BFI SOUTHBANK SEPTEMBER REDEFINING REBELLION 3 UNLOCKED 7 FOCUS ON FELLINI 12 YOUR BIG SCREEN CLASSICS 14 LONDON INDIAN 19 FILM FESTIVAL HOW TO BOOK PATRONS AND CHAMPIONS bfi.org.uk/whatson Wed 19 Aug (from 10:00) 020 7928 3232 MEMBERS 10:00 – 18:00 (Mon-Fri) until 31 Aug Thu 20 Aug (from 10:00) 11:30 – 20:30 (daily) from 1 Sep onwards PUBLIC Mon 24 Aug (from 10:00) BECOME A BFI MEMBER FOR PRIORITY BOOKING & DISCOUNTS: BFI.ORG.UK/JOIN CONTENTS Cover: Perfect 10 Growing up I wanted to be The Outsiders’ Dallas Winston or Brando on a motorcycle. I heard mythic tales about the two Jameses, Cagney and Dean. And De Niro – the king of cool. It’s an indictment of cinema, what a British teenager with South Asian parents was being served up as the epitome of rebellion. Then came La Haine. It felt different from my favourite film, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing: director Mathieu Kassovitz was telling a story about three best friends from different cultural backgrounds who grew up on the estate. People just like me, and my friends. I and, more importantly, a plethora of filmmakers felt emboldened to tell their stories. La Haine is the heart of a cinematic journey that started with Battleship Potemkin’s mutiny against the state, continued through damning societal injustice in New Hollywood Cinema, and on to headbutting gender and racial stereotypes. Redefining Rebellion. REDIFINING REBELLION Kaleem Aftab REDEFINING REBELLION La Haine Les Misérables Battleship Potemkin Bronenosets Potemkin France 1995. Dir Mathieu Kassovitz. France 2019. Dir Ladj Ly. USSR 1925. Dir Sergei Eisenstein. With Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui. 98min. With Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djibril Zonga. 102min. With Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov Digital. EST. 15 A BFI Release Digital. EST. Cert tbc. An Altitude release 72min. Digital. EST. PG Mathieu Kassovitz throws a cinematic Molotov Ladj Ly’s extraordinary Cannes Jury Prize-winning Sergei Eisenstein defined cinematic language in this cocktail at structural racism, police brutality and debut obliterates the myth of cultural integration classic Soviet tale of mutiny media manipulation in France Harbouring at Number 11 on the Sight & Sound Greatest Turning the camera away from iconic Paris to the concrete It takes place in Montfermeil, the district east of Paris Films of All Time Poll, this re-enactment of a 1905 Russian banlieue, Mathieu Kassovitz’s second film as a director where Victor Hugo set a section of his novel Les Misérables; battleship mutiny is Sergei Eisenstein’s era-defining changed the cultural landscape of French cinema when it from Hugo, too, director Ly pulls a quote drawing attention masterclass on rebellion. Elegantly shot, the scene filmed landed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, where it won the to the causes of societal oppression and racism. Yet this on the Odessa Steps remains the cinema’s most famous Best Director prize. Taking place over the 24 hours following Les Misérables is more in the neighbourhood of Spike Lee’s demonstration of bloodcurdling authoritarian power, the police shooting of a young man, Kassovitz shows the seminal Do the Right Thing and Matthieu Kassovitz’s classic provoking a passionate desire to stick it to the man. world through the eyes of three friends, Arab, Jew and La Haine, since it takes place over 24 hours, in the aftermath Black, frustrated at politicians and the media excusing of France’s 2018 World Cup victory. The twist is that the film police brutality. The black-and-white visuals, thumping looks at this territory through the eyes of three diverse police hip-hop soundtrack and graffiti-lined streets underscore officers whose policing methods are governed by fear, the urgency and rebellion at the heart of this game- disdain and hate, showing hypocrisy at the heart of changing classic. France’s integration policies. FROM FRI 11 SEP FROM FRI 4 SEP TUE 1 SEP SAT 12 SEP 14:20 NFT2 14:45 NFT3 American Graffiti Taxi Driver Norma Rae USA 1973. Dir George Lucas. USA 1976. Dir Martin Scorsese. USA 1979. Dir Martin Ritt. With Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat. 113min. With Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd. 113min. With Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman. 123min. Digital. 12A Digital. 18 Digital. PG George Lucas’s comic poem allegorises the end of Robert De Niro is the ultimate anti-hero as Martin Sally Field delivers a career-high performance as a trust and innocence in America Scorsese decodes America’s liberal elite woman fighting capitalism and patriarchy George Lucas’s seminal Californian coming-of-age tale is Over the years there have been many faces of Robert De Sally Field won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival set in a pre-Vietnam 60s era of idealism. The crackles of Niro, but none has punched into the public consciousness and the Oscars for her performance in Martin Ritt’s truth cutting into the mythic utopia are provided by the as hard as his Travis Bickle, an ex-marine from the Midwest underappreciated classic of New Hollywood Cinema. standout soundtrack of 50s and 60s tunes introduced driving a taxi in New York City. Scorsese’s Palme Drawing on the true story of American unioniser Crystal Lee on car radios over a memorable summer night. d’or-winner details the disenfranchised Bickle’s pent-up Sutton, Field plays the titular lead who battles against the The magnificent sound design by the peerless Walter Murch frustration, which leads to mental anguish, anomie and, patriarchal system at home and work. Ritt draws parallels and the use of soundscape as counter-culture heavily ultimately, violence. An unparalleled cinematic essay on with the Civil Rights Movement in an entertaining, influenced La Haine. how society anonymises outsiders. heart-wrenching film of enduring relevance. THU 3 SEP WED 23 SEP MON 28 SEP THU 1 OCT 20:45 NFT1 20:45 NFT1 14:30 NFT1 18:00 NFT1 TUE 1 SEP FRI 25 SEP SUN 4 OCT SUN 4 OCT WED 23 SEP MON 28 SEP THU 1 OCT SUN 4 OCT 17:45 NFT1 17:45 NFT1 18:30 NFT2 15:10 NFT1 20:45 NFT1 20:45 NFT1 18:00 NFT1 15:10 NFT1 4 REDEFINING REBELLION Blue Collar Young Soul Rebels Beau Travail USA 1978. Dir Paul Schrader. UK 1991. Dir Isaac Julien. France 1999. Dir Claire Denis. With Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto. 114min. With Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy. 100min. With Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin. 93min. Digital. 18 Digital. 18 Digital. EST. 15 Paul Schrader’s progressive, tragicomic takedown of Isaac Julien radically unpicks British subcultures at the Hypnotic images, mutiny and queer desire combine in systemic corruption time of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Denis’ sensual masterpiece ‘If you’re rich you got to pay for it. If you’re anything else you Set against the backdrop of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, Denis’ sensual queer update of Herman Melville’s unfinished have to fight for it,’ announced the trailer to Blue Collar, a celebration of the Commonwealth head at a moment tale of mutiny, Billy Budd, Sailor, deconstructs colonialism, Paul Schrader’s directorial debut that came on the back of of neo-fascist strength, this observes that era through the masculinity and obsession, and plays out to hypnotic his Taxi Driver script. Three car-plant workers – played by eyes of a queer black pirate-radio DJ arrested for murder. images of the French Foreign Legion photographed against Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto – uncover big A radical look at the relationship between black men the shimmering Djibouti waters and sands to the sounds of industry and union corruption when they drunkenly decide and the police, in which fashion, art, music and queen Britten’s opera. This new 4K digital restoration was to rob the union safe. emergence intertwine, all poetically visualised against the supervised by cinematographer Agnès Godard and sounds of punk and soul-funk. approved by Denis. WED 2 SEP THU 10 SEP WED 16 SEP SUN 20 SEP 20:50 NFT1 18:10 NFT2 18:10 NFT1 12:00 NFT2 SUN 6 SEP THU 17 SEP TUE 22 SEP TUE 29 SEP SAT 5 SEP TUE 8 SEP SUN 27 SEP SUN 27 SEP 15:10 NFT2 20:40 NFT3 14:20 NFT1 17:50 NFT1 18:00 NFT3 20:50 NFT3 14:30 NFT2 18:50 NFT1 Persepolis Dheepan Boom For Real: France/USA 2007 Dir Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud. France 2015. Dir Jacques Audiard. The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat With the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, With Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, USA 2017. Dir Sara Driver. Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands. 97min. Digital. EST. 12A Claudine Vinasithamby. 115min. Digital. EST. 15 With Alexis Adler, Fab 5 Freddy, Patricia Field. 78min. Digital. 15 Award-winning animation traces the Iranian director’s Audiard’s Palme d’or-winner is a genre-busting ‘western’ Documentary on Basquiat capturing the birth of graffiti search for revolutionary self-expression that explodes French universalism and hip-hop culture in New York Adapted from Satrapi’s acclaimed autobiographical graphic Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’or-winner tells of a makeshift Sara Driver documents how the times, the people and novel, Persepolis hilariously recounts Satrapi’s progress family of Tamil refugees escaping Civil War only to end up the movements of New York City informed Basquiat just from childhood in pre-revolutionary Iran to rebellious, in a virulently xenophobic France. Recounted with the story before he, graffiti and hip-hop exploded into the global punk-loving youth in Europe.