Films Classics 2 & 5 Nov Gabrielle Adapting Joseph Conrad’s short story, The Return, director Patrice Chéreau weaves the intense tale of a wealthy couple whose marriage is turned upside down by…
Films Classics From 2 Nov Journey to Italy Roberto Rossellini moved beyond neorealism to a more profound exploration of inner truths with this masterly study of a middle-aged, middle-class English couple on the…
Films Classics From 7 Nov The House of Mirth Gillian Anderson delivers one of the finest performances of her career in Terence Davies’s searing and visually intoxicating adaptation of Edith Wharton’s era-defining novel. Lily…
Films Classics Sat 8 Nov Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut + intro by Prof. Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech (University of Silesia, Poland) on 8 Nov
Films Classics 9 & 11 Nov Almayer’s Folly + intro by Prof. Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech (University of Silesia, Poland) on 9 Nov
Films Classics From 9 Nov La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet Entering the bowels of the prestigious Palais Garnier, Frederick Wiseman follows, over the course of twelve weeks, the production of seven ballets by the world-renowned…
Films Classics Mon 10 Nov Vagabond The body of a woman is found in a ditch in the French countryside – but what led to the death of this young and…
Classics Films 1 Nov - 11 Nov Joseph Conrad and Cinema As the critic F. R. Leavis put it, Joseph Conrad’s stories ‘invite the cinematographer’. In partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute, Ciné Lumière is screening…
Films Classics From 16 Nov La Reine Margot + intro by Le Monde Film Critic Samuel Blumenfeld on 16 Nov
Films Classics From 19 Nov The Sorrow and the Pity Marcel Ophüls four-hour portrait of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under German occupation from 1940-44 is one of the greatest films ever made, as important…
Films Classics 25 & 30 Nov Poem of the Sea + intro by Dr. Elena Gorfinkel (King’s College London) on 25 Nov
Films Classics From 30 Nov Red River John Wayne found one of his greatest roles in Howard Hawks’s first western, as an embittered, tyrannical Texas rancher whose tensions with his independent-minded adopted…
Films Kids & Families From 30 Nov Lord of the Flies Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced…
Films Classics From 5 Dec Sunset Boulevard An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback.…
Films Classics From 7 Dec The Wind Will Carry Us Kiarostami’s masterpiece follows a Tehrani filmmaker who poses as an engineer to covertly film the funeral rites of a small village in rural Iran. The…
Films Classics 14 & 17 Dec The Southerner Jean Renoir’s third film during his wartime sojourn in the USA, The Southerner follows the struggles of an idealistic Texas cotton picker who aspires to…
Arts Books & Ideas Classical Music Kids & Families Talks Highlights of the Month Next event : Joseph Conrad and Cinema Tue 11 Nov
Festivals & Series Films 12 - 23 Nov French Film Festival London 2025 Next event : The Great Arch Wed 12 Nov at 19:45
Classics Films 7 Sept - 30 Nov Ukraine through the Lens of Film History Next event : Poem of the Sea Tue 25 Nov at 18:10