BFI Southbank Programme Notes

Barrier

The screening on Tuesday 4 April will be introduced by season curator Michael Brooke Barrier has a jester’s freedom, the confidence of a man who knows his world deeply, who has measured the possib...

April 1, 2023 | OUTSIDERS AND EXILES
THE FILMS OF JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI

No Trams to Lime Street + The Hard Knock

One of the more original talents to emerge from the new wave of British playwrights in the late 1950s, Alun Owen (b. Menai Bridge, Anglesey, Wales, 1925. d. London, 1994) gave British television dr...

March 31, 2023 | NORTHERN VOICES

Never Let Me Go

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. ‘It quietly stays with you, as it’s so intensely thought-provoking. And it’s beautifully shot too.’ – Alex M, BFI Member Mark Roman...

March 31, 2023 | MEMBER EXCLUSIVES

Hands Up!

Skolimowski’s alter ego Andrzej Leszczyc returns for a final bow as one of five thirtysomething former colleagues whose reunion, taking place in an abandoned railway wagon, becomes a sombre reflect...

March 31, 2023 | OUTSIDERS AND EXILES
THE FILMS OF JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI

God's Creatures

This gripping and atmospheric Irish psychological drama asks how far you might go to protect someone you love, even if they were accused of something unforgiveable. In a windswept fishing town on t...

March 31, 2023 | NEW RELEASES

Rio Bravo

Hawks’ acclaimed chamber western is at once defiantly idiosyncratic (complete with wordless prologue and musical interlude), leisurely in pace, and engrossing throughout, peppered with suspenseful ...

March 30, 2023 | BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Northern Soul

A labour of love for writer-director Elaine Constantine, Northern Soul’s initially modest distribution was expanded significantly following critical acclaim and a passion-driven social media campai...

March 30, 2023 | NORTHERN VOICES

Backwards and in High Heels

Join us for this season introduction event, celebrating the wit, the sass and, of course, the dance routines of the great Ginger Rogers. In this panel discussion, speakers Lucy Bolton, Pamela Hutch...

March 30, 2023 | GINGER ROGERS
ALL THAT SASS

Walkover

+ Q&A with Jerzy Skolimowski (Wednesday 29 March only). The Q&A will be moderated by Mehelli Modi, founder of Second Run, a specialist Blu-ray and DVD label releasing important classic and ...

March 29, 2023 | OUTSIDERS AND EXILES
THE FILMS OF JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI

To Sleep with Anger

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away the film’s ending. Charles Burnett’s intriguing mix of melodrama and allegorical fable has a seemingly happy middle-class African-American family livi...

March 29, 2023 | BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Moonlighting

The screening on Wednesday 29 March will be introduced by Jerzy Skolimowski The astonishing thing about Moonlighting, given the battery-farming methods invoked to ensure topicality, is the intric...

March 29, 2023 | OUTSIDERS AND EXILES
THE FILMS OF JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI

Wild Strawberries

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away the film’s ending. An elderly scientist (Sjöström, superb) drives with his daughter-in-law from Stockholm to Lund to receive an honorary award; distur...

March 28, 2023 | BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

The Shout

The screening on Wednesday 28 March will be introduced by Jerzy Skolimowski Jeremy Thomas on ‘The Shout’ I came back to England via a short stay in America, and a friend called Michael Austin, wh...

March 28, 2023 | OUTSIDERS AND EXILES
THE FILMS OF JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI

Jerzy Skolimowski in Conversation

This event is hosted by the Outsiders and Exiles – the films of Jerzy Skolimowski season curator Michael Brooke. Michael is a freelance writer and multimedia producer specialising in British and c...

March 28, 2023 | EVENTS

The Age of Innocence

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. Martin Scorsese on ‘The Age of Innocence’ Set in New York in the 1870s, The Age of Innocence tells the story of Newland Archer, who ...

March 28, 2023 | RE-RELEASES

Touch of Evil

The last great Film Noir and the final film Orson Welles would direct in Hollywood, Touch of Evil is a sweat-drenched saga of corruption and intrigue on the US/Mexico border. Beginning with one of...

March 27, 2023 | BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Rye Lane

Rye Lane is a modern-day romantic comedy based in South London about two young people falling in love while finding themselves in the process. Dom (David Jonsson) and Yas’ (Vivian Oparah) story be...

March 27, 2023 | NEW RELEASES

Dance Craze

Please note that this film contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. In 1979 Jerry Dammers founded not only The Specials b...

March 27, 2023 | RE-RELEASES

Cannon Arm and
the Arcade Quest
(Relaxed Screening)

+ intro and discussion The perfect film for the run up to London Games Week, this affectionate documentary offers a sublime portrait of a group of outsiders who support Kim Cannon Arm, a man of ...

March 27, 2023 | RELAXED SCREENING

1976

Winning the Sutherland Award for a debut feature at LFF2022, Manuela Martelli’s 1976 is an unnervingly brilliant portrait of the ways in which the Pinochet dictatorship realised its brute force and...