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Brigsby Bear (p7) A Matter of Life and Death (p14) The Wizard of Oz (p40) INDIA ON FILM 34

PREVIEWS & NEW RELEASES RE-RELEASES BIG SCREEN CLASSICS SYDNEY NEWMAN 36 Catch the latest film and TV alongside Plenty of chances for you to revisit these Every day we’ll take you on an adventure BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 40 Q&As and special events great titles – many newly restored with these timeless films, for just £8 AFRICAN ODYSSEYS, 42 WOMAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA BFI FLARE, CULT 43 BOOKING DATES KERMODE LIVE IN 3D, BUG, 44 Patrons and Champions SONIC CINEMA Mon 6 Nov (from 11:30) Members Tue 7 Nov (from 11:30) FAMILIES 46 Public Tue 14 Nov (from 11:30) FUTURE FILM 48 bfi.org.uk/whatson BFI COURSES 49 020 7928 3232 11:30 – 20:30 daily In-person 11:00 – 20:30 daily BFI PLAYER 50

JOIN TODAY FOR PRIORITY BOOKING LIBRARY, MEDIATHEQUE, 52 AND DISCOUNTS: BFI.ORG.UK/JOIN VENUE PAGES: IMAX, SHOP, The CEO (p42) Doctor Who (p37) FOOD & DRINK FORMATS STRANDS SEASONS We’re proud to screen on film Cover Image: The 39 Steps (p21) Our regular programme includes Carefully curated collections of film and where possible (16mm/35mm/ At the time of going to print every effort something for everyone: world cinema; TV by genre, theme, actor or director 70mm). Other formats are listed as: was made to ensure the information in archive; families; LGBT and more! ‘Digital’ 2K DCP (or 4K if stated), this Guide was correct. However, we HDcam SR, HDcam, Pro-res reserve the right to make programme ‘Video’ Digibeta, BetaSP, Blu-ray changes. See bfi.org.uk for updates. WELCOME! OUR PICKS Each month, we give you our top choices from the programme Many people of my age were introduced to world cinema by ‘WHAT COULD BE MORE FESTIVE a three-channel TV network that THAN GREMLINS AT CHRISTMAS WITH played classics to the nation, where Laurel and Hardy rubbed shoulders ACTOR ZACH GALLIGAN IN PERSON?’ with the films of Truffaut and JUSTIN JOHNSON, LEAD PROGRAMMER Cocteau. The irony of the multi- Gremlins + Q&A (p18) choice age is that it feels as if fewer people have the opportunity to find these great films, and it is our job to ensure that not only are they never forgotten but that they can also be appreciated on the big screen (we re-released Lawrence of Arabia in September and three quarters of the first-night audience indicated that they’d never seen it before). I remember watching A Matter of Life and Death as a child and knowing that I was experiencing something greater than I could imagine. Here was a film that defied genre, moved seamlessly from black and white to colour and dealt with themes such as the afterlife, love and death. This month, we bring the title back for a run (see p14) – beautifully restored and ready to find a whole new audience. Justin Johnson Lead Programmer ‘THESE NEAR- PERFECT THRILLERS MAKE FOR A STYLISH AND CHILLING FORAY INTO THE CRIMINAL MIND’ ANNA BOGUTSKAYA, EVENTS PROGRAMMER Michael Mann double-bill: Heat, Manhunter (p25) Heat

‘MICHAEL ‘TENDER, HANEKE’S UNFORGETTABLE PORTRAIT OF STORY TELLING A DYSFUNCTIONAL FROM INDIA THAT FAMILY IS SHARP, TOUCHES US ALL’ MAGGI HURT, ADVANCE WITTY, AND PROGRAMME CO-ORDINATOR SUPERBLY ACTED’ The Apu Trilogy (p33) GEOFF ANDREW, PROGRAMMER-AT-LARGE Happy End (p11) Pathar Panchali Pathar PREVIEWS Catch the latest film and TV alongside Q&As and special events

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Preview: Human Flow Looking for something? Feeling festive? Try these Germany 2017. Dir Ai Weiwei. 140min. Digital. EST. Cert TBC. Courtesy of Altitude Distribution Check these pages for some Christmas-inspired Controversial artist Ai Weiwei’s drone filming, Human Flow stays of our regular strands... screenings... take on the global refugee crisis is with the people beyond the presented in this urgent, expansive headlines, and attempts to give and ambitious documentary filmed an understanding of the scale PREVIEWS Projecting the Archive (p26) The Muppet Christmas over one year by 25 film crews. of this global crisis. (p46) Carol Jumping from one country to Tickets £15, concs £12 Seniors (p26) another, making stunning use of (Members pay £2 less) It’s a Wonderful Life (p40, 47) Silent Cinema (p27) Meet Me in St Louis (p41) Experimenta (p27) BFI Cult (p43)

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, play leading, play roles. Festival Best Actor award-winner Timothy Spall OBE, Olivier award- winning actor Kenneth Cranham and Brían F O’Byrne, recently seen in Jeff real-life Pope’s drama Little Boy Blue across the Easter bank holiday weekend in April 2015. Cannes Film See p20 for our Who Can Trust? You season

+ Q&A with screenwriter Jeff Pope, Jeff + Q&A with screenwriter Hatton Garden Hatton Garden Hatton Garden Q&A MON 4 DEC 18:15 NFT1 in four parts, by acclaimed BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jeff Pope and Terry Winsor. depicts the audacious jewellery and cash burglary the at heart of diamondLondon’s district executed by an elderly gang career of criminals TV Preview: Paul Whittington and produceractor Timothy Spall, director Imogen Cooper Dir PaulITV Whittington. 2017. With Timothy Spall, Kenneth Cranham, Brían F O’Byrne, Alex Norton, David Hayman. 46min Ep1 The ‘most spectacular’ British crime theof decade has been dramatised,

Tickets concs £15, (Members £12 pay £2 less) James is set adrift in a new world. cope, he decidesTo to remake his beloved Brigsby show himself. One the of standouts from this year’s London Film Festival, this is a heartfelt comedy with a dark edge. ’s Kyle Brigsby Bear Saturday Night Live 20:30 NFT1 WED 6 DEC bear named Brigsby company. – for Turns out, his ‘parents’ were actually his kidnappers, and once liberated James ( Mooney) has grown up in a bunker with only his parents and his favourite TV show – about a heroic Preview: Preview: Dir Dave McCary.USA 2017. With Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill, Jane Adams. 97min. Digital. 15. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing BFI PATRONS SUPPORT FILM Q&A Q&A TV Preview: Ordeal by Innocence + Q&A with writer Sarah Phelps, TV Preview: The League of Gentlemen + Q&A with Reece Shearsmith, FOREVER actors Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor and Ed Westwick, director Sandra Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson Goldbacher and exec producer James Prichard BBC 2017. Dir Steve Bendelack. 30min + clips Mammoth Screen-Agatha Christie Limited-BBC 2017. Dir Sandra Goldbacher. With Bill Nighy, The much-anticipated return of As well as bringing you right up to Still looking for the perfect gift Anna Chancellor, Ed Westwick. Ep1 59min The League of Gentlemen promises to be date with the inhabitants of Royston Award-winning writer Sarah Phelps delinquent son Jack is immediately one of this year’s TV highlights, and Vasey, we’ll also take a look back at

PREVIEWS for a loved one this Christmas? builds on the enormous success arrested, but he dies in prison before here we preview the first episode in where it all started as we celebrate of her two previous Agatha Christie going to trial. The case is closed. the presence of the League themselves. their 20th anniversary at the BBC. adaptations (The Witness for the Eighteen months later, the mysterious With the content shrouded in secrecy, Give the gift of film and share in Prosecution, And Then There Were None) Dr Calgary knocks on the door claiming the most we can do is assure you with this major three-part drama for he’s Jack’s alibi. But if Jack was that there will be plenty of comedy what makes the BFI so special BBC One. Christmas 1954. When wealthy innocent, then someone else killed wrapped in the darkest layers possible. philanthropist Rachel Argyll is Rachel – someone at Sunny Point... FROM £1,500 PER ANNUM brutally murdered at her family Please check bfi.org.uk for final panel estate of Sunny Point, her adopted, confirmations GET IN TOUCH AT [email protected] See p20 for our Who Can You Trust? season OR JOIN ONLINE AT BFI.ORG.UK/JOIN

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Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large Andrew, Geoff Haneke’s dark,Haneke’s sardonic yet quietly compassionate picture this of dysfunctional dynasty is as formally inventive, morally relevant and psychologically astute as the ever, wholly compelling drama leavened by bracing moments absurdist of humour. Formidably intelligent filmmaking. focuses on a Calais family OPENS FRI DEC 15 himself with his teenage daughter. Wealth notwithstanding, the entire clan seems frustrated lonely... or father (Trintignant) can longer no cope. Meanwhile, following his overdose,ex-wife’s Anne’s doctor brother (Kassovitz) is reacquainting Happy End seemingly blind to the unfortunates in the refugee camp across town. Anne (Huppert) oversees their construction business now that her France-Austria-Germany Dir Michael 2017. Haneke. With Isabelle Huppert, Jean-LouisMathieu Trintignant, Kassovitz. Digital. 107min. Cert EST. tbc. A Curzon Artificial Eye release reworks ingeniously Haneke Michael gem, satirical slyly sometimes brilliant, this In and updates the themes of his earlier films Happy End Plenty of chances for you sample to the best new cinema NEW RELEASE 12 RE-RELEASES book onlineatbfi.org.uk book restored newly –many classics key these to revisit you for chances of Plenty RE-RELEASES See p28 for our Gloria Grahame season Grahame Gloria our for p28 See Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large release Circus APark PG. Digital. 98min. Lovejoy. Frank Grahame, Gloria Bogart, Humphrey Ray. With Nicholas Dir 1950. USA In aLonelyPlace to their painful predicament. painful their to poignancy aching an bring Grahame and Bogart cast, Marvellously lovers. troubled of the and Tinseltown of characterisation insightful its in spot-on is film but tender Ray’s tough novel, BHughes’ Dorothy from adapted Brilliantly guilty... been have hemight whether wonder her makes temper volatile his romance, a on embark pair the But as alibi. afalse with him provides (Grahame) Laurel neighbour until woman, of ayoung murder the in suspect prime is (Bogart) Dix scriptwriter Hollywood: is place The lonely movies of the early 50s early the of movies American finest the of one is story love murder mystery and unusually adult Nicholas Ray’s beguiling blend of CONTINUES FROM FRI 24 NOV 24 FRI FROM CONTINUES

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CONTINUES FROM FRI 24 NOV The Big Heat USA 1953. Dir Fritz Lang. With Glenn Ford, Marvin. Lee Brando, Jocelyn Grahame, Gloria 89min. Digital. A Park 15. Circus release Fritz Lang’s stark thriller abouta cop a also is corruption city-wide fighting redemption and revenge of classic tale After a senior policeman kills himself, detective Dave Bannion (Ford) begins to suspect between a cover-up his superiors, local politicians and a seemingly inviolate crimelord. Persisting with his investigations, he comes under attack, which at point his mission turns personal. Famous its for (off-screen) violence – notably a scene involving Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin and boiling coffee – Lang’s film is pacy, unsentimentaland to the point in exploring the thin line between the andlaw rough justice.robust The direction, terse script and unfussy ensure performances the movie feels strangely modern. Programmer-at-large Andrew, Geoff 14 RE-RELEASES book onlineatbfi.org.uk book 14:00 NFT2 14:00 8Dec Fri +intro matinee Seniors’ on available Also Justin Johnson, Lead Programmer 4K. in restored meticulously been Technicolor, has and monochrome between seamlessly moves which film, WWII exceptional This numbered. are days his or if years, out his live hecan whether determine to convened is tribunal world,’ aheavenly ‘other and the in ahuge commotion causes which death, hecheats Somehow unknown. the –into aparachute without – hejumps before just abond form they and operator radio American an to headset his via he talks moments, last his been have should what In mid-flight. damaged badly is bomber Lancaster his after crash to destined is (Niven) officer RAF An their masterpiece is this –and greatest cinema’s British and Pressburger remains one of Powell of partnership filmmaking The release Circus A Park U. only). NFT3 NFT1, (in 4K Digital 104min. Massey. Raymond Livesey, Roger Hunter, Kim Niven, David With Pressburger. Emeric Powell, Michael Dirs 1946. UK A MatterofLifeandDeath FROM FRI 8DEC FRI FROM

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emotions conveyed by an excellent young cast. An admirably light touch is applied throughout, making for a performance musical of excellence, dramatic vitality and enormous, effortless charm. illusionism, the at same time deploying close-ups to enhance the Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large Andrew, Geoff

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PREVIEW SCREENINGS FROM FRI DEC 15 The Magic Flute Sweden Dir 1975. Ingmar Bergman. With Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Ulrik Cold. 135min. Digital. A BFI U. EST. release Bergman’s film of Mozart’s masterpiece is one of the greatest screen versions of an opera ever made Shooting in Swedish on a set replicating a lovely 18th-century theatre, Bergman begins his wonderfully warm, witty and sensuous movie by focusing on the faces a rapt of audience (momentarily including his own) enjoying the overture. Thereafter, as the (abridged and intriguingly amended) tale Tamino, of Pamina et al proceeds, he highlights the exuberant piece’s theatrical SMART, FLEXIBLE SPACES Screening and meeting rooms for hire

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BFI Screen Epiphanies Screen Epiphany: Joanne Froggatt Member Picks MEMBER EXCLUSIVES Following in the footsteps of Lee Child, introduces Sophie’s Choice For a chance to see one of your favourite films on the big screen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Dame Joan Collins, USA 1982. Dir Alan J Pakula. share your choice with us at bfi.org.uk/memberpicks Clarke Peters and Baroness Helena With Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter McNicol. 151min. Digital. 15 Kennedy, a prominent figure from Jaws the arts will introduce a screening of Actress Joanne Froggatt (Downton USA 1975. Dir Steven Spielberg. With Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, a film that has inspired them. Abbey, Liar) introduces a film that has Lorraine Gary. 124min. Digital. 12A bfi.org.uk/members inspired her. Sophie’s Choice features A great white shark attack in the ‘I love everything about this film – ® Meryl Streep in her Oscar -winning shallow waters of a holiday town the storytelling, the cast, the music – role as Sophie, a Polish immigrant is the subject of Spielberg’s classic, and I still jump at the same moments living in New York after WWII. a film that became as well known no matter how many times I see it’ BFI Stephen Street has a range of catered options in the heart These events are exclusive to She befriends a young writer and Members and their guests. for its horror behind-the-scenes F Rodrigo, BFI Member of London’s West End, while BFI Southbank is a state-of-the-art tells her distressing story of life as for that in front of the camera. Champions and Members can under Nazi occupation – a situation A true suspense classic. The first ticket is free 450 seat cinema venue ideal for larger events and conferences. priority book tickets as soon as their that led to her having to make a priority booking opens and tickets heartbreaking, impossible choice. will be allocated on a first come, first The first ticket is free served basis. Any tickets remaining Get in touch: on the day of the event will be TUE 5 DEC SUN 3 DEC released for public sale. bfi.org.uk/venuehire | 020 7957 4777 | [email protected] 20:15 NFT1 17:40 NFT1 These events are exclusive to BFI Members and their guests. Join today at bfi.org.uk/join @BFI 17 18 EVENTS book onlineatbfi.org.uk book often which films, His Dalí. and Yoko, and John Warhol, Andy as such collaborated with cultural icons has and cinema of independent figures key of the one considered widely is Mekas 70 years, spanning acareer with activist and poet critic, Maniac Cinema a work: of anew screening first the introduce will Astaire withFred A Dance autobiography visual of his release Editions Anthology To the celebrate 120min TRT and Q&Awithdirector JonasMekas Experimenta presents: 18:00 NFT1 18:00 5DEC TUE Q&A From the Notebooks of of Notebooks the From (2017). A filmmaker, Afilmmaker, (2017). , Jonas Mekas Mekas , Jonas Dancing withFred Astaire:

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THU 7 DEC 20:10 NFT3 regain her youth. This presentation, from Cecilia Cenciarelli the of Cineteca di Bologna, is a special 4K digital restoration by the Cineteca and Cinémathèque Suisse, produced from a tinted, toned and hand- painted original print. The result ravishing. visually is See p27 for our Silent Cinema strand ICO Archive Day: ICO Archive Rhapsody Satan’s Kinemacolor shorts from the Cineteca di Bologna A Faustian tale about an woman old makeswho a pact with Mephisto to Italy 1917. Dir NinoItaly Oxilia. 1917. With Lydia Borelli, Andrea Habay, Ugo Bazzini. 45min. Digital (4K). With Pietro Mascagni’s original score. Event TRT c70min from 1917

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THU 7 DEC 18:10 NFT3 whose pursuit those of framed who him takes him from the atmospheric flatsmud North of Kent to docklands.London’s See p26 for another screening as part of Who Can Trust? You In partnership with the Independent Cinema Office (ICO) showcasing we’re two expertly curated archive events: a special 35mm presentation of Robert Hamer’s Memory Long The Day: ICO Archive UK 1952. Dir Robert Hamer. With John Mills, Elizabeth Sellars, John McCallum, Eva Bergh. PG 35mm. 92min. This rarely seen written noir, and directed by Robert Hamer, has more than a hint the of dark thrillers emanating from 1930s France. John Mills channels Jean Gabin in the role a man of wrongly imprisoned,

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Late The Corpse Can’t episode, (BBC 1970). Please keep checking Joint ticket available concs £15, £12 (Members pay £2 less) See p34 for our season on influential TV producer Sydney Newman For fans TV of horror, Session 2 will disinterred recently a feature HorrorNight Play the BFI website as titles will be revealed as they’re confirmed, regularbut visitors will know how popular these events are, and the how of much material is consistently fascinating.

SESSION 2 DEC 16 15:00SAT NFT1 (BBC 1967).(BBC Till Death Us Do Part: Sex JOINT TICKET SAT 16 DEC NFT1 16 12:45 SAT SESSION 1 best-loved and most controversial sitcoms, Before Marriage going to press) some titles are still to be verified, delighted we’re to announce that Session 1 has an emphasis on comedy and will feature a missing episode one of the of 1960’s Session Session 110min. 1: 120min 2: The annual round-up recent of rediscoveries returns to BFI Southbank and although (at time of Missing Believed Wiped 2017 Missing Believed Wiped ‘BEAUTIFUL, MYSTERIOUS WOMAN PURSUED BY GUNMEN. SOUNDS LIKE A SPY STORY’ THE 39 STEPS

JOURNEY WITH US INTO THE DARKEST RECESSES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR WITH THIS BLOCKBUSTER SEASON OF THRILLERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, WRITES THE BFI’S RHIDIAN DAVIS Thankfully, few of us in our lifetime will encounter criminal masterminds like Robert De Niro’s McCauley in Heat or sinister killers like the Tooth Fairy in Manhunter, but anyone who has questioned if their lover has a shadow life or if their colleague is a psychopath will appreciate the powerful grip of suspicion on the imagination. Visceral, suspenseful uncertainty is a surer adrenaline hit than the most unhinged action sequence, and administering that hit while opening our minds to the richly textured possibilities of human character is one of cinema’s most distinctive achievements.

WANT MORE? See p48 for our Future Film picks from The BFI Thriller season takes place in cinemas the season across the UK, on BFI Player and BFI DVD, Don’t forget to visit our free Mediatheque on broadcast television, and with education for a special collection of films, TV and shorts partners INTO FILM MEZZANINE GALLERY CAN YOU TRUST THEM? Displays from the BFI Archive You think they’re out to get you? They are!

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WHO CAN YOU TRUST? THE 39 STEPS KISS ME DEADLY WHO CAN YOU TRUST? THE BRITISH THRILLER UK 1935. Dir Alfred Hitchcock. With Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, USA 1955. Dir Robert Aldrich. Drawn from the BFI National Archive’s John Laurie. 86min. Digital. U With Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart. 105min. 35mm. 12A Special Collections, this exhibition Hitchcock’s masterful adaptation Now in danger himself, Hannay flees explores the tactics and provocations of John Buchan’s novel remains to Scotland to uncover the truth, Private detective Mike Hammer picks that artists, designers, set photographers the model for all chase thrillers. enlisting the help of Pamela (Carroll) up a distraught runaway from a and scriptwriters employed to keep Richard Hannay (Donat) meets a along the way. Exhilarating, gripping psychological asylum. This encounter audiences on the edge of their seats – mysterious stranger (Mannheim) entertainment. JB leaves him at the centre of an from 1940s British noir in Brighton Rock who warns him of a sinister spy Also available on international conspiracy, which he to the anxiety-ridden political thrillers ring just before she is murdered. desperately tries to uncover while of the 60s and 70s, such as The Day putting his own and his friends’ of the Jackal. lives on the line. Enigmatic and suspenseful from the first minute, Kiss Me Deadly channels Cold War paranoia, and culminates in a surprisingly haunting ending. ABa

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Whit (Douglas) drag him into a world aworld into him drag (Douglas) Whit gangster and (Greer) Kathie girlfriend former until past his escape to trying eye ex-private an plays He best. at his Mitchum Robert features noir, this film definitive the Arguably Congress of Library the of collection the From PG. 35mm. 97min. Fleming. Rhonda Douglas, Kirk Greer, Jane Mitchum, Robert With Tourneur. 1947.USA Jacques Dir OUT OFTHEPAST (AKABUILD MYGALLOWS HIGH) Definitely deadlier than the male CAN YOU TRUST HER? 15:15 NFT2 15:15 3DEC SUN 20:45 NFT3 20:45 6DEC WED a classic. a classic. this make script intricate an and cinematography hypnotic performances, murder. First-rate and revenge of double-crossing, HO

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WED 27 DEC NFT218:20 MON DEC 11 20:40 NFT3 laundering Typically caper. BOUND USA 1996. Dirs The Wachowskis. With Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano. 108min. 18 35mm. The steamiest lesbian film the of ‘90s sees Gina Gershon as a handy plumber seducing a gangster’s moll (Tilly) amid a perilous money-

HO FRI 8 DEC 20:30 NFT3 SUN 3 DEC 17:30 NFT2 ONE FALSE MOVE MOVE ONE FALSE USA 1992. Dir Carl Franklin. With Bill Paxton, Thornton, Bob CyndaBilly Williams, 18 35mm. 105min. Beach. Michael This rollercoaster ride a thriller- of cum-road movie follows savvy LA cops on the trail three of criminals as they flee LA a small for Arkansas town. However, the tipped-off local sheriff (Paxton) is ready a for showdown. Subtly tackling sexism and racism along former the way, actor Carl Franklin pulls off a superb, explosive directorial debut.

ABo SAT 30SAT DEC NFT120:20 FRI 22 DEC 20:30 NFT3 17:40 NFT1 SUN 10 DEC lesson in suspense storytelling, with a twist the for ages. away withaway become but murder, increasingly paranoid when his corpse disappears. Clouzot’s masterful film is a terrifying Paul Meurisse. Digital. 117min. 12A EST. wifeThe put-upon (Clouzot) of a sadistic headmaster conspires with his mistress (Signoret) to get rid him. of The two women get LES DIABOLIQUES Henri-Georges Dir Clouzot. 1955. France Clouzot, Signoret, Véra Simone With B IG THRILL DOUBLE BILLS Double the thrill, twice the excitement

2 FILMS ADRENALINE DOUBLE: RUN LOLA RUN LOLA RENNT + VICTORIA Germany 1998. Dir Tom Twyker. With Franka Pontente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup. Germany 2015. Dir Sebastian Schipper. With FOR £16 80min. 35mm. EST. 15 Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Frank Rogowski. It’s a race against time for Lola as indebted to. Made almost 20 years 138min. Digital. EST. 15 BIG THRILL she speeds through Berlin, trying ago, Run Lola Run still feels hip and Headline grabbing upon release for its DOUBLE BILLS to find 100,000 Deutschmarks in stylish, using a pulsating score, real-time single-take filming method, just 20 minutes if she’s to prevent her fast-paced editing and multiple this dazzling heist thriller is more boyfriend from robbing a bank in narratives to frame an enthralling than just a gimmick. Ricocheting order to pay off the gangster he’s now chase thriller. JJ between engaging character moments, intoxicating club scenes Any 2 films from and mind-bending twists and turns, Schipper’s film capitalises on its the double bills, use unusual format to create an immersive ride through Victoria’s promo code ‘Doubles’ chaotic night, as she’s drawn into when booking Berlin’s criminal underworld. RM

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JJ @BFI FRI 29 DEC 19:40 NFT3 SUN DEC 17 14:00 NFT3 the perfect thriller. #BFIThriller Heat HEAT SAT 9 DECSAT 19:00 NFT1 masterclass from De Niro and Pacino makes + USA 1995. Dir Michael Mann. With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer. Digital 171min. 4K. 15 Michael LA Mann’s crime thriller pits a tough cop (Pacino) against a criminal mastermind (De Niro) has who one last heist up his sleeve before retirement. Their commitment to their chosen paths in life has resulted in one of them trying to avoid romance all at costs, while the other endures a loveless third marriage. The irresistible combination the of film’s taut structure and a near-perfect acting

ABo SAT 9 DECSAT 16:15 NFT1 WED 6 DEC NFT218:20 to assist in the capture a vicious of murderer dubbed ‘The Fairy.’ Tooth He reluctantly enlists the help of the infamous Dr Hannibal Lecktor (Cox), a killer in away he put the first stylish place. Mann’s take on Thomas Harris’ crime novel marked the resurgence ‘charming’ of serial killers in cinema. MICHAEL MANN DOUBLE: MANHUNTER USA 1986. Dir Michael Mann. William Peterson,With Joan Allen, Kim Greist. 120min. Format tbc. 18. Unconfirmed Graham Will profiler Criminal (Petersen) comes retirement of out

on Manhunter as well as ideas around animality and the gaze, film philosophers Lucy Bolton, John Ó Maoilearca and Catherine Wheatley will reflect on questions evil, of individual pathology and social prejudice in the thriller genre. Free to ticket holders of Wed 6 Dec (must be booked via the box office £6.50 otherwise capacity), limited to due

THE PHILOSOPHY OF EVIL IN ‘MANHUNTER’ OF EVIL THE PHILOSOPHY . Like Manhunter TALK 20:30 BFI REUBEN LIBRARY REUBEN BFI 20:30 WED 6 DEC endowed with superhuman strength and intelligence. Considering Nietzsche’s superman concept, will consider the ‘exceptionality’ theof cinematic killers that stalk thrillers such as Dr Lecktor, these killers are often onlynot exceptionally cruel, but TRT 70min The latest event in our popular discussion series exploring cinema through a philosophical lens, PHILOSOPHICAL SCREENS: PHILOSOPHICAL PROJECTING THE ARCHIVE SENIORS Rediscovered British features: a trio of femme fatales... Matinees and talks for the over 60s

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THE LONG MEMORY SENIORS’ ARCHIVE FREE MATINEE: + intro by Jo Botting, BFI National MINE OWN EXECUTIONER Archive Curator* UK 1947. Dir Anthony Kimmins. With Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, UK 1952. Dir Robert Hamer. With John Mills, Michael Shepley. 104min. 35mm. 12A Elizabeth Sellars, John McCallum, Eva Bergh. INTRO 92min. 35mm. PG A lay psychiatrist in post-war London Fay Lowther (Sellars) is forced to is enlisted to treat a fighter pilot deeply DEAR MURDERER + intro by Simon choose between her young beau OBSESSION traumatised by his experiences in McCallum, BFI Curator (Mills) and her alcoholic father in (AKA THE HIDDEN ROOM) a prisoner-of-war camp. Adapted by UK 1947. Dir Arthur Crabtree. With Greta Gynt, this atmospheric noir directed and UK 1949. Dir Edward Dmytryk. BAFTA-winning author and Eric Portman, Dennis Price. 94min. 35mm. PG adapted by Robert Hamer. The film With Robert Newton, Sally Gray, screenwriter Nigel Balchin from his Naunton Wayne, Phil Brown. 98min. own novel, this story can also be Greta Gynt plays a faithless wife who plays like Marcel Carné’s Le Quai des 35mm. PG seeks excitement with a string of brumes on a Kent estuary, as Mills’ seen as a devastating study of the Sally Gray is striking as the icy and lovers, driving her cuckolded character is released from prison effect of war on Britain’s psyche. DS aloof wife who assists the police husband (Portman) to desperate after 12 years and sets out to Also available on inspector in hunting her missing measures to get revenge. Critics avenge himself on those who Free for over-60s (booking by phone or in lover, while suspecting that her person only), otherwise normal matinee price. remarked on Gynt’s ability to framed him. JBo husband is behind the disappearance. See p14 for a seniors’ matinee of A Matter combine ‘beauty with Borgia-like of Life and Death + intro WHO CAN YOU TRUST? YOU WHO CAN The release of the film was held up habits,’ and this drama of revenge due to the trial of John George Haigh, shows off her talents to their best the acid-bath murderer, which will advantage. This feature debut of give a clue to the nasty plan the producer Betty Box earned her the betrayed husband cooks up. JBo nickname ‘Bloodthirsty Box.’ JBo Also available on

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#BFIThriller Who Can You Trust? Who Can You GUIDE CONTRIBUTORS GUIDE ABa – Aga Baranowska ABo – Anna Bogutskaya BD –Bryony Dixon DS – David Somerset HO – Heather Osborn JB – James Bell JBo – Jo Botting JJ – Justin Johnson RM – Ruby McGuigan WF – William Fowler BFI COMPENDIUM The BFI Compendium dives into the suspenseful world the of onscreen thriller, and is theessential companion to our season. With new essays from Jake Arnott, Lee Child, Sarah Weinman, Iain Sinclair and many others. Shop BFI the from now Available and online at £18.99

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RAW NERVES: A LACANIAN A LACANIAN NERVES: RAW + THRILLER USA 1980. Dir Manuel DeLanda. With Lydia Lunch. 30min. Digital The explosive, audacious, self- reflexive, bright, delirious, lurid optical colour effects and wipes threaten to truly overwhelm as a private dick and his narrator struggle to extricate themselves from a very strange and threatening situation. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with Foundation Warhol Andy support the from for the Visual Arts and the National Film Preservation Foundation forSee Jonas p18 Mekas in conversation

The Foreigner The WED DEC 13 20:30 NFT3 From the grimy, messed-up, strung-out, apocalyptic streets at New of York the end the of 1970s, we bring you two noir-ish, distinctly low-budget cinematic artefacts populated by punks and stars. No Wave European secret agent Max Menace arrives in the Big Apple and waits hisfor assignment, nothing but seems to turn right out (though he does get to meet Debbie Blondie’s Harry and The Cramps). THE THRILLER: NEW YORK, NO WAVE STYLE NO WAVE YORK, THE THRILLER: NEW THE FOREIGNER USA Dir 1978. Amos Poe. With Eric Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor. 91min. Digital EXPERIMENTA Artist film and alternative moving image culture

+ intro by+ intro BD is a gripping (1933). (1933). INTRO 16:00 NFT1 SUN 3 DEC writer ingenious of thrillers, plays and film scripts – most famously King Kong spawned some 200 films and TV programmes. A Londoner humble of origins, he overcame a modest education to become a journalist and then an astonishingly prolific first screenwriting major success, featuring international political terrorists, ingenious murders and a ticking works clock...Wallace’s With Teddy Arundell, Cecil Humphreys, Owen Roughwood, George Bellamy. c73min. accompaniment piano live With 35mm. The Just Four Men adaptation Edgar of Wallace’s THE FOUR JUST MEN JUST THE FOUR Archive Bryony Dixon, BFI National DirUK George 1921. Ridgwell. The best international restorations international best The SILENT CINEMA SILENT ‘I’M JIST A GIRL WHO CAIN’T SAY NO. I’M IN A TURRIBLE FIX’ ADO ANNIE IN ‘OKLAHOMA!’

Part two of our season further explores Grahame’s femme fatale finesse, but also showcases some of her lighter roles, writes season programmer Jo Botting As irrepressible wide-eyed Ado Annie, Gloria Grahame proved that her talents were not limited to intense performances in film noir. Although played purely for laughs, her character in Oklahoma! is still very much in the mould of her earlier roles: a woman at the mercy of her impulses. Grahame herself was a woman of intense passions – her often scandalous personal life included an affair with the 13-year-old son of husband Nicholas Ray. Yet she was a sensitive and versatile actor of stage and screen who brought a mixture of impetuousness and vulnerability to every role. As a woman she was vivacious and fun-loving, yet needy and insecure. As she became increasingly difficult to work with, film offers dwindled, depriving audiences of one of Hollywood’s most distinctive and captivating stars.

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as a nightclub singer between caught them; she finally finds the love she’s desperate will but for, the chance for happiness come too late? THU 28 DEC 18:10 NFT2 SAT 23SAT DEC 18:00 NFT2 Naked Alibi USA 1954. Dir Jerry Hopper. With Gloria Grahame, Sterling Hayden, Gene Barry. 86min. PG 35mm. A policeman pursues a suspected murderer to a Mexican border town, both men driven by desperation and their own personal demons. Grahame is her most at seductive

performance as a small-town boy seeking fame and fortune in the movies. Grahame luxuriates in the glamour her of role, as a film star seduceswho the innocent abroad. + intro by season programmer Jo Botting* by season programmer + intro SAT 30SAT DEC 17:50 NFT2 INTRO 18:10 NFT2* TUE DEC 19 Skelton was coached in physical comedy by Buster Keaton his for Showing how fast Hollywood forgot its roots, this broad parody silent of cinema was made barely 20 years after the coming sound. of Red Merton of the Movies Dir RobertUSA 1947. Alton. With Gloria Grahame, Red Skelton, Virginia O’Brien. 82min. U 35mm. The Full Story Dir. Daisy Jacobs Find FundingFind ShortsWatch network.bfi.org.uk Directors Writers Producers Work Share Your

SAT 9 DECSAT 20:45 NFT2 SAT 2 DECSAT 16:10 NFT3 Odds Against Tomorrow USA 1959. Dir Robert Wise. With Gloria Grahame, Robert Ryan, Harry Belafonte, Shelley Winters. 96min. 35mm. 12A Director Robert Wise offers heist a movie with a twist, as Robert Ryan’s troubled WWII veteran confronts his prejudices when he embarks on a bank job with a black jazz performer (Belafonte). A very personal project Belafonte,for the film is one the of last Hollywood noirs ever produced. Grahame makes an impression in the small sexually role Ryan’s of frustrated neighbour, in her swansong as a screen siren.

and fro-ing offers comic relief from Rod Steiger’s menacing pursuit of the wholesome Laurey (Jones), while the is whole interspersed with some Rodgers of and Hammerstein’s liveliest tunes.

chanteuse WED 27 DEC 17:50 NFT3 SAT 23SAT DEC 14:50 NFT3 ) Grahame’s naïve, endearing SUN DEC 17 14:50 NFT1 Oklahoma! MacRae, Gordon Jones, Shirley Grahame, Gloria With Zinnemann. Fred Dir 1955. USA Rod Steiger. Digital. 147min. U While she was a natural not (in fact her singing was dubbed in Alibi Naked vocal style in this musical western brings genuine charm to her portrayal Ado of Annie. Annie’s romantic to-ing

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SAT 9 DECSAT 14:30 NFT3 bookonline at bfi.org.uk dedication to his work and stifled by the small-town mentality those of around The colour her. photography emphasises her brassiness and enhances her waspish yet sensual performance. USA 1955. Dir Vincente Minnelli. With Gloria Grahame, Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Lillian Gish. 123min. 35mm. PG Vincente Minnelli’s lush melodrama revolves around the struggle for power among staff and inmates at a psychiatric hospital. Grahame plays the neglected wife Dr of McIver (Widmark), frustrated by his The Cobweb GLORIA GRAHAME GLORIA 30

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This month, India on Film celebrates a cinema great by screening his beloved Apu Trilogy, writes the BFI’s Maggi Hurt The impact of Satyajit Ray’s work on both Indian and international cinema should not be underestimated. Essentially self-educated as a filmmaker, he was deeply rooted in Bengali culture – literature and theatre in particular – as well as immersed in a growing European cinema tradition. The screening of Pather Panchali at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival heralded the beginning of a prolific career which spanned over three decades and saw the emergence of a key artist of 20th-century cinema. We’re proud to be able to present a digital restoration INDIA of the trilogy. ON FILM

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Apu Sansar SAT 23SAT DEC 17:40 NFT3 is a deeply observed SUN 10 DEC 20:10 NFT3 a husband. Soumitra Chatterjee features in his first role Ray for and is joined by a teenage Sharmila Tagore; both give moving performances which traverse love and grief. Apu Sansar and highly accomplished film, with music, again, by the formidable Ravi Shankar. The World of Apu The World India 1959. Dir Satyajit With Ray. Soumitra Chakravarty. Alok Tagore, Sharmila Chatterjee, 105min. Digital. Bengali with U EST. Winning the Sutherland at Trophy the London Film Festival, this final instalment the of Apu Trilogy sees Apu set to out become a writer and

Aparajito WED 20 DEC 18:05 NFT3 SUN 10 DEC 17:30 NFT3 including the Golden Lion Venice. at The Unvanquished India 1956. Dir Satyajit With Ray. Kanu Bannerjee, 110min. Smaran Ghosal. Bannerjee, Karuna Digital. Bengali with U EST. Evocatively shot by novice cameraman Subrata Mitra, famously who used bounced natural light when forced into a studio, this second film follows the development Apuof as he grows up in busy Varanasi (Benares) and, intellectual His Calcutta. later, curiosity takes him through a series doorways,of from away his mother, towards a new life as an adult. The film won multiple festival awards

Pather Mamoun Hassan Pather Panchali Panchali Pather FREE .’ The film.’ is unique. may It TALK MON DEC 11 14:00 NFT2 Panchali be imperfect, catches it but the stuff life. of Satyajit Ray went on to make half a dozen masterpieces none matchbut his first film – hauntedit him and will it you haunt too. Join filmmaker Mamoun Hassan on an exploration the of many layers thisof newly restored work. Free for over-60s (booking by phone or in person only), otherwise normal matinee price Prior viewing of recommendedis See p26 for a seniors’ archive free matinee Seniors’ Free Talk: Talk: Seniors’ Free on Pather Panchali TRT 90min Author Arthur C Clarke once said: ‘There is cinema and there is

MON DEC 11 18:10 NFT3 14:50 NFT3 SUN 10 DEC by his vision the of world. style still winsthe hearts audiences of worldwide. Our young hero Apu is introduced ashis eye is uncovered from his blankets; this powerful story ruralof life is carried significantly with funding problems. mainly Shot on location in a small village, with an inexperienced crew and mostly amateur actors, its sincere naturalistic Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee. 125min. 125min. Banerjee. Subir Bannerjee, Karuna Digital. Bengali with U EST. Adapted from a popular novel, directorialRay’s was debut several years in production and fraught Pather Panchali Song of the Little Road India 1955. Dir Satyajit With Ray. Kanu Bannerjee, ‘MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS OF A TIME-SPACE MACHINE WITH CONTEMPORARY CHARACTERS...’ NEWMAN ON ‘DOCTOR WHO’

Producer Sydney Newman was a key figure in UK TV history with far-reaching influence, writes season programmer Dick Fiddy Imported by ABC in 1958 to bring a new verve to their drama department, Canadian Sydney Newman took over the reins of the channel’s flagship drama anthology series Armchair Theatre, masterminding its development from a source of classic reinterpretations and adaptions of stage plays to a groundbreaking hothouse of contemporary cutting-edge dramas. Headhunted by the BBC, he repeated the trick with the equally influential The Wednesday Play. Aside from this, he brought about cult titles such as The Avengers, Doctor Who and Adam Adamant Lives! His brash demeanour and no- nonsense approach rubbed some up the wrong way (he was described in the press as ‘The Abominable Showman’ and by BBC detractors as ‘the crude colonial’), but Newman had the last laugh with a glittering career, which we celebrate here.

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@BFI features Sydney Armchair Theatres Armchair Theatre Where I Live Where SUN 10 DEC 15:10 NFT2 the first eight of – six them of in 1960 alone – to come from the pen Clive of Exton, did who tomuch help realise Newman’s vision ‘agitational of provocation.’ Armchair Theatre Sunday Night’s And Now for Your Dramatic Entertainment Armchair Theatre. Dir Ch4 Laurens 1987. C 40min Postma. Channel Four’s fascinating look back at Newman and a host others of recalling the development and heyday the of flagship drama series. + Armchair Theatre. ITV 1960. Dir Kotcheff. Ted With Ruth Dunning, Robert Brown. 50min This powerful domestic drama was

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And Did Those Feet Avengers + Adam Adamant Lives! The Wednesday Play. BBC 1965. Dir Don Taylor. With Patrick Troughton, Anna Wing. 106min One of Newman’s great strengths was assembling crack production teams and Lured over to the BBC to shake up It was conceived to support new then giving them the space to develop his basic ideas into fully-formed TV series. their drama output, Sydney Newman television writing, and one of its Here are two of his best. developed The Wednesday Play, most explosive new talents was The Avengers: Nutshell + Adam Adamant Lives! a series gifted by Director of David Mercer – here turning ITV 1963. Dir Raymond Menmuir. With The Sweet Smell of Disaster Television Kenneth Adam following in a scintillating social satire Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman. 50min BBC 1966. Dir Philip Dudley. With the cancellation of earlier, on class and privilege. By the time Newman left ITV, Gerald Harper, Juliet Harmer. 60min underperforming drama strands. The Avengers series he’d instigated Newman attempted to create

SYDNEY NEWMAN had started to develop into an an Avengers-style adventure for ambitious blend of drama and the BBC with this swashbuckling, surreal whimsy – this episode great fun, fantasy series. is an early example.

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FRI 29 DEC 15:00 NFT1 SAT 23SAT DEC 12:30 NFT1 incarnated by the aptly named (God-given). Dieudonné Also available on Napoléon France Dir Abel 1927. Gance. Manès, Albert Gina With Dieudonné, intervals). Artaud. 3x Antonin (with 333min Digital. With Carl Davis score. PG extraordinaryGance’s biopic celebrates Napoleon as a ‘man even destiny,’ of inchildhood. Though the hagiographic approach may be questionable, impossibleit’s to not be swept along by the film’s sheer scale and by innovativeGance’s enthusiasm for the cinematic medium; the final visual triptych is especially exhilarating. And Bonaparte himself is ably

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