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BFI DVD SB Guide Ad 2019-12.indd 1 25/09/2019 15:56 The best new cinema for you to The Cave enjoy, with plenty of screening Denmark-Syria-Germany-USA-Qatar 2019. dates to choose from Dir Feras Fayyad. 107min. Digital. EST. Cert (see pull-out calendar) tbc. A Dogwoof release Fayyad’s powerful film captures the experience of heroic women (literally) hidden below the surface of the Syrian Civil War Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo) returns to his native Syria to observe the lives of a team of female doctors operating in ‘The Cave’, one of the secret subterranean hospitals providing medical care to the trapped, war-torn population. In addition to the daily horrors of chemical warfare, the remarkable women battle through ingrained cultural sexism with tireless dedication. This intimate and poignant documentary, selected for this year’s Documentary Special Presentation at the London Film Festival, beautifully captures vital moments of compassion and camaraderie in the face of devastation and tragedy. Kimberley Sheehan, Events Programmer ‘THIS ESSENTIAL FILM TELLS THE STORY OF AN UNDERGROUND SYRIAN HOSPITAL AND ITS EXTRAORDINARY STAFF’ KIMBERLEY SHEEHAN, EVENTS PROGRAMMER DOC OPENS FRI 27 DEC

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Jonathan Romney, Romney, Jonathan Advisor Programme LFF So Long, My Son So Long, Di jiu tian chang China Dir 2019. Wang Xiaoshuai. With Ai Liya, Wang Jingchun, Mei. Yong 180min. Digital. A Curzon EST. release ‘Sixth Generation’ director Wang family absorbing an offers Xiaoshuai modern Chinese unfolds that chronicle insightfulnessrich history the with of a novel spans piece ensemble complex This four decades, from the 1980s the to the follows and present, cosmopolitan various of fortunes interconnected characters around a couple, Liyun (Yong Mei) and Yaojun (Wang Jingchun), and their son. In the early 80s, Liyun, a factory second the for pregnant becomes worker, time, falling foul of the national policy of between Zigzagging families. one-child decades, the film shows how political reality affects the fates of the family and deeply and moving A them. around those involving drama of personal and national destinies, this epic narrative is executed control. mesmerising with Image: Li-Tienan-Dongchun Films Li-Tienan-Dongchun Image: We’ve selected these key classics (many newly restored) for you to enjoy, with plenty of screening dates to choose from (see pull-out calendar)

Eyes Wide Shut UK-USA 1999. Dir Stanley Kubrick. With Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Todd Field. 159min. Digital. 18. A Park Circus release Kubrick’s final film, released posthumously, is an incredible display of precision and Tommy suspense, featuring a fragile relationship UK 1975. Dir Ken Russell. With Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Jack Nicholson. played out by (then) real-life couple 108min. Digital. 15. A BFI release Kidman and Cruise. When Alice Harford Ken Russell’s take on The Who’s groundbreaking 1969 album is a feverish feast admits to her husband Bill that she’s of unrestrained imagination having sexual thoughts about another man, it sets off an obsession in him to After witnessing the murder of his father, of consumerism, religion and deluded have an erotic encounter – which leads traumatised Tommy is left unable to see, leaders remain unnervingly prescient. him into the seductive and dangerous speak or hear. From pinball champion This is rock opera as it should be: sexual underbelly of New York’s elite. ‘DEMY’S DEEPLY to messiah, the adult Tommy (Daltrey) played at full volume in every sense. Justin Johnson, Lead Programmer MOVING MUSICAL is accompanied on his journey by some Robin Baker, Head Curator of the most memorable visuals and The screening on Wed 4 Dec 18:15 Also available on ROMANCE IS performances in British cinema. Studio will be presented with subtitles for + Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick Ken Russell’s virtuosity and iconoclasm the D/deaf or hard of hearing and Eyes Wide Shut SHEER CINEMATIC are intoxicating, while the film’s targets See p14 for our Musicals season UK 2019. Dir Matt Wells. 8min MAGIC’ A documentary exploring Kubrick’s GEOFF ANDREW, enigmatic swansong. PROGRAMMER-AT-LARGE The Umbrellas of Cherbourg CONTINUES FROM FRI 22 NOV CONTINUES FROM FRI 29 NOV

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FROM FRI 6 DEC Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large Andrew, Geoff Seniors’ matinee + intro by actor Burt Caesar Dec NFT3 10 14:00 Tue The Umbrellas of Cherbourg The Umbrellas de Cherbourg Les Parapluies 1964. Germany France-West Dir Jacques Demy. With Catherine Deneuve, Michel. Marc Vernon, Anne Castelnuovo, Nino 91min. Digital. A BFI U. EST. release Jacques Demy’s all-sung tale of first love is a ravishing mix of music, invention. cinematic fertile and romance Geneviève (Deneuve)is in love with car mechanic Guy (Castelnuovo), but her mother (Vernon) has other ideas. ideas. other has (Vernon) mother her Her umbrella shop isn’t doing well; besides, there’s the war in Algeria… Michel classic bittersweet Demy’s In the score, lovely achingly Legrand’s vibrant colour-coding of Bernard Evein’s art direction, Jean Rabier’s elegant, fluid rhapsodic uniformly the and camerawork performances are brought together to turn an unusually sombre – even dark – storyline into an enchanting fairy tale that very movingly, and wisely, muses on the workings of chance and fate. Few filmmakers have dealt with the everyday realities of life so imaginatively, magically. or tenderly Carefully curated collections of film and TV, which showcase an influential genre, theme or talent

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SAT 21SAT DEC NFT1 15:20 OLIVER! SINGALONG Winner of six Academy Awards, Oliver! UK 1968. Dir Carol Reed. With Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Oliver Reed,Shani Wallis. 152min. U Digital. popular enduringly deservedly most is the Lionel Composer-lyricist musical. British Bart reworked Dickens without blunting his edge, while director Carol Reed wholly delivers on spectacle and big emotion. 20 MUSICALS! book onlineat bfi.org.uk/musicals book Effie. as performance her for received Hudson Jennifer awards of deluge the by testified –as is it movie to whose as doubt no absolutely there’s but amazing), pretty she’s (and show Broadway successful this rapturously mounted adaption of the in billing top received have may Beyoncé 12A Digital. 120min. Murphy. Eddie Foxx, Jamie Hudson, Jennifer Knowles, Beyoncé With Condon. Bill Dir 2006. USA DREAMGIRLS 20:30 NFT2 20:30 17 DEC TUE 20:10 NFT3 20:10 DEC 23 MON price alone. alone. price ticket the You’ Telling ‘Andof worth IAm of great numbers, with Hudson’s rendition Dreamgirls Supremes, The of to fame rise the on based Loosely HO is packed full

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NMK SAT 28SAT DEC 20:00 NFT2 THE PURE ONE + INTRO features wonderful performances features #BFIMusicals FRI 6 DEC 17:50 NFT3* India Dir 1972. Kamal Amrohi. With Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Ashok Kumar. 154min. Digital. Urdu with PG EST. BY ASHANTI OMKAR,BY BBC ASIAN NETWORK BROADCASTER* in love across the social divide. PAKEEZAH Set in Lucknow amid the elegant culture nobility, Muslim 20th-century early of Pakeezah numbers, musical spectacular and assuring the film its place in Indian cinema among considered Amrohi, Kamal history. the great master Indian filmmakers, directs this tale of two generations of Kumari Meena star (iconic courtesans in her last performance) who fall

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RB SUN 29 DEC 19:10 NFT3 , with its story of anti-semitism Fiddler SUN 8 DEC 14:10 NFT3 FIDDLER ON THE ROOF as Topol isTopol a force of nature as Tevye the milkman, a man determined find to husbands for his daughters in Tsarist Russia. Few musicals feel as pertinent USA 1971. DirUSA Norman 1971. Jewison. With Topol, Norma Crane, Rosalind Harris. 179min. U Digital. and a community forced abandon to their Jewison Director livelihoods. and homes does an extraordinary job in making you want dance to with joy one moment, then sob the next. PROJECTING THE ARCHIVE MEZZANINE GALLERY A rare chance to see rediscovered British features from the BFI National Archive. Displays from the BFI Archive In honour of Dr Clifford Shaw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang FREE FIRST A GIRL + INTRO BY FILM HISTORIAN JOHN OLIVER MUSICAL SPACES TOUCHING CONTRIBUTORS UK 1936. Dir Victor Saville. With Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee. 93min. 35mm U From rural refrains to urban beats, Based on the German film Viktor und glamour and sophistication. Here, the via cobbled streets, fairgrounds and AB – AGA BARANOWSKA Viktoria (remade with Julie Andrews in theme of cross-dressing (rather risqué rooftops: the spaces of big-screen DS – DAVID SOMERSET 1982), this Jessie Matthews vehicle sees for 1930s Britain) leads to some musicals evoke the rhythms around us. DF – DICK FIDDY MUSICALS! her as a performer who builds a career exquisite comic situations in which Showcasing BFI Special Collections HO – HEATHER OSBORN by posing as a female impersonator. Matthews proves her talent for comedy materials, this exhibition reveals how JB – JOSEPHINE BOTTING each of these spaces has something THE Matthews was as big a musical star as and manages to be convincing in the JJ – JUSTIN JOHNSON to say (and sing!) about the performances Gracie Fields, but, although both were gender swap scenes, despite her petite NMK – NASREEN MUNNI KABIR of everyday life. working class, Matthews developed a frame and feminine features. JB RB – ROBIN BAKER very different screen persona based on Also available on SK – SOPHIE KENDRICK VOID

THU 12 DEC CONTINUES FROM THU 17 OCT 18:00 NFT3 MEZZANINE GALLERY 26 book online at bfi.org.uk/musicals TOUCHING THE VOID ‘WHEN YOU MAKE VIOLENT, DISTURBING FILMS HOW CAN YOU BE NICE AND WELL BEHAVED?’ MAURICE PIALAT

Maurice Pialat’s later films followed classic genres but were entirely personal, says season programmer David Thompson Following the success of Loulou and À nos amours, Pialat received bigger budgets to direct four films on a grander scale, and was rewarded with major prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. Three of them starred the imposing figure of Gérard Depardieu, who was then at his peak and, in his unique combination of physical bulk and emotional tenderness, a kind of alter ego for the director. But even while Pialat appeared to make a police thriller, a literary adaptation and a biopic, all of these followed the uncompromising line of his earlier work, with a focus on emotional truth and a refusal to make the audience ever feel comfortable. His last film, with its fond portrayal of a little boy at the mercy of adult insecurities, harked back to his first (L’enfance nue) and brought the extraordinary career of one of France’s finest and most influential directors full circle.

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SUN 29 DEC 15:50 NFT1 WED DEC 11 20:00 NFT3 recreation of southern France in 1890. In one of the greatest film portraits ofa painter, Pialat puts aside the art, avoids all temptation indulge to in melodrama, and focuses on a troubled, lonely man in his final months dealing with his brother, his doctor and the various women in his life. performance as exceptional Dutronc’s Vincent is placed within a totally convincing Van Gogh Van France Dir 1991. Maurice Pialat. London, Alexandra Dutronc, Jacques With Bourdon. Corinne Coq, Bernard Le 160min. Digital. 15 EST. , Diary of a Country Priest ). Depardieu). plays a tormented Robert Bresson ( Mouchette rural priest who attempts save to the soul of a young murderess. at the Cannes the at MON 30 DEC NFT3 20:35 WED 4 DEC 20:45 NFT1 Sous le soleil de Satan Under the Sun of Satan France Dir Maurice 1987. Pialat. With Gérard Depardieu,Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice98min. Pialat. Digital. 15 EST. Winner of the Palme d’Or Film Festival, Pialat’s screen version of a novel by the great French Catholic writer Georges Bernanos is far earthier in style than the austere adaptations made by

FRI DEC 13 18:00 NFT1 SUN 1 DEC 20:30 NFT3 With Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Sophie Gérard Depardieu, With Bonnaire. Anconina, Sandrine Richard Digital.113min. 15 EST. who flirts with both sides of the law. Working from a well-researched screenplay well-researched a from Working France 1985. Dir Maurice Pialat. Police by Catherine Breillat, Pialat switched from a make to autobiography anguished very idiosyncratic but amoral realistically spin on the crime thriller in what is arguably unscrupulous An film. commercial most his detective (Depardieu) takes on a cabal becomes and dealers drug Tunisian of infatuated with a teenager (Marceau) 30

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35mm EST. PG MON 9 DEC 20:30 NFT2 Ponette France 1996. Dir Jacques Doillon. Beauvois, Xavier Thivisol, Victoire With Delphine Schiltz, Matiaz Bureau Caton. unflinching follows film Jacques Doillon’s the (Thivisol) in Ponette four-year-old weeks after she survived a car crash 97min. that killed her mother. In the care of her of members other and (Beauvois) father her family, shegradually comes terms to (controversially, Thivisol loss. the with given her very young age) won the Best Actress prize at Venice for her heartbreaking performance.

SUN 8 DEC 20:00 NFT2 SAT 7 DECSAT 17:50 NFT2 Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die Going Forget You’re Don’t N’oublie pas que tu vas mourir Beauvois. Xavier Dir. 1995. France Mastroianni, Chiara Beauvois, Xavier With Roschdy Zem, Bulle Ogier. Score by John Cale. Digital. 118min. EST Xavier Beauvois wrote, directed and account confrontational this in starred of the long journey day’s into night taken by Benoit (Beauvois), a Parisian student who after discovering he is HIV positive, tumbles headfirst into a world of drugs alongside experiences reckless and Omar brilliant (a young Zem). Things look (Mastroianni), Claudia meets he when up but fate may already have played its hand.

Bouchez and Régnier rightly shared the Best Actress prize at Cannes for their searing performances gripping, this in tragic tale of lives lived on the margins. SUN 29 DEC 14:00 NFT3 FRI 20 DEC 20:45 NFT3 Arriving on the streets of Lille, penniless friends fast becomes (Bouchez) Isa drifter worker sweatshop secure-seeming with Marie (Régnier). But their friendship is strained when Marie falls for a callously (Colin). womaniser wealthy manipulative, France 1998. Dir Erick Zonca. With Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin, La vie revée des anges of Angels La vie revée The Dreamlife 35mm EST. 113min. Mercado. Patrick 18 ‘SEEING THE IMAGE, TAINTED WITH RACISM, THAT THE MEDIA OFFER OF AFRICA, I COULDN’T HELP REACTING, IN MY OWN WAY AND WITH THE MEANS AT MY DISPOSAL, TO TRY TO SHOW SOMETHING ELSE THAT WAS CLOSER TO THE TRUTH’ MED HONDO

Every film lover should experience the wide palette and unique vision of Med Hondo’s cinema, recommends season programmer David Somerset Mauritanian-born actor, director, producer and filmmaker Med Hondo started a groundbreaking theatre company in France before moving into film. In 1967, inspired by the French New Wave, he spent four years making his acclaimed debut feature Soleil Ô. Hondo’s subsequent films, covering a range of genres, all possess his singular perspective on the colonial history of Africa and the African diaspora experience. West Indies was seven years in the making and presents a musical depiction of the story of the Caribbean, and Sarraounia, an African Queen is a spectacular historical epic of rare historical insight. Our season also features his final film, funded from his work as an actor, Fatima: The Algerian Woman of Dakar. MED HONDO 33

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MON DEC 16 20:40 NFT2 THU 5 DEC 20:40 NFT2* Introduced in partnership with ICO West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves Indies: West Indies ou les nègresof Liberty West by Kevin de la liberté + intro marrons author and broadcaster* Le Gendre, 1979. France-Algeria-Mauritania Dir Med Hondo. 35mm 113min. EST MGM-inspired screened rarely This musical was, in its the day, most expensive African film ever made. from Boukman Daniel writer by Adapted his own work, and seven years in the making, thisvast musical fresco covers hundreds of years of history from immigration. 20th-century to enslavement setIt’s on an enormous slave ship and brilliant dazzling a of boasts array musicalwide-ranging choreography, styles, sharp satire and captivating and lyricism. poignant Archive Screening Day. See p20 for more events Screening Day

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FRI 6 DEC 20:40 NFT2 TUE 3 DEC 20:30 NFT2* his accommodation and even in love. a better life. Once there, he encounters a host of obstacles – in his work, + intro by Kunle Olulode, VOICE4CHANGE* Soleil Ô Oh Sun! + intro Mauritania Dir 1970. Med Hondo. With Robert Liensol, Théo Légitimus, Gabriel Glissand.Digital. EST 98min. highly this surreal, times at and Shocking, on draws drama fast-paced inventive, the experiences of its director and cast as it follows a man who emigrates from West Africa Paris to in the promise of TALK TUE 3 DEC 18:00 NFT3 Tickets £6.50 Tickets TRT 100min In thisillustrated discussion, a range of and programmers expert speakers, individual their present will archivists ideas, extraordinary the on perspectives this of achievements and vision Contributors director. groundbreaking Bakari, Imruh writer and lecturer include June Givanni of The JuneGivanni Pan Olulode, Kunle Archive, Cinema African spoken- and poet and Voice4Change, word artist Be Manzini. The Life and Times of Med Hondo The Life and Times of Med

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ORDINARY LOVE 6 DEC Directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s new film Ordinary Love Sarraounia, an African Queen + intro and Q&A with special guests* Burkino Faso-Mauritania-France 1986. Dir Med Hondo. With Aï Keïta, Jean-Roger Milo, features nuanced performances from Féodor Atkine. 120min. 35mm EST Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson as a ‘I wanted to illustrate authentic historical Shot in glorious widescreen with a vivid long-standing couple facing a facts to show that the African continent colour palette and featuring large-scale, was not easily colonised and had exquisitely staged battle scenes, this potentially life-changing diagnosis. a history of resistance to colonialism. adaptation of Abdoulaye Mamani’s There were a number of African women eponymous novel is set in 1898 and Fatima: The Algerian Woman of Dakar + intro by June Givanni, JGPACA involved in the fight against colonialism. details defiant Queen Sarraounia’s Mauritania-Tunisia-France-Sengal 2004. Dir Med Hondo. With Amel Djemel, Aboubacar Sadikh Ba, Queen Sarraounia in Niger, Jinga in resistance to invading French colonial Larbi Zekal. 89min. Format tbc. EST Angola, Ranavalona in Madagascar, forces. So disrupted was the film’s initial Med Hondo’s last film begins in 1957 and women’s place in society are laid Beatrice of the Congo, to name a few. distribution in France – allegedly a result Algeria where a Senegalese soldier on bare in this delicate and at times We never speak of the role of African of political interference – that figures such a ‘clean up’ operation encounters an humorous drama. Originally shot on women in history, but they headed as Bertrand Tavernier, Constantin Algerian woman and rapes her. Years later, 16mm, it was blown up to 35mm and was

MED HONDO kingdoms and had an important status Costa-Gavras, Ousmane Sembène and his father convinces him to seek out the funded by the director’s expertise as a in matriarchal societies.’ Souleymane Cissé petitioned a protest. woman, his ‘sister in Islam’, and beg voice actor (Hondo was the French voice Med Hondo, 1997 interview with Tickets £6.50 forgiveness. Weighty topics of colonialism, of Eddie Murphy and Morgan Freeman). Francoise Pfaff North and Sub-Saharan Africa, religion

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The Philadelphia Story The Deer Hunter Tokyo Story Tokyo Monogatari GETTING TOGETHER USA 1940. Dir George Cukor. USA 1978. Dir Michael Cimino. Japan 1953. Dir Yasujiro Ozu. With Chishu Ryu, With Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, With Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Chiyeki Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara. 136min. Since Christmas is seen James Stewart, Ruth Hussey. 112min. Christopher Walken, John Savage, Digital. EST. U by many as an opportunity Digital 4K. U Meryl Streep. 183min. Digital 4K. 18 An elderly country couple visit their for getting together, it’s When a wealthy divorcee (Hepburn) Michael Cimino’s epic account of the grown-up children in Tokyo, but find most decides to marry again, she’s unprepared effects of the Vietnam war on three of them preoccupied with work and the timely to look at gatherings for the arrival at her society wedding Pennsylvanian steelworkers, their friends trappings of postwar city life. Though of various sorts. This month not only of her millionaire ex (Grant) but and families begins with an exuberant loosely based on Leo McCarey’s Make and next, our daily screenings of a pair of scandal-seeking journalists Russian Orthodox wedding and ends with Way for Tomorrow, Ozu’s masterpiece (Stewart, Hussey)... Cukor’s evergreen an altogether more sombre gathering. feels entirely characteristic of his wry, wise of landmark movies will version of Philip Barry’s play boasts Between them, the scenes set in response to the vicissitudes of modern explore the dynamics of sparkling performances from a magnificent Vietnam have an often nightmarish family life; it builds, calmly but unflinchingly, the group, be it family, cast and characteristically understated intensity, underlining the raw emotions to a coda of enormous poignancy. direction which seamlessly interweaves at the core of the film’s exploration of Also available on friends, colleagues or simply wit, romance and subtle eroticism. friendship, loyalty, love and community. people brought together Also available on by accident. Humans are complex creatures, however, so things don’t always go as planned… GEOFF ANDREW, PROGRAMMER-AT-LARGE SUN 1 DEC SUN 22 DEC MON 30 DEC SUN 8 DEC SAT 14 DEC SAT 7 DEC MON 23 DEC Tickets for these screenings are only £8 17:10 NFT2 20:00 NFT2 14:30 NFT3 19:15 STUDIO 19:30 NFT2 20:20 NFT2 17:20 NFT3 BIG SCREEN CLASSICS book online at bfi.org.uk BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 37

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FRI DEC 13 20:40 NFT3 WED 4 DEC NFT2* 17:35 Adhemar da Silva. 35mm 107min. EST. 12A Brazil-France-Italy 1958. Dir Marcel Camus. Camus. Marcel Dir 1958. Brazil-France-Italy With Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Also available on Black Orpheus Orfeu negro Lúcia Nagib, by Professor + intro University of Reading* One of the world’s most famous celebratory gatherings is linked with death in this Palmecolourful, samba-rich d’Or that transposed the Orpheus myth the to favelas of Rio. Though expected wed to for Orfeo falls conductor trolley Mira, admirer an herself avoiding Euridice, costume; skeletal sinister in dressed soon the lovers are forced take to refuge among the Carnival’s crowds.

THU DEC 12 STUDIO 18:10 TUE 10 DEC STUDIO 18:15 Also available on Wandafuru raifu After Life Wandafuru Koreeda. Hirokazu Dir 1998. Japan With Arata, Erika Oda, Taketoshi Naito. Digital.118min. PG EST. Hirokazu Koreeda’s film is set in a limbo are deceased recently the where choose to counsellors by encouraged is which memory, precious most their then recreated on film so that they can take it with them for eternity. A warm, and fiction of mix imaginative amusing, both succeeds it documentary interviews, the and happiness on meditation a as power of memory and cinema, and as a celebration of human interaction.

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SUN DEC 15 18:00 NFT3 SAT 14 DEC 14 SAT 16:10 NFT3 With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Costello, Dolores Cotten, Joseph With Agnes Moorehead, Tim Holt. 88min. 35mm U is a brilliant, highly faithful adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel about the demise of a patrician Midwestern family createto a work of philosophical depth complexity. emotional and The Magnificent Ambersons USA 1942. Dir Orson Welles. Orson Welles’ follow-up Kane Citizen to America. industrialised increasingly an in The sheer cinematic invention is already evident in the prologue; wry humour gravitas melancholy a with alternates It remains a masterpiece, notwithstanding masterpiece, a remains It mutilationRKO’s of the later scenes.

SUN 29 DEC 19:00 NFT1 SAT 21SAT DEC 14:10 NFT3 The Leopard Il gattopardo The Leopard Italy-France 1963. Dir Luchino Visconti. With Delon, Alain Cardinale, Claudia Burt Lancaster, Serge Reggiani. 188min. Digital 4K. PG somewhat epic, Visconti’s Luchino Lampedusa’s of adaptation nostalgic novel about the fading fortunes of an Sicilian during the family aristocratic marvellous a on centres Risorgimeno performance by Burt Lancaster as the stoic but sorrowing Prince of Salina. surroundedHe’s by a stellar cast, costumes, splendid and sets sumptuous Rotunno’s Giuseppe by caught lustrously all in memorably most – camerawork sequence. ballroom lavish a

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SAT 28SAT DEC 20:10 NFT1 THU DEC 19 18:00 NFT3 Sam Peckinpah’s once-controversial once-controversial Peckinpah’s Sam movie, now widely regarded as a classic, USA 1969. Dir Sam Peckinpah. With William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, The Wild Bunch Warren Oates. 145min. Digital. 18 depicts the passing of the West from the perspective of an anachronistic band technological by outdone outlaws, of progress and new codes of ‘honour’ IT’S PANTO SEASON! Oh no it’s not, oh yes it is...

Dates for your cultural diary, A look at the star-studded, from DVD/Blu-ray launches staple of the seasonal schedules: to weekenders, film summits and festivals the TV pantomime Pantomime, that most traditional seasonal fare, has survived by constantly reinventing itself while holding on to its most fundamental tropes – a Principal Boy, men in drag, slapstick antics, corny jokes and a smattering of smutty innuendo. Pantomimes had regular spots in Christmas TV schedules,

with the first (the Arthur Askey-scripted Spitting Image: The Panto Dick Whittington and his Cat) screened in 1937. Though frequently little more Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp Cinderella: The Shoe Must Go On than filmed versions of a live stage BBC 1966. Dir David Croft. With Arthur Askey, + intro by Barry Cryer and Steve Roy Castle, Mary Millar, Charlie Cairoli. 85min production, there was also a penchant Nallon (Panto work permitting) for creating one-off shows for TV, either The old trouper Askey and the dynamic ITV 1986. Dir Jon Scoffield. in a theatre or a TV studio. These would and versatile Castle may have got With Danny La Rue, Roy Kinnear, Brian Conley, Roy Hudd, Steve Nallon. 80min often feature a host of stars already top-billing but it’s the formidable famous on the small screen. It’s this arch-panto villain Alan Curtis who steals Central television assembled a massive latter form that our short, fun-packed every scene he’s in, eliciting a chorus celebrity cast (including Basil Brush, Les programme will focus on. of hisses and boos from the audience. Dennis, Caroline Munroe, Willie Rushton) ‘EXPLORE THE With a cast drawn from the stars of for this irreverent retelling of the Cinderella various stage pantos of the time, this is story by scriptwriters Barry Cryer and TV PANTOMIME, a splendid snapshot of a moment where Dick Vosburgh. FROM GLITTERY old theatre traditions were under threat + Spitting Image: The Panto SEASONAL from the power of television. ITV 1993. Dir Andy De Emmony. 25min The team took over Hackney Empire for a ONE-OFFS TO Christmas panto (organised by John Major) CHRISTMAS to take pot-shots at all their favourite SPECIALS OF politicians, pop stars and presenters. ESTABLISHED SHOWS’ DICK FIDDY, ARCHIVE TV PROGRAMMER Panto special (adjacent) SUN 1 DEC FRI 20 DEC 14:50 NFT3 18:20 NFT3 SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS book online at bfi.org.uk in the 21st the in century?’ aplace panto ‘has question the poses Paul Clay’s mischievous documentary 50min Clay. Paul Dir 2003. Ch4 + Bottom some out to dish hand on was drag) (in Ones Young The and Jack hapless the played Morrisey Neil star Nye’s Vic. Old The at staged and Nye Simon by written special, the pantomime tradition in this Christmas on took comics TV of generation new The 75min Morrisey. Neil Walters, Julie Clary, Julian Merton, Paul With Henderson. John Dir 1998. ITV Jack andtheBeanstalk 15:20 NFT2 DEC 22 SUN The PantoSet Jack and the Beanstalk -style violent slapstick. Men Behaving Badly ’ Ade Edmundson

the entire pantomime tradition. pantomime entire the brilliantly deconstruct style, The Goodies In their typical, lightning-paced and zany Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor. 25min Oddie, Bill With Spiers. Bob 1981. Dir ITV + how things have changed. demonstrate and audience amodern of sensibilities the offend may which of some jokes, corny intentionally of a sprinkling cast for this slapstick-heavy romp with Crackerjack regular the joined Estelle) John Inman, Windsor Davies and Don Laurie, (John stars sitcom BBC Various 65min Hunt. Jan Stewart, Ed Maclean, Don Glaze, Peter With Nash. Robin 1975. Dir BBC Robinson Crusoe The CrackerjackPantomime: 15:30 NFT2 15:30 DEC SAT 28 The Goodies:SnowWhite2 The Crackerjack Pantomime

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+ A five-minute sneak preview of an missing a of version animated upcoming episode of the famous fantasy series. Joint ticket with Session concs £18, Two £15 SESSION ONE TRT 120min No Harm Done DirITV Don 1974. Leaver. With Lee Montague, Helen Worth. 50min Regular delivers a tense thriller that opens by the well-trodden plot of a family taken unexpectedly but villains, by hostage psychologically something into evolves compelling. more far + Six of the Best, ITV 1965. Dir Albert Locke. 25min Whitfield. Butterworth, June Peter With Carry On regulars Butterworth and and detective bungling a Whitfieldas star his judo-obsessed daughter in thispilot episode that never graduated a series. to + ITV 1960. Dir Bill Stewart. 15min A Christmas Admag that takes a look at proved have Admags technology. new MBW the with popular perennially audience for their odd mix of weirdness nostalgia. and (Members pay £2 less) No Harm Done Harm No JOINT TICKET SUN 8 DEC 15:00 NFT1 Giving you recent rediscoveries, and showcasing our TV our history showcasing and rediscoveries, recent you Giving Drama, with a hint of comedy on the side, is on the menu for this year’s Wiped, Believed Missing ever-popular the BFI initiative that aims to track down and screen official the from absent items Thisarchives. TV is your chance to enjoy these rare treats on the big screen, specially sourced and curated by our expert programmers. And – as always – there may be extra treats on the day! MISSING BELIEVED WIPED 2019 WIPED BELIEVED MISSING

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White Christmas USA 1953. Dir Michael Curtiz. With Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen. 120min. Digital. U An uplifting seasonal favourite with choreography by Bob Fosse. A pair of DOC Photo: Fiona Braillon Fiona Photo: WWII buddies and entertainers hook up with a sister act in order to help out their Preview: I Am (Not) a Monster former army general and the failing inn + Q&A with director Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian that he owns. UK 2019. Dir Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian. 98min. Digital. Cert tbc

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FUNDAY TV PREVIEW: FUNDAY WORKSHOP: THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA + Q&A WITH ACTOR THE TIGER WHO CAME CLARA ROSS, DIRECTOR TO TEA TV PREVIEW: CINDERELLA ROBIN SHAW, COMPOSER Judith Kerr’s beloved creations CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG AFTER EVER AFTER + Q&A DAVID ARNOLD AND come to life at our Funday WITH DAVID WALLIAMS Workshop – thanks to you and UK-USA 1968. Dir Ken Hughes. With PRODUCER RUTH FIELDING Sky One-King Bert Productions 2019. Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Channel 4-Lupus Films 2019. your little ones. Create your own Dir Elliot Hegarty. With David Walliams, Jeffries, Gert Fröbe. 146min. 35mm U Dir Robin Shaw. With the voices of Benedict animations, invent adventures Sian Gibson, Celia Imrie, Tom Courtenay. Cumberbatch, Tamsin Greig, David Jeremy and Jemima Potts save an old car 45min based on your own family, and if Oyelowo, David Walliams. 30min. U you earn your stripes you may from the scrapyard and find themselves Discover what happened to Cinderella ‘Once there was a little girl called Sophie, even be in with a prize! travelling with their family to Vulgaria, (Gibson) and Prince Charming (Walliams) and she was having tea with her This is a drop-in workshop, BFI FAMILIES where children are outlawed and the after the fairy tale ended – was being tyrannical Baron Bomburst wants that mummy in the kitchen. Suddenly there free to ticket holders of The Tiger united by a glass slipper enough to was a ring at the door. Sophie’s mummy Who Came to Tea car! Roald Dahl’s script, based on Ian guarantee a happy, life-long relationship? Fleming’s novel, introduced the world to said, “I wonder who that can be...?”’ In this comic Christmas special, co-written Thus began Judith Kerr’s celebrated Truly Scrumptious, the disturbing Child by David Walliams, we go back to the SUN 15 DEC Catcher and an amazing flying car. children’s favourite, brought to glorious 10:00 FOYER world of Cinderella, the royal family, animated life by Lupus Films, the her evil stepmother and the ugly sisters company behind The Snowman and SAT 7 DEC Dumbella and Rubella. the Snowdog 12:40 NFT3 . SAT 14 DEC SUN 15 DEC 12:00 NFT1 12:00 NFT1

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THE WIZARD OF OZ THE GRINCH USA 1939. Dir Victor Fleming. With Judy USA 2018. Dir Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier. Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, CHRISTMAS MOVE IT! With the voices of Benedict Cumberbatch, Margaret Hamilton. 102min. Digital. U Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson. 86min. FAMILY ANIMATORS Digital (2D). U The Christmas season just wouldn’t be Suitable for children of all ages, complete without the opportunity to accompanied by an adult The mean old Grinch lives in a mountain travel with Dorothy, somewhere over the cave above Whoville. Spying on the At this wintry, festive-themed workshop, rainbow, from monochrome Kansas to Whos, he’s frustrated by their happiness. THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS children and grown-ups (parent/ the multi-coloured land of Oz. With the But his decision to steal all the presents CAROL grandparent/guardian) come together Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion BFI FAMILIES and decorations one Christmas – in order USA 1992. Dir Brian Henson. With Michael to have great fun making magical Caine and the voices of Frank Oz, Dave on her side and the Wicked Witch of to spread ill will and discontent – teaches stop-motion animations. Your films are Goelz, Jerry Nelson. 86min. Digital. U the West and a hoard of flying monkeys him a very important, seasonal lesson. then posted to our YouTube channel Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited determined to thwart her, will Dorothy and can be shared with family and miser, is visited one night by Christmas find her way home? friends to wish them season’s greetings! SAT 21 DEC ghosts who offer him one last chance Also available on Tickets £24 for one adult and child, 12:00 NFT3 at redemption. Caine is a marvellous See p22 for more screenings siblings/additional adults £11 each Scrooge, and with joyous songs Repeated at The Cinema Museum aplenty this combo of The Muppets on 15 Dec (all details the same, tickets SUN 22 DEC and Charles Dickens is an irresistable purchased via the BFI box office) 14:00 NFT1 festive treat. SUN 8 DEC MON 23 DEC SUN 22 DEC 11:00-15:30 13:20 NFT3 14:00 NFT3

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