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April Programme BFI & RADIO TIMES TELEVISION FESTIVAL CLINT EASTWOOD THIRST: FEMALE DESIRE ON SCREEN COUNTY LINES ROCKS BFI SOUTHBANK BFI APR 2020 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 (p27) (p13) (p5) Quiz Misérables Les Mädchen in Uniform BOOKING DATES IN PERSON & PREVIEWS 4 REGULAR PROGRAMME RELAXED SCREENINGS 43 SONIC CINEMA 42 PATRONS AND CHAMPIONS bfi.org.uk/whatson MEMBER EXCLUSIVES 9 EXPERIMENTA 43 Mon 2 Mar (from 11:30) 020 7928 3232 MEMBERS NEW RELEASES 10 FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH, 44 11:30 – 20:30 daily Tue 3 Mar (from 11:30) TERROR VISION In person RE-RELEASE 14 PUBLIC SILENT CINEMA, 46 11:00 – 20:30 daily Tue 10 Mar (from 11:30) SEASONS PROJECTING THE ARCHIVE BFI & RADIO TIMES TV 16 SENIORS, NETWORK NIGHTS, 48 FESTIVAL BFI LABS BECOME A BFI MEMBER FOR PRIORITY BOOKING & DISCOUNTS: BFI.ORG.UK/JOIN THIRST 24 FAMILIES 50 CLINT EASTWOOD 30 BFI PLAYER 52 The BFI is proud to screen on film where possible, showcasing restorations BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 36 and sourcing archive prints from our partners. LIBRARY, MEDIATHEQUE, 54 MEZZANINE GALLERY Look out for 16mm, 35mm or 70mm in the film credits. SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS 40 SHOP, BFI IMAX 56 Cover: County Lines Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance for you to catch the latest film and TV before anyone else For exclusive TV previews in the BFI & Radio Times TV Festival turn to p16 Preview: Proxima + Q&A with director Alice Winocour and actor Eva Green France-Germany 2019. Dir Alice Winocour. With Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Sandra Hüller. 107min. Digital. EST. 12A. ‘AN UNMISSABLE, Courtesy of Picturehouse Entertainment SENSATIONAL Accomplished scientist and astronaut mental training, she grapples with the and emotional, with a career-best Sarah Loreau (Green) has achieved her realities of what achieving her dream will performance from Eva Green. STORY ABOUT ambition of being chosen for a year-long mean to her as a parent, and to her Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) CHEATING ON mission to the International Space Station. seven-year-old daughter Stella. PRIMETIME TV’ As she begins intense physical and Winocour’s space drama is exhilarating MARCUS PRINCE, TV PROGRAMMER WED 1 APR 18:10 NFT1 IN PERSON & PREVIEWS Quiz (p5) book online at bfi.org.uk TV Preview: Quiz + Q&A with writer James Graham and cast TBA African Odysseys presents: UK Premiere: Marighella IN PERSON & PREVIEWS ITV 2020. Dir Stephen Fears. With Matthew Macfadyen, Sian Clifford, Michael Sheen. 3x 48min, Brazil 2019. Dir Wagner Moura. With Seu Jorge, Ana Paula Bouzas, Bella Camero, Herson Capri. TRT 215min (inc 20min interval) 155min. Digital. EST. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Elle Driver September 2001. Army Major Charles It’s time for you to decide... Directed by Banned in its native Brazil, this drama Co-produced by City of God director Ingram, his wife Diana and supposed the renowned Stephen Frears, Quiz, a is a portrait about the revolutionary Fernando Meirelles, the film has yet to be coughing accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, new three-part drama, is written by African-Brazilian poet and politician seen in Brazil, where its premiere has are accused of cheating on Who Wants to celebrated playwright James Graham. Carlos Marighella (compellingly played by been indefinitely postponed. Be a Millionaire? The evidence is Tickets £18, concs £15 (Members pay £2 less) actor-singer Seu Jorge). In response to Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) damning. The nation is gripped by the See p16 for the BFI & Radio Times TV Festival the erosion of human rights following a sheer audacity of the plot to snatch the military coup in Brazil in 1964, Marighella £1,000,000 jackpot in front of a live studio takes up arms to ‘fight the power’. audience. But were they really guilty? WED 8 APR SAT 11 APR 18:15 NFT1 14:00 NFT1 @BFI 5 DOC Preview: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Preview: Love Sarah + Q&A with director Eliza Schroeder and + Q&A with director Matt Wolf actor Celia Imrie USA 2019, Dir Matt Wolf. 87min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Violet Pictures UK 2020. Dir Eliza Schroeder. With Grace Calder, Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie, Rupert Penry-Jones. Marion Stokes secretly recorded revolutions, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, 97min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Parkland Entertainment television 24 hours a day for 30 years bloopers, talk shows and commercials, A young dancer’s life begins to unravel Celia Imrie shines in this charming and (starting with the 1979 Iranian hostage and unveils the fascinating and complex after the tragic, sudden death of her mouth-watering drama, the debut feature crisis at the dawn of the 24-hour news woman who dedicated her life to this mother. To get things back on track she of director Eliza Schroeder. cycle), amassing 70,000 VHS tapes in visionary and maddening project. impulsively decides to fulfil her mother’s Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) the process. Matt Wolf’s documentary Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) dream of opening a bakery in Notting Hill, explores Stokes’ unrivalled collection of enlisting the help of her mother’s best friend and her own eccentric, estranged grandmother. IN PERSON & PREVIEWS THU 16 APR MON 20 APR 18:15 NFT1 18:15 NFT1 6 book online at bfi.org.uk JOINT JOINT TICKET TICKET Monsoon Wedding + intro by director Mira Nair Mira Nair in Conversation IN PERSON & PREVIEWS India-USA-Italy-Germany-France-UK 2001. Dir Mira Nair. With Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, TRT 90min Shefali Shah, Vijay Raaz. 114min. 35mm Hindi, English. 15 Join us for this special event with her directing of TV series A Suitable Boy Five interconnecting love stories are at Tradition and the modern world collide Academy Award-nominated director Mira for the BBC, and her experiences working the heart of this modern classic. It follows as music, comedy and drama combine Nair, who’ll discuss the adaptation of her between two main languages in various the tribulations of a middle-class Indian in this delightful feast of a movie, film Monsoon Wedding for the stage cultures and countries. Hosted by family and their friends as they gather which premiered at Venice in 2001 (opening this summer in the West End), Nasreen Munni Kabir, filmmaker and together from all over the world to and was awarded the Golden Lion. author of many books on Hindi cinema. celebrate an arranged Punjabi marriage. Joint ticket available with Mira Nair in For joint ticket offer see left Conversation £18, concs £15 (Members pay £2 less) FRI 24 APR FRI 24 APR 18:10 NFT1 20:45 NFT1 @BFI 7 KERMODE LIVE IN 3D AT THE BFI Let’s talk about film... Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI Preview: Saint Maud TRT 90min UK 2019. Dir Rose Glass. With Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight. 84min. Digital. Join us as for a monthly conversation and upcoming releases, cinematic Cert tbc. Courtesy of STUDIOCANAL between you (the audience) and one of treasures, industry news and Maud, a devout and reclusive nurse, with the BFI, and a Special Commendation the nation’s favourite and most respected even some guilty pleasures. believes that God has given her a special in the Best Film Competition at 2019’s film critics. Joined by surprise guests Get involved @KermodeMovie #MK3D. mission when she’s assigned to look after BFI London Film Festival, draws incredible from across the film industry, Kermode Tickets £20, concs £16 Amanda, a hedonistic and embittered performances from Clark and Ehle to explores, critiques and dissects current (Members pay £2 less) ex-dancer living in an eerie gothic house create a genuinely frightening, nerve- on the coast. Rose Glass, who was shredding psychological horror. awarded the IWC Schaffhausen Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) Filmmaker Bursary Award in association IN PERSON & PREVIEWS MON 27 APR MON 27 APR 18:30 NFT1 20:45 NFT1 8 book online at bfi.org.uk MEMBER EXCLUSIVES These events are exclusive to BFI Members and their guests. Make the most of your Membership benefits at bfi.org.uk/members Archive Tour Member Picks Don’t miss your chance to see behind the For a chance to see one of your scenes at one of the largest moving- favourite films on the big screen visit image collections in the world. See rarely bfi.org.uk/memberpicks viewed film materials and find out from our expert team how films are stored and Booksmart restored. The tour lasts roughly two hours USA 2019. Dir Olivia Wilde. With Kaitlyn Dever, Member Salon: County Lines and will be followed by light refreshments. Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams. 102min. MEMBER EXCLUSIVES TRT 60min Champions and Members can apply for Digital. 15 Our popular discussion series for Members can book a joint ticket to the up to two tickets (at £25 each) in the ballot On the eve of their high school graduation, which runs until 12:00 midnight on Sun 8 Mar. Members and their guests returns this Salon and the screening on Mon 27 April for two academic superstars realise they themselves and their guests in advance for Enter at bfi.org.uk/members month with a striking drama about a just £6.
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