Films Classics From 1 Sept A Man and a Woman Winner of two Oscars (one for Best Foreign Film) and the 1966 Palme d’Or, this charming, free-wheeling love story made the international reputation of director…
Films Classics From 15 Sept Hiroshima mon amour A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais is one of the most influential films of all time. A French…
Films Classics Thu 26 Sept Road to Crime Sergio works as a mere employee at his rich uncle’s bank, leading a wasteful life in nightclubs and dating the sophisticated starlet, Margot. Unhappy with…
Films Classics From 29 Sept India Song Delphine Seyrig plays the bored and promiscuous wife of a French diplomat (Michael Lonsdale) in Marguerite Duras’s Calcutta based drama, now fully restored to its…
Films Classics From 29 Sept La Musica + Gaumont Palace “Love affairs can end in the space of an hour, marriages (La Musica) in the space of three years. And, within these endless ends, there…
Films Classics Wed 2 Oct Colour of Pomegranates + intro by writer, filmmaker, and film expert Daniel Bird
Films Classics From 13 Oct La Femme du Gange + Les Mains négatives An important precursor to India Song, La Femme du Gange is the first film in which Duras makes extensive use of disassociated voices and creates…
Films Classics From 13 Oct Purple Noon Mesmerising to watch, saturated in light and colour, and topped by Delon at his iciest, Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) is a terrific treat. In this…
Films Classics From 15 Oct The Sicilian Clan A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in…
Films Classics From 20 Oct L’Eclisse In this sumptuous black and white film, Vittoria (Monica Vitti) leaves her older lover (Francisco Rabal) for a confident and ambitious young stockbroker (Alain Delon).…
Films Classics From 10 Nov Le Samouraï The story of a solitary hit man increasingly ensnared in a web of harassment and betrayal Le Samouraï is the most sombre and poetic of all…
Classics Films From 17 Nov The Unvanquished Against the background of the Algerian War of the 1960s, Thomas (Alain Delon) plays a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the…
Classics Films From 15 Dec 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…
Classics Festivals & Series Films 7 July - 6 Sept Anouk Aimée, the Enigmatic Star Next event : A Man and a Woman Sat 14 Sep at 14:50
Arts Books & Ideas Classical Music Films Talks 6 June - 21 Sept Women Shaping the World Next event : Our Body Sat 14 Sep at 11:00
Classics Films 5 Nov - 28 Jan Finally Sunday Film Club Next event : A Man and a Woman Sat 14 Sep at 14:50
Classics Festivals & Series Films 27 May - 20 Sept WWII On Screen Next event : Hiroshima mon amour Sun 15 Sep at 14:00
Classics Festivals & Series Films 15 Sept - 25 Oct The Cinema of Marguerite Duras Next event : Hiroshima mon amour Sun 15 Sep at 14:00
Festivals & Series Films 18 - 25 Sept London Spanish Film Festival Next event : Artificial Justice Wed 18 Sep at 20:30
Festivals & Series Films 6 - 26 Sept A Taste of Latin American Noir Next event : Road to Crime Thu 26 Sep at 18:30
Films 2 - 6 Oct London Georgian Film Festival Next event : Colour of Pomegranates Wed 02 Oct at 18:30
Festivals & Series Films 13 Oct - 25 March An Alain Delon Odyssey Next event : Purple Noon Sun 13 Oct at 16:10
