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NEW RELEASES 12
RE-RELEASES 14
JOAN CRAWFORD 20
HAROLD PINTER 26
ANIMATION 2018 32
Apostasy (p12) Distant Voices, Still Lives (p16) Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (p40) JAMIL DEHLAVI 36
PREVIEWS & NEW RELEASES RE-RELEASES BIG SCREEN CLASSICS BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 38 Catch the latest film and TV alongside Plenty of chances for you to revisit these Every day we’ll take you on an adventure SPECIAL EVENTS 42 Q&As and special events great titles – many newly restored with these timeless films, for just £8 AFRICAN ODYSSEYS 44
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DOC TUE AUG 14 20:00 NFT1 an artist. He painted and drew throughout his life, sketching set designs, storyboards, ideas and places and people that inspired him. Award-winning director Mark Cousins, a life-long Welles admirer, is granted UK Dir 2018. Mark Cousins. Digital. 110min. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Dogwoof Before becoming an actor and director, Orson Welles trained as Preview: Preview: PREVIEWS Catch the latest filmand TV before anyone else 8 PREVIEWS book onlineat bfi.org.uk book collections special university’s their from books priceless steal to solution: upbringing. Their suburban comfortable, their against rebel to want (Keoghan), Spencer and (Peters) Warren friends, university Two overachieving bored, International STX of Courtesy tbc. Cert 116min. Digital. Abrahamson. Jared Jenner, Blake Keoghan, Barry Peters, Evan With Layton. Bart 2018. Dir UK-USA Preview: AmericanAnimals+Q&Awithdirector BartLaytonandcast 20:20 NFT1 AUG 23 THU Q&A
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The screenings on Sun 26 Aug NFT2 14:20 Audio Description available at all screenings all at available Description Audio OPENS FRI 24 AUG and 28 Aug Studio Tue 14:30 will have Hearing- Subtitles impaired Anna Bogutskaya, Events Programmer Events Bogutskaya, Anna BlacKkKlansman USA Dir 2018. Spike Lee. With John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace. 128min. Digital. Cert tbc. A Universal release story true stranger-than-fiction A officer police African-American an of who infiltrated the KKK in the 1970s Newly minted Ron Stallworth (Washington) is Colorado Springs’ first African-American police detective. Itching to start working on a big case, he phones the local chapter the of Klux Ku Klan and – surprise, surprise – gets a call the KKK’s Grand Wizard, himself. Stallworth, over the phone and back from David Duke (Grace), using his white Jewish colleague Flip (Driver) as his grows avatar, more influential within the organisation, while secretly working to bring them down. Spike latest, Lee’s a rousing crime drama with stark moments of levity,of was rapturously received thisat year’s Cannes film festival. © 2018 FOCUS© 2018 FEATURES 14 RE-RELEASES book onlineat bfi.org.uk book and (Grant), student for afellow first passions, own his by who’s surprised Wilby), brilliant (a Hall Maurice follows repressed and bourgeois story the countryside, English the and London Cambridge, in Unfolding relationships. same-sex surrounding sanctions and pressures social the of aware acutely was Forster EM and trial, Wilde Oscar the from reeling still was society Edwardian novel Forster’s EM of restorationA of sumptuous, Merchant 30th-anniversary Ivory’s 1987 adaptation release 15. ABFI elsewhere). 2K only, NFT3 and NFT1 (in 4K Digital 140min. Graves. Rupert Grant, Hugh Wilby, James With Ivory. 1987.UK James Dir Maurice restored newly –many classics key these to revisit you for chances of Plenty RE-RELEASES CONTINUES FROM FRI 27 JUL
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is an endlessly + Q&A with director+ Q&A FROM FRI 10 AUG Heathers Heathers plus cast* Lehmann Michael Wed NFT1 8 Aug 20:10 Anna Bogutskaya, Events Programmer Events Bogutskaya, Anna restoration*4K premiere + Q&A Tickets concs £15, (Members £12 pay £2 less) USA 1988. Dir Michael Lehmann. Slater, Christian Ryder, Winona With Shannen Doherty, Kim Walker. 103min. Digital 4K (in NFT1, NFT2 and NFT3 only). 18. An Arrow Films release about classic cult beloved The death-and-destruction obsessed teens gets the 4K treatment Veronica Sawyer (Ryder) is the odd-one in out Heathers, The the colour-coordinated, shoulder-padded bitch her high squad at school. A certifiable genius and former good girl, she catches the eye fellow of high-school outsider and silver- tongued Lothario they JD. Together, fantasise about ridding the world of main mean girl Heather Chandler (Walker), and the rest the of preppy bullies thatdominate the school – theirbut fantasies start getting out expectations teen of movies forever, and its dreamlike, soft-focus cinematography shines in this of hand... Heathers quotable black comedy that subverted new 4K restoration. Q&A Distant Voices, Still Lives UK-West Germany 1988. Dir Terence Davies. ORIGINAL VINTAGE POSTERS With Freda Dowie, Pete Postlethwaite, Lorraine Ashbourne. 83min. Digital 4K (in NFT1, NFT2 and NFT3 only). 15. A BFI release Davies’ film, depicting life in working- •Wide variety of posters from class Liverpool from the 1940s into the 50s, is 30 years old, and already around the world: a modern classic Now that Eileen, Maisie and Tony are • Travel adults, their childhood memories – and in particular those associated • with their father – are inconsistent. Sports incl. Ski Posters While Eileen clings to happier times, her siblings remember his brutal and • War and Propaganda violent nature, which has been a major influence on their growth and • Advertising development. This troubled family must deal with the day-to-day alongside their past. Terence Davies • Film Posters creates a loving portrait with this partly autobiographical tale (shot in •Poster Restoration two sections, with a two year gap between), and it was voted one of the greatest British films by Sight & Sound. •Poster Auctions This new 4K digital print was restored by the BFI National Archive. Justin Johnson, Lead Programmer
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@BFI children. Starting off as a film noir murder mystery, Pierce Mildred is a rare beast a film of that centres on a middle-aged ambition, woman’s and devotes more attention to her relationship with her daughters than does it to her love life. Anna Bogutskaya, Events Programmer Events Bogutskaya, Anna See p20 for our Joan Crawford season
-winning role) is brought in ® FROM FRI AUG 17 for questioningfor after her second husband is shot. Through a series flashbacksof we track Mildred’s extraordinary life: recently separated, she started working to provide her for two daughters, the spoilt (Blyth) Veda and tomboy-ish Kay (Marlowe), and became a successful business woman the – at expense her of relationship with her Mildred Pierce Mildred USA 1945. Dir Michael Curtiz. With Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Ann Blyth, Jo Ann Marlowe,Eve Digital Arden. 111min. 4K (in NFT1, NFT2 and NFT3 only). PG Joan Crawford came back full force from a career slump in this iconic melodrama core its at relationship mother-daughter challenging a with Mildred Pierce (Crawford, in her only Oscar ‘I NEVER GO OUTSIDE UNLESS I LOOK LIKE JOAN CRAWFORD THE MOVIE STAR. IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, GO NEXT DOOR’ JOAN CRAWFORD
Meet Joan Crawford, the self-styled star, invites season programmer Anna Bogutskaya Joan Crawford is remembered as one of the great beauties of the silver screen, and as a Hollywood socialite whose complicated personal life often distracted from her talent as an actor. She had a nose for what the public wanted, and adapted her physical appearance, acting style and persona to ensure continuing success. From her early years as a flapper during the silent era to her middle-age melodramas and late-career genre resurgence, she was a cinematic chameleon who always dominated the screen with her formidable presence. In the first part of our two-month retrospective, we look at Crawford as a STAR – with all caps.
WANT MORE? For screenings of The Women and Mildred Pierce see p18 Coming in part two in Sep: Daisy Kenyon, Sudden Fear, Autumn Leaves and more... JOAN CRAWFORD 21
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SAT 25SAT AUG 15:30 NFT2 -winner revolves around ® SAT 4 AUGSAT 16:15 NFT3 a group eccentric of characters, including Grusinskaya (Garbo), a dancer, penniless Baron von Geigern (Barrymore) and money- hungry stenographer Flaemmchen (Crawford). In her first A-list talkie, turninga major point in her career, Crawford steals the show from an all-star cast, though she never got to share a scene with Garbo. Joan Crawford. 35mm 112min. Print Grand Hotel Goulding. Edmund Dir 1932. USA With Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, courtesy of Academy Film Archive. U Edmund Goulding’s Best Picture Oscar
MON 6 AUG NFT218:30 ) cast Crawford in one her of Freaks WED 1 AUG 20:45 NFT2 See p48 for our Silent Cinema screening The Unknown Dir Browning. Tod USA 1927. With Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford,Norman Kerry. 69min. 35mm PG accompaniment. piano live With A criminal on the run (Chaney) pretends to be an armless knife thrower, hiding in plain sight in a circus. He becomes obsessed with Nanon (Crawford), the daughter theof ringmaster, is who repulsed by the touch any of Browning man. Tod ( earliest roles as a neurotic beauty, a disarming object desire of crippled by anxieties.
As we prepare to delve into a two-month restrospective some of herof most memorable screen performances, we consider Crawford’s best performance all of – herself. permeated films, TV series and books. No wire hangers, please.
SAT 4 AUGSAT NFT3 12:00-16:00 Join us an for afternoon that will explorethe many faces one of Hollywood’sof biggest stars, Joan Crawford. Through a series illustratedof talks led by experts An Afternoon with Joan Crawford and fans alike, we’ll her look at origins as the OG ‘it girl’ and flapper superstar, to the much-parodied larger-than-life figure that has 22 JOAN CRAWFORD book onlineat bfi.org.uk book of part as debutante aristocratic an of being pretence the under Alps the in resort who’s upper-class an to sent singer acabaret Anni, plays Crawford Tone, Franchot then-husband with co-starred she where film last the In U 35mm 103min. Young. Robert Tone, Franchot Crawford, Joan With Arzner. 1937.USA Dorothy Dir The BrideWore Red 13:30 NFT2 13:30 5AUG SUN 18:30 NFT2 9AUG THU playboy Rudi (Young). (Young). Rudi playboy of rich appeal the (Tone) and Giulio postman philosophical to attraction her between torn herself finds soon She experiment. a social
who has developed a liking for Jessie. for Jessie. aliking developed who has (Tracy), Hennessy John millionaire self-made on gaze their turn newlyweds the herself, as penniless as just be out to heturns When (Curtis). Eddie boyfriend her on are hopes her and family, of her squalor and poverty the from escape to longs (Crawford) Jessie Ambitious U 35mm 94min. Curtis. Alan Tracy, Spencer Crawford, Joan With Borzage. 1937.USA Frank Dir Mannequin 20:40 NFT2 20:40 SAT 11 AUG 18:15 NFT2 18:15 15 AUG WED
in this delightful pre-Code musical. musical. pre-Code delightful this in sizzles Crawford Gableand between The chemistry things. complicating (Gable) director theatre the on count But hedidn’t love. her gain to effort an in musical Broadway anew in apart her get to strings some pulls out and her he bails her, with Tod smitten (Tone) is playboy Millionaire stripping. by meet ends she’s as making exposure for indecent arrested is (Crawford) Janie dancer Young, aspiring U 35mm 92min. Astaire. Fred Tone, Franchot Gable, Clark Crawford, Joan With ZLeonard. Robert Dir 1933. USA Dancing Lady 18:30 NFT2 13 AUG MON 15:30 NFT2 15:30 19 AUG SUN
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FRI 24 AUG 18:15 NFT3 TUE 21 AUG 20:30 NFT2 by passion, jealousy and fits rage. of As a self-centred, acid-tongued socialite, Crawford was once again theat peak her of powers and a tempestuous romance marked settling into the melodramatic roles that rekindled her career. Humoresque USA 1946. Dir Jean Negulesco. Garfield, John Crawford, Joan With Oscar Levant. 124min. 35mm courtesy Print of The Library of Congress.U Talented but troubled violinist Paul Boray (Garfield) falls in love with married society lady Helen (Crawford), and they embark on
Crawford forwent her glamorous screen persona to be taken seriously as an actress in Cukor’s remake theof Swedish original starring Ingrid Bergman. SUN AUG 19 17:40 NFT2 WED 8 AUG 18:05 NFT2 A Woman’s Face A Woman’s DirUSA George 1941. Cukor. With Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt. 105min. Anna (Crawford), the facially disfigured and bitter ringleader a of gang blackmailers, of encounters a plastic surgeon (Veidt) offerswho her the chance to recover her looks. 16mm Print courtesy of Academy Film Archive. PG
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MON AUG 13 20:30 NFT3 THU 2 AUG 20:45 NFT3 With Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Peter Lorre, Ian Hunter. 35mm 113min. PG his escape with a group prisoners, of things take a strange turn... Frank Borzage manages to turn what could have been a classic romance into a haunting moral fable. Convicted prisoner Verne (Gable) tries to corral saloon girl Julie (Crawford) into helping him escape from a New Guinea penal colony. Instead, she turns him in. When the soft-spoken convict drags her into USA 1940. DirFrank Borzage. Strange Cargo R IE B C E B I E E B I