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February 2017 at BFI Southbank Events BFI SOUTHBANK EVENTS LISTINGS FOR FEBRUARY 2017 PREVIEWS Catch the latest film and TV alongside Q&As and special events Preview: The Founder USA 2016. Dir John Lee Hancock. With Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Laura Dern. 115min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of STUDIOCANAL After discovering a family-run innovative little burger shop called McDonald’s, Ray Kroc took it upon himself to build it into the most successful fast food chain in the world – no matter what. A stunning portrait of blind ambition, The Founder is anchored by the performance of Michael Keaton (Birdman), who commands the screen as the ruthlessly determined entrepreneur. Tickets £16, concs £12 (Members pay £1.70 less) THU 2 FEB 20:35 NFT1 Preview: Hidden Figures USA 2016. Dir Theodore Melfi. With Taraji P Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner. 126min. Digital. PG. Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Meet the brains behind some of the US’ greatest achievements of the 1960’s Space Race. Based on an untold true story, the film follow genius mathematician Katherine Johnson (Henson) and her equally brilliant colleagues Dorothy Vaughan (Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Monáe) as they work at NASA as real-life computers, hoping to catch up with the Soviets. Tickets £16, concs £12 (Members pay £1.70 less) WED 8 FEB 20:30 NFT1 Preview: Trespass Against Us UK 2016. Dir Adam Smith. With Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Lyndsey Marshal. 99min. Digital. 15. Courtesy of Lionsgate Director Adam Smith (Skins, Doctor Who) makes his feature debut with this powerful crime drama following three generations of the Cutlers, a notorious family of outlaws. Chad Cutler (Fassbender) is torn between family allegiance and his desire to build a better life for his children, as he tries to break away from the controlling influence of his father, Colby (Gleeson). Tickets £16, concs £12 (Members pay £1.70 less) MON 20 FEB 18:15 NFT1 NEW RELEASES Plenty of chances for you to sample the best new cinema Moonlight + discussion* USA 2016. Dir Barry Jenkins. With Ashton Sanders, Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Naomie Harris. 110min. Digital. Cert tbc. An Altitude Film Entertainment release This intoxicating, emotive film was a huge hit at 2016’s London Film Festival The most talked-about film of 2016’s London Film Festival, Barry Jenkins’ second feature is a true gem. Growing up in 1980s Miami, Chiron (Sanders) is different from the other kids at school. Neglected by his junkie mother (Naomie Harris, as you’ve never seen her before), he turns to Juan (Ali), a local drug lord, for lessons in life and love. Innovative in style and overflowing with feeling, Moonlight is what the cinema was made for: a truly intoxicating experience. * Critics Salon: Mon 13 Feb, 20:30 Blue Room. Free to ticket holders of ‘Moonlight’ on Mon 13 Feb 18:10 (please book via the box office due to limited capacity), otherwise £6 PREVIEWS FROM FRI 10 FEB RUNS FROM FRI 17 FEB RE-RELEASES Plenty of chances for you to revisit these key classics – many newly restored GoodFellas + Q&A with actor Lorraine Bracco* USA 1990. Dir Martin Scorsese. With Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco. 146min. Digital (4K in NFT1 & NFT3, 2K elsewhere). 18. A BFI release Now regarded as a classic of the genre, Scorsese’s gangster movie was acclaimed for both the authenticity and the energy of its storytelling The titular mobsters are Jimmy Conway (De Niro), Tommy DeVito (Pesci) and new recruit Henry Hill (Liotta), who long before he began doing jobs for Paul Cicero had always wanted to be a gangster. He’d liked their style, status and money – but wasn’t, perhaps, prepared for some of the stuff he’d have to do beyond the usual robberies, scams and shakedowns. Besides, how much should Henry tell Karen (Bracco) about his life? Performed, shot and edited with terrific expertise, fluency and panache, the film offers a teeming panorama of the Italian-American underworld, an extended ‘family’ riven by secrets and lies, rivalries and betrayals. CONTINUES FROM FRI 20 JAN Taxi Driver + discussion* USA 1976. Dir Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel. 113min. Digital (4K in NFT1 & NFT3, 2K elsewhere). 18. A Park Circus release Brilliantly scripted by Paul Schrader, and realised by Scorsese, this Palme d’or-winner – now newly restored – is one of the defining films of the 70s Driving his cab through New York’s neon-lit streets, insomniac Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (De Niro) fantasises about clearing away the human ‘garbage’ that so offends him. Rebuffed by a presidential campaignworker (Shepherd) he’s infatuated by, he turns his attention to a teenage prostitute (Foster). Using expressionist colour and camera positioning – and Bernard Herrmann’s unsettling score – to evoke Bickle’s hallucinatory sense of the city as a livid inferno, Scorsese paints an utterly persuasive portrait of a loner whose increasingly psychotic rage is fuelled by racist and misogynist fears of all-round impotence. And De Niro’s extraordinary performance endows Bickle with a frighteningly real menace. FROM FRO 10 FEB MEMBER EXCLUSIVES BFI Screen Epiphanies Following in the footsteps of John Bishop, Leslie Caron, Bonnie Greer and Dexter Fletcher, a prominent figure from the arts will introduce a screening of a film that has inspired them. bfi.org.uk/members Tim McInnerny Introduces White Heat USA 1949. Dir Raoul Walsh. With James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien. 114min. 35mm. 15 Actor Tim McInnerny (Blackadder, Notting Hill, Game of Thrones) introduces a film that’s inspired him. Oscar® nominated noir White Heat is considered one of the greatest gangster films, with James Cagney returning to the genre after 10 years to play psychotic gang leader Cody Jarrett. Edmond O’Brien stars as the undercover agent who infiltrates his mob. TUE 28 FEB 20:20 NFT1 BFI Flare Programme Launch TRT 60min Join members of the festival programming team for an exclusive preview of highlights from the upcoming BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival. Be one of the first to see exclusive clips from this year’s line-up celebrating the very best in queer cinema from around the world. WED 15 FEB 18:30 NFT1 EVENTS Thelma Schoonmaker in Conversation (work permitting) TRT 90min ‘Legendary’ doesn’t even come close to describing Oscar®-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker. She’s mainly known for her long-standing collaboration with Martin Scorsese – having edited his first feature Who’s That Knocking at My Door? And all of his films since Raging Bull. Schoonmaker has single-handedly shattered several glass ceilings in the film industry and has helped shape many modern American classics. Join us for this special opportunity to hear from one of the most celebrated editors of all time. Tickets £16, concs £12 (Members pay £1.70 less) TBC Preview: Prevenge + Q&A with writer-director-star Alice Lowe UK 2016. Dir Alice Lowe. With Alice Lowe, Kate Dickie, Gemma Whelan, Jo Hartley. 88min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Kaleidoscope Entertainment In 2012 Alice Lowe co-wrote and starred in Ben Wheatley’s twisted romcom Sightseers. Now she returns to the genre as a director herself, with a jet-black comedy that premiered at 2016’s LFF. Ruth (Lowe) is a pregnant single mother, convinced that her unborn child is telling her to kill people – so she does. In Ruth, Lowe has created an unsympathetic, compulsive, warped and utterly memorable character. This ‘post-feminist revenge’ movie is a hilarious heartfelt attack on the patronising way in which pregnant women are treated, made all the more poignant because Lowe herself was pregnant during filming. In partnership with F-Rated. The F-Rating, originally developed by Bath Film Festival, is a new film rating that highlights films made by and featuring women. f-rated.org/ MON 6 FEB 18:10 NFT3 The Crying Game 25th anniversary reunion: Q&A with director Neil Jordan, producer Stephen Woolley and cast members TBC UK-Japan 1992. Dir Neil Jordan. With Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker, Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Ralph Brown. 112min. Digital. 18 Newly remastered and reissued, The Crying Game is famous in equal measures for its straitened production history, triple-taboo subject matter of sexuality, race and sectarianism, and the sharp division between its reception in the UK and success in the US, where it was celebrated as ‘the movie that everyone’s talking about, but no one is giving away its secrets.’ So how does The Crying Game look today, even if we know its twist? Tightly scripted, handsomely shot and with a terrific cast, this parable of an IRA terrorist, a black British squaddie and his lover is a story of kindness and redemption for troubled times. WED 15 FEB 20:10 NFT1 Adam Buxton Videos His Old Bits TRT 90min A very special opportunity to see BFI regular Mr Adam Buxton present selected material from his 2013-2016 solo live shows. Expect some talking, some jokes, videos made by Adam played from his laptop, the reading of comments from the internet and a bit of stopping and starting. Book early to avoid disappointment. Please note this event will be filmed Tickets £16, concs £12 (Members pay £1.70 less) THU 16 FEB 18:30 & 20:45 NFT1 KERMODE LIVE IN 3D Let’s talk about film... Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI TRT 80min Mark Kermode, one of the nation’s most respected film critics, hosts a lively and wildly popular monthly event that explores, critiques and dissects movies past and present. With the occasional help of a surprise guest, Kermode reveals the guilty pleasures of cinema and enters into a dialogue with you (the audience), sparked by your questions.
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