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IN PERSON & PREVIEWS Talent Q&As and Rare Appearances IN PERSON & PREVIEWS Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance for you to catch the latest film and TV before anyone else TV Preview: World on Fire + Q&A with writer Peter Bowker plus cast TBA BBC-Mammoth Screen 2019. Lead dir Adam Smith. With Helen Hunt, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, Jonah Hauer- King. Ep1 c.60min World on Fire is an adrenaline-fuelled, emotionally gripping and resonant drama, written by the award-winning Peter Bowker (The A Word, Marvellous). It charts the first year of World War Two, told through the intertwining fates of ordinary people from Britain, Poland, France, Germany and the United States as they grapple with the effect of the war on their everyday lives. Join us for a Q&A and preview of this new landmark series boasting a stellar cast, headed up by Helen Hunt and Sean Bean. TUE 3 SEP 18:15 NFT1 TV Preview: Temple + Q&A with writer Mark O’Rowe, exec producer Liza Marshall, actor Mark Strong, and further cast TBA Sky-Hera Pictures 2019. Dirs Luke Snellin, Shariff Korver, Lisa Siwe. With Mark Strong, Carice van Houten, Daniel Mays, Tobi King Bakare. Eps 1 and 2, 80min Temple tells the story of Daniel Milton (Strong), a talented surgeon whose world is turned upside down when his wife contracts a terminal illness. Yet Daniel refuses to accept the cards he’s been dealt. He partners with the obsessive, yet surprisingly resourceful, misfit Lee (Mays) to start a literal ‘underground’ clinic in the vast network of tunnels beneath Temple tube station in London. They’re soon joined by Anna (van Houten), a guilt- ridden medical researcher whose past is entangled with Daniel’s, and fugitive bank-robber Jamie (King Bakare). Daniel does his best to juggle this dysfunctional family as his moral boundaries as a husband, friend and doctor are challenged. Just how far will he go for love? MON 9 SEP 20:15 NFT1 Midnight Cowboy: 50th Anniversary Screening + Q&A with photographer and production assistant Michael Childers USA 1969. Dir John Schlesinger. With Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro. 113min. Digital 4K. 18. A BFI release After a year of uncertainty when he almost decided to leave film behind, Hoffman (against industry advice) took the role of seedy conman ‘Ratso’ Rizzo and delivered a remarkable performance. Voight is equally impressive as naive young Texan Joe Buck, who arrives in New York believing that women will be falling at his feet, but finds himself sharing a squat with his unlikely ally. Join us for a post-screening Q&A with a legendary Hollywood photographer who got up close on the film. FRI 13 SEP 18:00 NFT1 Preview: Good Posture USA 2019. Dir Dolly Wells. With Grace Van Patten, Emily Mortimer, Condola Rashad, Ebon Moss-Bachrach. 91min. Digital. Courtesy of Munro Films Brooklynite Lillian (Van Patten) is a charming but lazy young woman who has just been dumped by her boyfriend, and is placed into the care of reclusive author, and family friend, Julia Price (Mortimer). To impress her cynical ex, Lillian decides to make an unauthorised documentary on Julia, with hilarious results. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) MON 23 SEP 20:40 NFT1 KERMODE LIVE IN 3D Let’s talk about film... Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI TRT 90min Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI is a monthly conversation between you (the audience) and one of the nation’s favourite and most respected film critics. With the help of surprise guests from the industry, Kermode will explore, critique and dissect movies past and present and reveal his or his guests’ cinematic guilty pleasures. Get involved by tweeting your questions in advance to @KermodeMovie #MK3D. Tickets £20, concs £16 (Members pay £2 less) MON 23 SEP 18:30 NFT1 MEMBER EXCLUSIVES These events are exclusive to BFI Members and their guests. Join today at bfi.org.uk/join American Graffiti USA 1973. Dir George Lucas. With Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford. 113min. Digital. 12A It’s early September 1962 in Modesto, California and Mel’s Drive-in Diner parking lot is the place to be. Over one night we follow the lives of a group of recent high-school leavers who cruise in their cars and listen to rock ’n’ roll, before preparing for the next stage in their lives. George Lucas’ pre-Star Wars pic is great fun. Tickets £6 SAT 7 SEP 20:45 NFT1 NEW RELEASES The best new cinema for you to enjoy, with plenty of screening dates to choose from Bait UK 2019. Dir Mark Jenkin. With Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Giles King, Simon Shepherd. 89min. Digital/35m. 15. A BFI release Bait, which premiered at Berlin, is a highly original, stylistically bold first feature from independent writer- director Mark Jenkin Gruff and taciturn Martin (Rowe) is a fisherman without a boat since his brother repurposed their father’s vessel for tourist trips. As Martin struggles to buy his own boat he must also cope with family rivalry and the influx of London money, stag parties and holiday homes that is displacing the locals in his picturesque Cornish harbour village. Summer brings simmering tensions to a head within the community, with tragic consequences. Stunningly shot on a vintage 16mm camera using monochrome Kodak stock, Bait is timely and poignant, yet full of humour as it gets to the heart of a community facing unwelcome change. + Travelogue (c.2min) Footage from the BFI National Archive, showing Cornish fisherman in the 1920s. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) CONTINUES FRI 30 AUG Pain and Glory Dolor y gloria Spain 2019. Dir Pedro Almodóvar. With Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Asier Etxeandia. 113min. Digital. EST. 15. A Pathé-Twentieth Century Fox release A vivid portrait of a filmmaker confronting age-related anxieties, Almodóvar’s latest is surely one of his most personal works Director Salvador Mallo (Banderas at his very best) is so preoccupied by various physiological and psychological ailments that he’s put his career on hold. Then a retrospective of his work leads him not only to remember his past, but to contact the long-estranged lead actor of an early seminal work... a troubled reunion with unexpected, fateful consequences. Almodóvar, who also wrote the screenplay, is here at his most mature and reflective, exploring the lore of desire, creativity, addiction and memory through a single, somewhat self-centred character. Bold in its narrative structure, restrained yet expressive in its colours and compositions, and with intense, naturalistic performances, this is exemplary film artistry. CONTINUES FRI 23 AUG The Last Tree UK 2019. Dir Shola Amoo. With Sam Adewunmi, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Denise Black, Tai Golding. 99min. Digital. 15. A Picturehouse Entertainment release This semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama explores universal themes of identity and belonging Directed by Shola Amoo, The Last Tree is the semi-autobiographical story of Femi (played by young newcomer Tai Golding), a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. In his teens, Femi (Sam Adewunmi) struggles with the culture and values of his new environment. He must decide which path to adulthood he wants to take, and find out what it means to be a young black man in London during the early 00s. OPENS FRI 20 SEP RE-RELEASES We’ve selected these key classics (many newly restored) for you to enjoy, with plenty of screening dates to choose from The Third Man 70th Anniversary Release + intro by Angela Allen, Continuity Supervisor* UK 1949. Dir Carol Reed. With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard. 105min. Digital. PG. A STUDIOCANAL release Discover why this mystery-thriller has often been rated as the greatest British film of all time Writer Holly Martins (Cotten) arrives in post-war, Allies-occupied Vienna to meet his old friend Harry Lime (Welles), with the promise of work. Discovering that Lime is dead, and warned away from Vienna on account of his friend’s criminal activities, Martins starts investigating the circumstances surrounding Lime’s demise. Graham Greene’s note perfect screenplay, the sound of Anton Karas’ zither, Robert Krasker’s expressionist photography, Reed’s tight direction and a charismatic turn by the great Orson Welles make The Third Man an unmissable piece of cinema. Also available on *Intro Fri 6 Sep 18:00 NFT1 **Extended intro (30min) by Adrian Wootton, Chief Executive Film London Thu 12 Sep 18:10 NFT1 FROM FRI 6 SEP Midnight Cowboy 50th Anniversary Release USA 1969. Dir John Schlesinger. With Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro. 113min. Digital 4K. 18. A BFI release Despite its X rating, Midnight Cowboy won Oscars® for best film, director and screenplay. Fifty years on, it has never looked better After a year of uncertainty when he almost decided to leave film behind, Hoffman (against industry advice) took the role of seedy conman ‘Ratso’ Rizzo and delivered a remarkable performance. Voight is equally impressive as naive young Texan Joe Buck, who arrives in New York believing that women will be falling at his feet, but finds himself sharing a squat with his unlikely ally. Midnight Cowboy is bleak and uncompromising, yet at its heart is an affectionate friendship between two drifters, set against a great John Barry soundtrack. We celebrate the film’s 50th anniversary with a new digital 4K restoration. FROM FRI 13 SEP IT’S... MONTY PYTHON AT 50 And Now for Something Completely Different + Q&A with actor Carol Cleveland** + intro by Nancy Lewis, Monty Python’s US Manager* UK 1971.
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