BLACKKKLANSMAN JOAN CRAWFORD HAROLD PINTER JAMIL DEHLAVI HEATHERS BFI SOUTHBANK BFI AUG 2018 AUG AT BFI SOUTHBANK Welcome to BFI Southbank, home to great film and TV, plus spaces for you to relax in, explore and enjoy IN-PERSON & PREVIEWS 6 MEMBER EXCLUSIVES 11 NEW RELEASES 12 RE-RELEASES 14 JOAN CRAWFORD 20 HAROLD PINTER 26 ANIMATION 2018 32 Apostasy (p12) Distant Voices, Still Lives (p16) Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (p40) JAMIL DEHLAVI 36 PREVIEWS & NEW RELEASES RE-RELEASES BIG SCREEN CLASSICS BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 38 Catch the latest film and TV alongside Plenty of chances for you to revisit these Every day we’ll take you on an adventure SPECIAL EVENTS 42 Q&As and special events great titles – many newly restored with these timeless films, for just £8 AFRICAN ODYSSEYS 44 WOMAN WITH A MOVIE 46 CAMERA, GUILTY FEMINIST BOOKING DATES PROJECTING THE ARCHIVE, 47 Patrons and Champions EXPERIMENTA Mon 2 Jul (from 11:30) Members Tue 3 Jul (from 11:30) FAMILIES, SILENT CINEMA 48 Public Tue 10 Jul (from 11:30) FUTURE FILM 50 bfi.org.uk/whatson TERROR VISION, SENIORS 51 020 7928 3232 11:30 – 20:30 daily BFI PLAYER 52 In-person 11:00 – 20:30 daily LIBRARY, MEDIATHEQUE, 54 JOIN TODAY FOR PRIORITY BOOKING MEZZANINE GALLERY The Electric House (p48) The French Lieutenant’s Woman (p29) AND DISCOUNTS: BFI.ORG.UK/JOIN SHOP, BFI IMAX 56 REGULAR PROGRAMME SEASONS Our regular programme includes Carefully curated collections of film and something for everyone: world cinema; TV by genre, theme, actor or director The BFI is proud to screen on film where archive; families; LGBTQ+ and more! possible, showcasing restorations and sourcing archive prints from our partners. At the time of going to print every effort was made to ensure the information in this Guide was Look out for ‘35mm’ or ‘70mm’ in the Cover: BlacKkKlansman (p13) correct. However, we reserve the right to make programme changes. See bfi.org.uk for updates. film credits. © 2018 FOCUS FEATURES WELCOME! OUR PICKS Each month, we give you our top choices from the programme I started out training as a film projectionist, and reels used to ‘JOAN CRAWFORD come broken down in 20-minute EFFORTLESSLY chunks. I didn’t have much aptitude for it, I would constantly miss my STEALS THE ‘change over’ cues as I was often SHOW IN A too engrossed in the unfolding drama on screen – to the audible STAR-STUDDED consternation of the audience. ENSEMBLE CAST’ As digital continues to blanket AGA BARANOWSKA, EVENTS PROGRAMMER our lives, the hankering for film Grand Hotel (p21) has only grown. Thankfully, our projectionists are infinitely better than I was because 16 of our titles will be shown on celluloid this month: you’ll get to see a luminescent Joan Crawford in her first talkie, and the expansive Lyme Regis landscapes in The French Lieutenant’s Woman with gorgeous grain. The journey ‘THE DARK TEEN from nitrate to digital and our fetish COMEDY ODE TO with original forms is part of our SHOULDER-PAD romance with cinema, the medium best able to capture the past. BITCH SQUADS In August we also pay homage to EVERYWHERE Harold Pinter and Jamil Dehlavi, GETS THE 4K filmmakers equally fascinated by the past. There’s much to RESTORATION seduce you this month. TREATMENT’ Gaylene Gould, ANNA BOGUTSKAYA, Head of Cinemas and Events EVENTS PROGRAMMER Heathers (p15) ‘TERENCE DAVIES’ MODERN CLASSIC IS PRESENTED IN NEWLY RESTORED 4K’ JUSTIN JOHNSON, LEAD PROGRAMMER Distant Voices, Still Lives (p16) ‘A RICH MIX OF RARE PEARLS FROM THE TV ARCHIVES, COURTESY OF OUR COLLEAGUES FROM KALEIDOSCOPE’ DICK FIDDY, PROGRAMMER Missing Believed Wiped (p42) Ivor the Engine IN PERSON Talent Q&As and rare appearances DOC Q&A Sonic Cinema presents: The Man From Mo’ Wax + Q&A with James Lavelle UK-Japan-USA 2016. Dir Matthew Jones. 109min. Digital. Cert tbc Almost 10 years in the making, In this film portrait that reflects the The Man From Mo’ Wax tells the boom and bust of the modern music remarkable story of James Lavelle, industry and a life that takes in some one of the most enigmatic figures decidedly flawed decision-making PREVIEWS in contemporary British culture. (both personal and professional), Drawing upon meticulous research Lavelle emerges as an innovative and exclusive access to personal artist who thinks big and consistently home footage, debut director overcomes adversity. Matthew Jones assembles archive James Lavelle will be DJing in the footage, stills and original interviews BFI Bar & Kitchen after the screening to chart Lavelle’s phenomenal rise. Tickets £16.50, concs £13.20 It includes him establishing Mo’ Wax (Members pay £2 less) as one of the UK’s most significant independent record labels and redefining what it means to be a DJ. THU 30 AUG 20:30 NFT1 The Miseducation of Cameron Post 6 PREVIEWS Catch the latest film and TV before anyone else DOC Q&A Preview: The Eyes of Orson Welles + Q&A with director Mark Cousins Preview: The Miseducation of Cameron Post PREVIEWS UK 2018. Dir Mark Cousins. 110min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of Dogwoof USA 2018. Dir Desiree Akhavan. With Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, Forrest Goodluck, Before becoming an actor and unprecedented access to Welles’ Jennifer Ehle. 90min. Digital. 15. Courtesy of Vertigo Releasing director, Orson Welles trained as sketches – most of which have never On her prom night in 1993, Cameron Akhavan’s follow-up to her acclaimed an artist. He painted and drew been seen outside of his family – and (Moretz) is caught making out with a debut Appropriate Behaviour picked up throughout his life, sketching set with it builds a picture of the unique fellow female student, and is promptly the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s designs, storyboards, ideas and way Welles saw the world. sent to a conversion camp to ‘pray Sundance festival. places and people that inspired him. Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) the gay away.’ There, she bonds with Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less) Award-winning director Mark Cousins, some of the other young residents a life-long Welles admirer, is granted while they wait to be released. TUE 14 AUG MON 13 AUG 20:00 NFT1 18:15 NFT1 @BFI 7 Q&A Q&A Preview: American Animals + Q&A with director Bart Layton and cast TV Preview: Bodyguard + Q&A with creator, writer, and executive producer UK-USA 2018. Dir Bart Layton. With Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jed Mercurio, plus actors Keeley Hawes and Richard Madden Jared Abrahamson. 116min. Digital. Cert tbc. Courtesy of STX International BBC One-World Productions 2018. Dir Thomas Vincent. With Richard Madden, Keeley Hawes, Two bored, overachieving university library with their not-quite-Ocean’s Gina McKee, Sophie Rundle. Ep1 60min friends, Warren (Peters) and 11 gang of student misfits. From the makers of Line of Duty, When he’s assigned to protect the Spencer (Keoghan), want to rebel An energetic, off-kilter heist film new six-part series Bodyguard tells ambitious and powerful Home PREVIEWS against their comfortable, suburban that plays with reality and fiction. the fictional story of David Budd Secretary Julia Montague (Hawes), upbringing. Their solution: to steal Tickets £15, concs £12 (Madden), a heroic but volatile war Budd finds himself torn between his priceless books from their (Members pay £2 less) veteran now working for the Royalty duty and his beliefs. Responsible for university’s special collections and Specialist Protection Branch of her safety, could he become her London’s Metropolitan Police Service. biggest threat? THU 23 AUG MON 6 AUG 20:20 NFT1 18:30 NFT1 8 book online at bfi.org.uk DOC Q&A TV Preview: Bollywood: The World’s Biggest Film Industry + Q&A with presenter Anita Rani plus guests BBC Two-Raw Television 2018. Dir Chris Parkin. Ep1 60min In an access-all-areas series for BBC on tradition is racing to keep up Two Anita Rani explores Bollywood, with changing tastes. Part of the an extraordinary world that she, BBC’s Big British Asian Summer, like many British Asians, grew up a new season of programmes in feasting on. She goes on set to August showcasing the stories of meet her big-screen idols and British Asians in all their richness Wound The discovers how an industry based and complexity. Image: THU 9 AUG Online booking now available 18:15 NFT3 BFI.ORG.UK/25-AND-UNDER ‘the most perfect cinematic fable ever told’ Guillermo del Toro A stunning 4k restoration of Jean Cocteau’s magical masterpiece ORDER FROM BFI MEMBERS ENJOY 15% OFF BFI DVD La Belle et La bette 210x148mm.indd 1 06/06/2018 13:57 MEMBER EXCLUSIVES ‘the most perfect These events are exclusive to BFI Members and their guests. Join today at bfi.org.uk/join cinematic fable ever told’ Guillermo del Toro A stunning 4k restoration Member Picks of Jean Cocteau’s magical For a chance to see one of your favourite films on the big screen, masterpiece share your choice with us at LFF 2017 bfi.org.uk/memberpicks TALK FREE FREE Nights of Cabiria Le notti di Cabiria Member Salon: Apostasy Programme Launch: The 62nd MEMBER EXCLUSIVES Italy-France 1957. Dir Federico Fellini. TRT 60min With Giulietta Masina, François Périer, BFI London Film Festival Our regular discussion series for your family. Franca Marzi. 118min. 35mm EST. PG TRT 90min Members and their guests takes a This is a free event for Members and their Fellini’s Oscar®-winning film stars The BFI London Film Festival in look at one of the most talked-about guests who have attended a screening of his wife Giulietta Masina as the partnership with American Express new releases, a poignant debut Apostasy.