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FEB 2019
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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
BARBARA STANWYCK
EARLY KOREAN CINEMA
VALENTINE’S DAY SCREENINGS
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In 1980s Harlem, Tish (Layne) and
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COMING TO AUDIENCES ACROSS THE UK bfi.org.uk/filmfundWe’ve selected these key The Lady Eve
classics (many newly restored) USA 1941. Dir Preston Sturges.
for you to enjoy, with plenty of With Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda,
screening dates to choose from Charles Coburn. 93min. Digital. U.
A BFI release
(see pull-out calendar)
A match made in cinematic heaven:
a classic screwball comedy from
Preston Sturges complete with
dazzling stars
Con-artist Jean Harrington (Stanwyck)
manipulates her way through life,
getting what she wants with skill,
charm and charisma. On a cruise she
meets Charles ‘Hopsie’ Pike (Fonda),
a gullible millionaire and snake scientist,
who falls for her in a heartbeat.
But then he learns of her past...
In one of her most memorable roles,
Stanwyck portrays a confident, witty,
resourceful woman in pursuit of
revenge – and love. The chemistry
between Stanwyck and Fonda is
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electrifying, and with Charles Coburn
lending sterling support as Harrington’s
partner in crime, this screwball classic
– hilarious, wild and romantic –
remains one for all best-film lists.
Aga Baranowska, Events Programmer
Relaxed Screening Also available on
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AGA BARANOWSKA,
EVENTS PROGRAMMER MON 18 FEB 14:00 NFT3 FROM FRI 15 FEB
The Lady Eve (see adjacent)
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‘STRONG
PERSONAL
DRAMAS AND
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SEASONS
SOCIAL POLITICS
INTERWEAVE
IN THIS UNIQUE
ARCHIVE
PROGRAMME’
MAGGI HURT,
ADVANCE PROGRAMME
CO-ORDINATOR
Early Korean Cinema (p30)‘A GUTSY, SELF-RELIANT AND SELF-
ASSURED WOMAN WHOSE HUSKY VOICE
AND COOL EXTERIOR USUALLY MASKED
A WARM HEART’
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Versatility, professionalism and resourcefulness made
Barbara Stanwyck one of the most successful and memorable
Hollywood actors of all time, writes season co-programmer
Geoff Andrew
Born Ruby Stevens in working-class Brooklyn, Stanwyck
had various menial jobs before proceeding, via dancing in
nightclubs and on Broadway, to the silver screen and stardom.
Often, her roles echoed her origins on the ‘wrong side of the
tracks’; they also tended to reflect her own strength of will,
Barbara Stanwyck in Stella Dallas
independence and cool intelligence. This distinctive combination
might manifest itself in a go-getter, working woman, loving
mother or – after the success of Double Indemnity – a manipulative
femme fatale. Mostly, however, the Stanwyck persona was far
from heartless; native intuition complemented a sensitive,
BARBARA STANWYCK
even passionate soul. Unsurprising, then, that she worked
in many genres and with many major directors. In this first
half of our two-month celebration, we focus on some of
her best-known roles.
Barbara Stanwyck in the Spotlight
This afternoon of richly illustrated performances, consider her
talks and discussions will explore key stardom in the context of her
WANT MORE? aspects of Stanwyck’s four-decade contemporaries, discuss her
See p14 for screenings of The Lady Eve, Film notes by season co-programmers career as one of Hollywood’s most genre-spanning roles, and
and p38 for our Big Screen Classics Geoff Andrew and Aga Baranowska important stars. Our guest speakers investigate her independent spirit.
Coming in March in part two: Annie Oakley, will examine her most memorable
Union Pacific, There’s Always Tomorrow
and more…
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12:30-17:00 NFT3
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USA 1930. Dir Frank Capra. With Barbara USA 1932. Dir Frank Capra. With Barbara
Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman. Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy.
98min. 35mm PG 85min. Digital. PG
The first of Stanwyck’s five Barbara Stanwyck excels as
collaborations with Capra paved the small-town librarian Lulu Smith,
way towards stardom. When Kay who spends her savings on a cruise
Arnold, a dynamic, forthright and Night Nurse + Baby Face to Havana, and falls for a charmer
BARBARA STANWYCK
self-confessed party girl from the USA 1931. Dir William A Wellman. With USA 1933. Dir Alfred E Green. With Barbara who appears to reciprocate her
wrong side of the tracks, meets a Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable. Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook. feelings. Compassionate but never
wealthy artist, things change for 72min. 35mm new print preserved by The 76min. 35mm Preserved by The Library of sentimental, Capra’s dark, pacy
both of them. Stanwyck steals the Library of Congress. PG Congress. PG melodrama is an insightful study of
show with an energetic performance The dark side of human nature is at Censored upon its release, Baby Face female desire, suffering and strength
and great emotional range – the heart of this pre-code film in is a candid portrayal of an ambitious of spirit. The star receives superb
a characteristic of her career. which Stanwyck plays Lora Hart, a and tenacious young woman, Lily support from Menjou and Bellamy,
night nurse who uncovers a plot to Powers, who climbs her way to the while Joseph Walker’s camerawork
kill two sick children. The first of five top by using men, and turning is exquisite.
films Stanwyck made with Wellman, situations to her own advantage.
it celebrates a woman unafraid to Stanwyck portrays Lily with an
stand up for what she believes in. emotional rawness and honesty that
make it one of her stand-out
performances. This uncut version is
followed by the shots that were
removed by the censor.
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18 book online at bfi.org.ukThe Bitter Tea of General Yen Stella Dallas
BARBARA STANWYCK
USA 1932. Dir Frank Capra. With Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Gavin Gordon, Toshia Mori. USA 1937. Dir King Vidor. With Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley. 106min. 35mm U
87min. Digital. PG A quintessential melodrama that manoeuvers her way up the social
In Capra’s artiest movie, Stanwyck attempt to deal sympathetically came, for many, to define the ladder, determined all the while to
plays a missionary in China who’s with interracial sexual attraction cinematic depiction of maternal give her own daughter a better life.
rescued during a Civil War incident – The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a self-sacrifice; it also spurred rich The film remains a classic of
by a local warlord (Swedish actor heady brew of boldly exotic eroticism debate over the years. Stanwyck Hollywood’s Golden Age, not least
Asther, heavily made up), who that’s both strange and plays a millworker’s daughter who for its famous final sequence.
soon falls in love with her. Still sensuously cinematic.
controversial – this is an early
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@BFI 19Golden Boy
BARBARA STANWYCK
USA 1939. Dir Rouben Mamoulian. With Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden, Adolphe Menjou,
Lee J Cobb. 99min. Format tbc. PG
Rouben Mamoulian’s great violinist. Stanwyck, terrific as
characteristically stylish yet sensitive the Machiavellian moll of a dodgy
adaptation of Clifford Odets’ play had boxing manager (Menjou), had lead
Holden debuting as an impoverished billing, and insisted Holden be kept
young man torn between the fast on when the producers wanted to Double Indemnity
money of the boxing circuit and his drop him. USA 1944. Dir Billy Wilder. With Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G Robinson.
father’s hopes that he’ll become a 107min. Digital. PG
Adapting James M Cain’s novella (the likewise popular MacMurray)
alongside Raymond Chandler, Wilder into a scam that necessitates her
persuaded a reluctant Stanwyck – husband’s demise. The casting – like
then Hollywood’s highest-paid John Seitz’s camerawork and Miklós
female actor – to play the deviously Rózsa’s score – paid off beautifully:
manipulative Phyllis Dietrichson, the result was a noir classic.
who seduces an insurance agent Also available on
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20 book online at bfi.org.ukThe Strange Love of Martha Ivers No Man of Her Own
USA 1946. Dir Lewis Milestone. With Barbara USA 1950. Dir Mitchell Leisen.
Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin, Lizabeth With Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund,
Scott. 119min. 35mm Preserved by The Jane Cowl. 97min. 35mm PG
Library of Congress. PG At the start of this unusual film noir,
A dark secret from the past haunts pregnant but single Helen Ferguson
rich, controlling Martha Ivers (Stanwyck) has few options open to
(Stanwyck) and her meek District The File on Thelma Jordon her. When she’s mistaken for a
Attorney husband Walter (Douglas in
BARBARA STANWYCK
USA 1950. Dir Robert Siodmak. With Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Stanley Ridges, member of a wealthy family, she
his film debut). When an old friend Paul Kelly. 100min. 35mm PG goes along with the story but soon
arrives in town, Martha finds that In an imaginative variation on Jordon’s guile toys with the DA’s finds things going awry... Stanwyck
the past is catching up with her, for the Double Indemnity theme, the feckless emotions like a cat with convincingly evokes both her
better or worse. The role was one in a eponymous femme fatale (Stanwyck, a mouse; Siodmak’s typically character’s guilty conscience and
series of strong, determined, cunning dependably great) works her magic meticulous direction delineates her determination to maintain
characters played by Stanwyck with on an assistant DA (Corey) and the power-play with precision the deception.
passion and conviction. a cop (Kelly) who are investigating and subtlety.
her aunt’s death during a robbery.
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Barbara Stanwyck. Brooklyn-born
Ruby Stevens was orphaned at four,
a Ziegfeld girl by 16, and went on to
Clash by Night become an icon of cinema – a worldly
BARBARA STANWYCK
USA 1952. Dir Fritz Lang. With Barbara Stanwyck, and independent woman in a man’s
Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe.
105min. 35mm PG
world. We will screen and discuss
a wide range of Stanwyck’s movies,
In Lang’s imaginative adaptation
from wild screwball comedy to
of Clifford Odets’ play, Mae Doyle
darkest noir, from The Lady Eve
(Stanwyck) returns home to a small
to Forty Guns.
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stay in New York. Defiant, cynical, USA 1953. Dir Douglas Sirk. With Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, To book a place quote course code HF172
disenchanted, she soon finds herself Maureen O’Sullivan. 79min. Digital. U when you call 0207 831 7831 or visit
unexpectedly caught up in a tangle In the early 1900s, an actor conflict and forgotten passions flare citylit.ac.uk
of relationships. Stanwyck’s mature, (Stanwyck) is beseeched by her up. Stanwyck brilliantly suggests
complex characterisation is one estranged daughter (herself the protagonist’s mixed emotions,
of several excellent performances, dreaming of stardom) to revisit their while Sirk’s clear-eyed analysis of
which include Monroe’s memorable small-town home and the husband the shortcomings of bourgeois mores
portrayal of a trusting young woman. and family she abandoned years and the complex undercurrents of
earlier – and that’s when gossip, family life is razor-sharp.
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22 book online at bfi.org.uk‘THE FINEST DRAMATIST
OF HIS GENERATION’
THE GUARDIAN
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© 2018 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.‘MY WORK IS LIKE DIGGING, IT’S
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH AMONG
THE ARID MATERIALS OF OUR TIMES’
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Our tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni continues with his move
into international filmmaking – though he still experimented
with each new work, writes season curator Geoff Andrew
Established, after L’avventura, La notte and L’eclisse, as one of the
world’s most adventurous and widely respected filmmakers,
Antonioni found he could draw on bigger budgets. Red Desert,
his first colour film, was notable for an extraordinary
expressionist palette suggestive of psychological torment
and environmental malaise. Then, persuaded by producer
Carlo Ponti to make English-language films abroad, Antonioni
focused – if that term may be used of such loose, delicate,
mysterious storylines – on social change, moral uncertainty
and personal disillusionment in Britain, America, North
Africa and Europe; his curiosity about the effect of politics
on everyday life is also evident in his documentary on China.
Finally, the later films display his enduring interest in
visual and narrative experimentation, alongside a growing
fascination with eroticism. Innovation and enigma remained
integral to his work to the end.
WANT MORE? IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
See p54 for a special collections focus in the
library, and p38 for our Big Screen Classics,
Confronting the modern world with style more great cinema, for just £8
My Antonioni, edited by Carlo di Carlo and
including texts by Michelangelo Antonioni,
is available in the BFI shopRed Desert Il deserto rosso Zabriskie Point
+ intro by Enrica Fico Antonioni* USA 1970. Dir Michelangelo Antonioni. With
Italy-France 1964. Dir Michelangelo Antonioni. Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor.
With Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo 114min. Digital. 15
Chionetti. 117min. Digital 4K. EST. 12A Perhaps inevitably, Antonioni’s
Antonioni’s fourth consecutive American film looked at contemporary
film with Vitti cast her as a woman campus unrest and social division:
so distraught at an increasingly a student suspected of shooting a cop
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
industrialised world that she turns takes flight by stealing a plane, and
for sympathy to a business associate in the desert encounters a young
(Harris) of her husband... Perhaps woman travelling to an appointment
the most daringly stylised of all with her wealthy boss. But the director
the director’s films, it deploys a appears less interested in politics than
modernist score, expressionist colour in the look of America: the signage,
and sound design, and striking Blow up landscapes and rampant consumerism.
shallow-focus compositions to UK-Italy-USA 1966. Dir Michelangelo Antonioni. With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave,
suggest the protagonist’s emotional Peter Bowles, Sarah Miles. 111min. 35mm 15
and psychological turmoil. Antonioni’s first film outside Italy a park introduces mystery – and
Also available on chronicles 24 hours in the life of a perhaps meaning – into his life.
feckless London fashion photographer Though boasting iconic figures
(Hemmings), seemingly interested from the 60s scene, the film is
only in the perks of his career until primarily memorable for a brilliant
an encounter with a woman in darkroom sequence.
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@BFI 25DOC
China Chung Kuo - Cina The Passenger
Italy-France 1972. Dir Michelangelo Antonioni. Professione: reporter
TRT 217min + interval. Digital. EST. 12A Italy-France-Spain 1975. Dir Michelangelo
Invited to film in China, Antonioni Antonioni. With Jack Nicholson, Maria
made a documentary triptych Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry.
126min. Digital. 12A
depicting daily life in Beijing, rural
Henan and Suzhou, and Shanghai When a TV correspondent (Nicholson)
– only to incur the wrath of Mao. exchanges identities with a dead The Oberwald Mystery Il mistero di Oberwald
businessman, he wrongly believes
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
This is a fascinating work, happier Italy-West Germany 1980. Dir Michelangelo Antonioni. With Monica Vitti, Franco Branciaroli,
to observe than comment, revelling that he’s escaping the past. This is Luigi Diberti. 128min. 35mm EST. PG
in faces, places, architecture and Antonioni at his most incisive and An intriguing experiment with new The mix of expressionist colour and
movement as it reveals an unfamiliar politically forthright and, arguably, video technology of the time, this lighting effects and late-Romantic
world – from Caesarean birth his most immediately accessible, as adaptation of Cocteau’s play The Eagle music on the soundtrack makes for
by acupuncture to agricultural he conjures up memorable scenes Has Two Heads has Vitti as a widowed a strange quasi-operatic brew.
collectives, monumental bridge- and eloquent images in the Sahara, queen whose solitary mourning is
building to virtuoso plate-spinning. London and Spain. Suspense, intrigue, interrupted when an anarchist poet
wit, visual beauty, ideas: this classic takes refuge in her castle.
has them all.
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26 book online at bfi.org.ukMichelangelo Eye to Eye
Antonioni Short Films (1983-2004) + intro by Enrica Fico Antonioni*
TRT 115min
Landscapes, architecture and the Ganges. Landscape, architecture
artworks are the focus of the and – by then, seemingly inevitably
wordless documentaries Return to – female nudity are to the fore in
Lisca Bianca (1983); Roma ‘90 (1989, The Dangerous Thread of Things (2004,
from 12 Registi per 12 Città); Noto, from the portmanteau film Eros),
mandorli, Vulcano, Stromboli, Carnevale an account of one relationship ending
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
(1992); and Sicilia (1997), which all last and another perhaps beginning.
around eight minutes. Fotoromanza Finally, Michelangelo Eye to Eye (2004)
(1984) was a pop video for Gianna – a meditation on mortality? –
Nannini; Kumbha Mela (1989) is an observes the director contemplating
assembly of footage Antonioni shot Michelangelo’s statues in St Peter’s.
of the 1977 Hindu pilgrimage to
Identification of a Woman Identificazione di una donna
+ intro by Enrica Fico Antonioni*
Italy-France 1982. Dir Michelangelo Antonioni. With Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio,
Christine Boisson, Marcel Bozzuffi. 130min. 35mm EST. 18
With this tale of a recently divorced from earlier films, but with fresh
filmmaker (Milian) searching not touches of irony and a new frankness
only for a new lover but for the in filming sex. Best, however, are
female protagonist of his next movie, set-pieces like an extended party
Antonioni revisits themes and motifs scene and a drive in the fog.
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@BFI 27Red Desert
Blow Up
TALK TALK
Antonioni: The Plurality of Study Day: Landscape and
Artistic Vision Architecture in the Cinema of
TRT 100min Michelangelo Antonioni
Join us for this unique event in which Take a closer look at Antonioni’s
our invited speakers will consider cinema with our guest speakers as
how Antonioni’s cinema emerged out they discuss how he employed
of the dialogue with other art forms: landscape and architecture to
Beyond the Clouds Al di là delle nuvole how was his distinctive style represent the challenges of modern
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
+ Q&A with Enrica Fico Antonioni* influenced by his interest in life. We’ll explore how Antonioni
France-Italy-Germany 1995. paintings? How did he utilise sound portrays the relationship between
Dirs Michelangelo Antonioni, Wim Wenders. With John Malkovich, Sophie Marceau, and silence in his films? How did his
Irène Jacob, Peter Weller. 112min. 35mm EST. 18
space and human experience, and
fascination with fashion photography the ways in which his characters
A filmmaker (Malkovich) considering Perhaps inevitably, especially since inspire the one of the greatest films interact with the rural and the
material for his next film relates the film was completed by Wenders about the art of photography? urban. With visual examples,
four stories linked in one way or after Antonioni suffered a stroke, Tickets £6.50 we’ll also look at how urbanisation
another to love or sex – each adapted the film is uneven, but there are
and industrialisation informed
from a vignette in Antonioni’s book undoubtedly moments of that old
the aesthetics of Antonioni’s body
That Bowling Alley on the Tiber. mysterious magic.
of work.
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28 book online at bfi.org.ukTHIS WINTER, WATCH AT HOME
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/networkonair networkonair.com‘A MORE SUBTLE, ALLEGORICAL
FILMMAKING UNDER STRICTER JAPANESE
CONTROL... DEVELOPED IN THE 1930S’
PETER HARRY RIS, THE CINEMA OF JAPAN AND KOREA
Join us for a fascinating exploration of scenes from a lost
past; the early cinema of Korea, writes season co-curator
Kate Taylor-Jones
It was once assumed that all pre-1945 Korean cinema
had vanished from existence, but in the 2000s a series of
remarkable archival discoveries revealed a diverse treasure
trove of melodramas, propaganda films and newsreels from
the colonial period. We’re delighted to present them for the
first time in the UK, thanks to the restoration work of the
Korean Film Archive. Here you can learn about the stars,
directors and politics of this complex and controversial
period in Korean history – a time when the nation was
under Japanese occupation. However, rejecting these
products as nothing more than colonial propaganda refuses
to acknowledge the skills, desires and ambitions of the
Korean filmmakers behind them. These are unique creations
that, despite their background, are the very origins of
contemporary Korean cinema.
WANT MORE? This season is co-curated with Hyun Jin Cho,
Korean Cultural Centre UK
Further films from this period can be seen at
Korean Cultural Centre UK kccuk.org.uk
See p11 for screenings of new release Burning
IN CULTURAL PARTNERSHIP WITH
In association with the University of SheffieldTALK
Crossroads of Youth 청춘의 십자로 + season introduction
Korea 1934. Dir Ahn Jong-hwa. With Lee Won-yong, Kim Yeong-sil, Sin Il-seon, Park Yeon. 73min
Sweet Dream
(TRT 120min). Digital. EST. With live musical accompaniment
Join us for a special season launch This tale of love, desire, betrayal and
event: a richly illustrated talk by revenge follows a young man as he
Chung Chong-hwa (Senior Researcher, seeks his fortune on the streets of
Korean Film Archive) and a screening Seoul. We welcome composer Park
of Korea’s oldest surviving film. Chun-hwi, narrator Cho Hee-bong, Sweet Dream 미몽 + Fisherman’s Fire 어화
EARLY KOREAN CINEMA
Chung will discuss the complex and actors Hwang Min-su and Park + intro by Chung Chong-hwa, Korea 1938. Dir Ahn Chul-yeong.
journey to discovering these Early Hee-von for this unique performance, Korean Film Archive* With Park No-gyeong, Yun Buk-yang,
Korean Cinema prints, as well as recreating an experience comparable Jeon Hyo-bong, Park Hak, Na Woong.
Korea 1936. Dir Yang Ju-nam. With Mun 52min. 35mm EST
their filmic and historical significance. to what Korean audiences saw and Ye-bong, Lee Geum-ryong, Yu Seok-ok, Kim
Following the talk, we present heard when it first premiered in 1934. In-gyu. 47min. Digital. EST Fisherman’s Fire is the tale of a young
a rare performance of the silent Early melodrama at its best! Sweet woman who is seduced away
classic Crossroads of Youth with live Dream follows a bored housewife as from her poor fishing village only
musical accompaniment. she abandons her family to search for to become a bar girl (gisaeng)
love and excitement in 1930s Seoul. in the city.
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@BFI 31Military Train
TALK
Spring of the Korean Peninsula 반도의 봄 + discussion Military Train 군용열차 + Volunteer 지원병
EARLY KOREAN CINEMA
Korea 1941. Dir. Lee Byung-il. With Kim So-young, Seo Wol-young, Kim Il-hae, Baek Ran. 84min + intro by Baek Moonim, Korea 1941. Dir. Anh Seok-young. With Choi
(TRT 130min). Digital. EST Yonsei University* Woon-bong, Lee Geum-ryong, Mun Ye-bong,
A young filmmaker and his crew the screening, leading Korean film Kim Il hae. 56min. 35mm EST
Korea 1938. Dir. Suh Kwang-je. With Mun Ye-
struggle to bring the famous Korean scholars Baek Moonim (Yonsei bong, Wang Pyong, Dok Wun-gil. 66min. Volunteer charts the tale of Chun-hoo,
story of Chunghyang to the big University), Lee Hwa-jin (Inha 35mm EST a young Korean man desperate to
screen. Torn between two very University) and Chung Chong-hwa The most problematic of the colonial join the Japanese Army. While
different women and facing financial (Korean Film Archive), will be in products were the ‘military narratively the film is pro-Japanese
ruin, the director makes a rash and discussion with season co-curator recruitment’ films. Designed to propaganda, the mise-en-scene,
foolish choice in order to realise his Kate Taylor-Jones to provide context encourage Korean men to join the cinematography and use of
dreams. Visually arresting, Spring of for the propaganda films made in army, these films give a highly sound make it a valuable addition
the Korean Peninsula allows a Korea under Japanese rule. Together, inaccurate vision of the colonial to this season.
fascinating insight into the Korean they will explore the realities and experience. Military Train follows two
film industry of the period. Following complexities of this period, and its young friends who drive military
legacy in Korean cinema history. transport trains with tragic results.
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32 book online at bfi.org.ukTuition
Hurrah! For Freedom
Tuition 수업료 + Patriots Day in Joseon 조선의 애국일
EARLY KOREAN CINEMA
Korea 1940. Dir Choi In-gyu and Bang Han- Korea-Japan 1940. Dir unknown. 11min. EST
joon. With Susukida Kenji, Jeong Chan-jo, A colonial newsreel exemplifying the
Kim Jong-il, Lee Dong-seong, Mun Ye-bong.
80min. Digital. EST
day-to-day pro-Japanese propaganda
seen throughout this period.
Tuition follows the trials and
tribulations of schoolboy Young-dal
as he struggles to find the money to Hurrah! For Freedom 자유만세 + intro by Kate Taylor-Jones, season curator*
pay for his education. The child’s Korea 1946. Dir Choi In-gyu. With Jeon Chang-geun, Yoo Kye-sun, Hwang Ryuh-hee. 60min.
viewpoint of economic hardship Digital. EST
and the film’s upbeat ending makes In 1945 Korea once more became an Hurrah! For Freedom shows the
this film a charming addition to independent nation. The first film complex personal and artistic
the season. made after Japan’s defeat charts the decisions people had to make under
life-and-death battle that Korean colonial occupation. Plus two
freedom fighters faced. Directed by nine-minute newsreels: Joseon
Choi In-gyu, who had previously News No. 11. 조선시보 제11보and
made colonial propaganda films, Japanese Chronicles 일본실록.
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@BFI 33‘TO ACCEPT ONE’S PAST – ONE’S HISTORY – IS NOT THE SAME THING AS DROWNING IN IT; IT IS LEARNING HOW TO USE IT’ JAMES BALDWIN Curators Stephen Bourne and Lez Cooke present a selection of groundbreaking black British television dramas from 1961-1985, many of them not seen since they were first broadcast This season showcases the work of some of the most outstanding African and Caribbean writers of their generation, such as Jan Carew, Sylvia Wynter, Barry Reckord, Michael Abbensetts, Jamal Ali, Buchi Emecheta, Caryl Phillips, Mustapha Matura and Trix Worrell, and features pioneering black British actors including Lloyd Reckord, Horace James, Don Warrington, Cleo Sylvestre, Thomas Baptiste, Norman Beaton, Carmen Munroe, Rudolph Walker and Mona Hammond. We also host the first screening since 1961 of a play written for the legendary American entertainer Sammy Davis Jr, in a rare dramatic role. This is an opportunity to rediscover some neglected dramas from the past, appreciate their continuing relevance and participate in a debate about the current and future possibilities for black British drama in a rapidly changing digital landscape. WANT MORE? IN ASSOCIATION WITH See p12 for screenings of If Beale Street Royal Holloway, University of London Could Talk, and a James Baldwin salon
The Day of the Fox
Just Like Mohicans + Q&A with screenwriters Trix Worrell, The Big Pride + The Day of the Fox
FORGOTTEN BLACK TV DRAMA
Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan, Marlon Smith and Stephen Bourne, Drama ’61. ITV 1961. Dir Herbert Wise. With Drama ’61. ITV 1961. Dir Herbert Wise.
and actor Susan Wokoma (work permitting), chaired by William Marshall, Johnny Sekka, Barbara With Sammy Davis Jr, Zia Mohyeddin,
Assoon, Nadia Cattouse. 60min Joseph O’Conor, Yolanda. 60min
broadcaster Brenda Emmanus
In Jan Carew and Sylvia Wynter’s In Jan Carew’s explosive drama,
Channel 4-Holmes Associates 1985. Dir Faith Isiakpere. With Mona Hammond, Gary Beadle,
David Doyle, John Fowler. 40min gripping drama, three Guyanese jail Sammy Davis Jr gives a memorable
breakers escape, not only from the performance as a proud but
Trix Worrell won Channel 4’s Debut The screening will be followed
law, but from the harsh realities of disillusioned revolutionary who aims
’84 prize for best script with this by a panel discussion examining
their pasts. to destroy the remnants of white
compelling story of a black youth what the fantastic plays in the season
colonial rule in a new African nation.
thrown into a conflict of loyalties can teach us about black drama,
The political themes explored remain
when he teams up with two white and what opportunities lie ahead
incredibly prescient.
friends and breaks into the home for black creatives and writers
of a feisty black elderly woman. in a modern digital landscape.
With thanks to Holmes Associates for this
BFI restoration
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@BFI 35Crown Court: The Ju-Ju Landlord
You in Your Small Corner
The Museum Attendant + intro by + Crown Court: The Ju-Ju Landlord
season co-curator Stephen Bourne ITV 1976. Dir Stephen Butcher.
Centre Play. BBC 1973. Dir Derek Bennett. With Taiwo Ajai, Thomas Baptiste,
With Horace James, Tony Selby, Kwesi Kay. Suzanne Stone, Louis Mahoney.
32min Eps 1-3 TRT 75min
Michael Abbensetts’ first play for Buchi Emecheta draws on personal
TV is a powerful, funny and shocking experience for this drama about
Club Havana + You in Your Small Corner exposé of the racism faced by a young Nigerian mother who flees
her husband and finds refuge in
FORGOTTEN BLACK TV DRAMA
+ intro by season co-curator Lez Play of the Week. ITV 1962. Dir Claude a black museum attendant in his
Whatham. With Lloyd Reckord, Elizabeth place of work. the house of a fellow countryman.
Cooke, producer Tara Prem, script When her landlord wants her out,
MacLennan, Charles Hyatt, Ida Shepley. 82min + The Light of Experience
editor Peter Ansorge and actor Don he finds himself in the dock charged
Barry Reckord adapted his stage play BBC 1983. 15min
Warrington (work permitting) with harassment.
for TV and his brother Lloyd plays the Perfectly setting up the background
Second City Firsts. BBC 1975. Dir Pam
Brighton. With Don Warrington, Mona central character – a Jamaican new to to her Crown Court drama, The Ju-Ju
Hammond, Julie Walters, Alfred Fagon. 30min London. When he begins a Landlord, Buchi Emecheta talks
After 12 years away, Mrs Jordan’s son relationship with a white woman about her life as a Nigerian writer
arrives in Birmingham from Jamaica. (MacLennan), he finds himself in who made her home in Britain.
Writer Barry Reckord returns to the conflict with his mother (Shepley),
theme of an interracial relationship who has great expectations for him.
which causes conflict within a The very early intimate portrayal of
Jamaican family. this interracial relationship broke
This print has been reconstructed from the new ground.
surviving unedited studio footage by Simon
Coward, Research Manager, Kaleidoscope
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36 book online at bfi.org.ukBlack Feet in the Snow
Nice
Carbon Copy + Black Feet in the Snow The Hope and the Glory + Nice
FORGOTTEN BLACK TV DRAMA
Against the Crowd. ITV 1975. Dir Piers Haggard. Open Door. BBC 1974. Dir Brian Skilton. BBC 1984. Dir Graeme Harper. Here and Now on Four. Channel 4-Central TV
With Don Warrington, Nadia Cattouse, With Shango Baku. 55min With Rudolph Walker, Maurice Denham, 1984. Dir Michael Hayes. With Norman Beaton.
Cleo Sylvestre, Judy Campbell. 60min Written and narrated by Jamal Ali, Carmen Munroe. 60min 26min
In Howard Schuman’s contribution this impressionistic, innovative Sam (Walker) is a quiet London In Mustapha Matura’s acerbic and
to the Against the Crowd series, drama shows how Britain – Transport worker who prefers offbeat dramatic monologue, the
Jamaican Albert Sharpe II (Warrington) ‘The Promised Land’ – offered studying law in the evenings to charismatic Norman Beaton is
is no longer at ease with the cultured only frustration and rejection to socialising, until he meets Joe outstanding as a well-mannered
white family who have virtually Caribbean settlers in the 1950s. (Denham), a lonely elderly neighbour. man who’s tested to the limit as
adopted him. But their growing friendship is he struggles to come to terms with
tested when Joe takes Sam along to life in the ‘Mother Country.’
his local club. Caryl Phillips’
poignant drama is a masterpiece
of understated writing.
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@BFI 37The timeless films we urge you
to see (for just £8), programmed
by theme
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
AND THE ACADEMY
AWARD DIDN’T GO TO...
With the 91st Academy
Awards happening on
24 February, we take the
opportunity to affectionately
turn back the clock
and – with the benefit of Psycho Do the Right Thing + intro by Jan Asante, Founder of Culture Kinetica:
hindsight – pinpoint the USA 1960. Dir Alfred Hitchcock. With Anthony THINK CINEMATIC*
films that were overlooked, Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh. 108min.
Digital. 15
USA 1989. Dir Spike Lee. With Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee. 120min. Digital. 15
usually for titles that have Apart from an honorary award,
What starts as a spat in an Italian Award-winner, Spike Lee shamefully
restaurant escalates to a tragic event wasn’t even nominated for Best
since been forgotten, or are Hitchcock never received a directing
in the neighbourhood, in this astute, Picture or Director for this tale of
remembered for reasons Oscar® despite his five nominations.
funny and moving film featuring racial tension in Brooklyn. Lee’s
Psycho was one of the five, but was
other than excellence. So overlooked entirely in the Best
great performances across the board. screenplay did receive a nomination,
let us roll out the red carpet Picture category. The film is still
Another honorary Academy but lost out to Dead Poets Society.
Also available on
again, and revisit some chilling almost 60 years on, as we
cast-iron classics that didn’t enter the world of Norman Bates –
a repressed young man who runs
take home the coveted a remote motel, hiding some
golden statue. deadly secrets.
Also available on
JUSTIN JOHNSON,
LEAD PROGRAMMER
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book online at bfi.org.ukRebel Without a Cause Raging Bull The Big Sleep Chimes at Midnight (aka Falstaff)
USA 1955. Dir Nicolas Ray. With James Dean, USA 1980. Dir Martin Scorsese. With Robert USA 1946. Dir Howard Hawks. With Humphrey Campanadas a medianoche
Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo. 111min. Digital. PG De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty. 129min. Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers. 114min. Spain-Switzerland 1965. Dir Orson Welles.
It’s hard to imagine that James Dean Digital. 18 35mm PG With Orson Welles, Margaret Rutherford,
only made three films when you Although this was Scorsese’s first William Faulkner helped turn Jeanne Moreau, Keith Baxter. 116min.
Oscar® nomination (he missed out to Raymond Chandler’s novel into one Digital. PG
look back at his assured, convincing
performance as Jim Stark, a Redford’s Ordinary People), it wasn’t of the greatest film noirs. The body This Shakespearian mash-up is a
suburban teen with authority issues. until 2006’s The Departed that he count racks up as Private Eye Philip celebration of one of the greatest
roles in theatre and it fulfilled a
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
Nicholas Ray’s drama was considered finally won. Raging Bull is a directing Marlowe is hired to look into
shocking at the time by many who masterclass, with a brilliant gambling debts accumulated by the lifelong ambition by Welles to play Sir
feared a rise in juvenile delinquency performance by De Niro as real-life daughter of a wealthy patriarch. In John Falstaff, the jolly but vain and
as a result of its shameless depiction boxer Jake LaMotta; a complex, the year that The Best Years of Our Lives boastful advisor to Prince Hal.
of teen alcohol consumption and self-destructive character. swept the board, The Big Sleep didn’t Despite being under-appreciated
criminal immorality. The choreography within the even receive a nomination. upon its release and ignored by
fighting sequences is pure motion- Academy voters, Chimes at Midnight is
picture poetry. now seen as a masterpiece, and was
the work that Welles claimed to be
his best.
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@BFI 39Local Hero The Shop Around the Corner
UK 1983. Dir Bill Forsyth. With Peter Riegert, + intro by Geoff Andrew,
Burt Lancaster, Peter Capaldi. 111min. Programmer-at-Large*
Digital. PG
USA 1940. Dir Ernst Lubitsch. With Margaret
Mistakenly believing him to be of Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
Scottish descent, ‘Mac’ Macintyre’s 99min. 35mm U
oil company boss sends him to buy A couple of bickering shop staff at a
Breathless A bout de souffle + intro by Professor Ginette Vincendeau, up a village on the west coast of large store in Budapest are happily
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
King’s College London* Scotland so that they can build a distracted by their feelings for their
France 1960. Dir Jean-Luc Godard. With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger. refinery on the site. As Mac spends respective pen pals, which through
90min. Digital. EST. PG more time with the locals, his their letters seems to be leading to
A young criminal-at-large hooks up conform to social convention. affection for the area begins to grow. love... What they don’t know is that
with a student who offers him a roof Godard was overlooked by the Scotland’s great filmmaker may have each of them is writing to the other.
over his head and a place in her bed. Academy during his career, so when missed out on an Oscar®, but he was Although overlooked when it came to
This radical, hugely influential debut it finally awarded him an honorary rewarded with a BAFTA for this awards, this romantic comedy is a
helped to kick-start the French new award in 2011 he reciprocated by touching, comic drama. perfect treat for Valentine’s month.
wave with its jump cuts, coolly refusing to collect it. Also available on
ambivalent leads and refusal to
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40 book online at bfi.org.ukHarold and Maude + intro by Justin
Johnson, Lead Programmer*
USA 1971. Dir Hal Ashby. With Ruth Gordon,
Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles. 91min. Digital. 15
A young man with a death obsession
develops a firm friendship with
a 79-year-old female optimist, who
shares his enjoyment in attending Sweet Smell of Success
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS
random funerals. This cult classic USA 1957. Dir Alexander Mackendrick. With
startled audiences upon release with Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison.
97min. Digital. PG
its dark humour and was ignored
by the awards bodies, but it remains A journalist in New York, determined
a refreshing, joyful film that – to split his sister up from her jazz-
underneath its talk of mortality musician boyfriend, bribes a hack
and death – delivers the positive The Shawshank Redemption to do his dirty work in return for
message of living life to the full. USA 1994. Dir Frank Darabont. With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Clancy Brown. 142min. professional favours. Breaking Bad’s
Digital. 15 Vince Gilligan cites this as being
Stephen King’s novella, adapted The Shawshank Redemption was his favourite film, but sadly it
by Frank Darabont, tells of a man nominated for seven Oscars® but won didn’t garner much in the way of
accused of murder who must find nothing. Over time, its growing fan awards recognition.
solace and purpose in a brutal jail base has continued to increase and
in order to survive. In the year when it now regularly tops viewer polls.
Forrest Gump won across the board,
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