BFI Southbank Programme Notes

Raça

+ Q&A co-hosted by Victor Fraga, DMovies This documentary focuses on Brazil’s struggle for civil rights through the life and campaigns of men and woman from different walks of life: Paulo Paim...

May 7, 2022 | AFRICAN ODYSSEYS

In My Skin

The films of the New French Extremity and the accompanying focus on Gaspar Noé examine an important, controversial and highly violent cinema movement. They are not suitable for all. The film you a...

May 7, 2022 | CRUEL FLESH
FILMS OF THE NEW FRENCH EXTREMITY

The Velvet Queen

High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Vincent Munier, one of the w...

May 6, 2022 | NEW RELEASES

Romance

The films of the New French Extremity and the accompanying focus on Gaspar Noé examine an important, controversial and highly violent cinema movement. They are not suitable for all. The film you a...

May 6, 2022 | CRUEL FLESH
FILMS OF THE NEW FRENCH EXTREMITY

Morons from Outer Space

I first saw Morons from Outer Space at the ABC cinema in Oxford on its release in 1986. I went with my family and I remember two things. That the cinema was basically empty and that I laughed harde...

May 6, 2022 | RETURN OF THE OUTSIDER
THE FILMS OF MIKE HODGES

Vampyr

The premiere of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr took place in Berlin in May 1932 almost exactly four years after the first showing of his previous film, The Passion of Joan of Arc. After so long a wa...

May 5, 2022 | RE-RELEASES

Pola X

The films of the New French Extremity and the accompanying focus on Gaspar Noé examine an important, controversial and highly violent cinema movement. They are not suitable for all. The film you a...

May 5, 2022 | CRUEL FLESH
FILMS OF THE NEW FRENCH EXTREMITY

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. Mike Hodges on ‘I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead’ The press notes describe I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead as ‘An exploration of family revenge an...

May 5, 2022 | RETURN OF THE OUTSIDER
THE FILMS OF MIKE HODGES

Pulp

Mike Hodges on ‘Pulp’ Since I first went to the cinema in the early 1950s I was always partial to B-movies. They were short, fast, black and white in every sense, and often better than the ‘A’ fil...

May 4, 2022 | RETURN OF THE OUTSIDER
THE FILMS OF MIKE HODGES

Millennium Actress

Satoshi Kon and screenwriter Sadayuki Murai on ‘Millennium Actress’ Who is Chiyoko and how did you come up with this idea that the heroine’s desperately determined wish makes her transcend time an...

May 4, 2022 | ANIME

Everything Everywhere
All at Once

+ Q&A with writer-directors Daniels Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, Everything Everywhere All at Once is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action ...

May 4, 2022 | PREVIEW

Croupier

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. To see Croupier as more writer Paul Mayersberg’s work than director Mike Hodges’ is a powerful temptation. But as Get Carter reminds...

May 4, 2022 | RE-RELEASES

Criminal Lovers

The films of the New French Extremity and the accompanying focus on Gaspar Noé examine an important, controversial and highly violent cinema movement. They are not suitable for all. The film you a...

May 4, 2022 | CRUEL FLESH
FILMS OF THE NEW FRENCH EXTREMITY

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

The plan was to release The Tale of The Princess Kaguya in Japan on the same day as The Wind Rises, 25 years after the double-bill of Isao Takahata’s Grave of the Fireflies and Hayao Miyazaki’s My ...

May 3, 2022 | ANIME

Mike Hodges
in Conversation

With a career that spans film and TV – including highlights such as Get Carter, Flash Gordon, Croupier, Tempo and World in Action – Mike Hodges is an auteur filmmaker who has proved himself adept a...

May 3, 2022 | EVENTS

Black Rainbow

‘Black Rainbow is a crossroads of many different ideas,’ says writer/director Mike Hodges. ‘I’m concerned about what we’re doing to our planet and I’m interested in the revival of numerous kinds of...

May 3, 2022 | RETURN OF THE OUTSIDER
THE FILMS OF MIKE HODGES

Akira

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. Akira is very probably the first animated feature with a genuinely novelistic density of incident and character. Its narrative speed...

May 3, 2022 | ANIME

The Terminal Man

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. A contemporary review In 1969 the first hapless chimpanzee was directly linked by radio to a computer which took over the functionin...

May 2, 2022 | RETURN OF THE OUTSIDER
THE FILMS OF MIKE HODGES

Sunrise
A Song of Two Humans

When F.W. Murnau left Germany for America in 1926, did cinema foresee what was coming? Did it sense that change was around the corner – that now was the time to fill up on fantasy, delirium and spe...

May 2, 2022 | BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Princess Mononoke

What’s It About After being cursed by a demon, young warrior Ashitaka begins a journey to search for a cure and meets a princess named San. He soon finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war bet...

May 2, 2022 | BFI FAMILIES

Raça

In My Skin

The Velvet Queen

Romance

Morons from Outer Space

Vampyr

Pola X

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Pulp

Millennium Actress

Everything EverywhereAll at Once

Croupier

Criminal Lovers

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

Mike Hodges in Conversation

Black Rainbow

Akira

The Terminal Man

Sunrise A Song of Two Humans

Princess Mononoke

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Everything Everywhere
All at Once

Mike Hodges
in Conversation

Sunrise
A Song of Two Humans