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JANE FONDA FANTASTIQUE MARGARET TAIT SEBASTIÁN LELIO OCT-NOV 2018 OCT-NOV SOUTHBANK BFI FROM THECONTEMPORARY TO THECLASSIC LONDON KOREAN 2018 SpecialFocus: 1–25 NOVEMBER ASliceofEverydayLife www.koreanfilm.co.uk THIS MONTH AT BFI SOUTHBANK FROM THECONTEMPORARY Welcome to the home of great film and TV, with a world-class library, free exhibitions and Mediatheque and plenty of food and drink TO THECLASSIC SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS NEW RELEASES SEASONS Dates for your cultural diary, from DVD/Blu-ray The best new cinema for you to enjoy, with plenty of screening Carefully curated collections of film launches to weekenders, film summits and festivals dates to choose from and TV, which showcase an influential genre, theme or talent (p64) (p22) LONDON KOREAN (p12) Oh! What a Lovely War Disobedience 3 Non-Blondes 2018 IN PERSON & PREVIEWS 6 60 BOOKING DATES SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS MEMBER EXCLUSIVES 11 REGULAR PROGRAMME PATRONS AND CHAMPIONS bfi.org.uk/whatson NEW RELEASES 12 SILENT CINEMA, 66 Mon 17 Sep (from 11:30) SpecialFocus: 020 7928 3232 TERROR VISION MEMBERS RE-RELEASES 13 11:30 – 20:30 daily ASliceofEverydayLife Tue 18 Sep (from 11:30) EXPERIMENTA 67 In person SEASONS 1–25 NOVEMBER PUBLIC BFI FAMILIES 68 Tue 25 Sep (from 11:30) 11:00 – 20:30 daily COMEDY GENIUS 16 FUTURE FILM, BFI COURSES 70 www.koreanfilm.co.uk JANE FONDA 34 BFI PLAYER 72 FANTASTIQUE 38 JOIN TODAY FOR PRIORITY BOOKING AND DISCOUNTS: BFI.ORG.UK/JOIN LIBRARY, MEDIATHEQUE, 74 MARGARET TAIT 44 MEZZANINE GALLERY The BFI is proud to screen on film where possible, showcasing restorations ANIMATION 2018 48 SHOP, IMAX 76 and sourcing archive prints from our partners. CLOSE UP: SEBASTIÁN LELIO 52 Look out for 16mm, 35mm or 70mm in the film credits. BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 54 Cover: 9 to 5 (p15) LONDON SEASON Tracey Ullman (p17) Lenny Henry (p18) Jo Brand (p18) Jennifer Saunders (p17) 15 OCT 2018 - 19 JAN 2019 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TICKETS FROM £10 BOOK NOW Check p16 for some very special guests and a ROMEO &JULIET PRODUCTION SPONSOR few of our regular events – all part of the BFI’s Comedy Genius season, which runs from rsc.org.uk/london October to the end of January LONDON SEASON 15 OCT 2018 - 19 JAN 2019 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TICKETS FROM £10 BOOK NOW ROMEO &JULIET PRODUCTION SPONSOR rsc.org.uk/london Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance for you to catch the latest film and TV before anyone else DOC TV Preview: Jane Fonda in Five Acts HBO 2018. Dir Susan Lacy. Digital. 128min Susan Lacy’s documentary is divided into five chapters that mark five JOINT distinct periods in Jane Fonda’s life, TICKET named after the key men in her story (from her father to her partners), yet Jane Fonda in Conversation the connective tissue of the film is TRT 90min Fonda’s own reflections. Her She’s an actor, producer, activist, icon of social change at a time when self-aware and articulate comments of American cinema, and boasts a the world needs such stories. We’re on the intertwining of her family’s career spanning over five decades pleased to welcome Fonda to the legacy, her career, politics and – there’s no room in this brochure to BFI stage to discuss her career so far. personal life make for an insightful cover her character and remarkable Tickets £25, concs £23 (Members pay £2 less) and entertaining watch. ‘THE TWO-TIME achievements. Jane Fonda’s career Joint ticket with the preview of 9 to 5 at As this was made for US TV, the BFI requests tells the story of revolution and the 20:30 (see p15) £30, concs £26 (Members pay a voluntary donation of £11.50 (Members pay £2 less) £2 less) to assist with covering costs, BAFTA-WINNING triumphant and troubled struggle See p34 for our Jane Fonda season MOCKUMENTARY otherwise tickets are free on the day RETURNS FOR ITS FINAL SERIES’ MARCUS PRINCE, TV PROGRAMMER People Just Do Nothing (p8) TUE 23 OCT THU 25 OCT 18:30 NFT1 20:30 NFT1 IN PERSON & PREVIEWS book online at bfi.org.uk KERMODE LIVE IN 3D Let’s talk about film... TALK Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI TV Preview: People Just Do Nothing (Series 5) + Q&A with cast IN PERSON & PREVIEWS TRT 90min members TBC We have two events for you: one in Oct and one in Nov! BBC-Roughcut Television 2018. Dir Jack Clough. With Allan Mustafa, Steve Stamp, Hugo Chegwin, Asim Chaudhry, Dan Sylvester, Lily Brazier, Ruth Bratt. Eps 1 & 2 60min Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI will explore, critique and dissect is a monthly conversation between movies past and present and reveal The two-time BAFTA and RTS Roughcut Television will join us for you (the audience) and one of the his or his guests’ cinematic guilty award-winning mockumentary a very special preview of the new nation’s favourite and most respected pleasures. Get involved by tweeting series People Just Do Nothing will series, and to talk about the film critics. With the help of surprise your questions in advance to return in November for its fifth and phenomenal success of the show guests from the industry, Kermode @KermodeMovie #MK3D. final outing. For the very first time, and what’s next for the UK’s Tickets £16.50, concs £13.20 the show will premiere on BBC Two premiere pirate radio station. (Members pay £2 less) and be available online at BBC Three. The cast and production company Part of (p16) MON 29 OCT MON 19 NOV TUE 6 NOV 18:30 NFT1 18:30 NFT1 18:15 NFT3 @BFI 7 Preview: Lizzie USA 2018. Dir Craig William Macneill. With Chloe Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Fiona Shaw, Denis O’Hare. 105min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Bulldog Films Lizzie (Sevigny), unmarried at the A long-gestating passion project for ripe old age of 32, is a social outcast Sevigny, this is a new take on the in early 19th-century New England. infamous case of Lizzie Borden, who When a young maid (Stewart) comes allegedly murdered her family in Preview: Wildlife to work for her family, Lizzie finds a the 1890s. USA 2018. Dir Paul Dano. With Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould, kindred spirit. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) Bill Camp. 104min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Kaleidoscope Entertainment In 1960s Montana, the restless and Actor Paul Dano’s stark and stylised jobless Jerry (Gyllenhaal) decides to directorial debut makes us spectators go fight wildfires, leaving his wife – much like Jerry’s son – to a IN PERSON & PREVIEWS (Mulligan) and teenage son marriage falling apart, and a new (Oxenbould) behind to fend romance blossoming. for themselves. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) TUE 6 NOV WED 7 NOV 20:50 NFT1 18:20 NFT1 8 book online at bfi.org.uk Preview: Shoplifters Manbiki kazoku TV Preview: Vic and Bob’s Big Night Out + Q&A with Vic Reeves IN PERSON & PREVIEWS Japan 2018. Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda. With Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka, Sôsuke and Bob Mortimer Ikematsu. 121min. Digital. EST. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Thunderbird Releasing BBC Studios-BBC Four 2018. Dir Mat Whitecross. TRT 90min Japanese auteur Kore-eda picked up Osamu (Franky) and his son are Vic Reeves' Big Night Out represented a Tonight we watch two new episodes the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes shoplifting groceries when they seminal moment in 80s and 90s packed with their surreal sense of Film Festival for this touching discover a homeless girl, Yuri. British comedy, and with their new humour, and hear from Reeves and exploration of what it means to be Despite their own struggle, they take show Vic and Bob re-invent the Mortimer as they talk about their a family. Living in poverty in Tokyo, her in. original format in a constantly careers and comic influences. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) innovative and surprising way. Part of (p16) MON 19 NOV TUE 20 NOV 20:40 NFT1 20:30 NFT1 @BFI 9 12 Stars: Sebastián Lelio on Wings of Desire Der Himmel über Berlin West Germany-France 1987. Dir Wim Wenders. With Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk. 127min. Digital. EST. 12A This month the European Union the film particularly resonates. It’s turns 25 – just as Britain’s the perfect moment to return to this relationship to the Union hangs in romantic fantasy where angels keep the balance. 12 Stars is a new series watch over Berlin’s citizens shortly Preview: Creed II offering filmmakers, film before the fall of the Wall. Two years USA 2018. Dir Steven Caple Jr. With Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, professionals and thinkers an after the film was released, Germany Dolph Lundgren. 135min. Digital. Cert TBC. Courtesy of Warner Bros. opportunity to reflect on European was re-unified and a new Europe In this new instalment of the Rocky Ivan Drago, the boxer who killed his cinema and identity at a time of was born. franchise, Adonis (Jordan), son of father in the ring more than 30 years profound cultural and geo-political In partnership with EUNIC: European Union heavyweight boxing champion earlier. With his trainer Rocky Balboa transition. In this first event National Institutes for Culture IN PERSON & PREVIEWS Apollo, is facing the challenge of his (Stallone) by his side, Adonis will Sebastián Lelio will introduce Wings See p52 for a Close Up on Sebastián Lelio life; preparing to battle the son of need to confront their shared legacy.