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Cover: Cover: Perfect 10 Perfect 19 14 7 3 Growing up I wanted to be The Outsiders’ Dallas Winston or Brando on a motorcycle. I heard mythic tales about the two Jameses, Cagney and Dean. And De Niro – the king of cool. It’s an indictment of cinema, what a British teenager with South Asian parents was being served up as the epitome of rebellion. Then came La Haine. It felt different from my favourite film, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing: director Mathieu Kassovitz was telling a story about three best friends from different cultural backgrounds who grew up on the estate. People just like me, and my friends. I and, more importantly, a plethora of filmmakers felt emboldened to tell their stories. La Haine is the heart of a cinematic journey that started with ’s mutiny against the state, continued through damning societal injustice in Cinema, and on to headbutting gender and racial stereotypes. Redefining Rebellion.

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La Haine Les Misérables Battleship Potemkin Bronenosets Potemkin France 1995. Dir Mathieu Kassovitz. France 2019. Dir Ladj Ly. USSR 1925. Dir . With Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui. 98min. With Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djibril Zonga. 102min. With Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov Digital. EST. 15 A BFI Release Digital. EST. Cert tbc. An Altitude release 72min. Digital. EST. PG Mathieu Kassovitz throws a cinematic Molotov Ladj Ly’s extraordinary Cannes Jury Prize-winning Sergei Eisenstein defined cinematic language in this cocktail at structural racism, police brutality and debut obliterates the myth of cultural integration classic Soviet tale of mutiny media manipulation in France Harbouring at Number 11 on the Sight & Sound Greatest Turning the camera away from iconic Paris to the concrete It takes place in Montfermeil, the district east of Paris Films of All Time Poll, this re-enactment of a 1905 Russian banlieue, Mathieu Kassovitz’s second film as a director where Victor Hugo set a section of his novel Les Misérables; battleship mutiny is Sergei Eisenstein’s era-defining changed the cultural landscape of French cinema when it from Hugo, too, director Ly pulls a quote drawing attention masterclass on rebellion. Elegantly shot, the scene filmed landed at the in 1995, where it won the to the causes of societal oppression and racism. Yet this on the Odessa Steps remains the cinema’s most famous Best Director prize. Taking place over the 24 hours following Les Misérables is more in the neighbourhood of Spike Lee’s demonstration of bloodcurdling authoritarian power, the police shooting of a young man, Kassovitz shows the seminal Do the Right Thing and Matthieu Kassovitz’s classic provoking a passionate desire to stick it to the man. world through the eyes of three friends, Arab, Jew and La Haine, since it takes place over 24 hours, in the aftermath Black, frustrated at politicians and the media excusing of France’s 2018 World Cup victory. The twist is that the film police brutality. The black-and-white visuals, thumping looks at this territory through the eyes of three diverse police hip-hop soundtrack and graffiti-lined streets underscore officers whose policing methods are governed by fear, the urgency and rebellion at the heart of this game- disdain and hate, showing hypocrisy at the heart of changing classic. France’s integration policies.

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American Graffiti Norma Rae USA 1973. Dir George Lucas. USA 1976. Dir . USA 1979. Dir Martin Ritt. With Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat. 113min. With Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd. 113min. With , Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman. 123min. Digital. 12A Digital. 18 Digital. PG George Lucas’s comic poem allegorises the end of Robert De Niro is the ultimate anti-hero as Martin Sally Field delivers a career-high performance as a trust and innocence in America Scorsese decodes America’s liberal elite woman fighting capitalism and patriarchy George Lucas’s seminal Californian coming-of-age tale is Over the years there have been many faces of Robert De Sally Field won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival set in a pre-Vietnam 60s era of idealism. The crackles of Niro, but none has punched into the public consciousness and the Oscars for her performance in Martin Ritt’s truth cutting into the mythic utopia are provided by the as hard as his Travis Bickle, an ex-marine from the Midwest underappreciated classic of New Hollywood Cinema. standout soundtrack of 50s and 60s tunes introduced driving a taxi in New York City. Scorsese’s Palme Drawing on the true story of American unioniser Crystal Lee on car radios over a memorable summer night. d’or-winner details the disenfranchised Bickle’s pent-up Sutton, Field plays the titular lead who battles against the The magnificent sound design by the peerless Walter Murch frustration, which leads to mental anguish, anomie and, patriarchal system at home and work. Ritt draws parallels and the use of soundscape as counter-culture heavily ultimately, violence. An unparalleled cinematic essay on with the Civil Rights Movement in an entertaining, influenced La Haine. how society anonymises outsiders. heart-wrenching film of enduring relevance.

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Blue Collar Young Soul Rebels Beau Travail USA 1978. Dir Paul Schrader. UK 1991. Dir Isaac Julien. France 1999. Dir Claire Denis. With Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto. 114min. With Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy. 100min. With Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin. 93min. Digital. 18 Digital. 18 Digital. EST. 15 Paul Schrader’s progressive, tragicomic takedown of Isaac Julien radically unpicks British subcultures at the Hypnotic images, mutiny and queer desire combine in systemic corruption time of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Denis’ sensual masterpiece ‘If you’re rich you got to pay for it. If you’re anything else you Set against the backdrop of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, Denis’ sensual queer update of Herman Melville’s unfinished have to fight for it,’ announced the trailer to Blue Collar, a celebration of the Commonwealth head at a moment tale of mutiny, Billy Budd, Sailor, deconstructs colonialism, Paul Schrader’s directorial debut that came on the back of of neo-fascist strength, this observes that era through the masculinity and obsession, and plays out to hypnotic his Taxi Driver script. Three car-plant workers – played by eyes of a queer black pirate-radio DJ arrested for murder. images of the French Foreign Legion photographed against Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto – uncover big A radical look at the relationship between black men the shimmering Djibouti waters and sands to the sounds of industry and union corruption when they drunkenly decide and the police, in which fashion, art, music and queen Britten’s opera. This new 4K digital restoration was to rob the union safe. emergence intertwine, all poetically visualised against the supervised by cinematographer Agnès Godard and sounds of punk and soul-funk. approved by Denis.

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Persepolis Boom For Real: France/USA 2007 Dir Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud. France 2015. Dir Jacques Audiard. The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat With the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, With Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, USA 2017. Dir Sara Driver. Catherine Deneuve, . 97min. Digital. EST. 12A Claudine Vinasithamby. 115min. Digital. EST. 15 With Alexis Adler, Fab 5 Freddy, Patricia Field. 78min. Digital. 15 Award-winning traces the Iranian director’s Audiard’s Palme d’or-winner is a -busting ‘’ Documentary on Basquiat capturing the birth of graffiti search for revolutionary self-expression that explodes French universalism and hip-hop culture in New York Adapted from Satrapi’s acclaimed autobiographical graphic Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’or-winner tells of a makeshift Sara Driver documents how the times, the people and novel, Persepolis hilariously recounts Satrapi’s progress family of Tamil refugees escaping Civil War only to end up the movements of New York City informed Basquiat just from childhood in pre-revolutionary Iran to rebellious, in a virulently xenophobic France. Recounted with the story before he, graffiti and hip-hop exploded into the global punk-loving youth in Europe. The striking fluent lines and beats of a Western, but turning the genre on its head, it’s a consciousness. Featuring anecdotes from Jim Jarmusch, black-and-white ink give the animation a perfect aesthetic. pulsating, unconventional look at the banlieue. Making Fab Five Freddy, Glenn O’Brien and Lee Quinones, Stories of state-sanctioned executions, war and emigration potent use of non-professional Tamil actors, it casts a it captures the special feel of late 70s New York and the are mixed with feelings of alienation and double- damning eye on French universalism and colonial hangover. seeds of a new artistic culture – one which would infuse consciousness, all escaping that cinematic tyranny: cliché. La Haine with subtext.

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Girlhood Bande de filles Amateurs Amatörer France 2014. Dir Céline Sciamma. Sweden 2018. Dir Gabriela Pichler. With Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, With Zahraa Aldoujaili, Yara Aliadotter, Fredrik Dahl. 102min. Simina Soumaré. 113min. Digital. EST. 15 Digital. EST. Sciamma’s tale of female growing-pains blows up the Two immigrant girls make a homemade movie uncovering tower blocks of defined societal roles the other side of their Swedish homeland Céline Sciamma explores female identity through a black Winner of the Best Nordic Film at the Gothenberg Film girl gang born in the banlieue and creating havoc in the Festival, Amateurs is a fun, family-oriented movie about shopping malls of Paris. More than a female counterpoint to ... with a subversive twist. When a fictional La Haine, the film is an adolescent voyage of self-discovery Swedish province tries to lure a German discount with great music and fashion; it poses intersectional supermarket chain by commissioning a commercial questions highlighting the triple jeopardy of being black, video, two immigrant girls take out their selfie sticks and poor and a woman in a subordinating society. smartphones to tell the real story of class divisions and racial prejudice.

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6 Some amazing films were released during lockdown and found an audience online. Some had their theatrical releases cruelly curtailed. You can now catch up with the best of these films on the big

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Host + Q&A Lynn + Lucy UK 2020. Dir Rob Savage. UK 2019. Dir Fyzal Boulifa. With Haley Bishop, Radina Drandova, Jemma Moore, Caroline Ward, Emma Webb, With Roxanne Scrimshaw, Nichola Burley, Kacey Ainsworth. 88min. Digital. 15. Edward Linard. 56min. Digital. Cert tbc. Fyzal Boulifa’s beautiful debut examines a childhood friendship tested Startlingly impressive and genuinely frightening, this gem was by tragedy conceived, shot and produced entirely under quarantine Lynn (Roxanne Scrimshaw) and Lucy (Nichola Burley) have been friends their During lockdown, a group of six friends decide to spice up their weekly Zoom whole lives; inseparable at school and now living as neighbours and young call by hiring a medium to conduct a virtual séance. The evening starts off with mothers on an estate. But when a tragedy befalls the pair, a chain of events is harmless drinking games and paranormal pranks, until they appear to attract set in motion that will severely test their bond, bringing out fears and the attention of a seemingly real malevolent spirit. resentments in the local community. Playing out in unsettlingly real time, this spooky homemade gem from British This beautifully acted and haunting film, elegantly shot in 4:3 academy ratio, director Rob Savage, was conceived, shot and produced remotely while under goes beyond the kitchen-sink aesthetic and slice-of-life scenario to deliver quarantine during the UK’s lockdown, requiring the cast to double-up as something akin to a modern morality play. Eschewing easy answers or camera operators, make-up artists and practical effect masters. resolutions, the film presents a thorny ‘what if?’ scenario, confronting us with The result is startlingly impressive, genuinely frightening and guaranteed to a taut of bad choices, misunderstandings and escalating social unrest. leave audiences curious to know how they managed it. With this skilful debut, Boulifa joins the ranks of British filmmakers who Timely, terrifying and a great testament to the creativity and innovation of the transcend conventional and tropes. filmmaking team behind it, Host will screen with a recorded Q&A, in which the cast and crew will share some of their secrets…

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The Traitor Il traditore Clemency 2019. Dir Marco Bellocchio. USA 2019. Dir Chinonye Chukwu. With Pierfrancesco Favino, Lucio Lo Cascio, Fausto Russo Alesi. 152min. Digital. 15 With Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Aldis Hodge. 112min. Digital. 15. Marco Bellocchio’s magnificent film follows the life of 80s Sundance prize-winning study of the ethics of capital punishment Mafioso-turned informant, Tommaso Buscetta Chinonye Chukwu became the first black female filmmaker to win the top In the early ’80s, Tommaso Buscetta, tired of his life in Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, prize at the Sundance Film Festival with this unsentimental death-row drama. moves with his wife to Rio de Janeiro. Arrested by the Brazilian police for The film opens with experienced prison warden Bernadine Williams trafficking drugs, he’s extradited to Italy, where he reluctantly – and very riskily (Alfre Woodard) overseeing a lethal injection that goes agonisingly wrong. – becomes an informant on his former colleagues in crime... Botching ‘the procedure’ heightens scrutiny over her next execution, In the tradition of political-exposé suspense dramas pioneered by Francesco of Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge), a convicted cop-killer who maintains Rosi, Bellocchio’s magnificent film displays great skill in alternating wordy his innocence. (but always entertaining) courtroom drama with visually vivid, expertly staged Woodard delivers a stunning performance as methodical authority figure scenes depicting the internecine wars waged by Mafia rivals. It’s blessed Bernadine, whose necessary professionalism has made her emotionally with a superlative lead performance by Pierfrancesco Favino as Buscetta; distant from husband Jonathan (The Wire’s Wendell Pierce). She’s not alone remarkably, he and Bellocchio manage in the end to make us feel sympathy, in her exhaustion; Woods’ dedicated lawyer Marty (The West Wing’s Richard even respect, for a protagonist initially presented as monstrously self-centred. Schiff) suffers too. A precisely calibrated study of the corrosive ethics of A gem. capital punishment.

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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles Calm with Horses The Assistant Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas UK 2019. Dir Nick Rowland. USA 2019. Dir Kitty Green. Spain 2018. Dir Salvador Simo. With Ned Dennehy, Barry Keoghan, Cosmo Jarvis. 100min. With Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Makenzie Leigh. With voices of Jorge Usón Fernando, Ramos Luis, Digital. 15. 87min. 15. Enrique de Tomás. 81min. Digital. 12A (advised) Emotionally shattering and gritty drama starring An unsettling tale of workplace harassment and abuse Salvador Simo’s handsome animated film follows Luis Barry Keoghan for the post-Weinstein era Buñuel’s search for creative direction early in his career Bulky, witty and loyal, Douglas (Cosmo Jarvis) has little time Jane (Julia Garner), an assistant to a powerful movie Both a buddy adventure and an imaginative account of a for violence, but the local family business he works for has executive, is concerned about the toxic environment of fascinating episode of cinematic history, this acclaimed some nasty ideas about justice and he needs money to underlying harassment and abuse that is clearly ingrained animation utilises sensitive performances, as well as support his ex and their child. A manipulative mate and heir and accepted within all aspects of the company she works excerpts from Luis Buñuel’s original film, to recreate the to the crime throne (Barry Keoghan) keeps shovelling coke for. This all-too-plausible and unsettling tale, written and shooting, in 1933, of his controversial documentary up Douglas’ nose. And there’s a psychopath in their midst, directed by Kitty Green (known for documentaries, Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread). At that time, Buñuel was in the form of the ever-menacing, red-eyed Paudi (Ned including Casting JonBenet) follows Jane during a single at a crossroads following the break-up of his collaborative Dennehy). As Douglas becomes embroiled in a violent day in the office, where we witness constant bad practice partnership with Salvador Dalí; he was wondering about the pageant of retribution, the time comes for him to choose and her ongoing frustration. Matthew Macfadyen shines as progress of his career. The linear narrative is punctuated by sides. Rowland’s feature debut is a gripping thriller that an oily HR manager, while the simmering narrative paints a appropriately surrealist sequences suggestive of the builds towards an emotionally shattering finale. picture of a culture which, even post-Weinstein, remains rife director’s anxieties and desires, creating an affecting in the workplace. portrait of an artist seeking new creative directions.

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Parasite – version Ema Perfect 10 South Korea 2019. Dir Bong Joon Ho. Chile 2019. Dire Pablo Larrain. UK 2019. Dir Eva Riley. With Song Kang-ho, Lee Sunkyun Cho, Yeo-jeong. 132min. With Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael García Bernal, Paola Giannini. With Frankie Box, Alfie Deegan, Sharlene Whyte. 84min. Digital. Digital. 15. 102min. Digital. This spirited coming-of-age story follows 14-year-old Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning is a Ema and her older husband adopt a troubled child, Leigh’s relationship with her half-brother piercing commentary on equality and class with explosive results 14-year-old Leigh lives with her neglectful father on the Winner of the Palme d’or at the 2019 Cannes Film Every new film by Pablo Larraín is notable for its imaginative outskirts of Brighton. She’s a talented gymnast, training Festival, this brilliant black comedy from Bong Joon Ho invention and its insights into human behaviour; Ema may hard for her first competition despite bitchy rivals, her lack (Okja, Snowpiercer) follows the Kim family as they struggle be his most lyrical and poetic yet. A character study of a of confidence and little money to pay her fees. When an to survive on the breadline. When a friend offers Kim Ki-Woo beguiling woman ruled by her impulsive heart, it centres on older half-brother turns up at her house one night, Leigh’s the chance of a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park talented street-dancer and teacher Ema and her fiery solitary life is transformed and she is exposed to new thrills... family, Ki-Woo’s luck starts to change, and soon his sister, relationship with her slightly older husband. Their recent and dangers. Debut director Eva Riley delivers a spirited mother and father are also ingratiating themselves into the adoption of a troubled child has gone badly, resulting in coming-of-age story that explores a sibling relationship with glamorous lives of their affluent employers. Parasite is both a mutual recrimination – the basis for an intoxicating but heartfelt sensitivity. piercing commentary on inequality and a rollercoaster ride explosive cinematic cocktail. with a pleasingly twisty narrative; a compelling and expertly-crafted gem.

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Vitalina Varela Make Up Eternal Beauty 2019. Dir Pedro Costa. UK 2019. Dir Claire Oakley. UK 2019. Dir Craig Roberts. With Vitalina Varela, Manuel Tavares Almeida, Francisco Brito. With Molly Windsor, Joseph Quinn, Stefanie Martini. With Sally Hawkins, Alice Lowe, David Thewlis. 95min. Digital. 124min. Digital. 86min. Digital. Sally Hawkins gives a standout performance as a fragile Pedro Costa’s opera without music is a contemplation Self-acceptance and sexual awakening at a desolate young woman jilted on her wedding day of race, grief and exile seaside holiday park Jilted as a young woman on her wedding day and beset Varela is a woman who, after years waiting for a plane ticket, Teenager Ruth (Molly Windsor) travels to a seaside holiday with anxieties both real and imaginary, June lives life as arrives in Portugal three days after her husband’s funeral. park to stay with her boyfriend Tom. It’s off-season, so the a constant struggle. Pills offer a possible solution; A mesmerising contemplation of race, grief and exile, the resort is mostly deserted. One afternoon, Ruth finds her relationship with vagrant musician Mike might be film is magnificently shot by Leonardo Simões, with a visual evidence suggesting that Tom might be cheating on her. another. But does the medication – or even love – simply signature of velvet-dark night in crumbling backstreets, As her desire to discover the truth turns into an obsession, exacerbate June’s delusional state of mind? Craig Roberts’ and human presences that acquire the grandeur of classical she begins to realise she might be looking for something singular, humane film depicts the unstable perceptions of statuary. With its incantatory dialogue, this is essentially an else entirely. Transforming the desolate coastal setting into a a fragile persona with delirious colour and design and opera without music. labyrinth of creeping intrigue, Claire Oakley inventively flirts ever-shifting time frames; it also boasts a stand-out lead with genre conventions to weave a singular tale of performance by Sally Hawkins. self-acceptance and sexual awakening.

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The Painted Bird Monsoon Away Czech Republic/Slovakia. Dir Václav Marhoul. UK 2019. Dir Hong Khaou. Latvia 2019. Dir Gints Zilbalodis. 75min. Digital. With Harvey Keitel, Petr Kotlár, Stellan Skarsgård.169min. With Henry Golding, Parker Sawyers. 86min. Digital. Mesmerising animation following a boy pursued by an Digital. A young British Vietnamese man returns to his birth amorphous, menacing creature Starkly beautiful and compelling exploration of the fight country for the first time in over 30 years in this study of This compelling and mesmerising animation follows a boy for survival in Eastern Europe during World War II loneliness and belonging being pursued by an amorphous, menacing creature under During World War Two, a boy is sent to his aunt to Londoner Kit (Henry Golding, Crazy Rich Asians) has come water and through forests, desert and snow; accompanied protect him from the Nazis in Eastern Europe; when she to Vietnam to scatter his mother’s ashes and to reconnect by a bird and acquiring a motorcycle, he finds himself on a unexpectedly dies, he’s propelled on a bleak journey across with the place he left as a child. But everything has changed quest to return to humanity. While the film has the look and Central Europe, proceeding from one brutal encounter to and he finds little to anchor him… until he meets Lewis, feel of a computer game, it is a clever piece of work that the next. Shot in starkly beautiful black and white by a black American living in Saigon whose father served in the should appeal to a wide audience. Gints Zilablodis was cinematographer Vladimír Smutný, Marhoul’s darkly war. With its emphasis on moments of grace, Hong Khaou’s responsible for each and every aspect of the picture, from magnificent film is sumptuously crafted, though not an film creates an atmosphere that should resonate with its riveting soundtrack to the animation, the sound design easy watch, with scenes which some will find distressing. anyone who has felt loneliness while being somewhere and the script; one can only wonder what he might do next. A terrifying, highly relevant exploration of what humanity they once belonged. A rare opportunity to see the film on the big screen. looks like when the sole concern is survival, with little space for compassion. TUE 1 SEP TUE 1 SEP WED 2 SEP THU 3 SEP 14:40 NFT3 20:50 NFT2 18:15 NFT3 14:50 NFT3

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Moffie Miss Juneteenth South Africa/UK 2019. Dir Oliver Hermanus. USA 2019. Dir Channing Godfrey Peoples. With Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey. With Nicole Beharie, Kendrick Sampson, Alexis Chikaeze. 103min. Digital. 99 mins. Digital. Cert tbc. A complex study of the horrors of war on the Angolan Debut feature inspired by Texan teen pageants and border in 1981 mother-daughter bonding 1981: South Africa’s minority government is embroiled in Struggling single mother and former beauty queen conflict at the Angolan border and Nicholas, like all white Turquoise Jones (Nicole Beharie) pours all her energy and men over 16, must serve two years in the military defending money into preparing her daughter Kai to win the same Miss the Apartheid regime. While fear pushes Nicholas to go Juneteenth pageant she herself won as a teenager. She is along with the unspeakable horrors of war, a tender determined that Kai should make more of the subsequent relationship develops with another recruit, a situation as opportunities than she was able to, but rebellious Kai is dangerous for them both as any enemy fire. Hermanus more concerned with her high-school dance team and her (Beauty, Shirley Adams) again delves into his country’s crush on a classmate. dark past and delivers a film of great poise and This feature debut of writer-director Channing Godfrey complexity; Brummer gives an extraordinarily nuanced Peoples, inspired by her own upbringing in Texas where the lead performance. annual Miss Juneteenth pageant takes place, is a soulful Please note that his film includes sequences of flashing but uplifting drama of mother-daughter bonds and lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to deferred dreams. photosensitive epilepsy.

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11 At the start of 2020, we celebrated the work of with a complete retrospective at BFI Southbank and a re-release of . The celebrations were interrupted by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, so here now is another chance to enjoy five films by the maestro. The curator of our retrospective, Pasquale Iannone, wrote about Fellini and his work as follows:

Although best known for his epochal early-60s films La dolce vita and 8½, Fellini first came to international prominence as a director in the mid-50s, with Oscar® wins for and , both featuring unforgettable performances from his wife and muse and the bittersweet music of . Fellini’s kaleidoscopic, often sharply satirical narratives draw freely from his own personal obsessions, fantasies and memories, and have gone on to influence several generations of directors including David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, FOCUS ON FELLIINI ON and . FOCUS ON FELLINI

La dolce vita Nights of Cabiria Le notti di Cabiria Italy-France 1960. Dir Federico Fellini. Italy 1953. Dir Federico Fellini. Italy-France 1957. Dir Federico Fellini. With , , Anouk Aimée, With , , Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo With Giulietta Masina, François Périer, . Yvonne Furneaux. 175min. Digital 4K. EST. 12A. A BFI release Trieste, Riccardo Fellini. 107min. Digital 4K.EST. PG 117min. Digital 4K. EST. PG Fellini’s seductive, influential drama; a towering In this light-hearted drama, five male friends do all they Giulietta Masina delivers another unforgettable achievement of cinema can to avoid the responsibilities of adulthood performance as a plucky Roman prostitute Set in during the ‘Hollywood on the Tiber’ era, Five male friends do all they can to avoid the responsibilities Co-written with , Nights of Cabiria sees Fellini’s masterpiece follows jaded journalist Marcello of adulthood in Fellini’s deeply personal, wistfully comic Fellini bring wife Giulietta Masina centre stage for the story of (Mastroianni) on the trail of gossip on VIPs. The film caused third film as director. Featuring an achingly beautiful score an unfailingly optimistic prostitute and her misadventures in a sensation on its release and is now rightly considered a by Fellini’s regular collaborator Nino Rota, I Vitelloni was and around the Eternal City. The film was the inspiration for masterpiece that’s had a profound influence on popular one of Stanley Kubrick’s favourites, and would also go ’s 1966 musical Sweet Charity, which itself was culture. It was La dolce vita, for instance, that coined the on to influence many of the filmmakers of the New adapted for the screen by Bob Fosse three years later. term ‘paparazzo’. A towering achievement. American Cinema.

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8½ Otto e mezzo Giulietta degli spiriti Italy-France 1963. Dir Federico Fellini. Italy-France 1965. Dir Federico Fellini. With Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Rossella Falk, With Giulietta Masina, , . 138min. . 138min. Digital 4K. EST. 15 Digital 4K. EST. 15 The varied troubles of a celebrated filmmaker are laid Giulietta Masina makes a glorious return in Fellini’s first bare in Fellini’s reflexive classic Technicolour feature Fellini’s semi-autobiographical portrait of creative block is Although he had worked in colour before – for an episode in one of the great films about filmmaking. At the centre is Boccaccio 70 (1962) – Juliet of the Spirits was Fellini’s first Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, the beleaguered colour feature. It sees the director reunited with actor wife who’s assailed by a host of problems both Giulietta Masina (La Strada, Nights of Cabiria) who plays a professional and personal. The film’s influence has been middle-class housewife seeking solace in the world of profound – Todd Haynes, for instance, paid it affectionate psychics and seers, figures Fellini himself had always homage in his Fellini-esque portrait of , I’m Not been fascinated by. There (2007).

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To reopen BFI Southbank we asked you to help us choose the films you’d like to see to welcome you back to the cinema. The results were a collection

SCREEN CLASSICS of the best the big screen has to offer. YOUR BIG YOUR BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Jaws Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Monty Python’s Life of Brian 1975 USA. Dir Steven Spielberg. USA 1937. Dirs David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, UK 1979. Dir Terry Jones. With Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss. 124min. Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen. 83min. Digital. U. With John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Digitial. 12A One of Disney’s most beloved films, now over 80 Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones. 94min. Digital. 15 You’re gonna need a bigger boat. Spielberg’s timeless years old Monty Python’s irreverent and hilarious satire of blockbuster needs no introduction Princess Snow White falls foul of jealousy when her vain religious orthodoxy There’s a great white shark circling Amity Island, stepmother asks a magic mirror to tell her who is the most ‘He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.’ Brian yet nobody seems to be prepared to take the threat beautiful person in the kingdom. As Snow White looks after Cohen spends his life being mistaken for the Messiah seriously – until more people start going missing and her loveable housemates in the forest, the Queen plots her due to a series of coincidences seized on by a group of irrefutable evidence is uncovered. Three men and their destruction. Though this was the world’s first feature-length followers. The film was deemed controversial by some at boat set off to capture the predator and reclaim the seas, cel-animated film, it still hits the spot over 80 years later. the time of its release, but its endlessly quotable lines and but have they underestimated its size, power and appetite? satirical swipes at fantaticism make it a comedy classic.

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Casablanca Singin’ in the Rain USA 1942. Dir Michael Curtiz. USA 1952. Dirs Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. USA 1994. Dir Quentin Tarantino. With Humphrey Bogart, , Paul Henreid, With Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, With Samuel L Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman. 154min. Claude Rains. 102min. Digital. U Jean Hagen. 103min. Digital. U. A BFI release 35mm. 18 Classic wartime starring Humphrey Bogart Gene Kelly’s love letter to the movies is pure cinema Tarantino’s violent and incendiary This much-loved classic earned Bogart his first Oscar ® Gene Kelly excels as silent movie idol Don Lockwood, Palme d’or-winning classic nomination as Rick, the jaded owner of a nightclub that in love with chorus girl Kathy (Reynolds), at odds with Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or, Tarantino’s lurid, becomes a focal point for refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied leading lady Lina (Hagen), and striving to save his career multi-stranded crime is packed with tremendous Europe. The pairing of Bogart and Bergman, as the woman when the arrival of the talkies threatens disaster. Written by performances from a fine cast. The standout, though, he loved and lost in Paris, may melt your heart, while Dooley Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Singin’ is a terrific is arguably Jackson’s career-defining turn as postmodern Wilson’s ivory-tinkling and Max Steiner’s strings put the comedy, but it’s in the musical sequences – most badass Jules Winnfield, a fiery-tempered low-level criminal ‘melo’ into Warner’s evergreen melodrama. memorably the title number – where the film soars. with a taste for baroque Biblical language.

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15 YOUR BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Selma Moonlight The Wizard of Oz USA-UK-France 2014. Dir Ava DuVernay. USA 2016. Dir Barry Jenkins. USA 1939. Dir Victor Fleming. With David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey. With Ashton Sanders, Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, With Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Frank Morgan. 102min. 128min. Digital. 12A Naomie Harris. 110min. Digital. Cert tbc. An Altitude Film Digital. U Moving retelling of Martin Luther King Jr’s epic march Entertainment release The classic Technicolor musical was made for the in 1965 Barry Jenkins’ intoxicating and Oscar-winning big screen Ava DuVernay’s breakout film is the first major feature coming-of-age drama The sepia world of Kansas makes way for the glorious centred on Dr Martin Luther King Jr (Oyelowo) and his The most talked-about film of 2016’s BFI London Film Technicolor of Oz in MGM’s timeless musical extravaganza. campaign for equal voting rights, a campaign that Festival, Jenkins’ second feature is a gem. Growing up in This tale of young Dorothy’s adventures in a magical land culminated in an epic march from Selma to Montgomery 1980s Miami, Chiron (Sanders) is different from the other won Oscars® for its score and for Garland’s signature song in 1965. DuVernay’s close collaborator David Oyelowo kids at school. Neglected by his junkie mother (Harris), ‘Over the Rainbow’. Now in its eighties, it still enthrals, carries the film with a towering, unforgettable performance. he turns to Juan (Ali), a local drug lord, for lessons in life packed as it is with classic song-and-dance numbers. and love. Innovative in style and overflowing with feeling, Moonlight is a truly intoxicating experience.

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Big Spirited Away My Own Private Idaho USA 1988. Dir Penny Marshall. Japan 2001. Dirs Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise. USA 1991. Dir Gus Van Sant. With Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia. 104min. With the voices of Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, With River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William 12A. Miyu Irino. 124min. Digital. EST. PG (advised 8+) Richert. 104min. Digital. 15 Tom Hanks excels in Penny Marshall’s 80s This magical animated fantasy is River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in Gus Van Sant’s comedy classic Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece landmark Thirteen-year-old Josh is small for his age, but after an When 10-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon Narcoleptic hustler Mike (Phoenix) and his friend Scott encounter with a fortune-telling machine he awakens to a magical sanctuary for the weary inhabitants of the spirit (Reeves), who’s secretly from a wealthy family, ditch the find himself transformed into a fully grown adult. At first this world, her parents are turned into pigs. So begins her streets of Portland and hit the road, heading for Mike’s seems like a dream come true, but then... This 80s hit surreal adventure, involving a dragon, a mouse and a hometown of Idaho. Focusing on characters living on the comedy remains fresh, funny and equally enjoyable for masked spirit. With its nods to Alice in Wonderland, this is fringes of American society, and avant-garde in its style viewers big and not so big. Miyazaki’s masterpiece and a classic animation. (partly inspired by William Burroughs’ cut-up technique), Van Sant’s film was greeted as a landmark of the New Queer Cinema.

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16 YOUR BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Breakfast at Tiffany’s A Matter of Life and Death After Life Wandafuru raifu USA 1961. Dir Blake Edwards. UK 1946. Dirs Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Japan 1998. Dir Hirokazu Koreeda. With , George Peppard, Patricia Neal. 114min. With David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond With Arata, Erika Oda, Taketoshi Naito. 118min. Digital. Digital. PG Massey. 104min. Digital 4K (in NFT1 and NFT3 only). U. EST. PG Audrey Hepburn glitters in the endlessly popular A Park release Beautiful and lyrical meditation on memory adaptation of Truman Capote’s classic novel Powell and Pressburger’s allegorical fantasy and happiness In her most iconic role, Hepburn stars as eccentric, contemplates love and death Hirokazu Koreeda’s magical film is set in a realm where playfully naïve socialite Holly Golightly. Despite her Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece begins with a the recently deceased are encouraged by counsellors best efforts to remain aloof, Holly starts falling for her WW2 RAF pilot (Niven) in a damaged bomber speaking to to choose their most precious memory, which is then charming new neighbour, aspiring writer Paul (Peppard). an American radio operator (Hunter) before he jumps out recreated on film so they can retain it for eternity. Truman Capote’s brilliant script helped Hepburn to shine, with no parachute; thereafter, he’s caught in a strange limbo A touching, amusing, imaginative mix of fiction and especially when we get to see behind Holly’s glamour. as a heavenly tribunal debates his right to live... and love. This warm, wise and witty allegorical fantasy alternates documentary interviews, it succeeds both as a meditation between monochrome and Technicolor, gloriously evident on happiness and the power of memory and cinema, in a 4K restoration. and as a celebration of human interaction.

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Boyz n the Hood Clueless Ladri di biciclette USA 1991. Dir John Singleton. USA 1995. Dir Amy Heckerling. Italy 1948. Dir . With Cuba Gooding Jr, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, With Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash. 97min. With Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell. 89min. Regina King. 112min. Digital. 15 Digital. 12A Digital. EST. U Blistering urban drama starring Cuba Gooding Jr Alicia Silverstone stars in the 90s high-school adaptation Landmark of Italian about a father searching This landmark debut by the late John Singleton signalled a of Jane Austen. Whatever! for his stolen bike new wave of 90s urban drama, delivering breakthrough This 90s favourite is famously a somewhat unusual – and De Sica’s classic – about a father and son scouring roles for Cuba Gooding Jr, Angela Bassett and Ice Cube. somewhat excellent and imaginative – adaptation of Jane post-war Rome for the stolen bicycle on which the former’s When young Tre (Gooding Jr) is sent to live with his strict Austen’s Emma. The typical high-school interests of new job depends – meets all the Italian neorealists’ disciplinarian father, Furious Styles (Fishburne), he must (Silverstone) include designer clothes, making-over the new requirements for a film deemed true to life: an everyday reckon with the complexities of masculinity, violence and girl, and playing matchmaker for her teachers. Focusing her story about ‘ordinary’ working-class folk, shot on location gentrification in inner-city Los Angeles. attention on everyone but herself, she’s suddenly surprised with a cast of non-professional actors. Carlo Montuori’s to realise that she may have fallen in love with the one guy elegant camerawork and the two lead performances carry she’d never even considered. the day.

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Daughters of the Dust Bugsy Malone USA 1991. Dir Julie Dash. UK 1976. Dir Alan Parker. With Barbara-O, Alva Rogers, Cora Lee Day. 112min. Digital. With Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, John Cassisi, Florence Garland. 12A. A BFI release 93min. Digital. U Hugely influential feature debut from Julie Dash Kids play the grown-ups in Parker’s timeless children’s Influenced by independent filmmaking, feminist aesthetics gangster flick and African griot traditions, Dash’s captivating feature debut Alan Parker turns the old-school prohibition gangster movie is set in 1902 on the Sea Islands off the coast of South on its head with this smart, innovative musical featuring Carolina, and looks at migration, culture and tradition from children as their adult counterparts and cream pies instead the perspectives of three generations of women in the of bullets. This timeless gem features some great songs by Peazant family. An influence on Beyoncé’s album Paul Williams including ‘You Give a Little Love’ and ‘Fat Lemonade, the film is a masterpiece of radical filmmaking. Sam’s Grand Slam’.

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18 The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival, the UK and Europe’s largest South Asian film event, is back at BFI Southbank, presenting two female directors: Arati Kadav with the Anurag Kashyap- produced sci-fi film Cargo, and Deepti Gupta who showcases top Indian musician Sona Mohapatra in

LONDON INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL the documentary Shut Up Sona. LONDON INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL

Cargo Shut Up Sona India 2019. Dir Arati Kadav. India 2019. Dir Deepti Gupta With Vikrant Massey, Shweta Tripathi, Nandu Madhav. With Sona Mohapatra. 85min. EST 113min. EST Outstanding doc about singer and #MeToo activist A spaceship that stores the dead and prepares them Sona Mohapatra’s fight for equal rights despite for rebirth is the setting for this fantasy parable from opposition from internet trolling and anonymous Vibrant Massey death threats Prahastha, a lonely astronaut, works on a spaceship Being on the receiving end of lawsuits, internet trolling and orbiting earth for Post Death Transition Services, a death threats is all in a day’s work for singer and leading pioneering company that stores, transitions and recycles #MeToo activist Sona Mohapatra. Filmmaker Deepti Gupta dead people for rebirth. The mundanity of his life is thrown follows the rebellious Sona’s inspirational journey over the into chaos after a young female astronaut joins the ship as course of three years, charting her rise as a multi-talented his assistant. Set in a peculiar world with its own charming musician while she fights for equal rights for women in the mythology, Cargo is a stunning fantasy parable about death music industry and in society. and what follows.

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