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Jawbone (p6) Manhattan (p10) Sunset Boulevard (p48)
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‘I’D LIKE TO BE FOR CINEMA WHAT
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FOR PSYCHOLOGY: SOMEONE
AFTER WHOM NOTHING IS AS
IT USED TO BE’
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
When considering Rainer Werner
Fassbinder’s extraordinary body of work,
one can’t help but wonder what he
would have made of the world today.
The alarming lurch to the right in
international politics, the daily circus that
is the presidency of the United States,
the rise of fake news, atrociously
damaging conflict in the Middle East,
state-sanctioned homophobia in Russia
– this disorientating list seems endless.
No doubt he would have made films
that seek to make sense of it all and find
the truth. In a short but breathtakingly
prolific career and in a blaze of chemically- ‘FASSBINDER’S ‘A MATURE,
fuelled creative intensity, Fassbinder
created some 40 feature films, 29 plays LATE, GREAT DIALOGUE-FREE
and two television series, which together
MASTERPIECE WORK BY A TRUE
represent a rich and absorbing canon
that offers a dazzling insight into the IS A BRILLIANT AUTEUR’
human condition. As with so many
RE-WORKING JUSTIN JOHNSON,
artists that burn fast and bright,
LEAD PROGRAMMER
Fassbinder was ahead of his time and OF SUNSET
The Red Turtle (p9)
undoubtedly left an urgent, powerful
BOULEVARD,
mark upon the history of cinema.
Stuart Brown, SET IN POST-WAR
Head of Programme and Acquisition
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SEASON PROGRAMMER
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PREVIEWS
Catch the latest film and TV alongside Q&As and special events
Q&A
Preview: Jawbone + Q&A with Preview: Frantz
actors Johnny Harris, France-Germany 2016. Dir François Ozon.
Michael Smiley and guests With Pierre Niney, Paula Beer,
Marie Gruber. 113min. Digital.
UK 2017. Dir Thomas Q Napper. Courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye
With Ian McShane, Ray Winstone,
Johnny Harris. 91min. Digital. 15. A young woman forms an unlikely
Courtesy of Vertigo Releasing friendship with a man she encounters
Jimmy McCabe (Harris), a former at her late fiancé’s grave in François

S youth boxing champion, has lost Ozon’s richly evocative period piece,
W his way. After hitting rock bottom, set in the aftermath of WWI.
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P to get into the ring one last time. director, but his mischievous
Past his prime, and with the odds narrative twists and playful sexual
stacked against him, McCabe risks ambiguity feel unmistakeably,
his life to regain his place in the world. quintessentially Ozon.
Tickets £15, concs £12 Tickets £15, concs £12
(Members pay £2 less) (Members pay £2 less)
MON 8 MAY TUE 9 MAY
19:00 NFT1 20:45 NFT1
Frantz
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TALK
Preview: The Red Turtle + Michael Dudok de Wit in Conversation
TRT 150min
France-Japan 2016. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 81min. Digital. PG. A StudioCanal release
This unique co-production between + Father and Daughter
Studio Ghibli and Oscar® winner UK-Belgium-Netherlands 2000. £3 CINEMA
Michael Dudok de Wit is a mature, Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 9min
dialogue-free animated film following + Tom Sweep
a man shipwrecked on a beautiful France 1992. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 3min.
but deserted island who must use the + The Monk and the Fish TICKETS ON
habitat around him in order to survive. Le Moine et le Poisson
This screening will be followed by France 1994. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 6min.
an on-stage conversation between + The Aroma of Tea
Dudok de Wit and BFI Lead Programmer Netherlands 2006. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. THE DOOR
Justin Johnson and will feature the 3min.
director’s Oscar®-winning short
Father and Daughter (2000), along with This event will include a short interval
The Monk and the Fish (1994), The Aroma Tickets £15, concs £12 (Members pay £2 less)
of Tea (2006) and other works. The Red Turtle opens in venue Fri 26 May, Any film, any time
see p9
at BFI Southbank for
anyone 25 and under*
bfi.org.uk/25-and-under
WED 17 MAY *Tickets are available from 45 min before the start
18:30 NFT1 of the screening. All tickets are subject to availability.
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NEW RELEASES
Plenty of chances for you to sample the best new cinema
Their Finest
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E UK 2016. Dir Lone Scherfig. With Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Richard E Grant.
S 117min. Digital. 12A. A Lionsgate release
A Gemma Arterton is positively luminous in this witty drama
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L Their Finest, a real crowd-pleaser at the 1940s, her confidence grows and
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W in the world of WWII propaganda Debut screenwriter Gaby Chiappe’s
filmmaking. Arterton plays Catrin adaptation of Lissa Evans’ novel
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N Cole, a young Welsh copywriter Their Finest Hour and a Half is an
who lands a job as a script editor intoxicating blend of social drama
with the Ministry of Information, and shrewd wit, alert to the poignancy
hired to provide a ‘woman’s touch’ and irony of the way that new
to propaganda films being made opportunities became available
during the Blitz. Thrown into the to women during wartime.
colourful and surprisingly active Clare Stewart, Head of Festivals
world of filmmaking in London in See p32 for our Girls Like Us season
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The Red Turtle La Tortue Rouge
France 2016. Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 81min.
Digital. PG. A StudioCanal release
Studio Ghibli teams up with Oscar®
winner Michael Dudok de Wit to
produce a truly unique animated film
A man is shipwrecked on a beautiful
but deserted island and must use
the habitat in order to survive.
Astutely observed by a group of sand
crabs, he builds his own raft in order
to escape but is constantly thwarted
by the cruelly changeable weather
and a red turtle with an apparent
vendetta. The result of a co-production
between Studio Ghibli and Oscar®
winner Michael Dudok de Wit, this
mature, dialogue-free animated film
is the work of a true auteur, a brilliant
twist on a familiar premise that is
packed with an emotional punch.
The film premiered to great acclaim
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UK-Belgium-Netherlands 2000. R
Dir Michael Dudok de Wit. 9min E
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Dudok de Wit’s Oscar®-winning short E
follows the life of a woman and the A
increasing importance of her father, SE
long after he is gone. S
Justin Johnson, Lead Programmer
See p7 for a Preview and
Michael Dudok de Wit in Conversation
Wed 17 May 18:30 NFT1
OPENS FRI 26 MAY
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RE-RELEASES
Plenty of chances for you to revisit these key classics – many newly restored
Manhattan
USA 1979. Dir Woody Allen. With Allen,
Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy,
Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep. 96min.
Digital 4K. 12A. A Park Circus release
For many, this paean to New York –
and to that mystifying thing called
love – remains Woody Allen’s most
enduring achievement
Isaac (Allen), a writer of TV comedy
with aspirations as a novelist, is a
tangle of confused emotions: anxious
about a potentially embarrassing
upcoming book by his ex-wife (Streep);
bemused as to why his happily married
best friend (Murphy) is seeing
a seemingly arrogant Philadelphian
(Keaton); and wondering whether
he himself should continue dating
the considerably younger Tracy
(Hemingway). Allen and co-writer
Marshall Brickman’s insightful
S exploration of love, loyalty and
E
S betrayal seamlessly interweaves
A comedy and serious drama; the
E romance (gloriously evident in this
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E new 4K digital print) is enhanced by
R Gordon Willis’ ravishing black-and-
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E white CinemaScope camerawork and
R George Gershwin’s gorgeous music.
Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
Seniors’ matinee + intro
Fri 12 May 14:00 NFT3
FROM FRI 12 MAY
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