Programmed by Sophie Monks Kaufman, a new season of films by Claire Denis featuring “some established bangers, some rarer gems” launches at BFI Southbank (JUN 2019). Here’s all you need to know.
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NOW BOOKING: Chinese Visual Festival (02 to 09 MAY)
Chinese Visual Festival opens this week at BFI Southbank & King’s College London (02 to 09 MAY). Projecting “the very best in the cinema of the Chinese language speaking world” the programme combines special guests, rare screenings & plenty of Q&A. Here’s our guide to what’s on.
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ARTISTS, FICTION & CINEMA: STAGING THE STUART CROFT ARCHIVE
An illustrated, personally inflected lecture first presented in 2014 by artist filmmaker Stuart Croft (1970-2015) is here re-performed and discussed by Stuart Croft Foundation trustees and artists Emma Bennett, Keira Greene and Anna Lucas.
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WHO GOES NEXT + INTRO
The friction between a group of British officers comes to a head as they plan their escape from a German prison camp.
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THE ADJUTANT OF THE CZAR + INTRO
The lighter-than-air romance between a Czarist officer and a passport-less girl obliged to share a sleeper compartment on a train is tested when revolutionary zeal meets implacable loyalty in the heightened atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia. With live piano accompaniment by Meg Morley.
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MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS + Q&A
Newly widowed Marlina receives an unexpected & unwelcome visit from gang leader Markus. He invites himself into her home, demands food for his gang of bandits & announces that they will take everything she has &, if time allows, will sleep with her. Let’s just say that Marlina doesn’t exactly yield to their demands…
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MANILA: IN THE CLAWS OF LIGHT
This powerful slice of raw, angry realism by the late Lino Brocka finds a young man from the country arriving in Manila in search of work and his girlfriend – whom he hasn’t heard of since she left for the city, allegedly to receive some schooling.
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SCREEN EPIPHANY: Jim Howick Introduces JAWS
Actor Jim Howick (THE ALIENS, LOADED, YONDERLAND) has chosen to screen this classic Spielberg thriller. A great-white shark attack in the shallow waters of an American holiday town sparks a cat-and-mouse chase across the waves – but who is the hunter and who is the prey? An ideal cinematic experience.
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THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE + INTRO
The proprietor of a failing LA strip-and-cabaret joint places some very risky bets…
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MANILA: IN THE CLAWS OF LIGHT
This powerful slice of raw, angry realism by the late Lino Brocka finds a young man from the country arriving in Manila in search of work and his girlfriend – whom he hasn’t heard of since she left for the city, allegedly to receive some schooling.
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