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NINETIES: YOUNG CINEMA REBELS SALON MEXICO: THE GOLDEN AGE OF MEXICAN CINEMA VARDA BY AGNÈS DON’T LOOK NOW BFI SOUTHBANK BFI JULY 2019 JULY Poets, PNEWainters BLU-RAYS AVAILABLE & FOR P PRE-ORDERioneers NOW ORDER FROM BFI MEMBERS ENJOY 15% OFF BFI DVD SB Guide Ad 2019-07 210x148 FINAL.indd 1 03/05/2019 13:23 THIS MONTH AT BFI SOUTHBANK Welcome to the home of great film and TV, with a world-class library, free exhibitions and Mediatheque and plenty of food and drink IN PERSON & PREVIEWS NEW RELEASES SEASONS Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance The best new cinema for you to enjoy, with plenty of screening Carefully curated collections of film for you to catch the latest film and TV before dates to choose from and TV, which showcase an influential anyone else genre, theme or talent Poets, PNEWainters BLU-RAYS AVAILABLE & FOR P PRE-ORDERioneers NOW (p18) (p9) (p4) Vita & Virginia Varda by Agnès Tetsuo: The Iron Man BOOKING DATES IN PERSON & PREVIEWS 4 REGULAR PROGRAMME RELAXED SCREENING 9 BFI FLARE, 38 PATRONS AND CHAMPIONS bfi.org.uk/whatson TERROR VISION MEMBER EXCLUSIVES 7 Mon 3 Jun (from 11:30) AFRICAN ODYSSEYS 39 020 7928 3232 MEMBERS NEW RELEASES 8 11:30 – 20:30 daily Tue 4 Jun (from 11:30) EXPERIMENTA, 40 RE-RELEASES 12 PROJECTING THE ARCHIVE PUBLIC In person 11:00 – 20:30 daily Tue 11 Jun (from 11:30) SEASONS SILENT CINEMA, 41 FUTURE FILM LABS NINETIES: YOUNG CINEMA 14 REBELS FAMILIES 42 JOIN TODAY FOR PRIORITY BOOKING AND DISCOUNTS: BFI.ORG.UK/JOIN SALON MEXICO: 22 BFI PLAYER 44 THE GOLDEN AGE OF MEXICAN CINEMA LIBRARY, MEDIATHEQUE, 46 ORDER FROM The BFI is proud to screen on film where possible, showcasing restorations MEZZANINE GALLERY and sourcing archive prints from our partners. BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 28 BFI MEMBERS ENJOY 15% OFF SHOP, BFI IMAX 48 Look out for 16mm, 35mm or 70mm in the film credits. SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS 32 Cover: La Haine (p17) BFI DVD SB Guide Ad 2019-07 210x148 FINAL.indd 1 03/05/2019 13:23 Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance for you to catch the latest film and TV before anyone else Preview: Vita & Virginia UK-Ireland 2018. Dir Chanya Button. With Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabella Rossellini. 110min. Digital. 12A. Courtesy of Thunderbird Releasing Chanya Button’s (Burn Burn Burn) second feature brings to the screen the true story of the intense romantic TV Preview: This Way Up + Q&A with Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan relationship between author Virginia (work permitting) Woolf (Debicki) and enigmatic Channel 4 2019. Dir Alex Winckler. With Aisling Bea, Sharon Horgan, Tobias Menzies, aristocrat Vita Sackville-West Indira Varma Aasif Mandvi. Eps 1 & 2, 54min (Arterton). 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CO-STARRING Please check for guest updates SHARON bfi.org.uk HORGAN’ MARCUS PRINCE, TV PROGRAMMER MON 1 JUL TUE 2 JUL 18:15 NFT1 18:15 NFT1 IN PERSON & PREVIEWS This Way Up (adjacent) book online at bfi.org.uk KERMODE LIVE IN 3D Let’s talk about film... Preview: The Dead Don’t Die IN PERSON & PREVIEWS USA-Sweden 2019. Dir Jim Jarmusch. With Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray. 103min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Universal Pictures In this bonkers new film from drag makeup and sword fighting, must arthouse director Jim Jarmusch, the band together to figure out how to deal peaceful town of Centerville finds with the uprising. This star-studded itself battling a zombie horde as the romp is fresh from its premiere at the dead start rising from their graves. Cannes Film Festival. Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI The local sheriff’s deputies (Murray, Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) TRT 90min Driver, Sevigny), aided by a strange Audio description available Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the dissect movies past and present and Scottish mortician with a love for BFI is a monthly conversation reveal his or his guests’ cinematic between you (the audience) and one guilty pleasures. Get involved by of the nation’s favourite and most tweeting your questions in advance respected film critics. With the help to @KermodeMovie #MK3D. of surprise guests from the industry, Tickets £20, concs £16 Kermode will explore, critique and (Members pay £2 less) MON 8 JUL MON 15 JUL 18:10 NFT1 18:30 NFT1 @BFI 5 Preview: Bait + Q&A with director Mark Jenkin Preview: Gwen + Q&A with writer-director William McGregor UK 2019. Dir Mark Jenkin. With Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Giles King, Simon Shepherd. UK 2018. Dir William McGregor. With Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Maxine Peake, Richard Harrington. 89min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of BFI 84min. Digital. 15. Courtesy of Bulldog Film Distributors Cornish fisherman Martin is Summer brings simmering tensions Gwen (Worthington-Cox) lives mysterious illness, her father’s struggling to buy a boat while coping within the community… Stunningly on a farm in the beautiful hills absence and a ruthless mining with family rivalry and the influx of shot on a vintage of Snowdonia with her mother company encroaching on their land, London money, holiday homes and 16mm camera using monochrome Elen (Peake) and little sister Mari. darkness begins to take a grip on stag parties to his harbour village. Kodak stock, Bait is timely, poignant Like nearly all the local men, Gwen's home, and the suspicious and funny. Gwen’s father is away at war. As she local community turn on her. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) struggles to cope with her mother’s Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) IN PERSON & PREVIEWS MON 15 JUL TUE 16 JUL 20:40 NFT1 20:30 NFT1 6 book online at bfi.org.uk MEMBER EXCLUSIVES These events are exclusive to BFI Members and their guests. Join today at bfi.org.uk/join Behind the Scenes at the BFI Member Picks TRT 90min For a chance to see one of your This unique event brings together favourite films on the big screen, BFI curators, programmers and share your choice with us at policy makers to give you a glimpse bfi.org.uk/memberpicks into how we work. This time we’ll look at the importance of TV within Kiss Me Deadly Member Exclusive: Archive Tour the BFI: how we put together our USA 1955. Dir Robert Aldrich. MEMBER EXCLUSIVES Don’t miss your chance to see Champions and Members can apply for TV programme (including the recent With Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, behind the scenes at one of the up to two tickets (at £25 each) in the ballot BFI & Radio Times Television Paul Stewart. 106min. Digital. 12A which runs until 12:00 midnight on Sun 9 Jun. largest moving-image collections Festival); and how the BFI National Mickey Spillane’s tough PI Mike Hammer Enter at bfi.org.uk/members in the world. See rarely viewed film Archive looks after – and digitally moves from book to screen in this materials and find out from our ‘It was a revelation and a delight restores – vast quantities of old TV Cold War-paranoia noir, where he expert team how films are stored to learn about this institution’ shows. It’s a chance to discover meets an unstable woman who’s and restored. The tour lasts roughly Ornan Rotem, BFI Member how the BFI, despite its name, being chased by undesirables. As well two hours and will be followed by ensures that TV is an essential as containing ‘blood-red kisses’ and light refreshments. part of its work. ‘white-hot thrills’, the film also has Tickets £6 a beautiful depiction of 1950s LA. ‘It’s a great example of classic film noir, FRI 26 JUL THU 25 JUL my favourite movie genre 10:30-13:00 BFI NATIONAL ARCHIVE, BERKHAMSTED 18:20 NFT3 Almaz Anderson, BFI Member All Member exclusive tickets are just £6 unless otherwise stated. Champions and Members can book as soon as their priority booking opens and tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Remaining tickets will be released SAT 6 JUL to the public, as a taster of the benefits of Membership, once public booking opens. 18:10 NFT2 @BFI 7 The best new cinema for you to Diego Maradona enjoy, with plenty of screening UK 2019. Dir Asif Kapadia. 129min. Digital. 15. dates to choose from Courtesy of Altitude Entertainment (see pull-out calendar) The man and myth of Maradona is explored in this new documentary by Academy award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy) In July 1984, Argentine football superstar Diego Maradona arrived in Naples to play for the ailing football giant SSC Napoli. The world’s most celebrated football genius and one of the most dysfunctional cities in Europe were a perfect match for each other, and for seven years all hell broke loose.