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MUSICALS! THE GREATEST SHOW ON SCREEN MAURICE PIALAT AND THE NEW FRENCH REALISM SORRY WE MISSED YOU SHIRLEY CLARKE SOUTHBANK BFI OCT-NOV 2019 OCT-NOV THIS MONTH AT BFI SOUTHBANK Welcome to the home of great film and TV, with a world-class library, free exhibitions and Mediatheque and plenty of food and drink IN PERSON & PREVIEWS NEW RELEASES SEASONS Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance The best new cinema for you to enjoy, with plenty of screening Carefully curated collections of film for you to catch the latest film and TV before dates to choose from and TV, which showcase an influential anyone else genre, theme or talent p10) (p26) (p6) Frozen 2 Judy & Punch ( All That Jazz BOOKING DATES IN PERSON & PREVIEWS 4 REGULAR PROGRAMME RELAXED SCREENING 12 TERROR VISION 52 PATRONS AND CHAMPIONS bfi.org.uk/whatson MEMBER EXCLUSIVES 7 AFRICAN ODYSSEYS, 53 Mon 16 Sep (from 11:30) 020 7928 3232 WOMAN WITH A MOVIE MEMBERS NEW RELEASES 8 11:30 – 20:30 daily CAMERA Tue 17 Sep (from 11:30) RE-RELEASES 12 EXPERIMENTA: 54 PUBLIC In person 11:00 – 20:30 daily SHIRLEY CLARKE Tue 24 Sep (from 11:30) SEASONS SILENT CINEMA, 56 MUSICALS! 16 FUTURE FILM (INC SENIORS’ EVENTS) BFI FAMILIES 58 JOIN TODAY FOR PRIORITY BOOKING AND DISCOUNTS: BFI.ORG.UK/JOIN MAURICE PIALAT AND THE 34 NEW FRENCH REALISM BFI PLAYER 60 BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 42 The BFI is proud to screen on film where possible, showcasing restorations LIBRARY, MEDIATHEQUE 62 and sourcing archive prints from our partners. SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS 48 SHOP, BFI IMAX 64 Look out for 16mm, 35mm or 70mm in the film credits. Cover: Singin’ in the Rain KERMODE LIVE IN 3D Let’s talk about film... Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance for you to catch the latest film and TV before anyone else Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI TRT 90min Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI is a monthly conversation between you (the audience) and one of the nation’s favourite and most respected film critics. With the help of surprise guests from the TV Preview: His Dark Materials + intro by actors Dafne Keen and industry, Kermode will explore, critique Ruth Wilson (more tba) and dissect movies past and present and BBC-Bad Wolf-New Line Cinema-HBO-2019. Dirs Tom Hooper, Otto Bathurst, Jamie Childs, reveal his or his guests’ cinematic guilty ‘A WORLD- Dawn Shadforth, Euros Lyn. With Dafne Keen, James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda. pleasures. Get involved by tweeting your CLASS 60min questions in advance to @KermodeMovie The His Dark Materials series by Philip extraordinary cast and creative team has #MK3D. CREATIVE TEAM Pullman has been published in more than been assembled to bring Pullman’s Tickets £20, concs £16 40 languages and sold close to 18 million compelling parallel world to life. Be sure to (Members pay £2 less) BRING PHILIP copies worldwide – its mix of magic and join us for a preview of this remarkable PULLMAN’S theology proving a hit with both children fantasy adventure. and adults. For one of the year’s most For final guest confirmations check bfi.org.uk RICHLY anticipated television events, an IMAGINATIVE Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) NOVELS TO LIFE’ MARCUS PRINCE, TV PROGRAMMER His Dark Materials TUE 15 OCT MON 21 OCT MON 25 NOV 18:15 BFI IMAX 18:30 NFT1 18:30 NFT1 IN PERSON & PREVIEWS (adjacent) book online at bfi.org.uk DOC Preview: Meeting Gorbachov Preview: Luce + Q&A USA 2019. Dir Julius Onah. With Naomi Watts, UK-Germany-USA 2018. Dirs Werner Herzog, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Tim Roth. Andre Singer. 90min. Digital. Cert tbc. 109min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Courtesy of Altitude Entertainment Universal Pictures This heartfelt documentary centres on a This gripping psychological thriller marks number of interviews Herzog undertook Julius Onah (The Cloverfield Paradox) as one of cinema’s most exciting emerging with Mikhail Gorbachev, former President TV Preview: The War of the Worlds + Q&A IN PERSON & PREVIEWS of the Soviet Union and architect of its voices. Luce (Harrison Jr) is a former child Mammoth Screen-BBC One 2019. Dir Craig Viveiros. With Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, democratisation and reformation. Around soldier from a war-torn African country Robert Carlyle, Rupert Graves. Ep1 60min these encounters are added fascinating who now lives in the US as the son of This thrilling three-part series, written by George (Spall) and his partner Amy historical footage from Gorbachev’s early white, liberal middle-class parents. As his Peter Harness (Jonathan Strange & Mr (Tomlinson) as they attempt to defy life and views from his closest friends and high school’s brightest hope, Luce seems Norrell, Doctor Who), offers a series of society and start a life together. When political contemporaries. What emerges is destined to achieve great things, but after firsts: this is the first British television they are caught up in the escalating an absorbing, Herzogian portrait of a key he delivers a politically-charged paper, his adaptation of HG Wells’ classic novel, and terror of an alien invasion, they have to player in 20th-century politics. Essential English teacher (Spencer) becomes the first version to be set in London and fight for their lives against an enemy viewing for current world leaders... suspicious that something darker may the home counties during the Edwardian beyond their comprehension... lurk beneath his highly-controlled exterior. See bfi.org.uk for updates on special guests period. The War of the Worlds follows See bfi.org.uk for updates on special guests Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) Audio description available Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) THU 24 OCT MON 4 NOV TUE 5 NOV 18:10 NFT1 18:30 NFT1 18:15 NFT1 @BFI 5 DOC Preview: The Amazing Johnathan Preview: Knives Out Documentary + Q&A USA 2019. Dir Rian Johnson. With Chris USA 2019. Dir Benjamin Berman. 91min. Evans, Ana de Armas, Daniel Craig, Toni Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Dogwoof Collette. 130min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Lionsgate In 2014 comic-magician John Edward Rian Johnson (Looper, Star Wars: Szeles – famed for his wild live shows and The Last Jedi) injects fresh magic into a 13-year residency on the Las Vegas strip beloved genre with a film that’s as sharp Preview: Frozen 2 + Q&A with directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck – was diagnosed with a serious heart as the murder weapon. The progeny of USA 2019. Dirs Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck. With the voices of Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, condition and given a year to live. Three murder-mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey Josh Gad, Evan Rachel Wood, Jonathan Groff. Digital. RT and cert tbc. Courtesy of Walt Disney years later he invites director Ben Berman Studios (UK) (Christopher Plummer) have been living to follow him as he plans his comeback off him for years. When he turns up dead Elsa’s peaceful life in Arendelle is on a journey to learn where her powers tour. This frequently hilarious it seems no-one has a motive for killing disrupted when she starts hearing sounds came from, and find a way to save their documentary captures the subject’s the golden goose – can debonair that beckon her to travel to the north of land. Be one of the first to enjoy this audacious trickery, leaving Berman ‘Kentucky-fried’ PI Benoit Blanc (Craig) the kingdom and beyond. Joined by much-anticipated magical adventure. struggling to tell truth from illusion as he solve the mystery? Johnson’s impeccably Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven she sets off Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) attempts to get the measure of this written and designed crime caper is full See p58 for more family musicals uniquely ‘amazing’ man. of unexpected twists and turns from Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) start to finish. Audio description available Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) IN PERSON & PREVIEWS FRI 15 NOV TUE 19 NOV TUE 26 NOV 18:00 NFT1 18:30 NFT1 20:15 NFT1 6 book online at bfi.org.uk MEMBER EXCLUSIVES These events are exclusive to BFI Members and their guests. Make the most of your Membership benefits at bfi.org.uk/members Member Picks Member Picks: Share your choice with us at Invasion of the Body Snatchers bfi.org.uk/memberpicks USA 1956. Dir Don Siegel. With Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan. 80min. Digital. PG Dirty Dancing In Santa Mira, California, there’s USA 1987. Dir Emile Ardolino. With Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, a panic brewing – people seem Member Salon: Sorry We Missed You Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes. 100min. to be going missing, supposedly replaced MEMBER EXCLUSIVES TRT 60min Digital. 15 by emotionless clones. Is this mass Our regular discussion series for Members can book a joint ticket to the There’s romance, dancing and heartache hysteria justified? Could it really be the Members and their guests returns this Salon and the screening on Mon 4 Nov for as 17-year-old Baby falls for dance beginning of an invasion that threatens themselves and their guests for just £6. month with a closer look at Ken Loach’s instructor Johnny Castle while on a family the future of the planet? With themes Members who’ve watched the film on another of identity loss and post-war conformity, latest film (p8). Join your fellow Members date are also welcome to come along to the holiday in the Catskills.