December 2019 at BFI Southbank, including BFI Musicals, Festive screenings and the work of Med Hondo
TALENT ONSTAGE AT BFI SOUTHBANK THIS MONTH INCLUDES: DIRECTOR NOAH BAUMBACH (MARRIAGE STORY) DIRECTOR TIM BURTON (EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, BATMAN) DAVID WALLIAMS (CINDERELLA AFTER EVER AFTER) ACTOR IMELDA STAUNTON (VERA DRAKE, PRIDE) THE CLASH’S MICK JONES, TOPPER HEADON AND PAUL SIMONON & DIRECTOR DON LETTS (THE CLASH: WESTWAY TO THE WORLD) WRITER MARK GATISS (DRACULA and MARTIN’S CLOSE) WRITER STEVEN MOFFAT, ACTOR CLAES BANG & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SUE VERTUE (DRACULA) ACTOR TOMMY STEELE (HALF A SIXPENCE, FINIAN’S RAINBOW), PATRICIA WARD KELLY (WIFE AND BIOGRAPHER OF GENE KELLY) DIRECTOR JOHN PILGER (THE DIRTY WAR ON THE NHS, THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY) COMEDIANS BRETT GOLDSTEIN AND NISH KUMAR WEST END STAR KERRY ELLIS (WICKED, WE WILL ROCK YOU)
Film previews and premieres: THE DIRTY WAR ON THE NHS (John Pilger, 2019), CLEANING UP THE TOWN: REMEMBERING GHOSTBUSTERS (Anthony Bueno, 2019), MARRIAGE STORY (Noah Baumbach, 2019), WEATHERING WITH YOU (Makoto Shinkai, 2019), THE END OF THE SEASON (Konstantin Khudyakov, 2019), I AM (NOT) A MONSTER (Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, 2019), FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES (Max Lewkowicz, 2019) TV previews: DRACULA (BBC One-Netflix-Hartswood Films, 2019), MARTIN’S CLOSE (BBC Four-Can Do Productions-Adorable Media, 2019), CINDERELLA AFTER EVER AFTER (Sky One-King Bert Productions, 2019), THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA (Channel 4-Lupus Films, 2019) New and Re-Releases: THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy, 1964), TOMMY (Ken Russell, 1975), EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick, 1999), THE CAVE (Feras Fayyad, 2019), SO LONG, MY SON DI JIU TIAN CHANG (Wang Xiaoshuai, 2019)
Wednesday 23 October 2019, London. This December BFI Southbank has a packed festive programme including seasonal TV previews from David Walliams and Mark Gatiss, a host of Christmas film favourites, from It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) and Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) to White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1953) and The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson, 1992), plus a look at the most British of Christmas traditions, the Christmas Panto. BFI MUSICALS! THE GREATEST SHOW ON SCREEN continues in December with special guests including Imelda Staunton, Tommy Steele and Kerry Ellis and BFI re-releases of Ken Russell’s bold and brilliant Tommy (1975) and Jacques Demy’s sublime all-sung tale of first love The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). This month also sees the culmination of BFI Southbank’s MAURICE PIALAT season, in partnership with Sight & Sound and a short season dedicated to work of Mauritanian-born actor, director and producer MED HONDO.
Following its premiere at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, BFI Southbank will preview Marriage Story (2019), the latest film from the indie-darling Noah Baumbach. The screening of Baumbach’s poignant, unmissable film on Thursday 5 December will be followed by a Q&A with the director. On Monday 2 December renowned BAFTA and Emmy-winning filmmaker and journalist John Pilger will introduce the World Premiere of his new documentary The Dirty War on the NHS (2019), in which he investigates the dismantling ‘by stealth’ of the NHS ‘a last bastion of true public service’. Other film previews in December include the new film from Makoto Shinkai (Your Name) Weathering With You (2019) on Tuesday 10 December and on Thursday 12 December Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian’s I Am (Not) a Monster (2019), which played in the Documentary Competition at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. Russian Film Week returns to BFI Southbank for its Closing Night film on Sunday 1 December; The End of the Season (Konstantin Khudyakov, 2019), is inspired by Chekov’s play Three Sisters, and tells a story of three sisters who, as the USSR collapses, find themselves living in a small Baltic town. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, with talent to be announced soon.
Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI will have its last 2019 edition on Monday 16 December, while Brett Goldstein and special guest Nish Kumar will celebrate the end of 2019 with a Films to Be Buried With: End of Decade Christmas Special on Thursday 19 December. Edith Bowman’s Soundtracking podcast also returns to BFI Southbank for a live event on Friday 6 December, with special guest, director Tim Burton. Burton will talk in depth about his work and the importance of music in his films, including how he came to collaborate with composer Danny Elfman, a partnership that has produced 16 films-and-counting. There will also be a screening of a surprise film, which Burton has chosen to screen following the on-stage conversation. Also in December will be the previously announced screening of The Clash: Westway to the World (Don Letts, 2000), followed by a Q&A with the director and members of The Clash – Mick Jones, Topper Headon and Paul Simonon.
Other special events in December will include, on Tuesday 3 December, a 35th anniversary screening of Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984) at the BFI IMAX, followed by a premiere of Cleanin’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (Anthony Bueno, 2019), a fascinating and funny documentary which took 12 years to make. Cleanin’ Up the Town charts the production of Ghostbusters through insightful interviews with the main cast and crew, and includes never- before-seen archive material from the personal collections of the creative team. Completing the events line-up for December is a TV preview of BBC One’s new mini-series Dracula (BBC One-Netflix-Hartswood Films, 2019) on Monday 9 December with special guests writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, actor Claes Bang and executive producer Sue Vertue all taking part in a Q&A following a screening of the first episode.
Extended runs in December will include The Cave (2019), Feras Fayyad’s powerful film about the experiences of the heroic women (literally) hidden below the surface of the Syrian Civil War; So Long, My Son (Wang Xiaoshuai, 2019), an absorbing family chronicle that spans four decades, from the 1980s to the cosmopolitan present; and a re-release of Kubrick’s final film Eyes Wide Shut (1999), an incredible display of precision and suspense, featuring a fragile relationship played out by (then) real-life couple Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise.
FESTIVE SCREENINGS AND EVENTS AT BFI SOUTHBANK THIS DECEMBER This December BFI Southbank has a range of festive screenings for all the family, from classic Christmas musicals and chilling ghost stories, to family-friendly fun and corny, slapstick pantomimes. David Walliams’ is fast becoming synonymous with the Christmas TV schedules, and this year is no exception; on Saturday 14 December there will be a preview of his latest offering Cinderella After Ever After (Sky One-King Bert Productions, 2019) which he co-writes and stars in alongside Sian Gibson. In this comic Christmas special, we go back to the world of Cinderella, the royal family, her evil stepmother and the ugly sisters to discover what happened after the fairy tale ended. The preview on Saturday 14 December will be followed by a Q&A with David Walliams. Audiences will also be able to get their traditional seasonal fix of terror with BBC Four’s latest Ghost Story for Christmas adapted and directed by Mark Gatiss. On Wednesday 11 December there will be a TV preview of Martin’s Close (BBC Four-Can Do Productions- Adorable Media, 2019) followed by a Q&A with Mark Gatiss and members of the cast.
BFI Southbank has a classic line-up of Christmas movies this year, many of which are part of BFI Musicals! The Greatest Show on Screen. One of the great musical masterpieces, Meet Me In St Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) is a genuinely heart-warming delight. Although set in the early 1900s, it captures the hopes and anxieties of America during WWII, with Judy Garland as its emotional centre; vivacious in the deliriously enjoyable ‘Trolley Song’ and deeply tender in ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’. Other festive musicals screening will be the uplifting seasonal favourite White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1953), the irresistibly funny The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson, 1992) and stop-motion classic The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993). It wouldn’t be Christmas without It’s a Wonderful Life (1946); Frank Capra’s beautifully crafted film, starring the utterly charming James Stewart, returns to BFI Southbank from Friday 20 December until the New Year. Also screening will be Scrooge (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1951), with the great Alastair Sim as miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, the most recent film adaptation of The Grinch (Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier, 2018) with Benedict Cumberbatch and Rashida Jones and Joe Dante’s cult hit Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984), which will screen in a new 4K digital restoration.
Tuesday 3 December sees the return of the Members’ Festive Evening for BFI Members and their guests; this popular annual event will offer BFI Members a festive drink, some seasonal treats, special entertainment and 20% off in the BFI Shop and will be a followed by a screening of the perennially popular Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990). Festive gift ideas from the BFI Shop will be released soon, featuring quirky gifts, BFI boxsets and perfect stocking-fillers for film fans. On Sunday 8 December there will be a festive-themed workshop for children and grown-ups to make magical stop-motion animated festive greetings to send to their loved ones; Christmas Move It! Family Animators is suitable for children of all ages, accompanied by an adult. Audiences can also explore the digital collections of the BFI National Archive in the free Mediatheque with specially curated collections including Santa’s Grotto, a collection dedicated to all things festive and kitsch, bursting at the seams like an overstuffed stocking.
There will also be a look at the star-studded, staple of the seasonal schedules: 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. In Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (BBC, 1966) Arthur Askey and Roy Castle may have got top-billing, but it’s the formidable arch-panto villain Alan Curtis who steals every scene he’s in, eliciting a chorus of hisses and boos from the audience. Central television assembled a massive celebrity cast (including Basil Brush and Les Dennis!) for the irreverent Cinderella: The Shoe Must Go On (ITV, 1986), a retelling of the Cinderella story by scriptwriters Barry Cryer and Dick Vosburgh. It will screen alongside Spitting Image: The Panto (ITV, 1993), for which the team took over Hackney Empire for a Christmas panto (organised by John Major) to take pot-shots at all their favourite politicians, pop stars and presenters. The back-to-back screenings on Friday 20 December will be introduced by Cinderella: The Shoe Must Go On scriptwriter Barry Cryer and Spitting Image performer Steve Nallon.
The new generation of TV comics took on the pantomime tradition in Jack and the Beanstalk (ITV, 1998), written by Simon Nye and staged at The Old Vic. Nye’s Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey played the hapless Jack and The Young Ones’ Ade Edmundson (in drag) was on hand to dish out some Bottom-style violent slapstick. Completing the Panto line-up is another double bill: The Goodies: Snow White 2 (ITV 1981) in which The Goodies brilliantly deconstruct the entire pantomime tradition, and The Crackerjack Pantomime: Robinson Crusoe (BBC, 1975) which sees the regular Crackerjack cast joined by various BBC sitcom stars for a slapstick-heavy romp.
BFI MUSICALS! THE GREATEST SHOW ON SCREEN SUN 1 DEC, 16:00 – SPECIAL EVENT: Tommy Steele Presents Magical Moments of the Musicals / Onstage: actor and performer Tommy Steele SUN 1 DEC, 17:00 – WORLD AIDS DAY SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Rent (Chris Columbus, 2005) – this special presentation on World AIDS Day will include live performances and we encourage audience participation! WED 4 DEC, 18:20 – TALK: Sondheim at the Movies WED 4 DEC, 20:40 – SCREENING + INTRO: The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) / Onstage: Intro by West End Star Kerry Ellis THU 5 DEC, 16:00 – ICO ARCHIVE SCREENING DAY: Race in the Hollywood Musical SAT 7 DEC, ALL DAY – DORIS DAY DAY – featuring back to back screenings of three of Doris Day’s best-loved films SUN 8 DEC, 17:50 – FILM PREVIEW: Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (Max Lewkowicz, 2019) FRI 13 DEC, 18:20 – SCREENING + INTRO: An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951) / Onstage: wife and biographer of Gene Kelly, Patricia Ward Kelly SAT 14 DEC, 14:00 – SCREENING + INTRO: West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961) / Onstage: intro by actor Imelda Staunton SUN 15 DEC, 14:30 – SPECIAL EVENT: Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music 20th Anniversary Screening (Robert Wise, 1965) – a special event to mark 20 years since the BFI hosted the first Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music in 1999 MON 16 DEC, 20:10 – PHILOSOPHICAL SCREENS: One Or Many Wizards? Multiple Meaning In The Wizard Of Oz SAT 21 DEC, 15:20 – SINGALONG: Oliver (Carol Reed, 1968)
BFI MUSICALS! THE GREATEST SHOW ON SCREEN continues at BFI Southbank throughout December, with special events including a talk from the legendary Tommy Steele about his favourite musical movie moments and special screenings of The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) introduced by West End star Kerry Ellis, who starred as Elphaba in Wicked, and of An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951), introduced by Gene Kelly’s wife and biographer Patricia Ward Kelly. Also in December, Imelda Staunton will introduce a screening of West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961), where she will talk about her ongoing association with the work of legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim’s 1957 Broadway debut West Side Story became an Oscar- winning triumph, and is now being remade by Steven Spielberg. From Gypsy to Into the Woods via Sweeney Todd, numerous other musicals by Broadway’s leading musical dramatist have transferred to the big screen. On Wednesday 4 December in Sondheim at the Movies, Sondheim’s biographer, David Benedict, will investigate the highs and lows of Sondheim on screen and ask what makes a movie adaptation work.
Also in December will be a special 20th anniversary screening of Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965), marking 20 years since the BFI hosted the first Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music in 1999; a film preview of new documentary Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (Max Lewkowicz, 2019), investigating the genesis of global phenomenon Fiddler on the Roof; a special presentation of Rent (Chris Columbus, 2005) on World Aids Day (Sunday 1 December); a day-long exploration of Race in the Hollywood Musical; and a Doris Day Day, featuring back to back screenings of three of Doris Day’s best-loved films.
A full season press release is available here.
MED HONDO: AFRICA FROM THE SEINE TUE 3 DEC, 18:00 – TALK: The Life and Times of Med Hondo
The December BFI Southbank spotlights Mauritanian-born actor, director and producer MED HONDO with a short season AFRICA FROM THE SEINE. Med Hondo started his career by establishing a ground-breaking theatre company in France before transitioning to film after being inspired by the French New Wave. The season will kick off with an illustrated talk, The Life and Times of Med Hondo on Tuesday 3 December where a panel of expert programmers and archivists will present their individual perspectives on the extraordinary ideas and visions of this ground- breaking director. Contributors will include lecturer and writer Imruh Bakari, June Givanni of The June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive, Kunle Olulode, Voice4Change, and poet and spoken-word artist Be Manzini.
Hondo spent four years making his acclaimed debut feature Soleil Ô (1970), a cinematic exploration which confronts notions of race and racism on many different fronts. The film is shocking, and at times surreal, drawing on the experiences of its director and cast as it follows a man who emigrates from West Africa to Paris in the promise of a better life. Hondo’s subsequent films cover a range of genres while all possessing his singular perspective on the colonial history of Africa and the African diaspora experience. West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979) is a vast musical covering hundreds of years of history from enslavement to 20th-century immigration; set on an enormous slave ship, the film boasts a dazzling array of brilliant choreography, wide-ranging musical styles, sharp satire and captivating and poignant lyricism.
Also screening is Sarraounia, an African Queen (1986) a spectacular historical epic of rare historical insight. As Hondo puts it: ‘I wanted to illustrate authentic historical facts to show that the African continent was not easily colonised and had a history of resistance to colonialism. There were a number of African women involved in the fight against colonialism. Queen Sarraounia in Niger, Jinga in Angola, Ranavalona in Madagascar, Beatrice of the Congo, to name a few. We never speak of the role of African women in history, but they headed kingdoms and had an important status in matriarchal societies’. The season also features Hondo’s final film, Fatima: The Algerian Woman of Dakar (2004) which was funded by his work as a voice actor – Hondo regularly provided a French voice dub for Eddie Murphy and Morgan Freeman. Set in Algeria in 1957, the film explores weighty topics of colonialism, North and Sub-Saharan Africa as well as religion. The film also looks at women’s place in society which are laid bare in this delicate and at times humorous drama.
MAURICE PIALAT AND THE NEW FRENCH REALISM BFI Southbank’s MAURICE PIALAT season, in partnership with Sight & Sound, concludes in December with screenings of the filmmaker’s later works. After the success of Loulou (1980) and À nos amours (1983) Pialat received bigger budgets to direct his final four films on a much grander scale. Three of these films starred the imposing figure of Gérard Depardieu at his peak, including the Palme d’Or winning Sous le soleil de Satan (1987), as a tormented rural priest who attempts to save the soul of a young murderess. Prior to this Depardieu played an unscrupulous detective in Police (1985), featuring a meticulously researched screenplay by Catherine Breillat. Police sees Pialat switch from anguished autobiography to make a realistically amoral but very idiosyncratic spin on the crime thriller in what is arguably his most commercial film.
His last film, Le Garçu (1995), harks back to his first feature L’Enfance nue (1968) bringing the extraordinary career of one of France’s finest and most influential directors full circle. It is a fond portrayal of a little boy at the mercy of adult insecurities, it contains remarkable scenes of intimacy and emotion, mostly centred on the director’s own three-year-old son Antoine Pialat. Also screening is Van Gogh (1991), one of the greatest film portraits of a painter. Pialat puts aside the art and avoids all temptation to indulge in melodrama, instead focusing on a troubled, lonely man in his final months dealing with his brother, his doctor and the various women in his life.
The Sight & Sound Deep Focus highlights a further three films of the actors and creators who were inspired by Maurice Pialat’s example and ushered in a new French realism. This includes The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonca, 1998) for which lead actors Élodie Bouchez and Natacha Régnier shared the Best Actress prize at Cannes for their searing performances in this gripping, tragic tale of lives lived on the margins. Also inspired by Pialat was Xavier Beauvois who wrote, directed and starred in Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (1995), a confrontational account of a Parisian student, who after discovering he is HIV positive, tumbles headfirst into a world of drugs. Beauvois also stars in Ponette (Jacques Doillon, 1996) which follows four-year-old Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) in the weeks after she survived a car crash that killed her mother now in the care of her father (Beauvois) and other members of her family. Thivisol (controversially, given her very young age) won the Best Actress prize at Venice for her heartbreaking performance.
EVENTS, PREVIEWS AND REGULAR STRANDS SUN 1 DEC, 18:30 – SPECIAL EVENT: Russian Film Week, Closing Night: The End of the Season (Konstantin Khudyakov, 2019) / Onstage: Q&A with guests TBA MON 2 DEC, 18:20 – WORLD PREMIERE + INTRO: The Dirty War on the NHS (John Pilger, 2019) / Onstage: intro by director John Pilger TUE 3 DEC, 18:20 – BFI IMAX 35TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING: Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984) TUE 3 DEC, 20:45 – BFI IMAX FILM PREMIERE: Cleaning Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (Anthony Bueno, 2019) WED 4 DEC, 14:00 – RELAXED SCREENING: White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1953) – Relaxed screenings are presented each month for those in the neurodiverse community and their carers and assistants. THU 5 DEC, 18:00 – FILM PREVIEW + Q&A: Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019) / Onstage: Q&A with director Noah Baumbach FRI 6 DEC, 18:30 – SPECIAL EVENT: Soundtracking with Tim Burton / Onstage: Podcast host Edith Bowman and director Tim Burton SUN 8 DEC, 13:10 – SILENT CINEMA: Eerie Tales Unheimliche Geschichten (Richard Oswald, 1919) SUN 8 DEC, 15:00 & 17:40 – SPECIAL EVENT: Missing Believed Wiped 2019 – our annual look at recent rediscoveries with details to be announced soon MON 9 DEC, 18:15 – TV PREVIEW + Q&A: Dracula (BBC One-Netflix-Hartswood Films, 2019) / Onstage: Q&A with writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, actor Claes Bang and exec producer Sue Vertue TUE 10 DEC, 18:00 – FILM PREVIEW: Weathering With You (Makoto Shinkai, 2019) TUE 10 DEC, 18:10 – SPECIAL EVENT: The Ernest Lindgren Lecture: A Centenary Tribute to Harold Brown WED 11 DEC, 18:15 – TV PREVIEW + Q&A: Martin’s Close (BBC Four-Can Do Productions-Adorable Media, 2019) / Onstage: Q&A with Mark Gatiss (plus cast TBA) THU 12 DEC, 20:20 – WOMAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA FILM PREVIEW: I Am (Not) a Monster (Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, 2019) / Onstage: Q&A with director Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian SAT 14 DEC, 12:00 – TV PREVIEW + Q&A: Cinderella After Ever After (Sky One-King Bert Productions, 2019) / Onstage: Q&A with David Walliams SAT 14 DEC, 12:30 – FUTURE FILM: Future Film Labs: VFX SAT 14 DEC, 18:30 – SONIC CINEMA: The Clash: Westway to the World (Don Letts, 2000) / Onstage: discussion with musicians Mick Jones, Topper Headon and Paul Simonon and director Don Letts SUN 15 DEC, 12:00 – FUNDAY TV PREVIEW + Q&A: The Tiger Who Came To Tea (Channel 4-Lupus Films, 2019) / Onstage: Q&A with actor Clara Ross, director Robin Shaw, composer David Arnold and producer Ruth Fielding – preceded by a free Funday Workshop for ticketholders in the foyer from 10:00 MON 16 DEC, 18:30 – SPECIAL EVENT: Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI / Onstage: broadcaster and critic Mark Kermode plus special guests WED 18 DEC, 18:20 – EXPERIMENTA: Experimenta Mixtape #7 THU 19 DEC, 21:00 – SPECIAL EVENT: Films to Be Buried With: End of Decade Christmas Special / Onstage: Comedians Brett Goldstein and Nish Kumar THU 19 DEC, 20:50 – TERROR VISION: The Dorm That Dripped Blood (aka Pranks) (Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow, 1982)
NEW AND RE-RELEASES CONTINUES FROM FRI 22 NOV: Tommy (Ken Russell, 1975) – a BFI release, part of BFI MUSICALS CONTINUES FROM FRI 29 NOV: Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999) FROM FRI 6 DEC: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) – a BFI release, part of BFI MUSICALS FROM FRI 27 DEC: The Cave (Feras Fayyad, 2019) FROM FRI 27 DEC: So Long, My Son Di jiu tian chang (Wang Xiaoshuai, 2019)
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS – GETTING TOGETHER Since Christmas is seen by many as an opportunity for getting together, it’s timely to look at gatherings of various sorts. This month and next, our daily screenings of landmark movies will explore the dynamics of the group, be it family, friends, colleagues or simply people brought together by accident. Humans are complex creatures, however, so things don’t always go as planned… A film from BIG SCREEN CLASSICS – GETTING TOGETHER will screen every day for the special price of £8: The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940) The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978) Tokyo Story Tokyo Monogatari (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) Ordet The Word (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955) After Life Wandafuru raifu (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998 Black Orpheus Orfeu negro (Marcel Camus, 1958) Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948) The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick, 1955) Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) The Leopard Il gattopardo (Luchino Visconti, 1963) The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
FULL EVENT LISTINGS FOR DECEMBER ARE AVAILABLE HERE: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-press-release-december-2019-at-bfi-southbank-films- 2019-10-23.pdf – ENDS –
NOTES TO EDITORS:
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