Films Classics From 19 Oct La Bête humaine Train engineer Jacques Lantier, played by screen legend Jean Gabin, becomes the lover of Severine, the wife of deputy station master Roubaud. Roubaud overlooks the…
Films Classics From 17 Oct L’Atalante A timeless masterpiece of love and yearning, L’Atalante was the only full-length film made by Jean Vigo before his tragic early death. The film is…
Classics Films From 18 Oct The Leopard Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy’s…
Films Classics 13 & 18 Oct The Way We Were Set against the political backdrops of the lead up to World War II and later McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find…
Films Classics Sun 26 Oct Sambizanga + exclusive content featuring Sarah Maldoror talking about the film in 1974
Films Classics From 28 Oct 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 1 & 3 Nov Sabotage + intro by Prof. Emeritus Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway, London) on 1 Nov
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 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 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 From 16 Nov La Reine Margot Margot (Isabelle Adjani) is one of several in line to inherit the crown in France, where Roman Catholics and Protestants are jockeying for power. Margot's…
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 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…
Festivals & Series Films Special Screenings 17 Oct - 3 Nov Black History Month Next event : Souleymane’s Story Tue 21 Oct at 20:10
Classics Films 26 Sept - 18 Oct Tribute to Robert Redford Next event : The Way We Were Sat 25 Oct at 18:00
Arts Books & Ideas Classical Music Kids & Families Talks Highlights of the Month Next event : Travelling Shots Fri 07 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