Programme Notes

BFI Southbank

A New Leaf

+ intro by Aga Baranowska, BFI Contextual Events Programmer Elaine May is nobody’s idea of obscure. This birdlike woman began pecking away at American mores in the 1950s as part of a hip, witty do...

August 13, 2025 | Seniors

Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters

‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to everybody. Just because a movie is a cult movie does not automatically guarantee quality. Some cult ...

August 13, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

The Wrong Arm of the Law

The set-up for The Wrong Arm of the Law is a familiar one, with comic thieves conflicting with an equally comic police force. Nevertheless, this is a genuinely imaginative film, upholding a brisk c...

August 12, 2025 | In Character
The Films of Peter Sellers

Performance

‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to everybody. Just because a movie is a cult movie does not automatically guarantee quality. Some cult ...

August 9, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

Dr. Strangelove or
How I Learned
to Stop Worrying
and Love the Bomb

When Dr. Strangelove was released, many people assumed its humour derived chiefly from Terry Southern, who was strongly associated with 1960s’ counter-culture. Kubrick insisted that the satire was ...

August 9, 2025 | In Character
The Films of Peter Sellers

Diva

‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to everybody. Just because a movie is a cult movie does not automatically guarantee quality. Some cult ...

August 9, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

Carnival of Souls

‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to everybody. Just because a movie is a cult movie does not automatically guarantee quality. Some cult ...

August 6, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

The American Friend

Faithful to the spirit if not the letter of Highsmith for most of its way, The American Friend suddenly ditches the novel and gallops cavalierly through a hundred-odd pages (more than a third of th...

August 5, 2025 | Big Screen Classics

Being There

If the perfect fool of Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There, who seems to rise by sheer weightlessness to the highest office in the land, has a predecessor in the comic literature of the United States, it ...

August 3, 2025 | In Character
The Films of Peter Sellers

Johnny Guitar

‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to everybody. Just because a movie is a cult movie does not automatically guarantee quality. Some cult ...

August 1, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

Calendar

Amongst Atom Egoyan’s finest achievements and representative of his interest in mediated memory and loss, Calendar finds the director playing a Canadian photographer who, while on an assignment sho...

August 1, 2025 | Big Screen Classics

Clockers

‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to everybody. Just because a movie is a cult movie does not automatically guarantee quality. Some cult ...

July 26, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

Swimming Pool

A repressed British crime novelist travels to the south of France for a sojourn at her publisher’s summer house, where she hopes to write her next book. However, the peaceful stay is interrupted by...

July 25, 2025 | Big Screen Classics

Exotica

‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to everybody. Just because a movie is a cult movie does not automatically guarantee quality. Some cult ...

July 21, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

Scarface

‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to everybody. Just because a movie is a cult movie does not automatically guarantee quality. Some cult ...

July 12, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

The Ear

The main Cannes Film Festival competition line-up in 1990 was somewhat unusual in that not everything in it was brand new. Or rather, while two films were receiving public premieres, they were deci...

July 12, 2025 | From Censored to Restored

The California Dolls (aka ...All the Marbles)

The screening on Wednesday 23 July will be introduced by season curator and Moviedrome’s producer Nick Freand Jones ‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but do...

July 12, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

Boogie Nights

Paul Thomas Anderson on ‘Boogie Nights’ One of the things that’s interesting about Boogie Nights is its tone shifts, for instance between dramatic and comic/parodic. There are two answers to that...

July 12, 2025 | Big Screen Classics

Witchfinder General

‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to everybody. Just because a movie is a cult movie does not automatically guarantee quality. Some cult ...

July 11, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

Two-Lane Blacktop

The screening on Wednesday 9 July will be introduced by season curator and Moviedrome’s producer Nick Freand Jones ‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but doe...

July 9, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

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