansberry,
whose play Raisin in the Sun was the
This film is being exhibited free of charge
to the public. The BFI requests a voluntary
ON THE STREETS first by a black woman to be donation of £6.50 to help cover screening
costs. Book paid tickets in advance, or book
OF ‘FRISCO produced on Broadway. A passionate
artist, she was also a committed
for free (subject to availability) on the day.
– WITHOUT activist and sought-after intellectual
DIALOGUE!’ who waged an outspoken and
BRYONY DIXON,
PROGRAMMER SAT 9 MAR
DOC 14:00 NFT3
Outside the Law (p38)
book online at bfi.org.ukEXPERIMENTA THE GUILTY FEMINIST LIVE!
Artist film and alternative moving-image culture; works that break with convention The award-winning podcast, live and unedited
Experimenta Mixtape #3
REGULAR PROGRAMME
TRT c.75min
Think of this event as a continuous Like any good mixtape, whether
stream-of-choice items drawn from smoothly sequenced or roughly
multiple sources. The sequence compiled, it should, we hope,
amalgamates timestreams and articulate a sense of both openness TALK
contexts, featuring a broad selection and intent. Mixtape #3 is compiled
of work, and titles are not announced by BFI Programmer William Fowler. The Guilty Feminist Live!
in advance. Expect experimental TRT 90min
films, artist films, short films, and The award-winning podcast and live special guests to discuss films and
maybe even adverts and pop videos. show hosted by comedian Deborah topics ‘all 21st-century feminists
Frances-White returns to the BFI by agree on’, while confessing their
popular demand, and should now be insecurities, hypocrisies and the
a hilarious staple of every feminist’s fears that undermine their
calendar. Join Frances-White and her lofty principles.
Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less)
WED 13 MAR MON 18 MAR
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@BFI 37PROJECTING THE ARCHIVE SILENT CINEMA
A rare chance to see rediscovered British features from the BFI National Archive Enjoy the best international restorations, often with a live musical accompaniment
The Lost People (aka Cockpit) + intro by BFI Curator Josephine Botting Outside the Law + intro by BFI Curator Bryony Dixon
REGULAR PROGRAMME
UK 1949. Dirs Bernard Knowles, Muriel Box. With Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, USA 1920. Dir Tod Browning. With Priscilla Dean, Ralph Lewis, Lon Chaney, Wheeler Oakman.
Mai Zetterling. 89min. 35mm PG 75min. Digital 4K. With live piano accompaniment
This film is a timely reminder of the Germany, from where the British ‘A Tod Browning picture all the way. You’ll come to see a little-known
tensions between nationalities in the army attempts to return them home. It starts with action and ends with Lon Chaney film, but you’ll leave
late 1940s when the unifying force of With a screenplay by Boland and action. The double double-cross at a committed Priscilla Dean fan –
the battle against Hitler was receding, Muriel Box and an all-star British the opening of the film is worth it she plays the moll, as hard-boiled
and old rivalries began to resurface. cast, this film is a fascinating window alone,’ enthused Variety in 1920. as they come.
Based on the play Cockpit by Irish onto the European post-war landscape, Outside the Law – a crime caper set
writer Bridget Boland, The Lost People and suggests that, even 70 years in the San Francisco underworld –
focuses on a group of displaced after its release, the political situation is still a cracker today.
persons from all over Europe who in Europe has changed little.
gather in an abandoned theatre in
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38 book online at bfi.org.ukMEMORIES ARE MADE IN FRONT OF A CINEMA SCREEN Name a seat at BFI Southbank bfi.org.uk /nameaseat
ops
gs, activities and worksh
Family-friendly film screenin out the Guide...)
ge through
(look out for the family bad
FUNDAY: MARY POPPINS FUNDAY WORKSHOP:
RETURNS MARY POPPINS RETURNS
USA 2018. Dir Rob Marshall. Bring your little ones along
With Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, to our arts and crafts table to
Emily Mortimer, Ben Whishaw. 130min.
Digital. U chalk up some magic and fun
in the spirit of Mary Poppins.
BFI FAMILIES
PL Travers’ much-loved nanny floats
Try your hand at animation
down once again to bring warmth
and maybe even win some
and order back to a family in 1930s
prizes: this is one adventure
London: this time, the grown-up
not to miss.
Banks children and their brood.
This is a drop-in workshop, free to ticket
With Jack, a lamplighter, at her side, holders of Mary Poppins Returns
Mary and the children must act fast
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN e Kelly, Donald O’Connor
,
, Stanley Donen. With Gen if they are to save the Banks’ family
USA 1952. Dirs Gene Kelly in. Digital. U SUN 17 MAR
Debbie Reynolds , Jean Hag en. 103m home from a ruthless banker.
heartwarm ing fun, you’ll soon This musical treat successfully 11:00 FOYER
along to
Bring the whole family be dancing in the aisles!
eni ng of a cinema great. embraces the spirit of the original,
this scre See p32 for more screenin
gs
toe -tappin g songs, but also makes its own mark.
With its
edy and
stunning physical com
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40 Under 16s £4, adults £8 (Members pay £2 less)SATURDAY FILM CLUBS
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t Mini Filmmakers (for ages 8-11)
10:30 – 12:30 (£85 per child)
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)
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r
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ever ything from animation and
14:00 – 16:30 (£95 per child)
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