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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 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 otherwise tickets are free on the day RETURNS FOR ITS FINAL SERIES’ MARCUS PRINCE, TV PROGRAMMER (p8) TUE 23 OCT THU 25 OCT 18:30 NFT1 20:30 NFT1 IN PERSON & PREVIEWS book online at bfi.org.uk IN PERSON & PREVIEWS 7

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(p16) Roughcut will join us for a very special preview the of new series, and to talk about the phenomenal success the of show nextand what’s the for UK’s premiere pirate radio station. Part of TUE 6 NOV 18:15 NFT3 The two-time BAFTA and RTS award-winning mockumentary series People Just Do will Nothing return in November its for fifth and final outing. For the very first time, the show will premiere on BBC Two and be available online BBC Three. at The cast and production company People Just Do Nothing (Series 5) + Q&A with cast People Just Do Nothing TV Preview: members TBC Hugo Stamp, Steve Mustafa, Allan With Clough. Jack Dir 2018. BBC-Roughcut Television Chegwin, , Dan Sylvester, Lily Brazier, Ruth Bratt. Eps 1 & 2 60min

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TALK MON 29 OCT NFT118:30 NFT1 18:30 Mark Kermode Live in the at 3D BFI TRT 90min haveWe two events for you: one in Oct and one in Nov! Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI Mark Kermode Live in is a monthly conversation between you (the audience) and one the of favouritenation’s and most respected film critics. With the help surprise of guests from the industry, Kermode KERMODE LIVE IN 3D IN LIVE KERMODE Let’s talk about film... 8 IN PERSON & PREVIEWS book onlineat bfi.org.uk book for fend to behind (Oxenbould) son teenage and (Mulligan) wife his leaving wildfires, fight go to decides (Gyllenhaal) Jerry jobless and restless the Montana, 1960s In Entertainment Kaleidoscope of Courtesy tbc. Cert Digital. 104min. Camp. Bill Oxenbould, Ed Gyllenhaal, Jake Mulligan, Carey With Dano. Paul 2018. Dir USA Preview: Wildlife 20:50 NFT1 20:50 6NOV TUE

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(p16) Tonight we watchTonight two new episodes packed with their surreal sense of andhumour, hear from Reeves and Mortimer as they talk about their careers and comic influences. Part of TUE 20 NOV 20:30 NFT1 + Q&A with Vic Reeves Big Night Out + Q&A with Vic and Bob’s Vic TV Preview: and BBC Studios-BBC FourDir 2018. Mat Whitecross. TRT 90min a Vic Reeves' Out represented Big Night seminal moment in 80s and 90s British and comedy, with their new show Vic and Bob re-invent the original format in a constantly innovative and surprising way. Osamu (Franky) and his son are shoplifting groceries when they discover a homeless girl, . Despite their own struggle, they take her in. Tickets concs £15, (Members £12 pay £2 less)

at this at year’s Cannes Palme d’Or MON 19 NOV 19 MON 20:40 NFT1 Japanese Kore-eda picked up the this for touching exploration means it what of to be Japan Dir 2018. Hirokazu Kore-eda. With Lily Franky, Sakura Andô,Mayu Matsuoka, SôsukeIkematsu. Digital. 121min. Cert EST. tbc. Courtesy of Thunderbird Releasing Shoplifters Manbiki kazoku Preview: a family. Living in poverty in Tokyo, 12 Stars: Sebastián Lelio on Wings of Desire Der Himmel über Berlin West Germany- 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 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. of Desire with his thoughts on why Tickets £20, concs £18 (Members pay £2 less)

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Member Salon: 9 to 5 Member Picks MEMBER EXCLUSIVES TRT 60min For a chance to see one of your favourite films on the big screen, Our regular discussion series for Members can book a joint ticket to the share your choice with us at bfi.org.uk/memberpicks Members and their guests focuses Salon and the screening on Tue 20 Nov for themselves and their guests in advance for on a hit comedy set for a 21st-century just £6. Members who’ve watched the film In the Bleak Midwinter (aka A Midwinter’s Tale) remake. Join your fellow Members on another date are welcome to come along UK 1995. Dir . With Michael Maloney, Julia Sawalha, Richard Briers, to discuss the female friendship to the free salon discussion and show their Joan Collins, Jennifer Saunders. 99min. 35mm 15 between Fonda, Tomlin and Membership card for admission on a first- Kenneth Branagh’s rarely screened develops is an insightful tragi- come, first-served basis. Parton’s characters and their comedy is about a disparate acting comedy, shot in pleasing black struggle for equality. troupe from different backgrounds and white. who are brought together on a FILM: TUE 20 NOV SALON: TUE 20 NOV profit-share basis to perform a local ‘It’s so witty, and mad and British’ 18:10 NFT1 20:10 BLUE ROOM production of Hamlet at a church Rachel Brock, BFI Member threatened by developers. What See p16 for Comedy Genius All Member exclusive tickets are just £6 unless otherwise stated. Champions and Members can book as soon as their priority booking opens and tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Remaining tickets will be released to the public, as a taster of the benefits of Membership, once public SUN 18 NOV booking opens. 15:00 NFT3

@BFI 11 The best new cinema for you to Disobedience enjoy, with plenty of screening USA-UK-Ireland 2017. Dir Sebastián Lelio. dates to choose from With Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, (see pull-out calendar) Alessandro Nivola. 114min. Digital. 15. A Curzon Artificial Eye release In Lelio’s first English-language feature, the acclaimed Chilean director peers inside a strict Orthodox Jewish community Photographer Ronit (Weisz) returns to London after her father, a Rabbi in an Orthodox Jewish congregation, passes away. Estranged from her father and shunned by her community after she left for New York many years ago, Ronit reunites with her friend Dovid (Nivola) and his wife Esti (McAdams). Ronit and Esti’s reunion stirs up past feelings, and they rekindle the affair they once had as teenagers. Based on the novel by Naomi Alderman, Disobedience explores queerness and religion via an eloquent, and never judgemental, ‘WITNESS A love triangle. POWERFUL Anna Bogutskaya, Events Programmer ROMANTIC See p52 for a Close Up on Sebastián Lelio TRIANGLE SET IN A STRICT NORTH LONDON ORTHODOX JEWISH COMMUNITY’ ANNA BOGUTSKAYA, EVENTS PROGRAMMER Q&A OPENS FRI 30 NOV

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season FROM MON 22 OCT to the Resistance); the trip through a mirror into the underworld; post-occupation rendered nightmarishly unfamiliar. Critic Gilbert Adair the applauded film for being like other no (‘Oh, the magic!’), while Ray Durgnat wrote that it gripped ‘like a bondage corset’ – BBC’s codedBBC’s wartime broadcasts thatit’s rich and strange. meditationon mortality, creativity and passion is packed with inventive sinister images: resonant and ideas bikers from the underworld; surreal radio messages (inspired by the her deathly aura... Open to endless interpretations, hallucinatory Cocteau’s is entranced, only later to realise (Marais, lover Cocteau’s and muse) Programmer-at-large Andrew, Geoff See p38 for ourFantastique Orphée France 1950. Dir . With Jean Marais, Maria Casares, François Périer, Juliette Gréco. 95min. Digital. PG. EST. imaginative wildly Cocteau’s Jean Orpheus the of reworking allegorical myth is surely his greatest movie Encountering a mysterious princess (Casares), the poet Orphée A BFI release

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LEAD PROGRAMMER We’ve selectedWe’ve these key for you to enjoy, with plenty of (see pull-out calendar) (p14) screening dates to choose from classics (many newly restored) newly (many classics RESTORATION’ RESTORATION’ KEEPS TOPPING LIKE IT HOT OUR NEW DIGITAL OUR NEW DIGITAL CHARTS WITH JUSTIN JOHNSON, WHY THE COMEDY ‘COME AND SEE RE-RELEASES 14 RE-RELEASES themselves on the run from the mob. mob. the from run the on themselves find and shooting, gangland a witness they when time wrong the at place wrong the in are musicians of struggling acouple where 1929, in Chicago prohibition It’s in set all. of them funniest and greatest the ItLike Hot Some without water the head above hold its could season comedy No favourite comedy everyone’s of restoration 4K sparkling this with wish cinematic your We grant release Circus U. APark (4K). Digital 121min. Monroe. Marilyn Lemmon, Jack Tony Curtis, With Wilder. Billy Dir 1959. USA Some LikeItHot FROM FRI 2NOV FRI FROM , constantly voted in polls as as polls in voted , constantly Part of of Part Justin Johnson, Lead Programmer at its core. core. at its of fun plenty all, above and, power star script, awitty has caper crime comedy This go. to raring up and dragged train the upon rock and troupe jazz all-girl of an part as out of town gig anew accept They (p16)

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(p16) FROM FRI NOV 16 and p34 for our Jane Fonda season See p6 for a joint ticket offer with Jane Fonda in conversation, for a Member p11 Salon, *Preview + intro by Jane Fonda 23 OctTue 20:30 NFT1 Part of Anna Bogutskaya, Events Programmer Events Bogutskaya, Anna Judy (Fonda), Violet (Tomlin) and Doralee (Parton) couldn’t be more different from each other, they but bond over being mistreated by their boss: he yells Judy on her first at day, consistently takes credit Violet’s for ideas and sexually harasses Doralee. Fedup with him, and the sexist practicestheir of office, they dream hisof removal. Based on an idea by Fonda, had who just formed her own production this company, is a brazen comedy that wears its politics on its sleeve. Withan inspiring friendship itsat heart, a film it’s that celebrates women supporting each other – This gloriously feminist revenge comedy revenge feminist gloriously This sees three put-upon office workers turn the tables on their sleazy boss USA 1980. Dir ColinHiggins. With Jane Fonda, , Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman. 109min. Digital. A BFI 15. release and feels more relevant now than ever before. 9 to 5 + intro* Carefully curated collections of film and TV, which showcase an influential genre, theme or talent

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WED NOV 14 18:15 NFT1 Tickets £20, concs (Members £16 pay £2 less) TRACEY ULLMAN ULLMAN TRACEY ON TRT 90min The multi-talented Ullman Tracey is cited as the first non-US female to have conquered the American TVnetworks. After early UK trailblazing shows such as A Kick Up the Eighties garnered many awards. Join us for this special, clip-filled opportunity found fameas a singer before moving to the US, where her satirical primetime sketch shows The Tracey Ullman Show State the Union of Ullman’s Tracey to hear Ullman discuss her stellar career on both sides the of pond. ,

, Saunders has Jam and Jerusalem and Jam and , JJ MON 5 NOV 5 MON NFT118:30 been the at core British of comedy as both a performer and writer. She joins us tonight as we celebrate her career. JENNIFER SAUNDERS SAUNDERS JENNIFER IN CONVERSATION TRT 90min As part the of 1980s scene, Jennifer Saunders and her partner Dawn French helped redefine the nature comedy of for generations. From Strip French Saunders to and and Girls on Top Happy Families Tickets £20, concs (Members £16 pay £2 less)

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The Inbetweeners JJ ) introduces the Coen FRI NOV 16 20:30 NFT1 JOE THOMAS INTRODUCES LEBOWSKI BIG THE USA-UK 1998. Dir The Coen Brothers. With Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, . Digital. 117min. 18 Actor Joe Thomas ( Fresh Meat Brothers’ cult comedy classic. When Jeff ‘The Dude’ Lebowski is mistaken Jeffreyfor ‘The Big’ Lebowski, it results in some unwanted and violent attention from a group criminals. of Before long, he and his decidedly lacking friends find themselves involved in kidnapping,theft and high drama. ,

The Good Life ) introduces one of JJ . The incredible comic TUE 6 NOV 18:10 NFT1 Rosemary & Thyme the greatest comedies all of time, Some Hot Like It energy between Curtis, Lemmon and Monroe is electric as we follow a couple Joes of witness who a gangland murder and drag up to join an all-female jazz band to escape the mob. See p14 forSee more p14 screenings of this title Actress Felicity Kendal ( SCREENEPIPHANY A special guest selects and introduces their film inspiration KENDAL FELICITY LIKE SOME INTRODUCES IT HOT USA 1959. Dir Billy Wilder. With Curtis, Tony 121min. Monroe. Marilyn Lemmon, Jack Digital (4K). A Park U. Circus release JJ , -themed film quiz at in 21:00 the beginning. and reunited Places after Trading to create another box-office hit and earn their comedy genius mantles. This screening will be followed by a Coming America to Blue Room, presented by Are We Parable. £5 for ticket-holders America to of Coming otherwise £7

rather than his status. FRI 9 NOV 18:00 NFT1 USA 1988. Dir John Landis. With Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley. Digital. 116min. 15 A wealthy African prince flees to America to avoid an arranged marriage and to find a woman who will love him Finding lodgings in Queens and a dead-end he discovers job, that his American dream is only just COMING TO TO COMING AMERICA + Q&A WITH DIRECTOR JOHN LANDIS AND COSTUME AND LANDIS JOHN DIRECTOR Q&A WITH + LANDIS NADOOLMAN DESIGNER DEBORAH 20 COMEDY GENIUS short films we see her with Mack Mack with her see we films short of selection this in best: the with worked and company production own her ran films, own her directed She 1920s. of the comedies refined the to company Keystone Sennett’s of Mack days anarchic the from performer extraordinary an Hollywood, of early spirit irrepressible the was Normand Mabel 70min TRT SHORTS WITH LIVE SCORE BY THE MEGMORLEY TRIO SONIC CINEMA PRESENTS: MABEL NORMAND book onlineat bfi.org.uk/comedy-genius book 19:30 NFT1 19:30 OCT 22 MON jazz scene. Booking essential! essential! Booking scene. jazz UK the on exciting most of the one as described being currently – agroup Trio Morley Meg the by performed be will score new abrand commission, BFI special this For here. star the Normand’s no mistake, but make – Hardy Oliver ayoung and Arbuckle Fatty Chaplin, Charlie Sennett, Tickets £16.50, concs £13 See p23 for screenings of Mickey of screenings for p23 See less) £2 pay (Members

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for updates on panelists on updates for bfi.org.uk TALK SAT 10 NOVSAT 18:10 NFT3 Check Check For joint ticket offer see left SHOULD WE STILL STILL WE SHOULD IT? AT BE TRT 90min Is there a place such for smutty and risqué in modern comedy (or indeed the modern world)? Is it an anachronistic throwback a or post-modern ironic spin? Join us for a lively panel discussion on the merits, otherwise, or the of traditions – and the contemporary take – on Great British smut, illustrated with examples from the 21st-century exponents such of humour.

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SAT 10 NOVSAT 16:00 NFT3 THE JOY OF SMUT OF JOY THE TRT 90min This bespoke compilation clips of and documentary footage features the kings and queens British of smut: Frank Randle, Marie Lloyd, Max Miller, Wilson Kepple and Betty, Benny Hill,Frankie Howerd, Beryl Reid and others. also We feature clips from the seminal documentary Pussy examples will be decidedly non-PC, puerile, juvenile and very funny. A day of saucyhumour and reprehensible silliness GREAT BRITISH SMUT DAY SMUT BRITISH GREAT Joint ticket available for all three events £24, concs (Members £18 pay £3 less)

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ABa TALK WED NOV 14 BLUE20:10 ROOM Tickets £6.50 Tickets The hottest event on the BFI calendar returns with thinkers, comedians and performers on-hand to wrangle the tricky topic offence, of ethics and Ascomedy. a genre, thrives it on pushing our buttons, is but there a line that comedy shouldn’t cross? What happens when that line is pushed? How do we respond tofilms and both TV, historical and contemporary, that some find funny, while others call as out racist, sexist homophobic?or TRT 120min THE HOT TAKE: TAKE: THE HOT IT’S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD 22 COMEDY GENIUS book onlineat bfi.org.uk/comedy-genius book Please check bfi.org.uk Network Creative Tri-Force with Presented less) £2 pay (Members Reunion McCoy Real The with available ticket Joint sharing. wisdom and confessions riotous for comedians intergenerational of those many together bring will 3 Non-Blondes McCoy Real The like collectives TV it to who handed Henry Lenny to mic the passed Beaton Norman talent. comic on-screen of generations to thanks mic the we’re dropping now ; of the butt the no longer are people British Black 180min TRT REVOLUTION THE BLACK COMEDY African Odysseys presents some great PASSMIC THE 15:00 NFT2 15:00 SAT 17 NOV TICKET JOINT JOINT £15, concs £12 £15, concs , Famalam for updates on events events on updates for

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THU 22 NOV BLUE20:10 ROOM MEMORY, TRUTH TRUTH AND MEMORY, ISTHIS IN MASCULINITY TAP SPINAL PHILOSOPHY UP TO PHILOSOPHY TRT 75min The latest event in our Philosophical Screens series takes a closer look at this seminal and genre-defining mockumentary with its endlessly quotable lines and familiar pop film Join culture references. philosophers Lucy Bolton, William Brown and John Ó Maoilearca to explore the film’s cult status, the portrayal softness of and masculinity, and the relationship between truth comedy, and memory. Free to ticket-holders of This Is Spinal on Tap 22 Nov (see p28), otherwise £6.50 (must be booked in advance due to capacity) Image: MGM Studios MGM Image: ,

JJ 20:40 NFT3 FRI 26 OCT20:30 NFT1* FRI23 NOV Also available on which in turn led to him being recognised internationally as a true comic genius. Having been adopted into an African-American family, Navin R Johnson leaves St for Louis to find his place in the world. Along the way he becomes an assassin’s target, joins a carnival and falls in love. Steve Martin drew on elements his of own stand-up act when writing The Jerk + INTRO BY BY + INTRO JERK THE ACTOR MARC WOOTTON* USA Dir 1979. Carl Reiner. With Steve Martin, Walsh, Emmet M Peters, Bernadette Mabel King. 94min. Digital. 12A JJ ’s reputation’s has grown before they’re on the brink war. of Like many comedies in our season, Duck Soup since its initial release and is widely considered to be a comic masterpiece. Also available on 19:00 NFT1 SAT 17 NOV 17 SAT 24 SAT NOV20:45 NFT2 MON 12 NOV 12 MON 14:30 NFT3 The Marx Brothers find themselves up incaught escalating tensions between two small countries, and on different sides. With plenty bad of feeling, spying and personal insults flying between them too isn’t it long USA 1933. Dir Leo McCarey. With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx.Digital68min. (4K). U DUCK SOUP 28 COMEDY GENIUS book onlineat bfi.org.uk/comedy-genius book a conscience. with killer serial ahouse-proud as Turner Kathleen features Waters John from comedy dark gloriously This next! be could you –and for murder appetite an has also but she housewife suburban ordinary an like seem may Sutphin Beverly beware: then careless plain just or are responsibility of social sense apoor have you’reIf ill-mannered, 18 Digital. 93min. Lillard. Matthew Lake, Ricki Waterston, Sam Turner, Kathleen With Waters. John Dir 1994. USA SERIAL MOM comedy stand-up of 10 minutes by preceded classics late-night enjoy and back Kick STONER SATURDAYS Also available on on available Also R 6OTSAT 3NOV NFT3 20:45 OCT 26 FRI 23:00 NFT1 23:00

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GA 17:50 NFT3 MON 22 OCT SUN NOV 11 18:10 NFT3 by a genuinely touching tender romanticism. and verbal felicities are all present and correct, accompanied but THE LADY EVE LADY THE DirUSA Preston 1941. Sturges. Henry Fonda, Stanwyck, Barbara With U Digital. 93min. Coburn. Charles chronicles classic Sturges’ Preston the shipboard encounter between an innocent, snake-loving rich boy (Fonda) and a beautiful card-sharp (Stanwyck). After falling her, for alertedhe’s to her profession and dismisses her as a gold-digger, whichat point she decides to wreak ingenious revenge. Sturges’ innuendo slapstick, customary Also available on

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SUN 28 OCT MON 29 OCT 15:30 NFT1 35mm The definitive ‘screwball’ movie, with a stiff, stuffy palaeontologist (Grant) driven to irrational acts when he encounters an eccentric socialite (Hepburn) – with who characteristic illogic – decides his antipathy towards her is really romantic desire. USA 1938. Dir Howard Hawks. With Cary Grant, , Charles Ruggles. 102min. BRINGING SCREWBALL SUNDAYS SCREWBALL a whip-smartIt’s battle of the sexes ( All films will be preceded by a classic comedy clip or short film ) 30 COMEDY GENIUS Also available on on available Also book onlineat bfi.org.uk/comedy-genius book coincidence. absurd pleasingly and characters colourful marvellously in revels film the imaginative, outrageously Almost complicated... really get things Then (Vallee). billionaire adotty into bump to happens just she husband, second awealthy of finding hope the in for Florida atrain boards she as problems; financial pressing of because (McCrea) husband her leave (Colbert) awoman sees money and lies of sex, saga sparkling This U Digital. 83min. Astor. Mary Vallee, Rudy McCrea, Joel Colbert, Claudette With Sturges. Preston Dir 1942. USA THE PALM BEACH STORY 18:20 NFT3 MON 12 NOV 15:40 NFT1 15:40 18 NOV SUN GA

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JB grew up with; they knew that good comedy was truthful and drew topical social satire from casual conversations.The pair received OBEs their for role in the war effort – here showing children that evacuation could be fun, and keeping up morale with comic songs and a knees-up in a tube shelter. 35mm U PROJECTING THE THE ARCHIVE PROJECTING A rare chance see to rediscovered British features from the BFI National Archive THU NOV 15 NFT318:20 Long before Wood and Walters, Gert and Daisy reigned as Britain’s top female comedy over for duo 30 years, and were so famous that London Zoo named two elephants after them. Popular on stage and radio, the sisters moved into cinema, and this feature was their first (and best) starring vehicle. Their down-to-earth observational humour captured the voices the of East-End women they + INTRO BY CLAIRE BY + INTRO WEEKEND DAISY’S GERT AND ANGLIA EAST OF UNIVERSITY MORTIMER, Dir MacleanUK 1941. Rogers. With Elsie Waters, Doris Waters, Iris Vandeleur,Wally Patch. 86min.

EVERY TUE FROM 23 OCT-27 NOV 18:30-20:30 STUDIO Join tutor Graham Rinaldi for bookTo place, a quote course code HF160 when you call 020 7831 7831 or visit citylit.ac.uk Course fee £109, concs £48 See for p70 more BFI courses FILM AT THE BFI: COMEDY COMEDY BFI: THE AT FILM TWO – LIKE ACTS DOUBLE IN A POD PEAS this six-session exploration of screen From comedy. the silent era to the cinema present day, has produced variety a performers of and writers have who brought the gift laughter of to the silver screen. Through presentations, clips and discussions, we invite you to revisit these loveable screen double acts and ensembles. Evening and weekend courses for adults adults for courses weekend and Evening BFI COURSES BFI on a range of craft subjects Abbott and Costello and Abbott

JJ series starring Peter SUN NOV 11 14:30 NFT1* Inspector Clouseau is back in another instalment the of hugely successful Pink Panther Sellers. Clouseau is under attack from some the of world’s leading assassins after another run-in with his still ex-boss, who’s unable to deal with his hatred towards his old colleague. With international spies, his trusty manservant Cato’s martial arts and the threat from a Doomsday Machine, non-stop mayhem ensues. USA Dir 1976. Blake Edwards. With Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Leslie-Anne Down, Bert Kwouk. 123min. 35mm PG PANTHER PINK THE + INTRO AGAIN STRIKES AUTHOR AND ACTOR BY WALLIAMS* DAVID See p68 for more family films and workshops SENIORS PETERLOO Free matinees and talks for the over 60s BACKED BY Dir. Mike Leigh THE BFI

POSSUM The Life of Brian 26 OCTOBER FREE FREE TALK Director Matthew Holness’ debut feature follows disgraced children’s puppeteer Philip SENIORS’ FREE MATINEE: SENIORS’ FREE TALK: (Sean Harris) who is forced to confront his THE NAKED TRUTH WHAT HAVE THE FILM + Q&A WITH AUTHOR COMEDIANS EVER DONE wicked stepfather and the dark secrets that GRAHAM RINALDI AND FOR US? have tortured his own life. BFI PROGRAMMER TRT 120min DICK FIDDY Mirror images, wordplay, ham acting, PETERLOO UK 1957. Dir Mario Zampi. With Peter Sellers, murder, slapstick, cross-dressing, Terry Thomas, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton. satire, dancing, fine wines, repetition, 2 NOVEMBER 94min. Format tbc. U school days and public health will all Award-winning director Mike Leigh’s epic This vintage gem, with a cast packed be discussed in this illustrated talk portrayal of the events surrounding the full of British comedy genius, was highlighting our two-month 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful penned by prolific comedy writer blockbuster comedy season. Join Michael Pertwee. It’s a wickedly author Graham Rinaldi as he explores Airplane! pro-democracy rally turned into one of the funny satire about the tabloid press, the practitioners who have made us most notorious episodes in British history. and follows a scandal-sheet publisher cry with laughter through the CONTRIBUTORS: who profits by blackmailing wealthy years. DS targets, including a peer, a TV star, Free for over-60s (booking by phone or in a model and an author... until finally person only), otherwise normal matinee price GA Geoff Andrew GG Gaylene Gould

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Join us for a season of fearless Jane’s finest moments, invites Gaylene Gould, BFI Head of Cinema and Events Jane Fonda has led a remarkable life. She has fully exercised not just her body but every facet of her complex personality across a 60-year career. Actor, activist, fitness guru and writer – to track Fonda’s life is to take an off-road trip through American history. In the era of Lyndon B Johnson she embodied the sexy, insouciance of the 60s. As Nixon turned a darker corner, Fonda controversially dedicated her on and off-screen time to anti-war and civil rights protests. The Washington Post dubbed her ‘a beautiful bundle of contradictions.’ And now, in the age of Trump, she’s back with a vengeance delivering blistering speeches on behalf of Black Lives Matter and selling age-appropriate sex toys to elder women in the Netflix series Grace and Frankie. See how it all began in part one of our two-month season.

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18:00 NFT3 WED 24 OCT SUN 4 NOV 20:45 NFT1 an unlikely pair newlyweds, of try to make their relationship work after they move into a minuscule top-floor apartment in Greenwich village, Barefoot in the Park Barefoot DirUSA Gene 1967. Saks. With Jane Fonda, 106min. Boyer. Robert Charles Redford, PG Digital. Free-spirited Corie (Fonda) and conservative Paul (Redford), with in a hole the ceiling and quirky neighbours. Perennial ‘it girl’ Fonda is exceedingly charming in this lovely Neil Simon-penned romcom, released a year before she hit superstardom with Barbarella hitman contracted to take Cat’s out father and the chaotic, drunken gunfighter she employs to protect him. also It’s notable being for the great King Nat final Cole’s picture. for playing for a ® 20:40 NFT2 35mm PG FRI 26 OCT NFT318:20 FRI2 NOV dual role, as both a cold-hearted Cat Ballou USA 1965. Dir Elliot Silverstein. With Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Nat96min. King Cole. Jane Fonda shows great range in this a as comedy--musical devoted daughter-turned-outlaw. Lee Marvin won an Oscar

TALK MON 12 NOV 12 MON LIBRARY REUBEN BFI 18:30 Five Acts Five Tickets £6.50 Tickets See p6 for a preview of Jane Fonda in TRT 100min Political activist in the 1960s, two-time Academy Award-winner in the 1970s, fitness guru in the 1980s, non-profit founder in the 1990s with a strong acting comeback in the 2000s; Jane Fonda has lived many successful lives. Join our guest speakers to examine career Fonda’s reinventions, her defining on-screen performances, and her cultural and political significance beyond cinema. The Many Lives of Jane Fonda The Many Lives of Jane 36 JANE FONDA book onlineat bfi.org.uk book queen alesbian angel, ablind with encounter an includes journey space subsequent Her weapon. deadly a with destruction Earth’s planning thwart Durand-Durand, a scientist out to rep aUN Barbarella, about sci-fi cult this in excels Fonda Jane 15 Digital. 98min. Pallenberg. Anita Hemmings, David O’Shea, Milo Fonda, Jane With Vadim. Roger Dir 1968. USA Barbarella 18:30 SAT NFT1 3NOV OCT SAT 27 20:40 NFT3 20:40 hugely influential. hugely proved have design and visuals but Barbarella prophetic, not be may future of the vision its on, years Fifty pleasure. sexual excessive causes that amachine and

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Incorporating fantasy, horror and , the French fantastique genre has a weird and wonderful tradition of its own, writes Sight & Sound’s James Bell From the very first films by the Lumière brothers, French cinema has been perceived as tending towards the real; but there’s an alternative tradition that also stretches back to the dawn of cinema – that of the fantastique. It incorporates elements of fantasy, horror and science fiction into bizarre, atmospheric tales in which the unexplained and the supernatural intrude into reality. From the magical illusions of Georges Méliès, the fantastique flourished again during the German occupation, reached poetic heights in the films of Jean Cocteau and Georges Franju, found parallel expressions in Belgium, and was revitalised in the post-New Wave 1970s and beyond.

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TUE 23 OCT THU 1 NOV20:15 NFT2 France Dir 1924. René Clair. With Henri Rollan, Charles Martinelli, Louis Pré Fils. 72min. Digital. EST René Clairdeploys the full bag of cinematic tricks in this tale a of scientist invents who a ray that freezesthe people Paris of – all except a fortunate handful, take who gleeful advantage their of surreal new cityscape. This UK premiere of the restored version returns the film to its original length. + France 1926. Dir René Clair. With Jean Börlin, Dolly Davis, AlbertPréjean. 71min. 35mm EST Ina daydream, a shy bank clerk is led by a fairyinto a subterranean world where people transform into animals and waxworks come to life. Lucie, his office crush, follows him a bad – but fairy is intent on keeping themapart. René Clair Double-bill (with liveRené Clair Double-bill (with piano accompaniment): Paris qui dort Blood and Roses and Blood is a , looking the at c , will trace its ihalilovi ž Le Cinéma fantastique the French Weird Weird the French

TALK THU 25 OCT NFT318:30 influence Surrealism, of the wartime golden age and the experiments of the 1970s, up to the present day. Tickets £6.50 Tickets French filmic tradition ripe for rediscovery. In this talk, Virginie Sélavy, the founder and editor of Electric Sheep development from Georges Méliès to Lucile Had Taking in fairy tales, horror and science fiction, the marvellous and the strange, the dreamlike and the uncanny, TRT 90min Le fantastique: A Curious Tour Tour Le fantastique: A Curious of 40 FANTASTIQUE book onlineat bfi.org.uk book love. of power unvanquishable the by thwarted efforts their but find suffering, spreading on intent castle white at a magnificent who appear Cuny) and (Arletty devil of the emissaries two follows Laroche, Pierre and Prévert Jacques by written fantasy, medieval Carné’s authorities. Nazi the escape would meanings true whose stories allegorical sought filmmakers as occupation, German the during France fantastique Tales of the 120min. Déa. Marie Ledoux, Fernand Cuny, Alain Arletty, With Carné. Marcel Dir 1942. France Les Visiteurs dusoir 17:30 NFT2 17:30 2NOV FRI OCT 28 SUN EST. PG EST. 35mm 20:30 NFT3 20:30 flourished in in flourished

who works by night at Paris’ Les Les at Paris’ night by who works (Gravey) astudent follows adventure merveilleux of the master original the Méliès, Georges to atribute as Conceived EST 35mm 90min. Blier. Bernard Fabre, Saturnin Presle, Micheline Gravey, Fernand With L’Herbier. Marcel Dir 1942. France La Nuitfantastique 13:30 NFT3 OCT 29 13:30 MON OCT SAT 27 , L’Herbier’s nocturnal 20:40 NFT2 20:40 visually stylised dream world. world. dream stylised visually a into who hepursues (Presle), white in woman beautiful ethereally an sees dreams his in and shift, one asleep falls He market. Halles diabolical web. diabolical a in trapped becomes artist the as France, of Vichy paranoia the evokes parable Faustian gripping but Tourneur’s at what cost? success, promised the brought The talisman riches. bring it would who said a man from hand left adisembodied bought heonce of how story the recounts and inn at an stops (Fresnay) apainter night, stormy and dark One EST 35mm 80min. Palau. Fresnay, Josseline Gaël, Noël Roquevert, France 1943. Dir Maurice Tourneur. With Pierre La Maindudiable 16:00 NFT3 16:00 SAT 3NOV OCT SAT 27 20:20 NFT2

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serials Louis of Feuillade, surgery. Inspired by the silent-era fantastique Franju brought an eerie, expressionist poetry to this still-shocking tale, and created a masterpiece of the macabre. Also available on 18:20 NFT318:20 TUE NOV 13 FRI 3020:45 NOV NFT1 Les Yeux sans visage Eyes Without a Face Les Yeux France- 1960. Dir Georges Franju. With Alida Valli, Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob,Mayniel. Juliette 90min. Digital (new 2K restoration). 15 EST. Driven to restore his daughter’s horribly disfigured face, a plastic surgeon (Brasseur), aided by his assistant (Valli), lures young women to his secluded chateau, where he pursues his grisly quest in his private in his

35mm English version. 18 SUN NOV 11 WED NOV 14 20:00 NFT3 20:30 NFT3 France-Italy 1960. Dir Roger Vadim. With Annette Stroyberg, Elsa Martinelli, Mel Ferrer. 74min. Roger Vadim brings an artful eroticism to the fantastique influential, rarely screened vampire then-wifetale. Vadim’s Annette Stroyberg plays lovelorn aristocrat Carmilla Karnstein, may who be possessed by the vengeful spirit of her vampiric ancestor Millarcha von Karnstein. film’s The otherworldly atmosphere is heightened by the haunting score and sumptuous Technicolor palette. Blood and Roses Et mourir de plaisir

16:00 NFT3 SUN 28 OCT NOV 17 SAT 13:00 NFT2 André Lefaur, Odette Joyeux, Alain Cuny, 35mm 98min. EST Cocteau. Jean The unmistakeable poetic hand of Jean Cocteau is throughout felt de Poligny’s 19th-century mystery. Two young sisters, Effy and Anne, are taken by their countess mother to be brought up in a dilapidated castle whose owner (Cocteau) has disappeared. Several years with later, the help the of gamekeeper’s son (Cuny), they uncover the secret his of disappearance. With costumes by Christian Dior. France 1943. Dir Serge de Poligny. With The Phantom Baron Le Baron fantôme Le Baron 42 FANTASTIQUE book onlineat bfi.org.uk book increase. couple the between suspicions and on goings strange insects, and animals Hugues’ with fills apartment the As apartment. large her into moves and agency adating through (Karina) Jeanne who meets vet a Hugues, as stars himself Carrière Carrière. Jean-Claude collaborator Buñuel Luis by novel own his from adapted film, overlooked Chalonge’s through creeps unease A foreboding EST 35mm 90min. Sadoyan. Carrière,Anna Isabelle Karina, Jean-Claude France 1970. Dir Christian de Chalonge. With The Wedding RingL’alliance WED 7 NOV THU 22 NOV 22 THU NFT2 20:40 7NOV WED 18:30 NFT2

leave the house. house. leave the again never to promise they if only but heirs, his to estate his divide to pledged has (Welles) Cassavius uncle ailing His intrigue. with it rife find –to chambers secret and corridors of endless mansion labyrinthine –a Malpertuis home family his to return (Carrière) asailor sees film Ray, Jean Kümel’s Poe’ Belgian ‘the by novel acelebrated from Adapted Cinémathèque royale de Belgique. EST. 18 print courtesy of 35mm 124min. Carrière. Hampshire, Michel Bouquet, Mathieu Susan Welles, Orson With Kümel. Harry 1971. Dir Germany Belgium-France-West Malpertuis FRI 26 OCT WED 21 NOV 21 WED NFT2 18:05 OCT 26 FRI 20:40 NFT3 20:40 toward madness. toward edge and out again... back way their find to unable they’re realise they falls darkness but as tryst, romantic for a graveyard deserted a rambling, head into Quester) and (Pascal couple a tale, beguiling this In own. their all atmosphere of ahaunting possessed Also available on on available Also the and eroticism horror, Encompassing EST. 15 Digital. 86min. Perrey. Natalie Quester, Hugues Pascal, Françoise With Rollin. Jean 1973. Dir France The Iron RoseLadefer 21:00 NFT2 16 NOV 21:00 FRI SAT 10NOV fantastique 20:40 NFT2 20:40 , Jean Rollin’s films are are films Rollin’s , Jean fable, Had fable, part-feminist tale, fairy Part-Grimm them… awaits that ceremony graduation the about spread rumours Chilling of teachers. ahandful only with world outside the from off cut days their spend girls pre-pubescent the where school, boarding a hides forest athick in Deep 121min. Bérangère Haubruge, Marion Cotillard. With Zoé Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Hadzˇihalilovi´c. Lucile Dir 2004. France Innocence the the to vision new disquieting uniquely a debut brought mysterious eerie, 20:30 NFT3 20:30 NFT3 20:30 NFT3 20:30 MON 26 NOV MON 19 NOV fantastique 35mm 15 35mm ž ihalilovi . c ’s brilliantly

‘A UNIQUE AND UNDERRATED FILMMAKER, NOBODY LIKE HER’ ALI SMITH, LUXONLINE

Margaret Tait’s work reminds us of what cinema is and can be, writes season curator Peter Todd Born on Armistice Day 1918 on Orkney, Margaret Tait went to school (and university) in Edinburgh, but always returned to the family home in Kirkwall. After service as a doctor in World War Two, she studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in . Returning to Scotland in the early 1950s she made over 30 distinctive films, most self- funded and shot on 16mm. In her 70s she made her only feature, Blue Black Permanent (produced by the BFI), the first by a woman in Scotland. She often quoted García Lorca’s phrase ‘stalking the image’ to define her philosophy and method – the idea that if you look at an object close enough it will speak its nature. On her centenary, we offer you the chance to discover and enjoy Tait’s unique mix of image, sound, rhythm and poetry.

WANT MORE? IN COLLABORATION WITH See p67 for Experimenta Read Tait’s self-published books of poems, Origins and Elements and Legends and Lyrics, Coordinated by LUX Scotland, University of in the BFI Reuben Library Stirling, and Pier Arts Centre With special thanks to THE FILMS OF MARGARET TAIT MARGARET TAIT 45 @BFI

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MON 5 NOV 5 MON 20:45 NFT3 The Margaret Tait Award + Q&A Award Tait The Margaret Kate Davis, Sarahwith directors and Duncan Marquiss Forrest Experimenta Presents: Dialogue:Cross-generation TRT 120min Supported by Glasgow Film Festival, LUX Scotland and Creative Scotland, the Margaret Award was founded Tait in to 2010 support experimental and innovative artists working with film and the moving image. In this programme, we present the eclectic and fascinating works produced by previous winners (2015-2017) Duncan Marquiss, Kate Davis and Sarah Forrest – each reflecting Tait’s personal, individual approach, and the strength and dynamism artist of filmmaking in Scotland right now. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo Golden the and Echo Leaden The

(1974). (1974), a poem (1974), started Where I Am Is which Here (1964), Colour Poems Colour We alsoWe screen A Portrait Ga of (1952), a stunning film mother, about Tait’s and in words and finished in images. Plus shows the winter streets Edinburgh of – a beautiful contrast with Tait’s elemental masterpiece Aerial

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MON 5 NOV 5 MON 18:10 NFT3 + discussion with writer Anna Coatman, writer So Mayer, Anna Coatman, writer So Mayer, Film Poems + discussion with writer and season curator Peter Todd academic Lucy Reynolds TRT 120min This programmes includes Three Portrait Sketches (1951), and theand Golden Echo (1955) – Tait’s reading Gerard of Manley Hopkins’ poem set to her images, and MacDiarmid Hugh – A Portrait (1964). A Portrait of Ga of Portrait A

(1974), TALK MON 29 OCT 14:00 NFT3 See p32 for more seniors’ events Ali Smith as a ‘tiny masterpiece.’ a specially selected and introduced introduced and selected specially a programme short of films by Margaret as part Tait our of centenary celebration Scotland’s of renowned film poet. As well as a related Antonioni short, the event will include A Portrait Ga of (1952), an intimate portrait her of mother, Rose Street (1956), a film about Tait’s home in Edinburgh, and Aerial a film poem described by novelist TRT 90min Join season Peter Todd, curator, for Seniors’ Programme Matinee:Seniors’ Programme A Portrait of Margaret Tait: Tait: A Portrait of Margaret Filmmaker and Poet ‘Rich and rewarding’ SIGHT & SOUND ‘A visual rhapsody’ ★★★★ TOTAL FILM ‘Deeply felt love letter’ ★★★★ Land Makar Land Place of Work

Land Makar + intro by season Places of Work + intro by season curator Peter Todd curator Peter Todd TRT 83min TRT 85min Land Makar (1981) is a portrait of Tait’s On the Mountain (1974) offers visions farming neighbour Mary Graham of Rose Street in Edinburgh, Sinclair – a poet (‘makar’) of the where Tait lived, recording and land – as we follow her through the preserving the changes (between London Restoration Premiere: Blue Black Permanent seasons. Alongside this, we screen 1956 and 1974) with a transformation + intro by writer So Mayer two short films: The Drift Back (1956), from black-and-white to colour film. UK 1992. Dir Margaret Tait. With Celia Imrie, Gerda Stevenson, Jack Shepherd, James Fleet. tracing a family’s return to the Garden Pieces (1998) is a triptych 86min. Digital. PG Orkney island of Wyre, and garden portrait with both This haunting and magical film relationship with the ever-present Caora Mor: The Big Sheep (1966), and hand-drawn images. Finally, moves between Edinburgh and sea. Tait’s only feature-length film, which echoes the harsh Highland Place of Work (1976) and Tailpiece (1976) Orkney as it tells of a woman’s from her own screenplay, has been Clearances of 1810-1820, and how give lyrical mediations on Tait’s attempts to come to terms with her newly remastered in 2K by the BFI. ‘handed-down memories still Orkney family home. mother’s death through her + Calypso affect people.’ MARGARET TAIT childhood memories. Filled with UK 1955. Dir Margaret Tait. 4min flashbacks and dream sequences,

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There’s so much for you to get animated about over the next couple of months, write season co-programmers Justin Johnson and Jez Stewart Coming up, we unveil the long anticipated BBC-Netflix co-production focusing on the rabbits of Watership Down. We also showcase some new work created on the back of a special BFI and BBC partnership, and a new documentary commissioned by BBC4 to tie in with our year of animation. And one of the most important animation voices of all time, Richard Williams, turned 85 this year so we celebrate with him returning to the BFI to talk about and his unfinished masterpiece The Thief and the Cobbler. We also champion the work of the great Bob Godfrey.

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@BFI SAT 24SAT NOV 11:00 NFT1 BBC-Netflix Dir 2018. Noam Murro. With the Hoult, Nicholas McAvoy, James of voices John Boyega, . 50min Ep1 See p68 for more family films and workshops Watership Down + Q&A Watership TV Preview: When their home is threatened by humans, a band rabbits of must travel through dangerousterrain towards the beacon a promised of new land. This much-anticipated modern take on Richard Adams’ beloved tale adventure, of courage and survival promises to be an enthralling viewing experience – join us a preview for episode of one.

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. Four ® + Q&A DOC THU 1 NOV NFT318:20 decades on, Godfrey’s grandson Tom Lowe has tracked down many the of film’s crew a new for documentary that reveals the ups and downs a of production made despite the odds, and offers insight into the unique mind the of man behind it. BFI National Archive Bob ‘Roobarb’ Godfrey’s Great is a rollicking 30 minute musical cartoon biopic about Isambard Kingdom Brunel, that earned Britain its first animation Oscar TRT c.90min Great Bob Godfrey’s with Tom Lowe and guests, with Tom by the Jez Stewart, Curator, chaired 50 ANIMATION 2018 book onlineat bfi.org.uk book its Following time. at the Williams Richard animator and director its by sanctioned was version Neither 1995. Cobbler and the Princess The US: the in versions separate two in but released UK the in unreleased It was fans. animation for right own its in alegend become has miniatures, Persian and tales folk Eastern Middle by inspired and years Cobbler and the Thief The U Digital. 72min. Margolyes. Miriam , Price, Vincent of voices the With Williams. Richard Dir version). (Workprint 1993 USA + Q&Awithdirector Richard Williams The ThiefandtheCobbler:AMomentinTime 14:45 NFT1 14:45 NOV 25 SUN in 1993 and Arabian and Knight in 1993 in , made over 25 25 over , made In association with AMPAS Oscar of its company the in UK), the in seen it’s been time second the (only version Workprint 1992 original its in film the present we birthday, 85th Williams’ celebrate to 2014, and in atSouthbank BFI screening sold-out ® -winning creator. -winning

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Sebastián Lelio in Conversation The Sacred Family Christmas Navidad TRT c.90min La sagrada familia Chile-France 2009. Dir Sebastián Lelio. With Joining us on the BFI stage is Chile 2005. Dir Sebastián Lelio. Manuela Martelli, Diego Ruiz, Alicia Rodríguez. 99min. Digital. EST. 15 Academy Award-winning With Patricia López, Néstor Cantillana, Sergio Hernández. 99min. Digital. EST Chilean filmmaker Sebastián screenwriter and filmmaker Young couple Aurora (Martelli) and Lelio firmly placed himself Sebastián Lelio, whose work delves A family of architects plan a relaxing Alejandro (Ruiz) are shocked to find on the international cinema deep into notions of religious faith, Easter weekend away at a beach teen runaway Alicia (Rodríguez) family, grief and what it means to house, where the parents aim collapsed in the abandoned rural scene when his debut, La love someone. From his early short to meet their son’s first official home of Aurora’s recently deceased sagrada familia, screened films at the Chilean Film School girlfriend. But plans go awry when father. Unable to leave her alone, they at over 100 festivals. And to his upcoming English-language the mother is called away to tend allow Alicia to join them on a strange night as they recover a few family with only his fifth feature, remake of his own film Gloria, Lelio to an emergency – and the toxic, will discuss his career so far, and competitive relationship between items, and try to come to terms with he picked up an Academy offer insight into his creative process. Marco (Hernández) and his son their individual situations. Award. As Disobedience, See p12 for screenings of Disobedience Marco jr (Cantillana) emerges. his first English-language film, + Carga Vital Chile 2003. Dir Sebastián Lelio. 24min comes to UK cinemas (see A teenager hides her pregnancy from p12), we revisit the her family. work of this visually confident and emotionally profound filmmaker. ANNA BOGUTSKAYA, EVENTS PROGRAMMER WED 28 NOV FRI 26 OCT MON 5 NOV SAT 27 OCT MON 12 NOV 18:10 NFT3 20:40 NFT2 18:00 NFT2 20:30 NFT2 20:45 NFT2 CLOSE UP: SEBASTIÁN LELIO book online at bfi.org.uk CLOSE UP: SEBASTIÁN LELIO 53

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Cuatro WED 24 OCT FRI 30 NOV 18:10 NFT3 Diego Fontecilla. Digital. 110min. 15 EST. Gloria is 58-years-old and alone in the world. Divorced and with grown up children, she fills her days with travels and her nights with dancing and love affairs. Inspired by Lelio’s mother’s generation, the film centres on the inner life an of older woman, played flawlessly by Paulina García, dubbed ‘the of Latin America.’ + Chile 1996. Dir Sebastián Lelio. 12min A drunken night ends tragically. Gloria Lelio. Sebastián Dir Chile-Spain 2013. Hernández, Sergio García, Paulina With

20:10 NFT2 Música de cámara de Música TUE 30 OCT SUN NFT2 NOV 18 18:20 Chile 1996. Dir Sebastián Lelio. 10min A group musicians of rehearse a piece by Bach. JS + brought down the walls several of prisons, Lelio’s third feature centers on an escapee. Manuel (Dubó) takes advantage the of panic to journey across a devastated landscape in an attempt to reunite with his wife and daughter. Based on real-life events in 2010 when an earthquake in Chile Chile 2011. DirChile Sebastián 2011. Lelio. With Luis Herrera. Viviana Hernández, Sergio Dubó, 82min. Digital. EST The Year of the Tiger El año del tigre The Year The timeless films we urge you to see (for just £8), programmed by theme

Throne of Blood Kumonosu-jô + intro by Dr Alastair Phillips, GOING DOWNHILL University of Warwick* Japan 1957. Dir . With Toshirô To complement our Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki. 110min. comedy season (see 35mm EST. 12A Kurosawa’s transposition of Macbeth p16), our daily screenings Lola Montès + intro by Sight & Sound’s Isabel Stevens* to feudal Japan is one of the most of classic movies offer a France-West Germany 1955. Dir Max Ophuls. With Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton richly imaginative – and finest – reminder that life isn’t always Walbrook. 115min. Digital. EST. PG Shakespeare adaptations on film. a laughing matter; things Ophuls’ abiding theme was the in a tawdry circus act to which she’s Mifune is extraordinary as the transience of youth, happiness and now reduced, while flashbacks samurai Washizu, urged by his can go suddenly, surprisingly love, and here in his final, most convey her own rather more wife (Yamada) to kill the local lord, downhill. As viewers, ornately stylised feature he focuses romanticised memories of her a development that could only end we’re at a safe distance on the life of the famous 19th- glorious past. Brilliant, and badly. The combination of elements century adventureress. Some of the piercingly bittersweet. from Noh theatre with superb from events on screen, but dancer’s many affairs are re-enacted sets, costumes and cinematography that doesn’t prevent our makes for an authentically getting emotionally involved tragic atmosphere. in them. Bad stuff happens: Also available on c’est la vie... GEOFF ANDREW, PROGRAMMER-AT-LARGE SAT 27 OCT WED 31 OCT TUE 23 OCT WED 7 NOV Tickets for these screenings are only £8 20:40 NFT3 18:10 NFT3* 20:40 NFT3 18:10 NFT2* BIG SCREEN CLASSICS book online at bfi.org.uk BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 55 @BFI 20:50 STUDIO 20:50

20:40 NFT3 MON 22 OCT WED 24 OCT STUDIO 18:40 THU 1 NOV TUE 20 NOV STUDIO THU20:50 29 NOV STUDIO 18:40 Also available on Cries and Whispers Viskningar och rop Sweden Dir 1972. . With Liv Harriet Andersson. Thulin, Ingrid Ullmann, 92min. Digital. 15 EST. Mortality is universal, Bergman’s but frank bracingly elegant, ravishingly film about a woman visited on her deathbed by her two sisters allows that there are things in life least – not our fear dying of – worse than simply being longer no alive. Characteristically, the director looks pain,at anxiety, guilt and loneliness with an unblinking gaze; the sheer artistry is exhilarating.

Shot almostShot as if wereit a silent movie, this loose remake FW of classicMurnau’s is virtually cosmic mesmerisingly– but beautiful – in its wry pessimism. Also available on See p62 for Halloween films, and p66 for Vision Terror MON 19 NOV 19 MON 20:55 STUDIO20:55 STUDIO 20:50 20:15 NFT1 18:40 STUDIO 18:40 FRI 26 OCT SUN 4 NOV TUE 6 NOV Noseferatu: Phantom der Nacht Noseferatu: Phantom der Nosferatu the Vampyre West Germany-France Dir 1979. Werner Herzog. With Klaus Kinski, , Bruno Digital.107min. Ganz. 12A EST. Vampire movies are predicated on the notion that suffering is contagious and ever-increasing, but Herzog adds in the tedious misery of immortality; Kinski’s Nosferatu, far from being a ravenous seducer, is wretched andweary in his solitude.

18:40 STUDIO 18:40 20:15 NFT3 SUN NOV 18 20:15 NFT3 THU 25 OCT STUDIO SUN 28 OCT18:40 THU NOV 15 Also available on A middle-aged English couple are taking a break in Italy; they’re already bored with their marriage, thebut unaccustomed blend of intimacy and isolation in a foreign land brings them to a crisis of recrimination. and complaint dissectionRossellini’s remarkable Italy-France 1954. Dir Roberto Rossellini. Rossellini. Roberto Dir 1954. Italy-France Maria Sanders, George Bergman, Ingrid With Mauban. 86min. Digital. PG EST. Journey Viaggio to Italy in Italia of maritalof frustrations is notable for the way he creates enormously affecting drama from a narrative in which little the of out ordinary occurs. actually 56 BIG SCREEN CLASSICS book onlineat bfi.org.uk book compassion. great and humour wry for subtlety, makes change social towards attitude ambivalent Welles’ comeuppance... a have can Ambersons the even But of town. edge the on mansion their in safe feel who still dynasty, titular the on centred era gentler of a account elegiac persuasively a amasterpiece, remains novel superb equally Tarkington’s Booth of adaptation Welles’ superb RKO, by mutilated infamously Though 88min. Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter. With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Welles. Orson Dir 1942. USA Programmer-at-large* + intro byGeoff Andrew, The MagnificentAmbersons 18:10 NFT2* 18:10 OCT 30 TUE OCT 24 WED 35mm U 35mm 20:30 NFT3 20:30

rural France who toils for her ailing ailing for her who toils France rural in girl peasant of apoor existence wretched the sentimentality, without and simply It depicts, affecting. profoundly most of his one also is film direct Bresson’s most Robert 15 EST. 82min. 35mm Hébert. Paul Cardinal, Marie Nortier, Nadine With Bresson. Robert Dir 1966. France Mouchette 20:30 NFT3 20:30 8NOV THU OCT 29 MON 20:45 NFT3 20:45 effects of human cruelty. of human effects of the assessment compassionate yet clear-eyed cool, its in unflinching is direction Bresson’s austere worse. and at school, ostracised is father, of her neglect the suffers mother,

American Dream. postwar of the frustrations and aspirations economic and social the into insights acute by accompanied is direction expressionist sometimes eloquent, Thebold, family. his who tyrannises egomaniac arrogant and domineering a into condition, medical fatal for apotentially prescribed cortisone the by transformed, who is teacher mild-mannered middle-class, middle-aged, the as Mason James by performance superb a boasts Ray’s masterpiece Nicholas 12A 35mm 95min. Matthau. Walter Mason, Rush, Barbara Christopher Olsen, James Ray. With Nicholas Dir 1956. USA Andrew, Programmer-at-large* Bigger ThanLife 20:30 NFT2 20:30 MON 5 NOV 18:10 NFT3* 18:10 14 NOV WED + intro by Geoff + intro byGeoff BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 57

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made explicit in the fragmented, impressionistic narrative, the but emotional contours are crystal clear thanks to the resonance the of limpid images and the broodingly effective performances.

18:10 NFT2* , Denis relocates Billy Budd SUN NOV 11 FRI NOV 16 NFT220:20 WED 21 NOV NFT2 18:20 + intro by Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer and critic* Cinema Producer Judah, Watershed by Tara + intro Beau Travail France 1999. Dir Claire Denis. With Denis Lavant, Grégoire Colin, Michel Subor. 93min. Imaginatively adapting Herman Melville’s pointless (but strangely balletic) exercises in the desert. Little is 35mm EST. 15 the story murky of passion, jealous resentment and remorse to Africa, where a detachment the of Foreign Legionperforms apparently

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20:50 STUDIO 20:50 MON 22 OCT 3 NOV SAT 20:45 NFT2 SUN 25 NOV France 1958. Dir Louis Malle. With Maurice Georges Poujouly, Moreau, Jeanne Ronet, . 92min. Digital. PG EST. An ex-soldier (Ronet) and his lover (Moreau) the plot perfect murder herof husband, things but don’t quite go to plan as another couple unwittingly get in on the act. Conceived with clockwork precision and featuring a memorably moody soundtrack by Miles Davis, Malle’s pushes poor timing and bad luck to the max. Incredibly ingenious and stylish. Lift to the Scaffold Ascenseur pour l’échafaud

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18:20 NFT318:20 THU 25 OCT FRI 2 NOV18:15 NFT2 10 NOV SAT ’s ultra-noir Mickey Spillane adaptation centres on (but hardly celebrates) private eye Mike Hammer, a man almost as brutal as those he encounters during his investigations into a labyrinthine mystery that starts with the murder a crazed,of near-naked hitchhiker he picked The murky up. underworld Hammer explores is as nothing next to the blinding light revelation of as the case is ‘solved’. USA 1955. Dir Robert Aldrich. Dir 1955. USA Kiss Me Deadly With Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Maxine Cooper. 106min. Digital. 12A SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER

Ace in the Hole Chinatown USA 1951. Dir Billy Wilder. With , USA 1974. Dir Roman Polanski. With Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall. Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston. JOIN THE LIVE CULTURAL CONVERSATION 111min. Digital. PG 130min. Digital 4K. 15 Billy Wilder’s most bitterly cynical With its richly resonant script by film focuses on a frighteningly fine Robert Towne, Polanski’s crime performance by Douglas as Chuck classic examines the myths of 30s Theorem Teorema + intro by Dr Matilde Nardelli, University of West London* Tatum, a down-at-heel journalist Los Angeles and finds, beneath the In the past few years podcasts have gone from a curiosity to a Italy 1968. Dir Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, who ruthlessly exploits a man city’s genesis, growth and sunlit powerhouse, with more podcasts live in the world than ever before. Anne Wiazemsky. 98min. Digital. EST. 15 trapped in a cave to win a scoop, splendour, dark torrents of greed, An exhilarating mix of Pasolini’s family. The evocation of ritual and control the ongoing story, and so corruption and illicit desire. When political sentiments and poetic revelation, desire and damnation is repair his career. After all, everyone self-satisfied private eye JJ Gittes In this first edition of Podstock, we present a one day celebration instincts, this measures the effects of almost primeval, yet it makes for enjoys a ‘human interest’ story... (Nicholson) takes on a divorce of all things pod with a curated selection of the most entertaining a beautiful stranger’s unexpected marvellous modernist cinema. One A witheringly acerbic portrait of assignment, he little realises what arrival at – and later his equally of Pasolini’s greatest achievements. everyday vices, Ace in the Hole is as he’s getting into – or whom his live editions of popular podcasts. sudden departure from – the Also available on relevant today as when it was made. actions will affect. mansion of a wealthy industrialist Check bfi.org.uk for the full programme BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

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Sylvia + intro Nigeria 2018. Dir Daniel Oriahi. With Zainab Balogun, Chris Attoh, Ini Dima Okojie. 130min. Digital Following the success of the internationally acclaimed neo-noir Taxi Driver (Oko Ashewo), Oriahi Opening Night Gala (UK Premiere): The Burial of Kojo continues to push the boundaries of + Q&A with director Sam Blitz Bazawule what we know and love in Nollywood Ghana-USA 2018. Dir Sam Blitz Bazawule. With Ama K Abebrese, Henry Adofo, cinema. This intense psychological Kobina Amissah-Sam. 100min. Digital. EST thriller centres on the childhood Sam Blitz Bazawule’s assured debut tragedy. Seven years after the friendship between Richard and incorporates the richness of musical accidental death of his bride at the Sylvia, which matures in troubled ‘SUMMER IS A influences from his background as a hands of his brother Kojo, Kwabena waters during the pair’s adulthood WISTFUL FILM hip-hop artist with mystical appears with the promise of riches when Richard decides to marry his undercurrents. The film provides an from illegal gold mining... and a long-term girlfriend Gbemi. ABOUT ROCK intimate view of a Ghanaian family thinly veiled desire for revenge. REBELLION SET full of love yet overwhelmed by AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF 80S MOSCOW’ TIM STEVENS, HEAD OF EVENTS AND PRODUCTION FRI 2 NOV SAT 3 NOV 18:10 NFT1 14:00 NFT2 SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS Summer (p65) book online at bfi.org.uk SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS 61

@BFI puts a DOC THU 8 NOV 18:15 NFT3 Lost Warrior + Lost Warrior Q&A Farah, Nasib Dirs 2018. Denmark-Sweden Søren Steen Jespersen. 85min. Digital. EST Mohammed lives underground inMogadishu with papers. no Deported from the UK and in hiding from Al-Shabaab, the terrorist organisation he abandoned, he clings to a single hope – to escape Somalia and reunite with his young wife and child Warrior in London. Lost human face to the headlines with an investigation the of complex political circumstances that drive many to the most marginal positions. of

from her alter-ego Supa Modo, and in doing so reminds us how imagination, movies and comic books can inspire hope where there is and none, help us heal. SUN 4 NOV 16:00 NFT3 Supa Modo + intro Kenya-Germany Dir 2018. Likarion Wainaina. With Stycie Waweru, Marrianne EST Digital. Nungo, 74min. Ndambia. Nyawara Disguised as a adventure, first-time director Wainaina’s deeply emotional family tale follows young heroine Nine-years-old Jo. and terminally ill, she draws strength SAT 3 NOVSAT 18:00 NFT2 Akin Omotoso’s bold experiment with tone and visual poetics is immersive and largely silent – signalling a world possibility of for African filmmaking. Instripped- a back performance, Nollywood starlet Ikpe-Etim’s softens into the carefully crafted soundscape and cinematography. Set in Lagos, Zanzibar and Cape the Town, film follows Lola as she grapples with an immense sense failure of from a broken marriage, while desperately holding on to the idea love. of Nigeria-South Dir Africa Akin Omotoso. 2017. With Nse Ikpe-Etim, Kemi ‘Lala’ Akindoju, Digital 55min. Montsho. Mmabatho A Hotel Called Memory + A Hotel Called Memory intro 62 SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS book onlineat bfi.org.uk book the destroy to planning are return, in They Cybermen. –the universe the in foes deadly most defeat of the one and try to together work planets of of agroup 2526. Inhabitants year the in Earth on themselves finds Adric Tegan and Nyssa, companions his and Doctor the story, this In Studios BBC of Courtesy Digital. 90min. Waterhouse. Matthew Sutton, Sarah Fielding, Janet Davison, Peter With Grimwade. Peter Dir 1982. UK Matthew Waterhouse :Earthshock+Q&AwithwriterEricSaward andactor 12:00 NFT1 12:00 SAT 17 NOV released on Blu-ray on Mon 19 Nov Mon on Blu-ray on released 19 is –Season Collection The Who: Doctor less) £2 pay £12 (Members £15, concs Tickets converted to HD. to converted up- been has and mix sound 5.1 anew has story This amission. on Lord of aTime arrival the in factored but haven’t for all, and once Earth

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THU 22 NOV 20:30 NFT3 Best Friends Forever 88minTRT These short films show friendships between women that are intense, profound and not usually presented on the screen in their full spectrum complexity.of BFFs and girl gangs are the protagonists: friends that drive you to the doctors, friends to daydream with, and friends that bemay not your friends all. at Hooves of Clay of Hooves

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WED 21 NOV 20:30 NFT2 See p16 forSee our p16 Comedy Genius season Hysterical 87min TRT Whoever said women funny aren’t clearly met these hasn’t ladies. Led by hilarious comediennes, and female writers and directors, this selection shorts of will make you LOL IRL. Unexpected body parts, talking machines and aliens (not in the same film) make up some the of quirky, irreverent always but poignant comedy shorts in this fun programme. Fishboy

TUE 20 NOV NFT318:20 Once Upon a Time + Q&A 88min TRT A boy might who be a fish,a girl who might have werewolf genes, a mystery about a missing egg, a festival love story between a robot and a scarecrow... These shorts take stories love, of family and trauma and elevate them to something more magical, fantastical and even phantasmagorical. Let go notions of realityof and dive first head into this collection dark of fairytales. Victoria Sin Victoria

FRI NOV 16 NFT318:30 This event will be followed by a reception in The opening night this of year’s Underwire Festival puts women centre stage – and hopeful for the future. Room Blue the Meet theyoung girls and the women past,of present and future. These are films stories, that women’s put their interiority and points view of first, they occupy their spaces proudly, question the meaning femininity of and explore power what means. TRT 93min TRT The Future BelongsOpening Night: The Future to Us + Q&A UNDERWIRE FILM FESTIVAL FILM UNDERWIRE The only UK’s film festival celebrating female filmmaking talentacross thecrafts 64 SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS book onlineat bfi.org.uk book curator BFI Dixon, Bryony world. generation that wanted to change the a1960s from WWI of criticism angry Wa aLovely What Oh! generations. recent from films British three to War, on move we World First the generations of filmmakers responded to successive how of examination centenary our conclude we As World War One–RegenerationsII class family’sclass experience. working- arural of prism the through channels that cynicism and class anger Private And Peaceful change. of expectation no with it’s leadership, war’s the of acritique is there if and, individuals on war of effects the of melancholy and nuanced reflection Regeneration is a more amore is r is a funny and and afunny is again

Olivier. 144min. Digital. PG Digital. 144min. Olivier. Laurence Bogarde, Dirk Smith, Maggie Farrell, Colin With Attenborough. Richard Dir 1969. UK Oh! WhataLovelyWar and shattering. and brilliant is shot final Attenborough’s Tommies. cannon-fodder of the fate devastating the to counter progressively run songs music-hall cheery and settings Brighton-pier film’s musical,’ the –the Donkeys by Led ‘Lions Essentially film. anti-war Mia! Mamma –no not songs period from woven anarrative and concept genius a with show of astage adaptation An 14:30 NFT2 14:30 11 NOV SUN , but a landmark , but alandmark 17:50 NFT2 17:50 MON 12 NOV in a world far madder than they are. they than madder far aworld in sanity and sensitivity responsibility, and of class issues with wrestle Prior Billy officer working-class and Owen Wilfred and Sassoon Siegfried War poets trauma. psychological their treat to tries (Pryce) Rivers Dr sympathetic where Hospital, Craiglockhart the to trenches of the horrors the from removed of officers agroup concerns film MacKinnon’s novel, Pat Barker’s from Adapted 15 tbc. 114min. Format Scott. Dougray Miller, Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee UK-Canada 1997. Dir Gillies MacKinnon. With Gillies MacKinnon* Regeneration 17:30 NFT2* 17:30 NOV 21 WED 11 NOV SUN 18:15 NFT3 18:15 + intro by director + intro bydirector joining up. up. joining into landowner the by bullied are who Peaceful, Tommo Charlie and lads, village of two back-story rural the on attention O’Connor’s Pat director by served well thesis It’s forever. a life village changed that watershed great the was WWI that is days) these curriculum school the on Peaceful Private book his in thesis central Morpurgo’s Michael 12A Digital. 103min. Peake. Maxine MacKay, Jack O’Connell, Alexandra Roach, George With O’Connor. Pat 2012.UK Dir broadcaster NeilBrand* with silentfilmpianist,writerand Private Peaceful+discussion 18:00 NFT2 18:00 NFT2* 18:00 NFT2 18:00 NOV 25 SUN MON 26 NOV (practically SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS 65 @BFI + Q&A Lyod SAT 1 DECSAT 20:10 NFT1 Ice Russia Dir 2018. Oleg Trofim. With Aglaya Alexander Rappoport, Kseniya Tarasova, Petrov, Milos Bikovic. Digital. 113min. 12A EST. directorialOleg Trofim’s is debut a polished musical comedy that tells the story Nadya, of a talented figure skater whose world is turned upside down by sudden injury. Out the of despair, a chance meeting provides Nadya with the strength to realise her dreams becoming of a professional skater.

FRI 30 NOV NFT120:20 Anton Megerdichev’s sports drama is based on the real events that occurred during the Olympics 1972 in Munich. As the city reels from the horror the of terrorist attack, the games continue. In the tense, decisive match between the unbeaten Soviet and American basketball teams,the outcome is decided in the closing seconds of the game. Three Seconds (aka Going Vertical) Seconds (aka Going Vertical) Three Dvizhenie vverkh + Q&A DirRussia Anton Megerdichev. 2017. Savage, John Mashkov, Vladimir With Marat Basharov. 133min. Digital. Cert EST. tbc

THU 29 NOV 18:10 NFT1 Rinal Mukhametov, Victoria Solovyova. Solovyova. Victoria Mukhametov, Rinal 86min. Digital. 15 EST. Russia Dir 2018. Mikhail Raskhodnikov. With Ivan Okhlobystin, Ilya Ryazanov, Sasha Kovalev has cerebral palsy, Temporary Difficulties Temporary hisbut strict father decides the only way to treat his son is as a healthy child (‘he is a patient not – he has temporary difficulties’), which has devastating consequences. drama, hard-hitting Raskhodnikov’s based on a true story, pulls no punches as we follow Sasha into adulthood and his confrontational reunion with his father. + Q&A trudnosti Vremennye

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WED 28 NOV 20:30 NFT1 With Irina Yoo, Teo Starshenbaum, Roman Bilyk. 126min. Digital. EST Set against the backdrop of Leningrad in the 1980s just before the dawn Perestroika, of Summer Russia Dir 2018. Kirill Serebrennikov. Summer explores the burgeoning underground rock scene the of city. Serebrennikov, an outspoken critic of the current regime, was arrested just before the film was to due wrap, and had to finish while it placed under house arrest. RUSSIAN FILM WEEK FILM RUSSIAN Showcasing Russian film through screenings and events. Sun Nov 25 Sun – 2 Dec SILENT CINEMA TERROR VISION Enjoy the best international restorations, The darker side of cinema; films that will often with a live musical accompaniment horrify and astound We have something for everyone – whether you’re into silent treasures, LGBTQ+ cinema, experimental works or want to bring the kids to a Funday preview…

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Lake Mungo Australia 2008. Dir Joel Anderson. With Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe. 87min. Digital. 15 Despite being one of this century’s most critically acclaimed horror Love’s Crucible Vem dömer + intro by BFI curator Bryony Dixon films, Joel Anderson’s multi-layered Sweden 1922. Dir Victor Sjöström. With Jenny Hasselqvist, Ivan Hedqvist, Gösta Ekman, faux-documentary remains Knut Lindroth. c87min. 35mm With live piano accompaniment. EST criminally underseen. Following the A special treat for Halloween is repeating indifferent contemporary sudden death of their 16-year-old Sjöström’s little-known gem, which reviews rather than a re-evaluation daughter, the distraught Palmer supplies sumptuous renaissance with an audience – here is your family invite a psychic and a settings, martial hatred, creepy chance to be part of its rehabilitation. parapsychologist into their home monks peddling poison and a great See p20 for a panel discussion on women in to uncover the truth behind the ‘WE HIGHLIGHT ‘burn the witch’ moment. The tragedy. A beautifully constructed THIS SEMINAL reputation of this ‘Catholic noir’ has meditation on grief, Lake Mungo been based on years of people is as tender as it is terrifying. CONTRIBUTION See p62 for our Halloween films TO 80S FILM AND VIDEO CULTURE’ WILLIAM FOWLER, CURATOR OF ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGE Experimenta Salon: Don’t You SUN 4 NOV THU 29 NOV 13:50 NFT3 20:50 NFT2

REGULAR PROGRAMME Want Me (p67) book online at bfi.org.uk EXPERIMENTA Artist film and alternative moving-image culture; works that break with convention

Experimenta Salon: Don’t You Want Me TRT 75min With its intimate, self-reflexive Might this video be considered conceit, the iconic video for ‘experimental’? Join us for a lively The Human League smash-hit panel discussion featuring ‘Don’t You ‘Don’t You Want Me’ emerged as a Want Me’ director-and-producer vanguard example of a new type of siblings Steve and Siobhan Barron, filmmaking in 1981. Drawing on a Professor Emily Caston, University post-punk energy that had yet to be of West London, and artist filmmaker subsumed, it and a handful of other and educator Matthew Noel-Tod, music videos channelled dynamic chaired by BFI programmer creative modes while still serving William Fowler. their intended promotional function. Tickets £6.50 See p44 for our season on Margaret Tait

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OCTOBER HALF-TERM ACTIVITIES Suitable for 8 to 12-year-olds SATURDAY FILM CLUBS (children work in age-appropriate groups) Our Saturday film clubs are a must From Tuesday to Thursday we offer for any child who loves film and youngsters a whole range of tutor-led wants to have fun! Topics cover movie-making opportunities using

Who Framed Roger Rabbit Roger Framed Who everything from animation and props, costumes and filmmaking kit,

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday adverts, to sci-fi and special effects... on the theme of pre-cinema and More info can be found at classic films. RABBITS! SLAPSTICK! bfi.org.uk/families. These clubs Each day ends with a screening THE NOBLE COLLECTION COVENT GARDEN SHOP Don’t miss loveable, comic classics Prick up your ears! We host a special are hugely popular so book early. and finished films are uploaded to 26-28 NEAL STREET, LONDON, WC2H 9PS • 020 3795 6298 Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, The Pink preview of a new take on animation Mini Filmmakers (for ages 8-11) our BFI Families YouTube channel. BFI FAMILIES classic Watership Down , plus a Funday 10:30 – 12:30 (£85 per child) www.noblecollection.co.uk Panther Strikes Again and A Chump £35 per day, siblings £20 per day. Parents at Oxford – our family film selections screening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit Young Filmmakers (for ages 12-15) leave their children with us for the duration, 14:00 – 16:30pm (£95 per child) please supply a packed lunch as part of the BFI’s major with a Q&A and funday workshop. Two more tales for the whole family For more info contact: comedy season. [email protected] TUE 23 OCT, WED 24 OCT, to enjoy! THU 25 OCT 10:30-16:30 See p48 for our Animation 2018 season HARRY POTTER characters, names and related indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. Part of Entertainment Inc. WB SHIELD: © & ™ WBEI. WIZARDING WORLD trademark (p16) EVERY SAT FROM 3 NOV-8 DEC and logo © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s18)

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THU 25 OCT 10:30-16:30 HARRY POTTER characters, names and related indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WB SHIELD: © & ™ WBEI. WIZARDING WORLD trademark and logo © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s18) 70 REGULAR PROGRAMME book onlineat bfi.org.uk book Future Film Recommends: and Labs Film Future of sponsor Headline £10 for afriend bring or £6 Tickets awaits! Inspiration Hiive. and Livetree Backstage, Euroscript, partners our with surgeries career and funding casting, scripting, drop-in featuring drinks networking free law. of the upwith We wrap arm long of the foul falling avoid you help we month This varied. and many are of filmmaking implications The legal filmmakers. emerging for young networking and advice professional insight, practical masterclasses, industry offers Labs Film Future Speculation Future FilmLabs:TheStatutory 16 for to 25-year-olds events networking and guests industry Screenings, FUTURE FILM 12:30-17:00 NFT3 & BLUE ROOM &BLUE 12:30-17:00 NFT3 OCT SAT 27

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Visions of Adventures in Hell in Adventures of Visions Diableries Stereoscopic Stereoscopic Diableries TALK WED 24 OCT 16:00 NFT3 Tickets £6 Tickets There will be a free a one-hour stereoscopy 17:00) (starting at talk the following workshop Stereoscopy: A Wonder of Victorian A Wonder Stereoscopy: Entertainment TRT 60min Denis Pellerin the of London Stereoscopic Company will guide us through the wonders this of early photographic and film process. Fascinating stereoscopic images will accompany his talk about the history and development this of image were. form pre-cinema of entertainment. willIt surprise, delight and shock in equal measure, and a lasting leave impression how of imaginative and sublimely inventive the early pioneers the of photographic

WED 24 OCT 13:30 NFT3 A Magic Lantern Society Production £6 Tickets Magic Lantern Show TRT 60min Roll up! Roll up ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Long before the invention cinema, of travelling entertainers would use magic lanterns to enthral audiences with projected illusions. People hadn’t who seen projection before may well have believed these lanterns to be magic, and they were often used trickery for as well as storytelling. hosts Your Frog Morris and Nicole Mollett will use this ancient wizardry to conjure fantastical tales of monsters, forgotten places and satirical humour plenty ...with of audience participation!

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