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FEB 2020
BFI SOUTHBANK
FELLINI
ELIA KAZAN
JESSICA HAUSNER
VALENTINE’S DAY FILMS
FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL
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Dil Dhadakne Do + intro by writer
and lyricist Javed Akhtar
India 2015. Dir Zoya Akhtar. With Anil Kapoor,
Shefali Shah, Priyanka Chopra. 170min.
Digital. Hindi with EST. 12A
JOINT
This romantic comedy-drama follows the TICKET
misadventures of a family, their friends
and a dog as they embark on a cruise to Javed Akhtar in Conversation
celebrate a 30th wedding anniversary. TRT 90min
Yet it’s not long before suppressed The multi award-winning Javed Akhtar is Tickets £15, concs £12.00 (Members pay
emotions, resentments and insecurities a master of the Indian musical and one of £2 less). For joint ticket offer see left
emerge and threaten to upset the holiday. Bollywood’s most noted screenwriters,
The film itself is a family affair too: Part of BFI Musicals! The Greatest Show on
poets and lyricists, whose credits include Screen, a UK-wide film season supported by
the director and producer are brother Deewar, Zanjeer and Sholay, and iconic National Lottery, BFI Film Audience Network
and sister and both children of lyricist songs such as ‘Ek Ladki Ko Dekha’, and the ICO bfimusicals.co.uk
Javed Akhtar. ‘Do Pal Ruka Khwabon Ka Karwan’,
Joint ticket with Javed Akhtar in Conversation ‘Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaoon’ and ‘Kal Ho
‘ANOTHER WITTY £25, concs £20 (Members pay £2 less)
Naa Ho’. Join us for this special event
WINTERBOTTOM celebrating Akhtar’s 75th birthday, where
he will share insights into his craft of
AND COOGAN writing for the Bollywood musical.
COLLABORATION’
KIMBERLEY SHEEHAN,
EVENTS PROGRAMMER SAT 1 FEB SAT 1 FEB
Greed (p5) 12:15 NFT1 15:50 NFT1
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Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI Preview: Midnight Family Preview: Portrait of a Lady on Fire Preview: Greed
TRT 90min Mexico 2019. Dir Luke Lorentzen. 81min. Portrait de la jeune fille en feu UK 2019. Dir Michael Winterbottom.
Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI is Digital. EST. 15. Courtesy of Dogwoof France 2019. Dir Céline Sciamma. With With Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, Asa Butterfield,
In Mexico City, the government operates Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami. David Mitchell. 104min. Digital. 15.
a monthly conversation between you Courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing
fewer than 45 emergency ambulances for 122min. Digital. EST. 15. Courtesy of Curzon
(the audience) and one of the nation’s
a population of 9 million. This has spawned In 18th-century France, artist Marianne Self-made British billionaire Sir Richard
favourite and most respected film critics.
a cut throat underground industry of (Merlant) is commissioned to paint the McCreadie (Coogan) has ruled the world
With the help of surprise guests from
for-profit, privately run ambulances. portrait of Lady Héloïse (Haenel) so it can of retail fashion for over 30 years until a
the industry, Kermode will explore,
damaging public inquiry throws his image
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business is the Ochoa family, led by neither wants to be married nor painted, into crisis. He decides to bounce back
present and reveal his or his guests’
charming 16-year-old paramedic Juan. so Marianne must stealthily capture with a highly publicised and extravagant
cinematic guilty pleasures. Get involved
The family spend their nights racing to Héloïse’s likeness while pretending to be 60th birthday party in Mykonos, with a
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to @KermodeMovie #MK3D.
competing rescue squads and the a big hit at 2019’s BFI London Film Festival, Film Festival Headline Gala film of 2019
Tickets £20, concs £16
(Members pay £2 less) never-ending struggle to keep their is a beautifully observed romance that is a dazzling, sharp-tongued satire for
dire finances from compromising the burns with passion and defiance. our times.
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people in their care. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less)
See p37 for more Valentine’s Day films, and Audio description available
Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less)
look out for a Céline Sciamma focus in March
MON 10 FEB WED 12 FEB FRI 14 FEB MON 17 FEB
18:30 NFT1 18:10 NFT3 20:30 NFT1 18:20 NFT1
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Little Joe
TV Preview: Flesh and Blood + Q&A with actors Imelda Staunton Little Joe + Jessica Hausner in Conversation
PREVIEWS
and Francesca Annis, director Louise Hooper, writer Sarah Williams UK-Austria-Germany 2019. Dir Jessica Hausner. With Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox,
and producers Kate Bartlett and Letitia Knight Kit Connor. 105min (event TRT 155min). Digital. 12A. A BFI release
ITV 2020. Dir Louise Hooper. With Imelda Staunton, Francesca Annis, Russell Tovey, To coincide with the release of Little Joe with BFI programmer-at-large Geoff
Stephen Rea. Ep1 45min (see p10), and the accompanying Andrew, following a screening of her latest
Three adult siblings, Helen, Jake and Flesh and Blood proves that we never retrospective of her earlier films (p26), feature. Excerpts from her remarkable
Natalie, are thrown into disarray when really know what’s going on behind we’re delighted to welcome writer-director body of work will be screened, and
their recently widowed mother Vivien closed doors as years of secrets, rivalries Jessica Hausner to discuss her career questions taken from the audience.
declares she’s in love with a new man. and betrayals come to light. Join us for a
Then there’s Mary, who has lived next preview of ITV’s major new family drama,
door to Vivien for 40 years and has an and hear from the talents behind it.
unhealthily attachment to her family’s
unfolding drama...
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The best new cinema for you to Parasite Gisaengchung
enjoy, with plenty of screening South Korea 2019. Dir Bong Joon-Ho.
dates to choose from With Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun,
Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik,
(see pull-out calendar)
Park So-dam. 132min. Digital. EST. 15.
A Curzon Artificial Eye release
This international box-office hit is
a darkly comic, twisty rollercoaster ride
Winner of the Palme d’Or at 2019’s
Cannes Film Festival, this brilliant black
comedy from Bong Joon-ho (Okja,
Snowpiercer) follows the Kim family as
they struggle to survive on the breadline.
When a friend offers Kim Ki-Woo the
chance of a tutoring job at the lavish
home of the Park family Ki-Woo’s luck
starts to change, and soon his sister,
mother and father are also ingratiating
themselves into the glamorous lives of
their affluent employers. Parasite is both
NEW RELEASES
a piercing commentary on inequality
and a twisty narrative rollercoaster ride;
you’ll be gripped throughout this
compelling and expertly-crafted gem.
Simon Duffy, Programme and
Research Manager
‘THIS PALME D’OR
WINNER AND
BOX-OFFICE HIT
IS A MUST-SEE.
BELIEVE THE
HYPE!’
SIMON DUFFY, PROGRAMME
AND RESEARCH MANAGER OPENS FRI 14 FEB
Parasite (adjacent)
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The Lighthouse + intro
by Bait director Mark Jenkin*
USA 2019. Dir Robert Eggers.
With Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson,
Valeriia Karaman. 109min. Digital. 15.
A Universal Pictures International release
The award-winning director of
The Witch returns to terrorise us
with a masterful maritime shocker
When Ephraim Winslow (Pattinson)
reluctantly arrives at the lighthouse where
he’ll work for the next four weeks he’s
greeted with gruff hostility by Tom Wake
(Dafoe), a veteran seafarer with whom
he’s obliged to share uncomfortably Bait + intro by director Mark Jenkin*
close quarters. The pair quickly establish UK 2019. Dir Mark Jenkin. With Edward Rowe,
Mary Woodvine, Giles King, Simon Shepherd.
a volatile dynamic, with Tom the baiting
93min. Digital. 15. A BFI release
slave-driver and Ephraim his battered
lackey. With the slow passing of each Martin (Rowe) is a fisherman without a
punishing day Ephraim’s resentment grows, boat since his brother repurposed their
but when he learns of the mysterious fate father’s vessel for tourist trips. As he
that befell his master’s former assistant, struggles to buy his own boat he must
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a creeping sense of fear and paranoia also cope with family rivalry and the
begins to stir. This hypnotic fusion of beauty influx of London money, stag parties
and brutality, a hit at 2019’s BFI London and holiday homes in his picturesque
Film Festival, boasts extraordinary Cornish harbour village. Summer brings
performances from Dafoe and Pattinson, simmering tensions to a head, with
who wrap their scowling mouths around tragic consequences. Stunningly shot
Robert and Max Eggers’ knotty period on a vintage 16mm camera using
text with unwavering gusto. monochrome Kodak stock, Bait is timely
Michael Blyth, Programmer and poignant, yet full of humour.
* Intro Mon 3 Feb 20:40 NFT3 Also available on
Audio description available (all screenings) + Travelogue (c.2min)
The screenings on Sun 2 Feb 15:30 Archive of Cornish fishermen in the 1920s.
NFT3, Wed 5 Feb 14:30 NFT2 and Thu 6 Feb
18:20 NFT3 will be presented with subtitles
for the D/deaf or hard of hearing
SUN 2 FEB MON 3 FEB WED 5 FEB
CONTINUES FROM FRI 31 JAN
20:20 NFT3 18:20 NFT3* 20:40 NFT2
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Little Joe + intro by director
Jessica Hausner*
UK-Austria-Germany 2019. Dir Jessica Hausner.
With Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox,
Kit Connor. 105min. Digital. 12A. A BFI release
Jessica Hausner’s first English-
language feature is a cool, witty,
impressively fresh variation on
traditional sci-fi themes
After laboratory colleagues Alice (Beecham)
and Chris (Whishaw) create a flower with
a scent designed to induce happiness,
the divorcee names it ‘Little Joe’ after
her son. Then unexpected developments
make her wonder whether contact with
the plant might have serious side effects...
Characteristically imaginative in its script,
camerawork, design and use of Teiji Ito’s
music, Hausner’s movie is a model of
expressive precision, speaking volumes
about the psychological and social dynamics
of the workplace, family, parenthood and
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gender relations. Thanks to meticulously
nuanced performances, the characters’
behaviour and motives are left intriguingly
ambiguous, making for a profoundly
disquieting but compelling enigma.
Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
Critics’ Salon: Little Joe
See p6 for Jessica Hausner in conversation,
TRT 60min
and p26 for the season
Join us to discuss Jessica Hausner’s *Intro Sat 22 Feb 18:10 NFT1
latest feature, a look at family relations,
psychology and science in everyday life
– set to be one of the most intriguing
new releases of the year.
Free to ticket holders of Little Joe on Thu 27
Feb 18:20 (must be booked in advance due
to capacity), otherwise £6.50
THU 27 FEB 20:15 BFI REUBEN LIBRARY OPENS FRI 21 FEB
10 book online at bfi.org.ukBFI DVD & BLU-RAY
New Releases available to order now
ORDER FROM
BFI MEMBERS ENJOY 15% OFFWe’ve selected these key A Streetcar Named Desire
classics (many newly restored) USA 1951. Dir Elia Kazan. With Vivien Leigh,
for you to enjoy, with plenty of Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Kim Hunter,
screening dates to choose from Karl Malden. 126min. Digital (new restoration).
12A. A BFI Release
(see pull-out calendar)
Elia Kazan’s film of Tennessee Williams’
stage hit introduced cinemagoers to
‘the Method’, and an outstanding
performance from Brando
Heated tensions arise when ‘resting’
Mississippi teacher Blanche DuBois
(Leigh) comes to stay with her sister Stella
(Hunter) in the cramped New Orleans
apartment she shares with her husband
Stanley (Brando). Hot-tempered and
unashamedly macho, Stanley has no
time for Blanche’s insistent gentility...
Making eloquent use of Harry Stradling’s
black-and-white cinematography and
Richard Day’s sets, Kazan creates an
atmosphere of clammy, claustrophobic
intensity, in which the different acting
styles of Brando and Leigh (who’d
performed in Olivier’s London production
RE-RELEASE
‘WITH THEIR FILM of the play) actually enhance the conflict
between their characters. A classic, now
OF TENNESSEE gloriously restored.
WILLIAMS’ Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
PLAY, KAZAN
See p14 for our Elia Kazan season
Also available on
AND BRANDO Seniors’ matinee + intro:
CHANGED IDEAS Mon 17 Feb 14:00 NFT1
ABOUT SCREEN
ACTING FOREVER’
GEOFF ANDREW,
PROGRAMMER-AT-LARGE
A Streetcar Named Desire FROM FRI 7 FEB
(adjacent)
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‘HAUSNER’S
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TORTURED
EMOTIONS MAKE
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COMPELLING
CINEMA’
GEOFF ANDREW,
PROGRAMMER-AT-LARGE
Jessica Hausner season
(see p26)‘EVERY WORD SEEMED NOT SOMETHING
MEMORISED, BUT THE SPONTANEOUS
EXPRESSION OF AN INNER EXPERIENCE’
ELIA KAZAN ON WORKING WITH BRANDO
A pioneering figure in the American theatre, Elia Kazan was also
one of the country’s most influential film directors, writes season
programmer Geoff Andrew
After several years as an actor and director for the Group Theatre,
Kazan directed a string of hits on Broadway and co-founded the
Actors Studio, while establishing himself in Hollywood with a series
of serious issue-driven dramas at Fox. Following his success with TALK DOC
Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire on stage, he made a
film of the play, and set about transforming the style and standard of Re-considering Kazan: + A Letter to Elia
screen acting in ambitious, provocative, sometimes ‘political’ movies An Illustrated Talk by Geoff Andrew USA 2010. Dir Martin Scorsese, Kent Jones.
60min. Digital
centred on graduates of the Group Theatre and Actors Studio, many TRT 60min
In this hour-long survey of Kazan’s This blend of documentary and billet-doux
of whom he had effectively ‘discovered’. Even after he notoriously combines clips, photos, archive footage
sometimes controversial career, season
‘named names’ during the House Un-American Activities Committee programmer Geoff Andrew will look at and interviews with Kazan himself to
(HUAC) hearings, Kazan’s films remained prestigious and successful what made his films so important and explore the profound effect his work had
on the young Martin Scorsese, who grew
throughout the 50s. If their subject matter was unusually varied, special, and so enduringly influential to
ELIA KAZAN
this day. Lavishly illustrated with clips up in New York City in the years after
the sheer force of his quest for emotional veracity was a constant. from Kazan’s movies, the talk will focus WWII. It was, by the younger man’s own
particularly – but not exclusively – on the admission, Kazan’s movies that made
director’s approach to performance and Scorsese want to make films himself.
mise-en-scène.
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Desire and p30 our Big Screen Classics
WED 5 FEB
18:10 NFT1
@BFI 15A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Boomerang!
USA 1945. Dir Elia Kazan. With Peggy Anne USA 1947. Dir Elia Kazan. With Dana Andrews,
Garner, Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, Lee J Cobb, Jane Wyatt, Arthur Kennedy.
James Dunn. 129min. Digital. U With 88min. Digital. PG
Adapted from Betty Smith’s semi- An attorney defends a vagrant in a murder
autobiographical novel, Kazan’s lovely trial, despite local prejudice and pressure
first feature centres on an impoverished from politicians and big business. For this
Irish-American family living in Brooklyn The Sea of Grass taut mystery-cum-courtroom drama
ELIA KAZAN
in 1912, and especially on 13-year-old USA 1947. Dir Elia Kazan. With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Melvyn Douglas, based on real events, Kazan shot in
Francie (Garner), who’s devoted to her Robert Walker. 123min. 35mm PG Connecticut locations and, save for a few
alcoholic father (Dunn) and dreams of An atypical film for both director and stars Though Kazan regretted having to film in carefully chosen professionals in leading
becoming a writer. It’s a touching, funny, – a St Louis woman (Hepburn) travels to the studio rather than on the Great Plains, roles, cast locals, friends and family. ‘It
unsentimental and unusually authentic New Mexico to marry a rancher (Tracy) the performances are dependably fine. was our neorealism,’ he claimed (while
portrait of immigrant life, for which Garner regarded locally as a tyrant – this western respectfully deferring to Rossellini’s Paisà).
and Dunn won well-deserved Oscars®. nevertheless became the highest-grossing
of all MGM’s Hepburn-Tracy movies.
SAT 1 FEB THU 6 FEB SAT 8 FEB MON 10 FEB SAT 1 FEB THU 13 FEB
18:10 NFT3 20:30 NFT2 15:45 NFT2 20:30 NFT2 20:45 NFT3 18:20 NFT2
16 book online at bfi.org.ukGentleman’s Agreement Pinky + intro by actor-director
USA 1947. Dir Elia Kazan. With Gregory Peck, Burt Caesar*
Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste USA 1949. Dir Elia Kazan. With Jeanne Crain,
Holm. 118min. Digital. U Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters. 102min.
With Gregory Peck playing a journalist Digital. PG
who pretends to be Jewish in order to With Pinky, Fox boss Daryl Zanuck
research an article on anti-semitism, decided to do the same for racism as
this is a characteristically ‘Hollywood’ A Gentlemen’s Agreement did for Panic in the Streets
ELIA KAZAN
slice of social comment, lapsing anti-semitism, hoping to repeat the earlier USA 1950. Dir Elia Kazan. With Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Jack Palance,
sporadically into earnest sermonising film’s success. The story focuses on an Barbara Bel Geddes. 95min. 35mm PG
and romantic turmoil, but touching African-American woman who returns Kazan’s neorealist preference for location Joseph MacDonald’s noir camerawork,
on most of the relevant issues with home to the segregated South after shooting and his expertise with actors the vividly evocative sense of place
intelligence and insight. The film, passing herself off as white in the North. reaped rewards with this pacy New and the strong performances make
Kazan and Holm won Oscars®; When John Ford quit after a week’s Orleans thriller about the urgent hunt for for a meaty drama.
Garfield also impresses. shooting, Kazan was asked to direct; he the killers (presumed by Widmark’s health
gave it the look and feel of a Ford picture. officer to be disease-carriers) of an illegal
immigrant whose corpse bears traces
of pneumonic plague.
SUN 2 FEB SAT 8 FEB SUN 2 FEB FRI 7 FEB TUE 4 FEB SAT 22 FEB
15:10 NFT2 18:20 NFT2 18:00 NFT3* 20:45 NFT2 18:00 NFT2 20:40 NFT2
@BFI 17Viva Zapata! Man on a Tightrope
USA 1952. Dir Elia Kazan. With Marlon Brando, USA-West Germany 1953. Dir Elia Kazan. With
Anthony Quinn, Jean Peters, Joseph Wiseman. Frederic March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame,
113min. Digital. PG Cameron Mitchell. 105min. Digital 4K. PG
Kazan was both a friend of John Steinbeck Perhaps Kazan’s most underrated movie,
and a fan of Soviet cinema, especially this follows a circus travelling around
Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s:
– hence this Steinbeck-scripted film about Cernik (March), owner and tightrope- On the Waterfront
ELIA KAZAN
the rise to power of a Mexican revolutionary walking clown, appears downtrodden USA 1954. Dir Elia Kazan. With Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J Cobb,
(Brando, in not altogether convincing by his disenchanted wife (Grahame) Rod Steiger. 108min. Digital 4K. PG
make-up) in the struggle against Porfirio and the secret police... but perhaps Seen by some as Kazan and writer to recognise and regret his complicity
Diaz. The sometimes surprisingly elliptical he’s performing a brilliant balancing act? Budd Schulberg’s attempt to justify with the mobsters controlling the unions
narrative forefronts both the fraught A beguiling blend of black comedy, their ‘friendly’ testimony to the HUAC, at the New Jersey docks. The evocative
responsibilities of leadership and the stirring drama, narrative surprises and this multi-Oscar®-winner remains a use of locations, a memorable script
tendency of power to corrupt. robust performances, the film successfully powerhouse drama in which a young and uniformly excellent performances
evokes a world where distrust and longshoreman (Brando) slowly comes produced an electrifying classic.
anxiety rule.
THU 6 FEB SUN 23 FEB SUN 9 FEB WED 26 FEB WED 5 FEB WED 12 FEB SAT 15 FEB
18:00 NFT2 20:30 NFT2 20:00 NFT2 20:30 NFT3 20:45 NFT1 20:40 NFT1 15:40 NFT3
18 book online at bfi.org.ukEast of Eden A Face in the Crowd An Actor’s Workshop for
USA 1955. Dir Elia Kazan. With James Dean, USA 1957. Dir Elia Kazan. With Andy Griffith, Film Creatives
Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Jo Van Fleet. Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick.
115min. Digital 4K. PG 126min. Digital. PG
Elia Kazan believed that the actor was
the emotional centre of all drama, the key
John Steinbeck’s transposition of the Cain Written by On the Waterfront’s Budd
contact with the paying public and the
and Abel story to 1917 California is well Schulberg, Kazan’s most explicitly
focal point in the collaborative enterprise
served by the performances Kazan elicits political film centres on work-shy drifter
of filmmaking. Join actor-director Burt
from a superb cast; Dean and Massey, as Baby Doll ‘Lonesome’ Rhodes (Griffith), whose gift
Caesar for this interactive and experiential
ELIA KAZAN
the ‘bad’ son and the puritanical father, USA 1956. Dir Elia Kazan. With Caroll Baker, of the gab – first revealed on an Arkansas
day course. Whether you’re a writer,
are especially effective. Shooting in colour Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock. local radio show – leads him to fame on
114min. 35mm PG
director, camera operator, producer or
for the first time, Kazan vividly recreates national television and, thereby, to political
actor, this course will draw on a range of
Monterey and the Salinas Valley while Adapted from two of Tennessee Williams’ influence. A bitter parable about celebrity
exercises to develop your practice and
introducing elements of visual expressionism one-act plays, this gleefully grotesque culture, populist demagoguery, and the
get the best from an actor’s performance.
to underline the corrosive familial tensions. black comedy – set in and around a power of mass media, A Face in the
Course fee £30
Also available on gloriously run-down Mississippi mansion Crowd remains all too relevant today.
– chronicles the vengeful strategy Also available on
undertaken by a Sicilian businessman
(Wallach) against a dishonest rival
(Malden) who has an attractive but
intellectually and sexually immature wife
(Baker). Kazan’s virtuoso direction of
lengthy scenes keeps the cruel antics
moving along to engaging effect.
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@BFI 19‘MY FANTASIES AND OBSESSIONS ARE
NOT ONLY MY REALITY, BUT THE STUFF
OF WHICH MY FILMS ARE MADE’
FEDERICO FELLINI
Federico Fellini had a keen interest in the world of dreams,
and became known as one of world cinema’s most unashamedly
autobiographical filmmakers, writes season
programmer Pasquale Iannone
We round off our two-month centenary celebration of the renowned
Italian filmmaker with a special focus on aspects of his work he’s
arguably most famous for – the world of dreams and autobiography.
These films span almost 35 years in the director’s career and include
some of his best-known pictures, including the seminal film-about-
film 8½ and the Oscar®-winning Amarcord. Fellini himself is a compelling
presence in front of the camera, most memorably in The Clowns,
Roma and Intervista, where the boundaries between fiction and
non-fiction become ever more fluid. We also include Il Bidone and
a programme of the director’s contributions to anthology films –
little jewels offering further proof of Fellini’s fleet-flooted imagination.
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This retrospective is the first of the Fellini 100
official international tour, coordinated by the
Italian Ministry of Culture, led by Istituto
Luce-Cinecittà, who have provided the films.
All films have been digitally restored by
Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, Cineteca di Bologna
Image: 8½ and Cineteca Nazionale.Image: Paul Ronald
TALK
8½
Roundtable: Gender and sexuality in Federico Fellini’s cinema 8½ Otto e mezzo
FELLINI
TRT 100min Italy-France 1963. Dir Federico Fellini. With Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Rossella Falk,
Fellini didn’t shy away from the exploration What’s the relationship between Fellini’s Claudia Cardinale. 138min. Digital 4K. EST. 15
and expression of sexual desire, and representation of sexuality, femininity Fellini’s semi-autobiographical portrait The film’s influence has been profound –
often created controversial portrayals of and masculinity, and his exuberant, of creative block is one of the great Todd Haynes, for instance, paid it
women and men throughout his career. surreal style? We welcome film scholars films about filmmaking. At the centre is affectionate homage in his distinctly
What approaches can we employ to and writers Richard Dyer, Danielle Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, Fellini-esque portrait of Bob Dylan,
discuss and interpret these portrayals Hipkins, Dalila Missero and Julia Wagner the beleaguered auteur who’s assailed I’m Not There (2007).
in 2020? How do they relate to attitudes for this insightful debate. by a host of problems both professional Also available on
and values in Italian society at that time? Tickets £6.50 and personal.
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@BFI 21DOC
Juliet of the Spirits Giulietta degli spiriti The Clowns I clowns
FELLINI
Italy-France 1965. Dir Federico Fellini. With Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu. 138min. Italy-France-West Germany 1970. Dir Federico Fellini. 92min. Digital 4K. EST. U
Digital 4K. EST. 15 Fruit of his long-standing fascination with Fellini appears in the film himself meeting
Although he had worked with colour plays a middle-class housewife seeking the figure of the clown, Fellini’s documentary several important figures – from La dolce
before – for an episode in Boccaccio 70 solace in the world of psychics and seers, was made for Italian TV and – as with vita’s Anita Ekberg to French circus
(1962) – Juliet of the Spirits was Fellini’s figures that Fellini himself had always his other 70s films such as Roma and historian Tristan Rémy.
first colour feature. It sees the director been fascinated by. Amarcord – sees the director affectionately Also available on
reunited with his actor wife Giulietta Also available on recreate episodes from his childhood.
Masina (La Strada, Nights of Cabiria) who
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22 book online at bfi.org.ukFellini’s Roma Roma Amarcord
FELLINI
Italy-France 1972. Dir Federico Fellini. With Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses, Italy-France 1973. Dir Federico Fellini. With Bruno Zanin, Magali Noël, Pupella Maggio,
Anna Magnani. 119min. Digital 4K. EST. 15 Armando Brancia. 125min. Digital 4K. EST. 15
Despite originally hailing from the northern Spanning several decades – from the Winner of the Best Foreign Language Mischievous, elegiac, satirical and
city of Rimini, Fellini was always closely fascist era to the twilight of the hippie Oscar® in 1975, and one of Fellini’s most often moving, the film features some
associated with the Italian capital thanks movement – Roma is the director’s deeply popular works, Amarcord (Romagnolo jaw-dropping set-pieces together with
to La dolce vita and his long association personal love letter to the Eternal City. dialect for ‘I remember’) draws heavily on one of composer Nino Rota’s most
with the legendary Cinecittà film studios. the director’s childhood in Rimini during recognisable and wistful main themes.
the fascist years. Also available on
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@BFI 23And the Ship Sails On E la nave va Intervista
FELLINI
Italy-France 1983. Dir Federico Fellini. With Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Italy 1987. Dir Federico Fellini. With Anita Ekberg, Marcello Mastroianni, Sergio Rubini. 107min.
Pina Bausch. 128min. Digital 4K. EST. 12A Digital 4K. EST. 15
Production designer Dante Ferretti scatter the ashes of a famed opera Originally conceived to mark the 50th first novel Amerika, a recreation of
followed up – and arguably outdid – his singer in the weeks before WWI, the film anniversary of Rome’s Cinecittà studios, his first experiences at Cinecittà,
stunning work on City of Women with was shot entirely in Cinecittà studios Intervista evolved into a characteristically and an emotional reunion of the stars
Fellini’s next feature. With its story of a and is suffused with a dream-like air free-form piece of filmic autobiography of La dolce vita, Marcello Mastroianni
cruise ship sailing out from Naples to of melancholy. from Fellini. The picture’s interconnected and Anita Ekberg.
elements include the director planning an
adaptation of Franz Kafka’s unfinished
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24 book online at bfi.org.ukEPISODIC FELLINI
Fellini fully embraces the short form in three episodes from omnibus films
Toby Dammit
Episodic Fellini
TRT 118min. Digital 4K. 18
Like novelists relishing the challenges of the short story, many Italian filmmakers of the
1950s and 60s (including Visconti, Antonioni, and De Sica) leapt at the opportunity to
direct episodes for omnibus films in between more arduous and time-consuming
feature projects. Fellini made three anthology entries, each of which we screen here.
Love in the City: Agenzia matrimoniale + Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Il Bidone The Swindlers Italy 1953. Dir Federico Fellini. With Antonio (aka Spirits of the Dead): Toby Dammit
FELLINI
Italy-France 1955. Dir Federico Fellini. With Broderick Crawford, Giulietta Masina, Cifariello, Livia Venturini, Maresa Gallo. 16min. Italy-France 1968. Dir Federico Fellini.
Richard Baseheart, Franco Fabrizi. 113min. Digital 4K. EST. 12A EST. 15 With Terence Stamp, Salvo Randone,
With audiences – and some producers With echoes of the antiheroes of A cynical young journalist conducts Ernesto Colli. 48min. EST. 18
– hoping for a sequel to his international John Huston films The Treasure of the a survey on marriage agencies, posing as Fellini adapts the Edgar Allan Poe short
breakthrough La Strada, Fellini opted Sierra Madre and The Asphalt Jungle, a customer – but he gets more than he story Never Bet The Devil Your Head,
instead for the downbeat story of the newly restored Il Bidone is ripe bargained for when he finds a match. and casts Terence Stamp as a jaded
three conmen, headed by the jowly for (re)discovery. Shakespearean actor making a film
Augusto (Crawford). Also available on in Rome.
+ Boccaccio ’70: Le tentazioni del
dottor Antonio
Italy-France 1962. Dir Federico Fellini.
With Peppino De Filippo, Anita Ekberg,
Antonio Acqua. 54min. EST. 12A
A billboard of Anita Ekberg provocatively
selling milk angers a prudish crusader
for public decency.
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@BFI 25‘WHAT INTERESTS ME MOST IS THE QUESTION MARK AFTER AN EVENT’ JESSICA HAUSNER Since attracting international attention with her first feature, Jessica Hausner has established herself as one of the most distinctive European filmmakers working today, writes season programmer Geoff Andrew Following two well-received shorts, Lovely Rita announced the arrival of a writer-director clearly interested in subtle nuance. With that film – realist in tone, and less preoccupied with cinema’s formal possibilities than her later, more stylised work – Hausner’s eloquent precision and insightful perspicacity were already to the fore. Over time, an engagingly idiosyncratic approach to genre came into play, focused on ambiguities and ironies, uncertainties and questions, rather than on neat narratives and easy answers. Also rewarding was Hausner’s cool, considered (but quietly compassionate) detachment in examining the strong, even extreme emotions that her characters – very often loners or outsiders – were experiencing. As with Haneke, Kubrick and Hitchcock, hers is an analytical but highly accessible cinema, which amply repays repeat viewings. WANT MORE? CULTURAL PARTNER See p6 for Jessica Hausner in conversation, p10 for screenings of Little Joe plus a critics’ salon, and p41 for Woman with a Movie Camera Image: Hotel
Inter-View
Flora + Inter-View
Austria 1995. Dir Jessica Hausner. Austria 1999. Dir Jessica Hausner.
With Claudia Penitz, Andreas Götz, With Birgit Doll, Hagnot Elischka,
John F Kutil. 25min. 35mm EST Hakon Hirzenberger. 45min. 35mm EST
A sympathetic, often darkly funny and Hausner’s most fragmented and
wholly unsentimental look at the trials impressionistic film, this featurette
and tribulations of early adulthood, alternates between two protagonists:
as experienced by a young woman. a writer apparently conducting research
JESSICA HAUSNER
by interviewing strangers about their
professional and personal lives, and a
quiet graduate looking for a job (hopefully
involving flowers – shades of Little Joe?).
Like its predecessor, Inter-View offers
an early instance of the writer-director’s
enduring penchant for scenes Lovely Rita + Q&A with Jessica Hausner*
involving dance. Austria-Germany 2001. Dir Jessica Hausner. With Barbara Osika, Christoph Bauer, Peter Fiala.
79min. 35mm EST. 15
Ostracised by her schoolmates, frequently with a younger male friend, or leaving the
chided by her parents, and striving to toilet lid up. At once drily amusing and
cope with her burgeoning sexuality, unflinchingly authentic, Hausner’s first
teenager Rita is constantly in trouble for feature is a penetrating but tender portrait
playing truant, behaving inappropriately of a youngster on the brink of adulthood.
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@BFI 27Hotel Amour Fou
Austria-Germany 2004. Dir Jessica Hausner. Austria-Luxembourg-Germany 2014.
With Franziska Weisz, Birgit Minichmayr, Dir Jessica Hausner. With Christian Friedel,
Marlene Streeruwitz, Peter Strauss. 78min. Birte Schnöink, Stephan Grossmann. 96min.
35mm EST. 12A Digital. EST. 12A
When Irene starts work as receptionist Inspired by the real-life suicide of the
at an Alpine hotel, she discovers her writer Heinrich von Kleist alongside
predecessor vanished mysteriously; Lourdes + Q&A with Jessica Hausner* Henriette Vogel, Hausner’s reimagining
though unalarmed, she finds the place’s of the events leading to their death may
JESSICA HAUSNER
France-Austria-Germany 2009. Dir Jessica Hausner. With Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux,
gloomy atmosphere getting to her... Bruno Todeschini, Elisa Löwensohn. 99min. 35mm EST. U be seen, in her own words, as ‘romantic
It’s in this unsettling, visually ravishing A wheelchair-user, paralysed for years expense of the devout or disabled), comedy’. Certainly, while exploring the
study of loneliness and the influence of (Testud), joins a group pilgrimage to affecting, insightful and deeply absurd extremes to which the poet’s
environment that the importance of two Lourdes – less from any faith in miracles ambivalent, this tender gem tackles life’s romantic ideals might lead, Hausner
of Hausner’s long-term collaborators, than for the journey and company. Still, mysteries, paradoxes, pains and simple allows a mischievous wit to inflect her
producer-cinematographer Martin Gschlacht there are some around her who do pleasures head-on. astute characterisation of bourgeois
and production designer Katharina believe... Funny (though never at the Also available on values in the early 1800s.
Wöppermann, first became evident. Also available on
+ Toast
Austria 2006. Dir Jessica Hausner.
With Susanne Wuest. 41min
An installation Hausner created for
an exhibition, focused on a woman’s
repetitive activities in the kitchen.
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28 book online at bfi.org.ukTALKING
“Oh to be young, intense, romantic and profoundly cinephilic –
Civeyrac’s drama captures it all, in a story of a filmmaker’s years
of apprenticeship.”
JONATHAN ROMNEY, LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
ABOUT “Gives much-deserved recognition
to four Sudanese filmmakers whose
battle to bring cinema-going back to
TREES
Sudan is the immediate focus of this
superb work.” JAY WEISSBERG, VARIETY
WINNER WINNER
BY SUHAIB GASMELBARI
A PARIS
BEST DOCUMENTARY PANORAMA
BERLIN AUDIENCE AWARD
FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN
FILM FESTIVAL
EDUCATION BY JEAN-PAUL CIVEYRAC
IN CINEMAS JANUARY 31 IN CINEMAS FEBRUARY 14
www.newwavefilms.co.ukThe timeless films we urge you
to see (for just £8), programmed
by theme
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
MAN VS NATURE
Humanity’s insatiable thirst King Kong
USA 1933. Dirs Merian C Cooper,
to control everything that Ernest B Schoedsack. With Fay Wray,
stands in its way has been Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot. 100min.
35mm PG
especially true when it A filmmaker tricks his crew into a trip to
comes to the natural world. the aptly named Skull Island where Kong,
Whether it be the Sahara a huge ape, lives alongside dinosaurs. The African Queen
desert, the Amazon jungle It’s not long before Kong takes a shine USA-UK 1951. Dir John Huston. With Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Morley.
to leading lady Ann Darrow (Wray), 105min. Digital 4K restoration. PG
or the depths of the ocean, but when he’s transported to New York Katharine Hepburn plays Rose Sayer, they plan their escape, but their bickering
there’s no part of the planet City he causes even greater havoc. a missionary in East Africa during the and disagreements threaten to ruin
that we haven’t interfered in, The incredible pre-digital effects, using outbreak of WWI who must flee with her their plans. Bogart’s character was
stop-motion animation and matte
sometimes for the greater paintings, inspired many generations
brother on an old steamboat being originally meant to be cockney but this
operated by an uncouth, gin-swilling was changed to Canadian after he
good and sometimes for the of later filmmakers. mechanic (Bogart). Finding themselves experienced difficulties with the accent.
worse. These films present in danger from German colonial troops,
different perspectives
of mankind and nature
bumping into each other
in various ways.
JUSTIN JOHNSON,
LEAD PROGRAMMER
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Tickets for these screenings are only £8 13:00 NFT2 20:40 NFT3 20:35 NFT2 18:15 STUDIO 20:40 STUDIO 18:15 STUDIO 16:20 NFT1
book online at bfi.org.ukFitzcarraldo South, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s
West Germany 1982. Dir Werner Herzog. With Glorious Epic of the Antarctic + intro
Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy. by Bryony Dixon, BFI National
158min. Digital. EST. PG
Archive Curator*
A man with designs on becoming a
UK 1919. Trans Atlantic Film Syndicate-
rubber trader plans an extraordinary and Frank Hurley. 72min. 35mm
potentially dangerous journey to move a With live piano accompaniment. U
320-tonne steamship across a hilly area in South uses the extraordinary real footage Gerry
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
Peru’s Amazon basin and build an opera of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1916 USA-Argentina-Jordan 2002. Dir Gus Van Sant. With Matt Damon, Casey Affleck. 103min.
house in the jungle. With all the odds Antarctic expedition to tell the story of 35mm 15
against him, he and his unwilling team the loss of HMS Endurance and the Two friends, both named Gerry, find It’s an uncompromising approach that
begin their trip... Many of Herzog’s films 1,200-mile journey back to inhabited land themselves lost in the wilderness, presents a punishing yet beautiful
would be suited to a programme based in her lifeboats. Restored with its original exposed to extreme heat and ill-equipped landscape and characters that say
around man’s relationship with the natural tinting and toning by the BFI National to find their way back to the highway. more in silence than they might have
world, but this is a true masterpiece. Archive and EYE Filmmuseum, this Inspired by Béla Tarr and featuring music done with words.
Also available on incredible film of true-life heroism and by Arvo Pärt, Van Sant’s sparse film
survival in the most formidable conditions features little dialogue and extensive use
is over a century old. It lives on as an of long takes.
enthralling testimony to the delicate
balance between humanity and the
natural world.
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@BFI 31Koyaanisqatsi + intro by film programmer and writer Sophie Brown*
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
USA 1982. Dir Godfrey Reggio. 86min. Digital. U
This groundbreaking, thrilling picture is Godfrey Reggio’s trademark of slowing
as much a musical tour-de-force from down and speeding up the action in
Philip Glass as it is a stunning original response to the music has often been
documentary depicting how humanity emulated but never bettered.
has parted ways with nature, and how
Walkabout life is now ‘out of balance’ (Koyaanisqatsi
UK-Australia 1971. Dir Nicolas Roeg. With Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Luc Roeg. 100min. in Hopi language).
Digital. 12A
Two British children find themselves lost Roeg’s exquisite cinematography follows
deep in the Australian outback with a the characters as they journey across an
teenage Aboriginal boy who, despite the unforgiving and haunting terrain, shedding
language barrier, tries to help them. the innocence of childhood along the way.
Also available on
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32 book online at bfi.org.ukThe Flight of the Phoenix
USA 1965. Dir Robert Aldrich.
With James Stewart, Richard Attenborough,
Hardy Krüger, Peter Finch. 142min. Digital. PG
An American cargo plane crash-lands
in the Sahara desert and its small group
of survivors find themselves in perilous
The Jungle Book conditions with depleted rations and
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
UK 1942. Dir Zoltan Korda. With Sabu, Jospeh no working radios. Despite its initial lack
Calleia, John Qualen. 108min. Digital. U of commercial success, Aldrich’s bold
Lost in the Indian jungle, young Mowgli adventure has gained in stature and
is raised by wolves and nurtured by wild following over time. With a great ensemble
animals before eventually being taken cast and a nail-biting finale, The Flight of
to live in a village, where he becomes the Phoenix will keep you on the edge
The Gold Rush + intro by film historian and academic Professor Ian Christie* embroiled in a plot to steal cursed of your seat.
USA 1925. Dir Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murrary. 72min. treasure. This multi Oscar®-nominated
Digital. With Charlie Chaplin score. U film based on Rudyard Kipling’s work is
The ‘Lone Prospector’ (Chaplin) heads off Chaplin’s ‘epic comedy’ was his greatest presented in epic fashion by the Korda
to join the gold rush in Klondike, where success of the silent era, and its classic brothers during their Hollywood period.
he hooks up with a criminal and the sequences include the prospector’s cabin
recipient of a large gold haul. While an on the brink of disaster, and staving off
ice storm rages outside, the three men starvation with the help of a shoe.
begin a struggle to secure the spoils.
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@BFI 33Waiting for Happiness Heremakono
En attendant le bonheur
+ intro by June Givanni, June Givanni
Pan African Cinema Archive*
France-Mauritania 2002. Dir Abderrahmane
Sissako. With Khatra Ould Abder Kader,
Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid. 96min.
Lord of the Flies The Wages of Fear Le salaire de la peur 35mm EST. U
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
UK 1963. Dir Peter Brook. With James Aubrey, France-Italy 1953. Dir Henri-Georges Clouzot. With Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Vera Clouzot. Young Abdallah returns home to the
Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards. 91min. 153min. Digital 4K. EST. PG village of Nouhadhibou, a port on the
Digital. PG Watched by a hungry vulture, a child plays drive two trucks full of nitroglycerine along Mauritanian coast, to visit his mother.
Thirty schoolboys are stranded on an with cockroaches in the dusty street of a precipitous, pot-holed roads. As the While there, he struggles with dialect and
island and forced to adapt quickly if they South American shanty town. So begins tension mounts, this journey to hell is identity and encounters various members
are to survive. Before long, it becomes one of the most nerve-wracking and propelled to its misanthropic conclusion of the semi-transient community going
clear that any environmental obstacles suspenseful films ever made, as four by a truly unsettling score. about their business. What follows is
are going to be secondary compared to desperados take on a suicidal mission to a series of interactions and insights
the threat that lies within themselves. into an unsettled people in a state of
William Golding’s novel is adapted and displacement, hoping to move on and
directed by Peter Brook, and its powerful find the ‘better’ place over the horizon.
message of the inherent destructiveness
of humans (even a group of children) still
resonates today.
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34 book online at bfi.org.ukDates for your cultural diary,
from DVD/Blu-ray launches
to weekenders, film summits
and festivals
SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS
BFI Quiz: Awards Season BFI Blu-ray/DVD Launch: Scandal DVD Preview: Doctor Who:
Are you a nominee, a winner or a + Q&A with director The Faceless Ones (animated)
no-show? Will you mix up the 2017 Best Michael Caton-Jones, + Q&A with actor Anneke Wills
Picture winner? Will you wear your swan producer Stephen Woolley and UK 1967. Dir Gerry Mill. With the voices of
dress? Ahead of the 2020 Academy writer Michael Thomas Patrick Troughton, Anneke Wills, Frazer Hines,
Michael Craze. 6x 25min. Courtesy of
Awards, test your knowledge of this UK 1989. Dir Michael Caton-Jones. With BBC Studios
season’s awards race and some of the John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda,
most memorable moments in Oscars® Ian McKellen. 115min. Digital 4K. 18 The Doctor and his companions land on a
history with this special edition BFI Quiz, John Profumo, the UK Minister of War, is runway at Gatwick airport and find
hosted by Danny Moran and Sam Foster caught in a tryst with Christine Keeler, a themselves under threat from aliens who
from Film Chat Podcast. young woman who has also been seeing need to take on human identities in order
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FOR EVERYONE social fixer who becomes unwittingly and a new animation, it’s possible to
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CLASSICS TO AN Newly remastered by the BFI from a 4K scan,
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AWARD-WINNING on Mon 17 Feb released by BBC Studios on Blu-ray and
DVD in early 2020
PREVIEW’
JUSTIN JOHNSON,
LEAD PROGRAMMER FRI 7 FEB THU 13 FEB SAT 29 FEB
Valentine’s Day films (p37) 19:30 BLUE ROOM 18:40 NFT1 12:00 NFT1
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Valentine’s film.
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must show their cinema ticket to redeem the free glass
FRI 14 FEB FRI 14 FEB FRI 14 FEB of prosecco when they order the Valentine’s set menu.
Only one glass of prosecco with each ticket.
14:30 NFT1 18:10 NFT2 18:15 NFT1 Only available on Fri 14 Feb 2020.The UK’s most important industry film festival for
emerging filmmakers returns to BFI Southbank with
4 jam-packed days of masterclasses, workshops, screenings
and networking opportunities. Don’t miss the opportunity
to explore the all the possibilities for your future in film.
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