BFI SOUTHBANK EVENTS LISTINGS FOR MAY 2017 PREVIEWS Catch the latest film and TV alongside Q&As and special events Preview: Jawbone + Q&A with actors Johnny Harris, Michael Smiley and guests UK 2017. Dir Thomas Q Napper. With Ian McShane, Ray Winstone, Johnny Harris. 91min. Digital. 15. Courtesy of Vertigo Releasing Jimmy McCabe (Harris), a former youth boxing champion, has lost his way. After hitting rock bottom, he turns to his childhood trainer and gym owner (Winstone) to help him get back on his feet just enough to get into the ring one last time. Past his prime, and with the odds stacked against him, McCabe risks his life to regain his place in the world. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) MON 8 MAY 19:00 NFT1 Preview: Frantz France-Germany 2016. Dir François Ozon. With Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Marie Gruber. 114min. Digital. 12A Courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye A young woman forms an unlikely friendship with a man she encounters at her late fiancé’s grave in François Ozon’s richly evocative period piece, set in the aftermath of WWI. Shot predominantly in black and white, Frantz represents a visual departure for the typically vibrant director, but his mischievous narrative twists and playful sexual ambiguity feel unmistakeably, quintessentially Ozon. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) TUES 9 MAY 20:45 NFT1 Preview: The Red Turtle + Michael Dudok de Wit in Conversation TRT 150min France-Japan 2016. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 81min. Digital. PG. A StudioCanal release This unique co-production between Studio Ghibli and Oscar® winner Michael Dudok de Wit is a mature, dialogue-free animated film following a man shipwrecked on a beautiful but deserted island who must use the habitat around him in order to survive. This screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation between Dudok de Wit and BFI Lead Programmer Justin Johnson and will feature the director’s Oscar®-winning short Father and Daughter (2000), along with The Monk and the Fish (1994), The Aroma of Tea (2006) and other works. + Father and Daughter UK-Belgium-Netherlands 2000. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 9min + Tom Sweep France 1992. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 3min. + The Monk and the Fish Le Moine et le Poisson France 1994. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 6min. + The Aroma of Tea Netherlands 2006. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 3min. This event will include a short interval Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) WED 17 MAY 18:30 NFT1 NEW RELEASES Plenty of chances for you to sample the best new cinema Their Finest UK 2016. Dir Lone Scherfig. With Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Richard E Grant. 117min. Digital. 12A. A Lionsgate release Gemma Arterton is positively luminous in this witty drama Their Finest, a real crowd-pleaser at last year’s London Film Festival, is set in the world of WWII propaganda filmmaking. Arterton plays Catrin Cole, a young Welsh copywriter who lands a job as a script editor with the Ministry of Information, hired to provide a ‘woman’s touch’ to propaganda films being made during the Blitz. Thrown into the colourful and surprisingly active world of filmmaking in London in the 1940s, her confidence grows and new interests and desires soon ignite. Debut screenwriter Gaby Chiappe’s adaptation of Lissa Evans’ novel Their Finest Hour and a Half is an intoxicating blend of social drama and shrewd wit, alert to the poignancy and irony of the way that new opportunities became available to women during wartime. CONTINUES FROM FRI 21 APR The Red Turtle La Tortue Rouge France 2016. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 81min. Digital. PG. A StudioCanal release Studio Ghibli teams up with Oscar® winner Michael Dudok de Wit to produce a truly unique animated film A man is shipwrecked on a beautiful but deserted island and must use the habitat in order to survive. Astutely observed by a group of sand crabs, he builds his own raft in order to escape but is constantly thwarted by the cruelly changeable weather and a red turtle with an apparent vendetta. The result of a co-production between Studio Ghibli and Oscar® winner Michael Dudok de Wit, this mature, dialogue-free animated film is the work of a true auteur, a brilliant twist on a familiar premise that is packed with an emotional punch. The film premiered to great acclaim at last year’s BFI London Film Festival. + Father and Daughter UK-Belgium-Netherlands 2000. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 9min Dudok de Wit’s Oscar®-winning short follows the life of a woman and the increasing importance of her father, long after he is gone. OPENS FRI 26 MAY RE-RELEASES Plenty of chances for you to revisit these key classics – many newly restored Manhattan USA 1979. Dir Woody Allen. With Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep. 96min. Digital 4K. 12A. A Park Circus release For many, this paean to New York – and to that mystifying thing called love – remains Woody Allen’s most enduring achievement Isaac (Allen), a writer of TV comedy with aspirations as a novelist, is a tangle of confused emotions: anxious about a potentially embarrassing upcoming book by his ex-wife (Streep); bemused as to why his happily married best friend (Murphy) is seeing a seemingly arrogant Philadelphian (Keaton); and wondering whether he himself should continue dating the considerably younger Tracy (Hemingway). Allen and co-writer Marshall Brickman’s insightful exploration of love, loyalty and betrayal seamlessly interweaves comedy and serious drama; the romance (gloriously evident in this new 4K digital print) is enhanced by Gordon Willis’ ravishing black-and white Cinema Scope camerawork and George Gershwin’s gorgeous music. FROM FRI 12 MAY MEMBER EXCLUSIVES Screen Epiphany: Michael Smiley introduces Adam & Paul Ireland 2004. Dir Lenny Abrahamson. With Mark O’Halloran, Tom Murphy, Gerry Moore. 85min. 35mm. 15 Actor Michael Smiley (The Lobster, A Field in England, Jawbone) introduces a film that has inspired him. Adam & Paul is a day in the life of two childhood friends in Dublin, both drug addicts. This comic drama follows them committing crimes and doing whatever is needed to score their next fix. Abrahamson followed up Adam & Paul with Frank and Oscar® winner Room. WED 10 MAY 20:20 NFT1 Champions’ Preview: Churchill UK 2017. Dir Jonathan Teplitzky. With Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, James Purefoy. 110min. Digital. Cert TBC. Courtesy of Lionsgate A gripping, tightly-scripted thriller focuses on Winston Churchill (Cox) in the run-up to D-Day, as he battles with the overwhelming responsibility of sending the Allied Forces to retake Nazi-occupied Europe. Exhausted and depressed, Churchill is terrified of leaving behind a legacy of carnage, and must face political opponents as well as his own demons. This event is exclusively for Champion Members, who can book up to four paid tickets THU 25 MAY 20:30 NFT3 EVENTS Trevor Griffiths in Conversation TRT 90min Join us for this fantastic opportunity to hear Griffiths discuss his work for television – what motivates him to write about the subjects he does and why the political dialectic features across so much of his work. Using clips from throughout his remarkable career, Griffiths talks to fellow writer Rupert Walters. Joint ticket available with Food for Ravens £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) TUE 9 MAY 18:20 NFT3 Rita, Sue and Bob Too 30th Anniversary Screening + Q&A with producer Sandy Lieberson and actors Michelle Holmes, George Costigan and Kulvinder Ghir UK 1987. Dir Alan Clarke. With Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes, George Costigan, Kulvinder Ghir. 93min. Digital. 18. A Park Circus release Newly remastered and reissued, Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a controversial comic drama about two adolescent school girls who start seeing a married man with no initial concern for the consequences. Directed by Alan Clarke and written by playwright Andrea Dunbar, the film has 1980s Britain running through it, and boasted the strapline ‘Thatcher’s Britain with her knickers down’. For some it was uncomfortable, and for others joyful, but either way, it’s a striking piece of writingand filmmaking. We will be joined by some of the people who made it all possible as we re-evaluate its importance as a great British film. Check bfi.org.uk for guest updates This new 2K restoration of Rita, Sue and Bob Too is from the original camera negative and is available on and released on BFI dual format edition in May MON 15 MAY 18:15 NFT1 Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI TRT 80min Mark Kermode, one of the nation’s most respected film critics, hosts a lively and wildly popular monthly event that explores, critiques and dissects movies past and present. With the occasional help of a surprise guest, Kermode reveals the guilty pleasures of cinema and enters into a dialogue with you (the audience), sparked by your questions. Get involved by tweeting questions in advance @KermodeMovie #MK3D Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) MON 22 MAY 18:30 NFT1 London Craft Week Making Costumes for Film: Annie Symons on King Arthur: Legend of The Sword TRT 80min Renowned costume designer Annie Symons talks about her work on the soon-to-be-released film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, featuring exclusive stills from the film. Alongside a panel of costumiers, Symons discusses the development of each character’s outfits and offers an insight into the craft of costume making. Supported by Warner Bros. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) WED 3 MAY 15:00 BLUE ROOM Making Props for Film: Pierre Bohanna on Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them TRT 80min Harry Potter head prop maker Pierre Bohanna shares stories of his work on the latest film from the Wizarding World and reveals how each prop has a special significance within the film (including Newt’s wand).