BFI Southbank Programme Notes

The Passion of Remembrance

Almost 40 years after it was first made, the Sankofa collective’s The Passion of Remembrance remains salient. The film is a grand tapestry filled with allusions to the intersectional concerns, moti...

October 8, 2022 | BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2022

No Time to Die

Where once the James Bond films played as separate adventures, linked by characters both malevolent and benign, EON Productions wanted the Daniel Craig series to unfold as a unified whole. Quantum ...

October 2, 2022 | JAMES BOND AT 60 WEEKEND

Madly, Deeply
A celebration of Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman was an exceptional performer and human being, much loved by his fellow actors and the general public. This event celebrates and remembers his life and work, and launches the publicatio...

October 2, 2022 | EVENTS

The Living Daylights

The first Bond film to star Timothy Dalton, The Living Daylights is a familiar mixture of popular elements from the series, given a certain political relevance through allusions to glasnost and the...

October 1, 2022 | JAMES BOND AT 60 WEEKEND

Flux Gourmet

No short synopsis to a Peter Strickland film can comprehensively illustrate how bonkers his films are, and Flux Gourmet is possibly his wildest yet. His fifth feature takes place at an art institut...

September 30, 2022 | NEW RELEASES

Who Needs Channel 4?
with Channel 4 Chief Content Officer Ian Katz

Special guests include: BAFTA-winner Nida Manzoor (We Are Lady Parts), TV presenter Yinka Bokinni (Unapologetic, How to Hire a Hit Man), comedian Rosie Jones (Trip Hazard), and satirist Munya Chawa...

September 28, 2022 | CHANNEL 4
40 YEARS OF REVOLUTION

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

+ panel and Q&A with creators Becky Sloan, Joseph Pelling and Baker Terry, executive producer James Stevenson Bretton, producers Hugo Donkin and Charlie Perkins (Channel 4 Head of Comedy). Wha...

September 28, 2022 | TV PREVIEW

Bent

+ Q&A with director Sean Mathias, writer Martin Sherman and actor Ian McKellen Contains strong violence and upsetting scenes. One night in 1930s Berlin, a promiscuous gay man Max (Clive Owen)...

September 27, 2022 | BFI FLARE

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Lillian Crawford, film and culture writer and a regular host of Autism Through Cinema podcast will host this relaxed screening and the discussion that follows. The everyday world of shop worker ...

September 26, 2022 | RELAXED SCREENING

Last Year in Marienbad

‘I am now quite prepared to claim that Marienbad is the greatest film ever made, and to pity those who cannot see it.’ So wrote Jacques Brunius in Sight & Sound in 1962, regarding ‘the film I h...

September 26, 2022 | BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Controversy

These screenings will be introduced by John Ranelagh and Rod Stoneman Jesus: The Evidence (1984) In 1983 London Weekend Television proposed and I commissioned a three-part documentary series about...

September 24, 2022 | CHANNEL 4
40 YEARS OF REVOLUTION

In Front of Your Face

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. Have you ever done a handstand and realised the world looks completely different upside down? Change your perspective and everything...

September 23, 2022 | NEW RELEASES

Channel 4 - The Television Revolution

Panellists: Commissioners Caroline Thomson, Paul Bonner, Peter Ansorge, Karin Bamborough, John Ranelagh and Farrukh Dhondy Members of the original Channel 4 Commissioning team come together to exp...

September 23, 2022 | CHANNEL 4
40 YEARS OF REVOLUTION

BUG 64

Welcome to a brand new episode of BUG at BFI Southbank, and another edition of outstanding work from the world of music videos, presented by Adam Buxton. This is the 64th episode of our show – whic...

September 23, 2022 | EVENTS

Fargo

‘We wrote the part of Carl specifically for Steve (as we wrote the parts of Marge for Fran, and Grim for Peter) because somehow it was appropriate that amongst all these second-generation Scandinav...

September 22, 2022 | BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Inside Man

+ Q&A with creator, writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, director Paul McGuigan and stars David Tennant, Dolly Wells, Lydia West and Stanley Tucci. Hosted by Boyd Hilton Everyone’s a m...

September 21, 2022 | TV PREVIEW

Access / Direct Speech

This event will also now include Deborah Wearn discussing (with clips) how Channel 4’s access policy allowed her to present a 1982 on-screen piece about Sexism in Rock. Access programmes commissio...

September 20, 2022 | CHANNEL 4
40 YEARS OF REVOLUTION

Silent Land

+ Q&A with director Aga Woszczyńska Aga Woszczyńska on ‘Silent Land’ In Silent Land , your feature debut set during summer holidays, you deal with dark subjects in broad daylight. What you c...

September 18, 2022 | WOMAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA PREVIEW

The Silent Twins

+ Q&A with actors Tamara Lawrance and Letitia Wright June and Jennifer Gibbons were not always silent. Born in 1963, their early childhood involved following wherever the RAF work of their fat...

September 17, 2022 | S.O.U.L. FEST

Original Gangstas

The story of Original Gangstas is built round a confrontation with the imagery of gang violence, and the first indication of its revisionist intent is the fact it’s produced by Fred Williamson’s ow...

September 16, 2022 | PAM GRIER
FOXY, FIERCE AND FEARLESS