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AUG 2019
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PAIN AND GLORY
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CARY GRANT
NINETIES: YOUNG CINEMA REBELS
PAIN AND GLORY NOTORIOUS NO DIRECT FLIGHT CARY GRANT NINETIES: YOUNG CINEMA REBELS
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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PAIN AND GLORY NOTORIOUS NO DIRECT FLIGHT CARY GRANT NINETIES: YOUNG CINEMA REBELS
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

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PAIN AND GLORY NOTORIOUS NO DIRECT FLIGHT CARY GRANT NINETIES: YOUNG CINEMA REBELS
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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film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) in the
early ’80s become romantically involved
with a complicated and untrustworthy
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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
                                                                                                                                               partnership with American Express®
 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

                                                                                                                                                                                                   MEMBER EXCLUSIVES
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
its unforgettable performances,             and show their Membership card to admit        from the film (see p55), will be                    priority booking opens
                                            themselves and a guest on a first-come,        followed by a Q&A with the creators.
legacy and resonance today.
                                            first-served basis.                            Champions and Members can apply to the
See p12 for more screenings
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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
                PERSONAL FILM
                FROM PEDRO
                ALMODÓVAR
                WON ANTONIO
                BANDERAS A
                WELL-DESERVED
                BEST ACTOR
                PRIZE IN CANNES’
               GEOFF ANDREW,
               PROGRAMMER-AT-LARGE
                                                                             DOC    OPENS FRI 23 AUG
               Pain and Glory (p10)
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PAIN AND GLORY NOTORIOUS NO DIRECT FLIGHT CARY GRANT NINETIES: YOUNG CINEMA REBELS
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, THREAT
We’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)
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Notorious
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

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Carefully 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
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                                                                                                                                   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...

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Topper                                          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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Only 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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My 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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TALK

                                                                                                 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
murderous intent towards his                                                                     Tickets £6.50                           citylit.ac.uk Course fee £149, seniors £149,
                                                                                                                                         concs £66

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‘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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                                         A cross-platform project in partnership with the
                                         British Council, Nowness, Black Star Festival
Artwork: Jebet Naava                     and Pervasive Media Studio
THE 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
                                                                                                                                                         Tickets £6.50
Diop Mambéty

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SWIMMING IN YOUR SKIN AGAIN
                   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
NO DIRECT FLIGHT

                   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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HOMEGOING                                                                                 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
                                            Tickets £6.50
Also available on

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SONIC
                   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

                                                                                                         Tickets £6.50

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PAST 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

                                                                                           Tickets £6.50

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‘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.

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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)*

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   NINETIES
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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NINETIES

           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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Les Amants du Pont-Neuf The Lovers on the Bridge

                                                                                                                                                                               NINETIES
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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My Own Private Idaho                                                                          Bhaji on the Beach
NINETIES

           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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Show Me Love Fucking Åmål                                                                Go Fish

                                                                                                                                                                                    NINETIES
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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4K Remaster: The Matrix                                                                  TV Gamechanger: This Life + Q&A with creator and writer Amy Jenkins
NINETIES

           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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TV Gamechanger: The Word + Q&A with presenters Terry Christian                 TV Gamechanger: Queer as Folk + Q&A with Russell T Davies

                                                                                                                                                                           NINETIES
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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My Own Private Idaho
            TALK

           1990s New Queer Cinema
NINETIES

           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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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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                      Tickets for these screenings are only £8   20:45 NFT1      20:30 NFT2                                                                     18:15 NFT2      18:05 NFT2*    20:30 NFT2

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All 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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Day 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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White 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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Dates 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.
                         ‘DON’T MISS
                                                          Bring along your ticket from A Clockwork
                                                                                                        their life through the films that        Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less)
                                                          Orange to ‘Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition’
                                                                                                        meant the most to them: the first
                         THIS TWO-DAY                     at The Design Museum to get 30% off
                                                          at the box office                             film they saw; the films that made
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