BARBARA STANWYCK STRAUB-HUILLET EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS RAY & LIZ BFI SOUTHBANK BFI MAR 2019 ORIGINAL VINTAGE POSTERS •Wide variety of posters from around the world: • Travel • Sports incl. Ski Posters • War and Propaganda • Advertising • Film Posters •Poster Restoration •Poster Auctions AntikBar –Original Vintage Posters 404 King’s Road, London SW10 0LJ Tel: 020 7352 9309 WWW.ANTIKBAR.CO.UK THIS MONTH AT BFI SOUTHBANK ORIGINAL VINTAGE POSTERS 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 RE-RELEASES SEASONS Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance Key classics (many newly restored) for you to enjoy, with plenty Carefully curated collections of film •Wide variety of posters from for you to catch the latest film and TV before of screening dates to choose from and TV, which showcase an influential anyone else genre, theme or talent around the world: • Travel • Sports incl. 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MEMBERS 11:30 – 20:30 daily Tue 5 Feb (from 11:30) NEW RELEASES 10 PROJECTING THE ARCHIVE, 38 In person SILENT CINEMA PUBLIC RE-RELEASES 12 Tue 12 Feb (from 11:30) 11:00 – 20:30 daily FAMILIES 40 SEASONS AntikBar –Original Vintage Posters FUTURE FILM, SENIORS 42 BARBARA STANWYCK 14 404 King’s Road, London SW10 0LJ BFI PLAYER 44 JOIN TODAY FOR PRIORITY BOOKING AND DISCOUNTS: BFI.ORG.UK/JOIN STRAUB-HUILLET 20 LIBRARY, MEDIATHEQUE, 46 Tel: 020 7352 9309 EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS 26 MEZZANINE GALLERY The BFI is proud to screen on film where possible, showcasing restorations BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 30 and sourcing archive prints from our partners. SHOP, IMAX 48 WWW.ANTIKBAR.CO.UK Look out for 16mm, 35mm or 70mm in the film credits. SPECIAL FILMS & EVENTS 34 Cover: Ray & Liz (p10) Talent Q&As and rare appearances, plus a chance for you to catch the latest film and TV before anyone else Preview: Sauvage France 2018. Dir Camille Vidal-Naquet. With Félix Maritaud, Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla. 99min. Digital. EST. Cert tbc TV Preview: Cheat + Q&A with actors Katherine Kelly and Tom Goodman-Hill, writer Gaby Hull and director Louise Hooper Leo is a 22-year-old sex worker who yearns for affection. In poor health ITV-Two Brothers Pictures 2018. Dir Louise Hooper. With Katherine Kelly, Molly Windsor, ‘A STRANGER- Tom Goodman-Hill, Lorraine Ashbourne, Peter Firth, Adrian Edmondson. Ep 1, 54min + Q&A and with no fixed address, he finds fleeting solace in the arms of his THAN-FICTION Brought to you by the makers of What begins as a seemingly clients. The crushing solitude of Leo’s The Missing and Fleabag, Cheat is open-and-shut case of academic life is tempered when he falls for TRUE STORY a brand-new psychological thriller deception quickly spirals out of fellow hustler Ahd. But when his written by rising star Gaby Hull control, triggering a devastating MAKES LORDS romantic feelings are violently and screening in spring 2019. sequence of events that threaten rebuffed, Leo spirals. Vidal-Naquet’s OF CHAOS A At the heart of the drama is the to engulf them both. arresting debut comes with its fair dangerous relationship between COMPELLING, share of both brutality and disarming university professor Leah (Kelly) fragility. Such compassion is in no RAW AND and her student Rose (Windsor). small part thanks to Félix Maritaud, BRUTAL TAKE whose raw and vulnerable ON THE BIOPIC’ performance is devastating. Michael Blyth ANNA BOGUTSKAYA, EVENTS PROGRAMMER WED 6 MAR THU 7 MAR 18:15 NFT3 20:50 NFT1 IN PERSON & PREVIEWS Lords of Chaos (p6) book online at bfi.org.uk KERMODE LIVE IN 3D Let’s talk about film... Preview: Girl Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI IN PERSON & PREVIEWS Belgium-Netherlands 2018. Dir Lukas Dhont. With Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, TRT 90min Katelijne Damen. 105min. Digital. EST. 15. Courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the Get involved by tweeting your Fifteen-year-old Lara (Polster) is on picked up the Queer Palm at last BFI is a monthly conversation questions in advance to the path to get the gender reassignment year’s Cannes Film Festival, as well between you (the audience) and one @KermodeMovie #MK3D. surgery she so desperately wants. as the First Feature Award at the of the nation’s favourite and most Tickets £20, concs £16 Despite strong support from her London Film Festival. respected film critics. With the help (Members pay £2 less) father and younger brother, the Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) of surprise guests from the industry, physical and emotional pressures of Kermode will explore, critique and her dance academy – as well her own dissect movies past and present and impatience – are slowly starting to reveal his or his guests’ cinematic take their toll. Girl is an extraordinary guilty pleasures. coming-of-age tale that deservedly MON 11 MAR MON 11 MAR 20:30 NFT1 18:30 NFT1 @BFI 5 RAY & LIZ BACKED BY Dir. Richard Billingham THE BFI RAY & LIZ 8 MARCH Renowned photographer Richard Billingham makes his debut feature with this intricate family Preview: The White Crow Preview: Lords of Chaos UK-France 2018. Dir Ralph Fiennes. UK-Sweden 2018. Dir Jonas Åkerlund. portrait, inspired by his memories of growing up With Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, With Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Sky Ferreira, in the West Midlands in the late 70s and early 80s. Louis Hofmann. 122min. Digital. EST. Valter Skarsgård. 112min. Digital. Cert tbc. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Studiocanal Courtesy of Arrow Films We meet Rudolph Nureyev (Ivenko) In the early 1990s, raven-haired OUT OF BLUE – who would become one of ballet’s nihilist Øystein Aarseth, aka 22 MARCH brightest stars – as an electrifying UK Premiere: Born Digital + Q&A with BBC Four’s Cassian Harrison Euronymous (Culkin), pioneered The stunning new film from visionary director and impulsive young dancer in the and BFI’s Rhidian Davis Norwegian black metal with his band early 1960s, when the finest Soviet Mayhem. As he spreads a mantra of Carol Morley follows New Orleans homicide TRT 100min dancers are sent to Paris. It’s there chaos and suffering, making music is detective Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) that Nureyev, culturally ravenous Drama, documentary and experimental Each film received production grants just beginning for the megalomaniac are just some of the genres featured and the opportunity to be broadcast as she investigates the murder of a leading and unapologetically ambitious, and aspiring mogul. He soon attracts astrophysicist. However, her quest for the truth falls in love with the city and its in these short films commissioned on BBC Four. Be one of the first to the attention of superfan Varg (Cohen), intelligentsia, which draws the to mark the 30th anniversary of the see these impressive new films and who takes Aarseth's vision to a begins to destabilise both her view of the attention of the KGB. World Wide Web. Born Digital is the hear from some of the creatives dangerous extreme. Based on a true universe and her very being. Audio description is available at prestigious programme from the BFI behind them. story, Jonas Åkerlund’s biopic of a this preview and BBC Four, designed to find and band, a scene and a mood is raw, Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) support some of the UK’s most exciting energising and devastatingly brutal. new and emerging filmmakers. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) IN PERSON & PREVIEWS #NationalLottery #BFIBacked WED 13 MAR TUE 12 MAR TUE 19 MAR 20:15 NFT1 15:30 NFT1 20:30 NFT1 IN CINEMAS ACROSS THE UK bfi.org.uk/filmfund 6 book online at bfi.org.uk Film Fund Ad SB Guide 2019-03 FINAL.indd 1 04/01/2019 11:21 RAY & LIZ BACKED BY Dir. Richard Billingham THE BFI RAY & LIZ 8 MARCH Renowned photographer Richard Billingham makes his debut feature with this intricate family portrait, inspired by his memories of growing up in the West Midlands in the late 70s and early 80s. OUT OF BLUE 22 MARCH The stunning new film from visionary director Carol Morley follows New Orleans homicide detective Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) as she investigates the murder of a leading astrophysicist. However, her quest for the truth begins to destabilise both her view of the universe and her very being. #NationalLottery #BFIBacked IN CINEMAS ACROSS THE UK bfi.org.uk/filmfund Film Fund Ad SB Guide 2019-03 FINAL.indd 1 04/01/2019 11:21 WOMAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA We celebrate women’s contribution to cinema and spotlight female stories DVD Preview: Doctor Who – The Macra Terror (Animated) International Women’s Day Preview: Happy as Lazzaro Lazzaro felice + Q&A with actor Anneke Wills Italy-Switzerland-France-Germany 2018. Dir Alice Rohrwacher. With Adriano Tardiolo, UK 1967. Dir John Davies. With the voices of Patrick Troughton, Anneke Wills, Frazer Hines, Sergi Lopez, Alba Rohrwacher. 125min. Digital. EST. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Modern Films Michael Craze. 4x25min. Courtesy of BBC Studios Lazzaro (Tardiolo) lives in an isolated Rohrwacher follows up The Wonders The Doctor (Troughton) and his Although the majority of this story village ruled with an iron fist by the with a time and genre-bending meld companions arrive on a human colony was believed to have been lost, by cruel Marchesa.