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APR 2019
BFI SOUTHBANK
STANLEY KUBRICK
HIROKAZU KORE-EDA
RAISED BY THE INTERNET
BFI & RADIO TIMES TV FESTIVAL
WILD ROSE
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 REGULAR PROGRAMME SEASONS
Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance Each month we screen something for every taste, and treats Carefully curated collections of film
for you to catch the latest film and TV before for all ages, programmed by our specialists and TV, which showcase an influential
anyone else genre, theme or talent
The Shining (p15)
Gallivant (p50)
Mid90s (p4)
IN PERSON & PREVIEWS 4
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Look out for 16mm, 35mm or 70mm in the film credits. SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS 40
Cover: A Clockwork Orange
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
Preview: A Deal With The Universe
+ Q&A
UK 2018. Dir Jason Barker. 91min. Digital.
Cert tbc. Courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures
In his first documentary, former
BFI Flare programmer Jason Barker
tells the story of his family, and of
the unexpected setbacks in trying
to conceive a child with his partner.
A warm, funny and disarmingly
candid film, assembled entirely from
home-video footage, it also provides
‘A VIBRANT, insights into the complexities of
gender identity and parenthood.
YOUTHFUL Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) Preview: Mid90s
STORY OF Also available on USA 2018. Dir Jonah Hill. With Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges, Katherine Waterston. 85min. Digital.
Cert tbc. Courtesy of Altitude Entertainment
FORBIDDEN In 1990s Los Angeles, teenage Stevie him in, amused by his youth and
LOVE, FROM AN (Suljic) struggles to get attention
from his fitness-obsessed older
willingness. Actor Jonah Hill makes
his directorial debut with this stylish
EXCITING NEW brother (Hedges) but finds his place and sweet coming-of-age tale that
TALENT’ in a crowd of skater boys who take captures a slice of 90s America.
Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less)
DAVID SOMERSET,
PROGRAMMER WED 3 APR WED 10 APR
Rafiki (p5) 18:15 NFT1 20:50 NFT1
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KERMODE LIVE IN 3D
Let’s talk about film...
African Odysseys present: Preview: Preview: Eighth Grade BFI Screen Epiphany: Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI
Rafiki + Q&A with director USA 2018. Dir Bo Burnham. With Elsie Fisher, Bret Easton Ellis introduces TRT 90min
Wanuri Kahiu Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson. 94min. Digital. The Phantom of the Paradise Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the
Kenya-South Africa-France-Lebanon-Norway- 15. Courtesy of Sony Entertainment
USA 1974. Dir Brian De Palma. BFI is a monthly conversation
Netherlands-Germany-USA 2018. Comedian Bo Burnham makes his With Paul Williams, William Finley, between you (the audience) and one
Dir Wanuri Kahiu. With Samantha Mugatsia, directorial debut with a tender film Jessica Harper. 91min. Digital. 15.
Sheila Munyiva. 83min. Digital. Some EST. 12A of the nation’s favourite and most
about anxiety – particularly that Writer Bret Easton Ellis introduces respected film critics. With the help
Courtesy of Aya Distribution
special brand of anxiety that a film that has inspired him. of surprise guests from the industry,
Join us to mark 50 years of FESPACO,
IN PERSON & PREVIEWS
teenagers go through – without Brian De Palma’s comic, musical Kermode will explore, critique and
Africa’s own Film festival, with this falling into patronising or dramatic horror film is based on the dissect movies past and present and
preview. Included in the Un Certain clichés. Kayla Day (Fisher), an The Phantom of the Opera and is a tale reveal his or his guests’ cinematic
Regard section in Cannes and then eighth-grade student with a heavy of treachery, love and revenge within guilty pleasures. Get involved by
controversially banned from being reliance on social media (but no the music business. Despite a tweeting your questions in advance
shown in Kenya by the Kenya Film following), struggles to connect disappointing reception at the time to @KermodeMovie #MK3D.
Classification Board (the ban was with her single father and it has deservedly gone on to become Tickets £20, concs £16
later retracted), Rafiki is a stylish and her schoolmates. a cult hit. (Members pay £2 less)
youthful depiction of young love Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) Event in association with Deeper Into Movies.
between two women from politically
Following the event, Bret Easton Ellis will be
opposed families, in a country where signing copies of his new book ‘White’ which
such a choice is a punishable offence. will be available at the BFI Shop. Priority will be
Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) given to ticket holders and the signing will be
run on a first come-first served basis.
See p16 for screenings of American Psycho
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Join today at bfi.org.uk/join
Member Picks Behind the Scenes at the BFI
Share your choice with us at Behind the Scenes brings BFI curators,
bfi.org.uk/memberpicks programmers and policy-makers
together to give you a glimpse into
Into the Wild how we work. This event looks at the
USA 2007. Dir Sean Penn. With Emile Hirsch,
Marcia Gay Harden, Hal Holbrook. 148min.
BFI Festivals, focusing on the BFI
Digital. 15 London Film Festival and BFI Flare:
Member Exclusive: Archive Tour London LGBT+ Film Festival, and will
Set in the 1990s, this true story
MEMBER EXCLUSIVES
Don’t miss your chance to see behind Champions and Members can apply for look at how the team decide to shape
up to two paid tickets in the ballot, which follows Chris McCandless (Hirsch),
the scenes at one of the largest who breaks away from everyday the festival in terms of its films and
runs 4-10 Mar, to this exclusive event at
moving-image collections in the bfi.org.uk/members. Tickets are £25 each. pressures by travelling across events. It’s a chance to discover what
world. See rarely viewed film North America to the inhospitable goes on in putting together these
materials and find out from our wilderness of Alaska. This absorbing, important international festivals.
‘I am truly grateful for the chance to
expert team how films are stored beautifully made film takes us on a Tickets £6
visit the BFI National Archive. It was an
and restored. The tour lasts journey of self-awareness as Chris
amazing day, and the tour organisation
approximately two hours, followed meets different people en-route
was fabulous’
by light refreshments. before facing complete solitude.
Vik Uppal, BFI Champion Member
Tickets £6
FRI 5 APR
10:30-13:00 BFI NATIONAL ARCHIVE, BERKHAMSTEAD ‘It takes you on a journey and you forget
the world around you. Brilliant acting...
All Member exclusive tickets are just £6 unless otherwise stated. The best book adaptation in the last
Champions and Members can book as soon as their priority booking opens 20 years!’
and tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Florian Koss, BFI Member
Remaining tickets will be released to the public, as a taster of the benefits
MON 1 APR WED 24 APR
of Membership, once public booking opens.
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The best new cinema for you to Wild Rose
enjoy, with plenty of screening UK 2018. Dir Tom Harper. With Jessie Buckley,
dates to choose from Sophie Okonedo, Julie Walters. 101min.
Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of
(see pull-out calendar)
Entertainment One
In a star-making performance,
Jessie Buckley shines as an aspiring
country singer
Since Wild Rose premiered at the
BFI London Film Festival Buckley
has been receiving accolades for
her performance as Rose-Lynn,
a Glaswegian single mum with a wild
streak and big dreams of becoming
a country singer. Fresh out of prison,
she attempts to find a way to get
to Nashville to realise her dreams,
but her deep love for country music
and her undeniable talent might not
be enough to get her there.
NEW RELEASES
Screenwriter Nicole Taylor and
director Tom Harper have crafted
a sincere and intelligent drama that
knowingly tugs at the heartstrings
yet challenges our conventional
understanding of heroines;
Rose-Lynn is messy, imperfect
and all the more human for it.
Relaxed Screening Anna Bogutskaya, Events Programmer
Relaxed screenings are presented for
individuals on the autism spectrum Audio description available at all
‘JESSIE BUCKLEY and/or anyone with learning disabilities,
and their carers and assistants.
screenings
Hearing-impaired subtitles available:
CEMENTS HER More detailed information about Sun 21 Apr 15:10 NFT2
Thu 25 Apr 18:40 Studio
STAR STATUS IN this event can be found at
bfi.org.uk/relaxed
WILD ROSE’ Tickets £3
Audio description available
ANNA BOGUTSKAYA,
EVENTS PROGRAMMER WED 24 APR 14:00 NFT3 OPENS FRI 19 APR
Wild Rose (adjacent)
book online at bfi.org.uk
“PURE CINEMATIC MAGIC”
GEOFF ANDREW , SIGHT AND SOUND
“AS SUBLIME AS IT IS BEAUTIFUL” JOSEPH WALSH, TIME OUT
FILMS PRODUCTIONS SA
www.modernfilms.com/lazzaro
IN CINEMAS MARCH 8 IN CINEMAS APRIL 5
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)
JOINT
TICKET
A Clockwork Orange
RE-RELEASES
UK-USA 1971. Dir Stanley Kubrick. With Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke. 136min. Digital. 18. A BFI Release
‘The only movie about what the modern disenfranchised teenagers indulge Previews Wed 3 Apr 20:15 NFT3 and
world really means’ – Luis Buñuel in narcotic cocktails and revel in acts Thu 4 Apr 20:20 NFT1*
*Joint ticket available with Kubrick panel
Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony of ‘ultraviolence’, the film centres
discussion (p15) Thu 4 Apr 18:10 NFT1 £18,
Burgess’ decline-of-civilisation novel on Alex (McDowell) and his band concs £15 (members pay £2 less)
of droogs. With A Clockwork Orange
‘THIS IS CINEMA remains a chilling, thrilling and
unsettling cinematic vision of Kubrick was striving to deconstruct
See p12 for part one of our Kubrick season
See p15 for our ‘Philisophical Screens’
THAT SPEAKS nihilistic violence and social control. classic Hollywood narratives and
create a cinema that behaved like
discussion following the screening
on Tue 16 Apr 18:15 NFT3
DIRECTLY TO It was so controversial upon its
release that it was withdrawn by music – in doing so he created
THE EMOTIONAL Kubrick himself, and not seen again
in the UK until after his death in
a new, viscerally disturbing mode
of storytelling.
CONSCIOUSNESS’ 1999. Set in a flamboyantly stylised Stuart Brown, Head of Programme
and Acquisitions
STUART BROWN, near-future where gangs of
HEAD OF PROGRAMME
AND ACQUISITIONS
A Clockwork Orange FROM FRI 5 APR
(adjacent)
book online at bfi.org.ukMaborosi Maborosi no hikari
Japan 1995. Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda.
With Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naito,
Tadanobu Asano. 110min. Digital.
Cert tbc. EST. A BFI release
Kore-eda’s first fiction feature is
an exquisite meditation on loss,
loneliness, uncertainty, and coming
to terms with the past
By 1995 Kore-eda was already
well established as a documentary
director, but it was his fiction debut
that brought him international
attention, winning prizes in Chicago,
Vancouver and Venice, and securing
commercial releases in western
countries. An apparently happy
marriage is abruptly ended by the
husband’s sudden death, but was
it accident or suicide? Kore-eda’s
haunting, meditative film traces a
RE-RELEASES
widow’s attempts to cope with and
comprehend her bereavement. With
its static camera set-ups and long
takes evoking the work of the great
Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu and
Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien,
Maborosi announced a vital new
presence in Japanese cinema.
Alexander Jacoby, season programmer
Also available on
See p28 for our Kore-eda season
FROM FRI 26 APR
@BFI 11Carefully curated collections of
film and TV, which showcase an
influential genre, theme or talent
‘THE AWARD-
WINNING
KORE-EDA IS AT
SEASONS
THE FOREFRONT
OF LIVE-ACTION,
CONTEMPORARY
JAPANESE
CINEMA’
JUSTIN JOHNSON,
LEAD PROGRAMMER
Hirokazu Kore-eda season
(see p28)‘IF IT CAN BE WRITTEN, OR THOUGHT,
IT CAN BE FILMED’
STANLEY KUBRICK
Like all great art, Kubrick’s films dazzle, challenge and provoke
both emotionally and intellectually, writes season programmer
Stuart Brown
Stanley Kubrick occupies a rare position in the history
of cinema, being arguably not just the greatest filmmaker
but one of the greatest (and most enigmatic) artists of
the 20th century in any medium. His films are brimming
with images that are so intensely powerful and
Lolita
mysterious they have become iconic within our collective
cultural consciousness. Kubrick’s ability to manoeuvre
the machinery of Hollywood to enable a level of artistic
BFI Course: Kubrick’s Lolita
control that had never been seen before allowed him to
Architecture UK-USA 1961. Dir Stanley Kubrick.
With James Mason, Shelley Winters,
Join Richard Martin (Curator of Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers. 153min.
convey bold and complex ideas. This, coupled with his Public Programmes at the Tate and Digital (2, 23 Apr), 35mm (7, 16 Apr). 15
now infamously meticulous approach to the craft, author of The Architecture of David Kubrick created a jet-black satire
produced an oeuvre that seems inexhaustibly rich in Lynch) as he considers Kubrick from from Vladimir Nabokov’s reputedly
the perspective of the buildings unadaptable and highly controversial
meaning and significance and unparalleled in terms of and locations used in his key films.
STA N LE Y KUB RI C K
novel. With an Oscar®-nominated
influence. His style, aesthetic and ambition is widely cited Combining clips and discussion, screenplay by Nabokov himself,
as an inspiration by many of our most prominent directors the day will include a look at the Kubrick turns the story of an obsessive
(see p16), whose films are ‘Kubrickian’ by design. pioneering set designs of 2001: paedophile into the comedy of a
A Space Odyssey, the representation frustrated and manipulated lover
of brutalism in A Clockwork Orange, played with desperate pathos by
WANT MORE? OFFICIAL PARTNER the staging of Vietnam in London’s James Mason. Peter Sellers as Quilty,
Coming in part two in May: The Killing, Docklands for Full Metal Jacket, the rival for the titular underage
Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey and the labyrinthine architecture of love object, begins his inspired
many more... The Shining and the fantasy New York collaboration with Kubrick, his
We are pleased to screen selected titles of Eyes Wide Shut. performance elevating the dark
on 35mm. Tickets £15 (no concs) scenario to a kind of absurd genius.
From 26 April the Design Museum presents
With thanks to Warner Bros and
its version of the Deutsches Filmmuseum’s
the Kubrick Estate
hugely successful Stanley Kubrick:
The Exhibition, which explores Kubrick’s TUE 2 APR SUN 7 APR TUE 16 APR
life and work. Revisit the oeuvre of this
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visionary auteur and get under the skin
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of his fascinations and obsessions
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designmuseum.org
@BFI 13Barry Lyndon Eyes Wide Shut
UK-USA 1975. Dir Stanley Kubrick. UK-USA 1999. Dir Stanley Kubrick. With
With Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack.
Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger. 185min. Digital 159min. 35mm 18
(6,17,21,30 Apr) 35mm (19, 27 Apr). 12A Kubrick’s final film, released
Kubrick adapted William Thackeray’s posthumously, is an incredible
The Luck of Barry Lyndon and in his display of precision and suspense,
Killer’s Kiss hands, the eponymous mock-heroic featuring a fragile relationship
STANLE Y K UBR ICK
USA 1955. Dir Stanley Kubrick. With Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane. 67min.
soldier of fortune becomes the played out by then-couple
Digital (2, 5 Apr), 35mm (10 Apr). 12A
plaything of fate. Ryan O’Neal is Kidman and Cruise. Shot over
deliberately awkward and at times an unprecedented 15-month period
For his second feature, Kubrick + The Seafarers blank as Kubrick’s Lyndon, who
moved to the murky underbelly of and based on Arthur Schnitzler’s
USA 1953. Dir Stanley Kubrick. 29min. Digital embarks on a tour of 18th-century
his native New York City for a film novella Traumnovelle, Eyes Wide Shut
Kubrick made this short documentary Europe, encountering battles, is ripe for rediscovery as it explores
noir revolving around a has-been as a commission by the Seafarers gambling houses and stately homes the seductive and dangerous sexual
boxer, a dancer and a menacing hood International Union to promote the in pursuit of wealth, title and underbelly of New York’s elite.
in a long weekend of sexual desire benefits of membership. Thought lost a family to call his own. His rise
and brutal violence. Kubrick makes a for many years, it has to be seen at and fall are charted as a study of
virtue of meagre resources as he face value but as a piece of juvenilia self-destruction amidst social ritual
captures New York and its impressive and in the context of this season, and class attitudes.
locales, providing vérité energy that it is an interesting piece of the puzzle Seniors’ matinee + intro
anticipated the cinema of the when assessing his career as a whole. Wed 17 Apr 14:00 NFT1
French new wave.
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14 book online at bfi.org.ukKUBRICK NOW
A programme of events at BFI Southbank and Design Museum
Kubrick on the set of Eyes Wide Shut
2001: A Space Odyssey
JOINT
TALK TICKET TALK TALK
The Shining (extended version) The Anatomy of Kubrick Stanley, Meet Alexa: AI and Philosophical Screens:
UK-USA 1980. Dir Stanley Kubrick.
With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall,
TRT 90min Filmmaking in the Flesh ‘A Clockwork Orange’
This event to launch our two-month Kubrick’s fascination with artificial TRT 60min
Danny Lloyd. 144min. Digital (11 Apr, 20 Apr,
26 Apr), 35mm (17, 28 Apr). 15 season brings together experts and intelligence was well known. Now, In the latest event of our popular
special guests to explore the defining 20 years after his death, AI is a reality discussion series join our regular
Jack Nicholson revels in his terrifying
elements of Kubrick’s cinematic in millions of homes, but its role in film philosophers Lucy Bolton,
performance as Jack Torrance, the
universe. Join our speakers as they creativity is still controversial. As the William Brown and John Ó Maoilearca
would-be writer and winter caretaker
analyse key scenes, discuss the debate rages about what the future as they look at the violence and black
STA N LE Y KUB RI C K
of the vast Overlook Hotel who
main themes that inspired Kubrick holds for filmmaking, this special humour in Kubrick’s adaptation of
becomes the minotaur trapped in
throughout his career, consider event will feature screenings of films Anthony Burgess’ novel. We’ll explore
Kubrick’s supernatural maze, as he
cultural context and assess the made with the help of machine the ethics of watching violence on
descends into madness. Quite possibly
importance of his work in film and learning, plus on-stage discussions screen, the representation of violence
the most speculated-upon film ever
broader culture in the 21st century. with artist-filmmakers Lawrence Lek in the film and its impact on such
made, Kubrick made the quintessential
Joint ticket available with A Clockwork Orange and Anna Ridler and AI researcher issues as censorship.
psychological horror film on his (Thu 4 Apr only) £18, concs £15
first attempt. Gloriously disturbing, David Pfau. Free to ticket holders of A Clockwork Orange
(Members pay £2 less) on Tue 16 Apr 18:15 NFT3, otherwise £6.50
unforgettable, must-see cinema. (tickets must be booked in advance due
to capacity)
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@BFI 15INSPIRED BY KUBRICK
A selection of films that are ‘Kubrickian’ by design
Birth
UK-France-Germany-USA 2004.
Dir Jonathan Glazer. With Nicole Kidman,
Lauren Bacall, Cameron Bright. 100min.
35mm 15
Five years on from Eyes Wide Shut,
Glazer directed Kidman as Anna,
Melancholia who is approached by a ten-year-old American Psycho
IN SPI R ED BY STA NLE Y KUB R ICK
Denmark-Sweden-France-Germany 2011.
boy claiming to be her reincarnated USA 2000. Dir Mary Harron. With Christian Bale, Samantha Mathis, Willem Dafoe. 102min.
Dir Lars Von Trier. With Kirsten Dunst, late husband. Clearly inspired by Digital 4K restoration. 18
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland. Kubrick in its pacing, visual clarity In late 1980s New York, Wall Street This social satire depicting
135min. Digital. 15 and use of the Steadicam, each frame executive Patrick Bateman divides motiveless evil and extreme violence
Lars Von Trier is an auteur in the becoming a piece of art, Glazer’s film his spare time between fulfilling as a commentary on its time draws
mould of Kubrick: consistently is an accomplished, unsettling and his obsession with status and clear parallels to A Clockwork Orange.
controversial, innovative, stringently beautiful work. conspicuous consumption and Also available on
demanding of his actors and meeting his psychopathic need to See p5 for Screen Epiphanies: Bret Easton
fascinated by the darkness of the carry out random murders. Ellis introduces The Phantom of the Paradise
soul. Melancholia charts two sisters’
differing responses to the end of
days as the planet hurtles towards
oblivion. Check out Von Trier’s
usage of Wagner’s prelude to Tristan
and Isolde: it’s pure Kubrick.
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16 book online at bfi.org.ukImage: Paramount Pictures
The Killing of a Sacred Deer There Will Be Blood
UK-Ireland-USA 2017. Dir Yorgos Lanthimos. USA 2007. Dir Paul Thomas Anderson.
With Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, With Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano,
Barry Keoghan. 121min. Digital. 15 Kevin J O’Connor. 158min.
Like Kubrick, Lanthimos is a creator 35mm 15
of alternative worlds that are familiar As Jonny Greenwood’s haunting
yet strange, and that seem score opens over a black screen that
to follow different rules. Kubrick’s eventually succumbs to wide, still We Need to Talk About Kevin
IN SPI RED BY STA NLEY KU B RI CK
filmmaking DNA is present throughout panoramas of untouched Texan UK-USA 2011. Dir Lynne Ramsay. With Tilda Swinton, John C Reilly, Ezra Miller. 112min.
the film, with its precise screenplay, deserts, it’s impossible not to feel 35mm (1, 18 Apr), Digital (22 Apr). 15
stunning cinematography, long takes that Anderson is giving a nod to the Ezra Miller glowers at us directly Eschewing the epistolary structure
and slow pans, bold classical music, opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey. and defiantly as the eponymous of the novel, Ramsay instead opts
Hollywood casting and a narrative What follows is a film powered Kevin in a pose reminiscent of many for an emotive collage of uneasy,
that descends inexorably into by an overblown, Oscar®-winning of Kubrick’s protagonists. In her psychologically charged spaces,
madness and despair. performance by Daniel Day-Lewis brilliant adaptation of Lionel strikingly powerful imagery and
Audio description available as Daniel Plainview, the prospector Shriver’s harrowing novel, Lynne a tour de force central performance
driven to violent madness by Ramsay employs a distinctly from Tilda Swinton.
oil-fuelled greed – a performance Kubrickian approach to storytelling. Also available on
that surely owes a debt to Jack
Nicholson’s in The Shining.
Also available on
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@BFI 17Over the course of three days we’ll showcase the very best
British television, writes Stuart Brown, BFI Head of Programme
and Acquisitions
Our last BFI & Radio Times Television Festival saw in-excess
of 10,000 people attend and the 2019 edition is set to be even
bigger. Across 30+ events and screenings you’ll be able to
hear from the stars and creators of some of your favourite
TV shows (with many more to be confirmed), indulge in
some food and drink with the likes of Jamie Oliver and
Nadiya Hussain, revisit classic clips from the BFI National
Archive, and catch exclusive previews of tomorrow’s
hits today. As the lines continue to blur between the worlds
of TV, film and the internet, we all become consumers of
fantastic and highly original ‘content’. Find out what the
future of the industry holds from those who are shaping it,
and explore how to be a part of it yourself. Welcome to the
UK’s most prestigious TV festival.
WANT MORE?
See p52 for the 1000s of TV titles we have Events are individually priced: visit bfi.org.uk
available on BFI Player for more information and to book
The BFI runs a year-round programme of
TV seasons, previews and events. Sign up to The events featured here are already on sale,
our mailing list, or become a valued Member, more events will be added and go on sale from
at bfi.org.uk 5 March to members, 12 March for public.
There will be a ticket buyback day on 2 April
Image: Bodyguard
© World Productions / Des Willie
#TVfestImage: Channel 4/Edward Cooke
Image: Camera Press / Carsten Windhorst
Image: Ray Burmiston
Ackley Bridge + Q&A with
director Penny Woolcock,
actor Amy Leigh-Hickman
and creator Ayub Khan-Din
TRT 60min
Yorkshire’s fictional Ackley Bridge
school is the home for Channel 4’s
Radio Times Hall of Fame: Joanna Lumley edgy, character-led drama about Bodyguard with Jed Mercurio
BFI & RADIO TIMES TV FESTIVAL
TRT 60min TRT 60min
teachers and students from the local
For five decades Joanna Lumley has from The New Avengers and Sapphire British and Pakistani communities. Quite simply, Bodyguard was the
illuminated British TV, successfully and Steel through to her BAFTA- With the third series set to hit the biggest – and to many, the best –
turning her hand to everything winning portrayal of Patsy in screen later in the year, we meet show on British TV in 2018. Winning
from acting to writing, directing Absolutely Fabulous, and her recent members of the cast and creative a Golden Globe for lead actor Richard
and presenting. As Lumley marks role as the intrepid presenter of team, including director Penny Madden and nominated for best
50 years in the industry and is travelogues from far-flung places. Woolcock, actor Amy Leigh-Hickman drama series, Jed Mercurio’s masterful
inducted into the Radio Times Hall and creator Ayub Khan-Din, to thriller had more than 10 million of
of Fame, she also returns to the BFI discuss how the show’s compelling us on the edge of our seats every
stage to talk about her varied career, storylines and youth appeal have led Sunday night, before it went on to
to its continued success. conquer the States and much of the
rest of the world. Don’t miss this
opportunity to hear how Mercurio
and the team behind the show made
a modern British classic.
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Vera + Q&A with actor Brenda
Blethyn and creator Ann Cleeves
TRT 60min
The star and the creator of the hit
detective series reveal the secrets of
taking a much-loved character from
page to screen. Brenda Blethyn’s
Preview: Summer of Rockets + Q&A with writer-director Jamie Oliver portrayal of DCI Vera Stanhope has
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Stephen Poliakoff and actor Keeley Hawes TRT 90min caught the imagination of viewers
Little Island Productions-BBC 2019. Dir Stephen Poliakoff. With Toby Stephens, Keeley Hawes, To celebrate the 20th anniversary and critics alike. But how different is
Linus Roache, Timothy Spall. Ep1 60min (TRT 90min) of The Naked Chef first landing on her portrayal of the much-loved
Join Keeley Hawes and the stars his charming new friends Kathleen the BBC, Jamie Oliver whips up sleuth from the character that
of Stephen Poliakoff’s arresting Shaw (Hawes), her MP husband one of his classic meals in a live crime-writer Ann Cleeves created in
new drama for a preview of one of Richard Shaw (Roache) and the demonstration. Join us to hear her hugely successful novels? And
the most eagerly anticipated TV imperious Lord Arthur Wallington from the man who changed the what happens when a work of fiction
highlights of 2019. The multi-award- (Spall). As Samuel’s life becomes way Britain cooked, as he discusses becomes a TV drama? Join us for a
winning writer-director has turned more and more intertwined with his life and career on screen. fascinating discussion between the
his attention to Cold War Britain, his mission, how far is he willing writer and the star.
where Toby Stephens plays Samuel, a to let things unravel for his cause?
Russian Jewish émigré tasked by MI5 And who can he trust?
with uncovering the secret lives of
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From the BFI Archive: From the BFI Archive: David Bowie
Britain’s Earliest TV Ads TRT 60min
TRT 60min This enthralling forgotten footage
When commercial television arrived of David Bowie on British television
in Britain in 1955 it resulted in the includes revealing interviews,
birth of an exciting new industry. unexpected acting appearances
In this collection of the earliest TV and dazzling musical performances
ads held by the BFI, you can see the from a true giant of modern Unforgotten with Sanjeev Bhaskar, Line of Duty
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fledgling offerings from a nascent British culture. Nicola Walker (work permitting) TRT 60min
industry – an esoteric array of and writer-creator Chris Lang Join creator, writer and director Jed
sometimes amusing, sometimes TRT 60min Mercurio to hear the inside story of
awkward, but often informative Join Nicola Walker (subject to filming TV’s runaway hit. As AC-12 continues
mini-masterpieces. Viewed through commitments), Sanjeev Bhaskar, its mission to expose police corruption,
modern eyes, these ads can be writer and creator Chris Lang and the shadowy figure of ‘H’ remains a
unintentionally hilarious, and many executive producers Sally Haynes mystery, while new characters join
are accompanied by insistent jingles and Laura Mackie as they reflect on the action. The highly anticipated
that are still powerful earworms. the success of the cold-case crime fifth series looks to be the most
drama that has enthralled viewers explosive yet; go behind the scenes
for three series on ITV. With a new with those who made it.
series in the pipeline, the stars and Check bfi.org.uk for further announcements
creators talk about the enduring
appeal of crime drama – with a twist.
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The Big Narstie Show with
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Mo Gilligan and Big Narstie
TRT 60min
Grime MC sensation Big Narstie
burst onto British TV screens in 2018,
bringing his brand of mayhem and
anarchy to the chat show medium,
Nadiya Hussain alongside multitalented comedian Preview: Ghosts + Q&A with actors Mathew Baynton, Jim Howick,
BFI & RADIO TIMES TV FESTIVAL
TRT 75min Mo Gilligan. The Big Narstie Show has Ben Willbond, Martha Howe-Douglas and Laurence Rickard
Join the nation’s favourite home since proved an award-winning BBC 2019. Dir Tom Kingsley. With Mathew Baynton, Jim Howick, Martha Howe-Douglas,
baker, who shot to fame after success. Expect the unexpected Simon Farnaby, Ben Willbond, Laurence Rickard. TRT 60min
winning The Great British Bake Off, as Big Narstie and Mo recall the From the writer and performers are united by their plan to scare away
for an afternoon of cakes and chat. small-screen debut that changed behind Yonderland, Bill and Horrible the young couple who now own the
Enjoy a delicious taste of Nadiya’s their lives – and hear how they Histories, Ghosts is BBC1’s new property and want to turn it into
own recipes made from Nadiya’s own redefined the TV chat show for post-watershed comedy. The estate a hotel. Watch an exclusive preview
recipes, while the baker-turned-TV a new generation. of Button Hall is haunted by ghosts and meet the cast.
presenter talks about her life, work, from different historical eras, but all The nature of some of the material makes it
and the enduring love of cooking that suitable for ages 12+ only
permeates both.
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Inside No. 9: Going Live Dad’s Army
+ Q&A with Reece Shearsmith, TRT 60min
Steve Pemberton, director Three episodes of Dad’s Army –
Barbara Wiltshire and exec ‘The Loneliness of the Long-Distance
producer Adam Tandy Walker,’ ‘A Stripe for Frazer’ and
TRT 60min ‘Under Fire’ – were all seemingly
When Inside No. 9, the genre-defying destroyed after they were first shown
Preview: Years and Years + Q&A with writer Russell T Davies and cast anthology series, showed the in 1969, but are now being remade.
BFI & RADIO TIMES TV FESTIVAL
BBC-RED Productions 2019. Dir Simon Cellan Jones. With Emma Thompson, Rory Kinnear, groundbreaking live episode ‘Dead Get an exclusive first look at this
Jessica Hynes, Ruth Madeley. Ep1 60min (TRT 90min) Line’ at Halloween, they created one eagerly anticipated remake, and
An exclusive preview of episode one lives converge on one crucial night in of the great TV moments of 2018. In meet the new cast bringing a comedy
of Russell T Davies’ eagerly awaited 2019 the story accelerates into the this session we revisit the episode classic back to life. Both Kevin
and ambitious new drama series for future. As we follow the twists and and talk to the show’s creators Reece McNally (Captain Mainwaring) and
BBC One, starring Emma Thompson, turns of everyday life over the next Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, Robert Bathurst (Sergeant Wilson)
Rory Kinnear, Jessica Hynes, Ruth 15 years, we find out if this ordinary along with director Barbara Wiltshire will be attending this exclusive
Madeley, T’Nia Miller, Anne Reid and family could ever change the world. and long-standing producer first look at one of the most eagerly
Russell Tovey. Years and Years tells the Adam Tandy. awaited remakes of a comedy classic
story of the Lyons family in a in recent years.
fast-changing Britain. When their
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Frank Gardner in Conversation Midsomer Murders
TRT 60min TRT 60min
We’re pleased to welcome the BBC’s Murder has stalked the idyllic rural
Frank Gardner to the BFI to talk county of Midsomer for more than
about his life both on and off screen. 20 years. Now, the stars of the show
Since he was shot by terrorists in reveal what it’s like to be a part of
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Saudi Arabia in 2004, the BBC’s this wildly popular detective series,
security correspondent has had to which still keeps global audiences
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use a wheelchair. But that hasn’t on the edge of their seats. Join us
stopped him from doing the day job, for a panel discussion and an
or pursuing his other life as a thriller exclusive sneak preview of clips
writer, an intrepid wildlife filmmaker celebrating the 20th series.
(in 2017 he set out to track down Please check bfi.org.uk for further
Papua New Guinea’s Birds of Paradise announements
in the remotest of jungles), and as Taskmaster with Greg Davies and Alex Horne
a voice for wheelchair users’ rights. TRT 60min
This word-of-mouth hit, created by Join the Taskmaster himself,
comedian Alex Horne, is the cult Greg Davies, and his assistant Little
comedy game show that sets out Alex Horne for an exclusive look at
to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of the new series – and witness the
five hyper-competitive comics with action as they play the game for real.
a series of ingenious challenges.
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Call the Midwife: The Most Radical My Life, On & Off Screen: Preview: Kirsty + Q&A with The future of TV with the creators
Show on Television Zawe Ashton actor Samantha Morton and of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker
TRT 60min TRT 60min director Dominic Savage and Annabel Jones
It may be one of the nation’s favourite Zawe Ashton continues to delight Me+You Productions-Channel 4 2019. TRT 60min
Sunday-evening delights, but Call the and amaze us with the variety Dir Dominic Savage. With Samantha Morton, Following the huge success of
Paul Kaye. 47min (TRT 90min)
Midwife doesn’t hold back from and complexity of the roles she plays the ground-breaking Black Mirror:
hard-hitting, sensitive and relevant across theatre, film and television. Kirsty is part of a dramatic anthology Bandersnatch, Charlie Brooker
storylines. Backstreet abortion, In her debut book, a memoir called series created by BAFTA-winning and Annabel Jones are back with
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disability, cot death, racial tension, ‘Character Breakdown’, she discusses filmmaker Dominic Savage their fifth series of Black Mirror.
alcoholism and the thalidomide the nature of performance, not (The Escape) for Channel 4. Each film The unnervingly insightful and often
scandal have all featured in a drama just in an actor’s life, but in all was developed closely with the disturbing anthology, exploring the
that isn’t afraid to explore some of our lives. We talk to her about leading actress. Kirsty, played by impact of technology on the way
the great social divides of the 50s and her life and career, from her earliest Oscar®-nominee Samantha Morton we live, has won two BAFTAs and
60s – while still finding a message of days as a child actor to her current (In America), is a woman fighting to seven Emmys. Join Brooker and
hope for our times. Join writer and life as writer, director and multi- keep her family stable in a precarious Jones as they discuss the ideas
creator Heidi Thomas and cast from talented performer. world, and we follow the sacrifices behind the new series, how they
the series for a fascinating discussion. she must make to survive. Join us realised them on screen, their
for a preview of this powerful, relationship with technology –
emotionally charged film. and the future of television.
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Pure
I Feel So Seen: the Messy TV in the Digital Age: An Alternative
Characters Tearing Up TV, Careers Talk
with Bryan Elsley (Skins, Clique), TRT 60min
Kirsty Swain (Pure) and What do careers in TV really look
Ambreen Razia (Hounslow Diaries) like today? As the industry adapts
TRT 60min to changing technology and trends,
With young people under pressure creative possibilities grow.
Clique + Q&A with cast members Synnove Karlsen, Sophia Brown and With Instagram and Vice expanding
from social media and friends to
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Izuka Hoyle, and executive producer Bryan Elsley into TV content, and Black Mirror:
present a perfect image of themselves,
TRT 60min Bandersnatch shaking up what the
how important is it that young
Jess Brittain’s seductive, university- enticing but dangerous adult world. characters on our screens are messy, medium can do, our host Laura Adams
set psychological thriller returned for Join executive producer Bryan Elsley confusing, or badly behaved – in a (Directors UK) will be quizzing those
an explosive second series last year, and the actors behind Holly, Louise word, imperfect? Join Bryan Elsley, at the forefront of the industry,
continuing to explore the power of and Dani as they take you behind Kirsty Swain and Ambreen Razia including Catherine Bray (Channel 4s
friendship between intensely smart, the scenes of this intriguing to discuss how they develop young Random Acts), about the future of
complicated and ambitious young BBC Three drama. characters to bring them – warts TV careers.
people on the cusp of an ever- and all – to the screen.
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Dir. Tom Harper
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WILD ROSE
19 APRIL
Tom Harper’s feature debut follows Rose-Lynn
(Jessie Buckley) who is bursting with raw talent
and cheek – she is also fresh out of jail with two
young kids to support. All she wants to do is get
the hell out of Glasgow and make it as a country
singer. When a chance encounter brings
Rose-Lynn closer to her dreams of Nashville,
she faces what she perceives as a choice
between family and stardom.
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IN CINEMAS ACROSS THE UK bfi.org.uk/filmfund‘I’M SO ENTRANCED BY WHAT UNFOLDS IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA. IT SEEMS WONDERFULLY OUT OF MY CONTROL’ HIROKAZU KORE-EDA In the wake of his Cannes triumph, it’s time to pay tribute to a master of contemporary Japanese cinema, says season programmer Alexander Jacoby In 2018, Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Cannes Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, capping a quarter-century career in feature filmmaking that has made him the most critically acclaimed and among the most widely distributed of contemporary Japanese live-action directors. The austerely beautiful style and haunting ambiguity of his fiction debut, Maborosi, announced a distinctive talent, while Nobody Knows and Still Walking cemented his reputation as an heir to Ozu and a chronicler of the modern Japanese family. But his characters range from the samurai of Hana to the blow-up doll come to life in Air Doll, and he proved as adept in the fantasy setting of After Life as in his realist dramas. This two-part retrospective celebrates the richness, diversity, beauty and humanity of Kore-eda’s cinema. WANT MORE? Coming in part two in May: I Wish, Our Little Sister, Shoplifters and more The BFI is proud to release a four-disc Blu-ray boxset celebrating the works of Kore-eda this summer
Still Walking
TALK
Family and Other Values: Distance
The Cinema of Hirokazu Kore-eda Japan 2001. Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda.
TRT 90min With Arata, Yusuke Iseya, Susumu Terajima,
Yui Natsukawa, Tadanobu Asano. 132min.
Kore-eda’s films are both universally Digital. EST
human and culturally specific. In Four relatives of the cultist perpetrators
this richly illustrated talk, season of a deadly terrorist attack meet to
programmer Alexander Jacoby sets journey to a remote lake. Loosely
Kore-eda’s work in the particular inspired by the 1995 sarin gas attacks
THE CINEMA OF KORE-EDA
context of Japan in the early 21st on the Tokyo subway committed by
century, when traditional models of extremist Buddhist cult Aum Shinrikyo,
family, marriage and employment Kore-eda’s slow-burn, subtly ambiguous
are under stress due to social and drama is less about terrorism than
economic change. Against that about the question of how fully we
transformative backdrop, Kore-eda can understand human motivation
questions the validity of traditional After Life Wandafuru raifu
Japan 1998. Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda. With Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Kyoko Kagawa.
or know the people we love.
arrangements and seeks new norms.
118min. Digital. EST. PG
Tickets £6.50
If you had to choose the single best must choose one memory that will
memory of your life, what would it constitute their own private heaven.
be? Kore-eda poses the question in With humour and tenderness,
this lyrical yet down-to-earth fantasy Kore-eda challenges the viewer
set in a posthumous limbo. In just to reflect on the experiences that
one week, the newly deceased most make life worth living.
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THE CINEMA OF KORE-EDA
Japan 2004. Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda. With Yuya Yagira, You, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura,
Momoko Shimizu. 141min. Digital. EST. 12A
Four children are left to fend for heartbreaking study of childhood
themselves in a Tokyo apartment destroyed by neglect and societal
by their scatterbrained and indifference boasts superb
selfish mother. Their well-being naturalistic performances.
and survival depends on the oldest Lead actor Yuya Yagira became Hana Hana yori mo naho
son, 12-year-old Akira. Filmed over the youngest-ever winner of Japan 2006. Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda. With Jun’ichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, Arata Furuta.
the course of a year, Kore-eda’s the Best Actor award at Cannes. 127min. 35mm EST
A samurai is obliged by the warrior Kore-eda’s first and, to date, only
code to seek revenge for his father’s period film is a mellow and charming
death. But three things make him character study, but also a gentle but
reluctant to act: poor swordsmanship, pointed critique of traditional notions
pity for the murderer’s family, and of honour and duty.
affection for a young widow...
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THE CINEMA OF KORE-EDA
Japan 2008. Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda. With Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Yoshio Harada, Yui Natsukawa,
You. 118min. Digital. EST. U
Forty-year-old Ryota, with his wife assumptions and value systems of
and stepson, visits his elderly parents different generations. This was the
to commemorate his older brother, director’s first film to feature veteran
who died saving a boy from drowning. actress Kirin Kiki, who would become
Kore-eda’s subtle, moving account of his regular collaborator. Air Doll Kûki ningyô
the tensions within a family is his most Japan 2009. Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda. With Doona Bae, Arata, Itsuji Itao, Joe Odagiri. 125min.
Ozu-like film, a study of the different 35mm EST. 18
Lonely middle-aged Hideo lives melancholy film uses its fantastic
in Tokyo with a blow-up sex doll. premise to explore such very real
When she comes to life, she finds issues as urban alienation, the failure
she must make her own way in an of interpersonal relationships, and
unfriendly city. Based on Yoshiie broader existential questions about
Goda’s manga, Kore-eda’s haunting, what it means to be human.
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@BFI 31‘TECHNOLOGY IMPROVES THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WHO CAN AVOID BEING DOMINATED BY IT AND FORCED INTO DEBILITATING ADDICTIONS TO IT’ FRANK KAUFMANN, SCHOLAR AND EDUCATOR What does the Internet look like? How do filmmakers and artists visualise it on screen? Is that even possible? asks season programmer Anna Bogutskaya In the year when the internet turns 30 – and as part of our ongoing celebration of this through the umbrella project ‘Born Digital’ – we investigate how it has infiltrated moving- image culture and created new approaches to cinematic aesthetics. The films programmed here range from early techno-thrillers to contemporary desktop documentaries. Digital boogeymen, hidden corners of the dark web, message- board etiquette and political manipulations are explored by filmmakers who have taken the visual and narrative language that has emerged from online media platforms and adapted it to the big screen, creating new genres and subverting existing ones in the process. In ‘Raised by the Internet,’ the web is not the subject but the language. WANT MORE? See p50 for Future Film Labs and Future Film Recommends #BORNDIGITAL
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A Self-induced Hallucination I’m Not Crazy
USA 2018. Dir Dan Schoenbrun. 67min. Video USA 2015. Dir Party Like It’s 2007.
The internet’s first boogeyman, 100min. Video
Slenderman, is a creature born out I’m Not Crazy tracks the very public
of a creepypasta that created an mental health decline and paparazzi
unexpectedly real effect on people – hounding of child star Amanda
even to the point of driving people Bynes, showcasing the consumption
to murder. This documentary, made #Horror of stolen images we’ve become so
RAISED BY THE INTERNET
entirely out of clips pulled from USA 2015. Dir Tara Subkoff. With Sadie Seelert, Haley Murphy, Bridget McGarry. 101min. Video used to. By creating intricate video
the dark depths of YouTube, traces Take a familiar horror setting (a teen + In Real Life essays on pop culture figures like
the cultural shadow Slenderman girl sleepover in a remote house), add UK 2014. Dir Harley Yeung Kurylowski. 8min Paris Hilton or Britney Spears under
has cast and dissects the collective a killer intent on offing them A feminist social enquiry exploring the moniker Party Like It’s 2007,
consciousness created by the internet. one by one, sprinkle with an early the perpetuation of sexual the creator of these films challenges
Instagram-inspired aesthetic – and harassment culture online. our relationship to celebrity culture.
you’ll get somewhat close to #Horror. + Kylie
An over-the-top take on obsessive USA 2016. Dir Party Like It’s 2007. 4min
online competitiveness, Tara A Kylie Jenner make-up tutorial is
Subkoff’s film infuses the horror contrasted by a voiceover of
genre with a screaming neon look. real internet comments about her.
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RAISED BY THE INTERNET
Denmark 2017. Dir Annika Berg. With Sara Morling, Ira Rønnenfelt, Zara Munch Bjarnum.
96min. Digital
If Tumblr were a film, it would be With dashes of the look of early
Team Hurricane. It’s a neon-coloured, chatrooms and crafted collaboratively
highly stylised collage-like portrait with the cast of non-actors, this is
of a group of teenage girls bonded the girl-gang film that melds
entirely over social media. documentary, fiction, punk and Virtuosity
web aesthetics. USA 1995. Dir Brett Leonard. With Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Kelly Lynch. 106min.
Video. 15
Imagine a digitally generated serial of cyber thrillers from the 1990s that
killer, an amalgamation of the most used the web both as a narrative
violent killers from history... device and attempted to present it as
This fabulously trashy premise is a space characters could inhabit.
Virtuosity, a standout from the surge
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34 book online at bfi.org.ukTransformers the Premake
Colour Change
Our New President
Is This A Game To You? short_film_programme.mov
+ panel discussion TRT c.80min
TRT 80min These shorts are a conversation
‘Machinima’ (a portmanteau of between screens: what happens
machine and cinema) is the process when a film is created online
of using real-time computer before it exists in real life? Could a
graphics engines to create a mishmash of film, TV and online
Our New President cinematic production. Though few cultures make a standalone film?
RAISED BY THE INTERNET
Russia 2018. Dir Maxim Pozdorovkin. 78min. Digital use the term, artists have been Could internet-native cultures be
A fascinating buffet of news footage + Fake News Fairytale experimenting with this mode for accurately reflected in a film? Can
and user-generated videos, this is an UK 2018. Dir Kate Stonehill. 15min almost as long as computer games a meme make for a compelling
essay on Russian media, pop culture, In Veles, Macedonia, teenagers have existed. Across a series of short narrative? This selection of short
and the power of images to influence have been creating fake news stories films featuring various videogame work attempts to answer these
political messaging. Expanded from that generate thousands of hits on environments, this eclectic questions and much more.
Pozdorovkin’s original short film social media. programme proposes that just
of the same name, this is not a as games can be art, art can also
straightforward documentary: it’s an be games.
irrational (yet smartly constructed) Curated by Lost Futures
piece of work for our irrational times.
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@BFI 35The timeless films we urge you
to see (for just £8), programmed
by theme
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
THE MEANINGS OF
LIFE: PHILOSOPHICAL
CINEMA Rashomon
Sometimes, even in the Japan 1951. Dir Akira Kurosawa.
With Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo,
mainstream cinema, we’re Mayasuki Mori, Takashi Shimura. 88min.
Digital. EST. 12A
invited to consider the
Besides introducing western audiences
big questions. Why are to Japanese cinema, Kurosawa’s
we here? How should we Venice prize-winner was influential
live? How might we face in deploying a multiple narrative that The Picture of Dorian Gray
represents different viewpoints of a USA 1945. Dir Albert Lewin. With Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury.
mortality, deal with the vicious criminal act in 12th-century 110min. Digital. PG
world’s injustices, or make Kyoto. A meditation on subjectivity Lewin’s characteristically sensitive too, from Sanders as his cynical
sense of life’s absurdities? that questions the notion of absolute adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Faustian mentor in hedonism, and Lansbury
This month and next, our truth, the film is dynamically thrilling, fable boasts a beautifully modulated as the singer Dorian falls for.
visually bold and marvellously performance from Hurd Hatfield as The elegant sets, strikingly shot
daily screenings of cinematic performed. Mifune, especially, the apparently ageless Victorian by Harry Stradling, vividly evoke
landmarks offer a range of endows his character with an almost gentleman with a dark secret an atmosphere of corruption.
fascinating answers to these bestial energy. concealed in his attic. Lovely turns,
questions – some deeply Also available on
serious, some shaded
with wit.
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book online at bfi.org.ukOrdet The Word Army of Shadows
Denmark 1955. Dir Carl Theodor Dreyer. L’Armée des ombres
With Henrik Malberg, Preben Lerdorff Rye, France 1969. Dir Jean-Pierre Melville. With
Birgitte Federspiel. 125min. Digital. EST. 12A Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse,
Arguably Dreyer’s greatest Jean-Pierre Cassel. 145min. 35mm EST. 12A
masterpiece, this is an adaptation of Melville’s classic thriller about
Kaj Munk’s play about a rural society a cell of French Resistance fighters
divided by difference in religious Only Angels Have Wings + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large* may not be as stylised as his crime
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
belief, and the effect of unshakeable USA 1939. Dir Howard Hawks. With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, movies, but it shares many of their
faith on one close-knit but troubled Richard Barthelmess. 121min. Digital 4K. U themes: the focus on professionalism,
family. Claustrophobic yet Hawks’ evergreen classic about a aerial adventure. It is also, discreetly trust, loyalty and betrayal; the sense
exhilaratingly luminous, the film bunch of pilots flying perilous and astutely, a surprisingly powerful of being members of a murky
builds slowly but surely in intensity missions in the Andes is not only one meditation on mortality, ageing, and underworld set apart from society
to arrive at one of cinema’s most of his most consistently warm and the roles played by risk, reason and at large; and, most stoically, the
extraordinary moments, at once witty celebrations of love, friendship chance in human existence. question of how best to live – and
magical and profoundly moving. and professionalism and a terrific how best to die.
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