Programme Notes

BFI Southbank

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

Get Carter

‘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 7, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

An American Werewolf in London

‘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 7, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

Alphaville

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. Alphaville is the story of special agent Lemmy Caution, played by American actor and naturalised noir icon Eddie Constantine, who ha...

July 7, 2025 | Big Screen Classics

Sweet Smell of Success

The screening on Sunday 6 July will be introduced by filmmaker and Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox ‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to ev...

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

Walker

The screening on Saturday 5 July will be introduced by filmmaker and Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox ‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to ...

July 5, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

The Fly

‘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 5, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

The Wicker Man - Final Cut

The screening on Friday 4 July will be introduced by Alex Cox and Nick Freand Jones ‘What is a cult film? A cult film is one which has a passionate following but does not appeal to everybody. Just...

July 4, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

Welcome to the Moviedrome

Moviedrome began on BBC2 at a time when there were just four TV channels in the UK, satellite broadcasting was in its infancy and streaming was decades away. It offered audiences a portal into the ...

July 4, 2025 | Moviedrome
Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen

The Swimmer

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. A contemporary review Leaves rustle and twigs snap, sending a rabbit scurrying to its burrow and a deer into the foliage, as a man t...

July 2, 2025 | Big Screen Classics

In the Mood for Love 25th Anniversary Edition

There is a church in the Alpine village of Wassen in Switzerland which, perched on a hillock in the middle of a valley, can be viewed three times over from the railway that climbs up the encircling...

June 27, 2025 | Re-releases

Happy End

Michael Haneke on ‘Happy End’ The gap between Amour and Happy End was the longest between any of your films. Was that because Happy End was a long time gestating? No, it was simply because in the...

June 27, 2025 | Complicit
The Films of Michael Haneke

Funny Games U.S.

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. Michael Haneke on ‘Funny Games U.S.’ Do you think that cinema, and particularly attitudes to violence in cinema, have changed over ...

June 20, 2025 | Complicit
The Films of Michael Haneke

Bread & Roses

Bread & Roses offers an unflinching look at the lives of Afghan women following the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul in 2021. Co-produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Malala Yousafzai and directe...

June 20, 2025 | Refugee Week

Hidden

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. At a formal level, Michael Haneke’s Hidden contemplates one of the fundamental questions of filmmaking: where to put the camera. Wat...

June 19, 2025 | Re-releases

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