Programme Notes

BFI Southbank

Blow Out

Introduction by Ben Roberts, BFI CEO (Monday 17 May screening only). SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away the film's ending A great 1970s movie that came out too late to be included in t...

May 17, 2021 | DREAM PALACE - THE FILMS THAT CINEMAS WERE BUILT FOR

Ammonite

Francis Lee’s follow-up to his first film, God’s Own Country (2017), is a story similarly entrenched in the wild beauty and weather-beaten roughness of British landscape, where the interpersonal ha...

May 17, 2021 | NEW RELEASES AND RE-RELEASES

Sound of Metal

The elevator pitch of Darius Marder’s debut film has the ring of a joke set-up: did you hear about the metal drummer who went deaf? It doesn’t help that the target of the joke is the butt of so man...

May 17, 2021 | NEW RELEASES AND RE-RELEASES