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Akira
1988 125mins Japan (15) Anime
Directed by Katsuhiro Ôtomo Starring Mami Koyama, Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki

Iconic and game-changing, AKIRA is the definitive anime masterpiece! Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark cyberpunk classic obliterated the boundaries of Japanese animation and forced the world to look into the future. AKIRA's arrival shattered traditional thinking, creating space for future generations of ground-breaking movies.

July, 1988 - World War III breaks loose. Then, in 2019, in megalopolis Tokyo...As the leader of a group of young robust delinquents, Kaneda spent his nights tearing through the urban wastes, racing his motorbike against rival groups. One night while riding with his gang, his friend Tetsuo suddenly encounters a strange boy - the product of human experimentation and is injured in the ensuing crash. Shortly thereafter, a military squadron appears on the scene to take the boy and Tetsuo away to an army research facility. Determined to free Tetsuo from capture, Kaneda sneaks into the army research lab. However, a regimen of extreme experimental procedures has awakened a new power in his friend, and now he is consumed by madness..

Drive
2011 100mins USA (18) Neo Noir
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Starring Albert Brooks, Ryan Gosling, Bryan Cranston, Carey Mulligan

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

Manhunter : The Final Cut
1986 119mins USA (15) Horror / Crime
Directed by Michael Mann Starring William Petersen, Kim Greist, Brian Cox, Joan Allen

A retired criminal profiler (William Petersen) reluctantly returns to the FBI to help track down a serial killer of families and is forced to consult an expert—the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox in a subtly chilling performance). The third feature written and directed by Michael Mann is a gripping adaptation of the first of Thomas Harris’s four novels featuring the iconic murderer, and benefits from the filmmaker’s typically striking visuals as well as a top-notch supporting cast, including Tom Noonan as the hunted killer, and three-time Oscar nominee Joan Allen (The Contender, 2000) as his blind love interest. 

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This new 4K Final Cut, overseen by Mann, enhances the film’s depth, visual clarity and sound, offering audiences the ultimate immersive version. Shot in 1985, MANHUNTER was on a frontier in both its subject matter and film form, initiating an impressive list of subsequent films and series.  

“40 years ago – though armed with Thomas Harris’ excellent novel, “Red Dragon” – its subject matter, the profiling of serial killers, as well as being shocking and raw, was unknown. When adapting, I wanted to make its storytelling deliver audiences into a certain state of threat and emotional engagement. Integral to that was the visualization and use of music with lyrics sometimes working like a libretto. We have carefully remastered the film to try to evoke that mood and intensity, heightened with audio sourced from the original 5.1 35mm analog masters. This latest iteration is that version of the film with which I’m most satisfied.” said director Michael Mann.  

Under the guidance of Mann, this 4K scan of the original 35mm negative – with a few shots from an interpositive - was conformed and digitally restored at L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna. Both the theatrical version and the UHD HDR & SDR video color gradings were performed by Stefan Sonnenfeld at Company 3 in Los Angeles with the director. Sound restoration was done at Audio Mechanics from an original 35mm magnetic 6-track printmaster to release a new 5.1 mix by Luke Schwartzweller at Fox. Technical coordination and deliveries were managed by L’Immagine Ritrovata. This project was supervised by Becca Mann and STUDIOCANAL team, Jean-Pierre Boiget and Delphine Roussel.  

For Michael Mann, the process is about renewing the film’s immediacy for contemporary audiences: “If the picture was left the way it was, it would be interesting, but you’d feel some distance …you’d be observing it somewhat.  I’m more interested in its original intent impacting you the same way it may have in 1986…that is, to bring you into it again in the original way.” 

As a film distinguished by its striking visual style, including Colleen Attwood’s costume design, Academy Award- winner Mel Bourne’s art direction, Dante Spinotti’s lighting, Mann worked with his long-time collaborator, Stefan Sonnenfeld (Company 3), to develop a new color grade for ‘The Final Cut’ that engages a contemporary audience while honoring the film’s lasting legacy. 

“A good example is the use of primaries and secondaries in combinations that don’t occur in nature for an unsettling ambiance or the use of blue for night-time imagery. We’ve changed values subtly sometimes, but significantly, to enhance the impact without changing the dramatic intent of the film,” said Stefan Sonnenfeld. 

He adds: “Michael… wants you to understand the story and the mood and the environment… and then asks you to interpret that in colour… He also tells you what emotion he’s trying to evoke from the scene.” 

The new version also introduces an HDR presentation, offering an intensified new experience. “So that nobody’s ever seen the movie like that,” noted Sonnenfeld. 

Only God Forgives
2013 90mins Denmark, France (18) Action / Thriller
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Starring Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) and Ryan Gosling (The Place Beyond the Pines) reunite in the highly acclaimed Only God Forgives - a stylish, mesmerising and thrilling journey through Bangkok's criminal underworld.

Julian (Gosling) runs a boxing club as a front for a drugs operation. He has everything he wants and is respected in the criminal underworld, though deep inside he feels empty.

When Julian's brother is murdered, his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) - the head of a powerful criminal organisation - arrives in Bangkok to collect her son's body. Furious with grief, she dispatches Julian to find his killers and 'raise hell'.

The stage is set for a bloody journey of betrayal and vengeance, culminating in a final confrontation and the possibility of redemption.

The Silence of the Lambs
1991 119mins USA (15) Horror / Thriller
Directed by Jonathan Demme Starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney

Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

Dragonslayer
1981 108mins USA (PG) Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by Matthew Robbins Starring Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson

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A sorcerer and his apprentice are on a mission to kill an evil dragon to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed according to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2025 281mins USA (18) Action / Thriller
Directed by Quentin Tarantino Starring Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Sonny Chiba

Tarantino’s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair unites Volume 1 and Volume 2 into a single, unrated epic—presented exactly as he intended, complete with a new, never-before-seen anime sequence.

Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, left for dead after her former boss and lover Bill ambushes her wedding rehearsal, shooting her in the head and stealing her unborn child. To exact her vengeance, she must first hunt down the four remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before confronting Bill himself. With its operatic scope, relentless action, and iconic style, The Whole Bloody Affair stands as one of cinema’s definitive revenge sagas—rarely shown in its complete form and now presented with a classic intermission.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King [Theatrical Cut]
2003 201mins New Zealand, USA (12A) Fantasy
Directed by Peter Jackson Starring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen

As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.​

All That Jazz
1979 122mins USA (15) Musical / Drama
Directed by Bob Fosse Starring Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer

When he is not planning for his upcoming stage musical or working on his Hollywood film, choreographer/director Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is popping pills and sleeping with a seemingly endless line of women. The physical and mental stress begins to take a toll on the ragged perfectionist. Soon, he must decide whether or not his non-stop work schedule and hedonistic lifestyle are worth risking his life. The film is a semi-autobiographical tale written and directed by the legendary Bob Fosse.

Chungking Express
1994 101mins Hong Kong (12A) Romance/Drama
Directed by Wong Kar Wai Starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong, Valerie Chow, Tony Leung

Every day, Cop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) buys a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1, symbolizing the day he'll get over his lost love. He's also got his eye on a mysterious woman in a blond wig (Brigitte Lin), oblivious of the fact she's a drug dealer. Cop 663 (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) is distraught with heartbreak over a breakup. But when his ex drops a spare set of his keys at a local cafe, a waitress (Faye Wong) lets herself into his apartment and spruces up his life.

Fallen Angels
1995 99mins Hong Kong (15) Thriller / Romance
Directed by Wong Kar Wai Starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Leon Lai, Michele Reis, Karen Mok

An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.

Marathon Man
1976 126mins USA (15) Thriller
Directed by John Schlesinger Starring Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Laurence Olivier, Olivier

Babe Levy, a history student, tragically sees his older brother die in his arms. The ensuing investigation soon thrusts him into a deadly conspiracy involving smuggled diamonds and a war criminal.

Casablanca
1942 102mins USA (U) Romance
Directed by Michael Curtiz Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a famed rebel, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
1993 76mins USA (PG) Animation
Directed by Eric Radomski|Bruce Timm Starring Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner

Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hunt down Gotham's criminals, wrongly implicating Batman in the murders. Now on the run from the law, Batman must find and stop the culprit, while also navigating his relationship with Andrea.

Silence
2016 161mins Japan, Taiwan, UK, USA (15) Thriller / Drama
Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumoured to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

All About Lily Chou-Chou
2001 146mins Japan (15) Crime / Thriller
Directed by Shunji Iwai Starring Hayato Ichihara, Yû Aoi, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Ito, Takao Ohsawa, Miwako Ichikawa, Izumi Inamori, Yû Aoii

For kids around the world, music is often the only salvation when the pain and anxiety of teenage life becomes too much to bear. Yuichi (Hayato Ichihara) is in the 8th grade and he worships Lily Chou-Chou, a Bjork-like chanteuse whose epic music is lush and transcendent. Yuichi only lives for Lily Chou-Chou's big Tokyo concert, where the lies and violence can be washed away by the presence of his goddess and her powerful music. But fate has yet another obstacle in store for Lily's devoted fan.

Godzilla (1954)
1954 96mins Japan (PG) Kaiju
Directed by Ishirô Honda Starring Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata

Godzilla is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning almost thirty sequels.

In The Mood For Love
2000 98mins Hong Kong (PG) Romance
Directed by Wong Kar Wai Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Lai Chen, Paulyn Sun

In 1962 Hong Kong, neighbors Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan) and Chow Mo-wan (Mr. Chow) discover their spouses are having an affair. As they spend time together, they develop feelings for each other, but their relationship remains chaste and unspoken, reflecting societal constraints and their own moral compass.

Stalker
1979 161mins Soviet Union (PG) Science Fiction
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Starring Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

In an unnamed country at an unspecified time, there is a fiercely protected post-apocalyptic wasteland known as The Zone. An illegal guide (Aleksandr Kajdanovsky), whose mutant child suggests unspeakable horrors within The Zone, leads a writer (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) and a scientist (Nikolay Grinko) into the heart of the devastation in search of a mythical place known only as The Room. Anyone who enters The Room will supposedly have any of his earthly desires immediately fulfilled.

Love is Colder than Death [Liebe ist kälter als der Tod]
1969 88mins Germany (15) Crime/Comedy
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake

Introduction by film writer Sophie Monks Kaufman

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s French New Wave inspired directorial debut, he stars as Franz, a small-time pimp who finds himself in an offbeat love triangle between prostitute Joanna and handsome gangster Bruno, played by frequent Fassbinder collaborators Hanna Schygulle and Ulli Lommel. When Bruno fails to recruit Franz into his crime syndicate, the three strike up an unlikely allegiance, muddying romantic boundaries as they drift through the streets of Munich, plotting varying degrees of criminal activities. Detached, cool, and branded dilettantism at its Berlinale premiere, Love is Colder Than Death is a nihilistic and impulsive portrait of the relationship between three unanchored criminals. 

Love is Colder Than Death is featured as part of Gangsters Have Feelings Too, a season exploring the sensitive gangster film. The season is presented with the National Film and Television School’s Film Studies, Programming and Curation MA.

Interstellar
2014 168mins USA (12A) Science Fiction
Directed by Christopher Nolan Starring Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Mackenzie Foy, Timothée Chalamet, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck

In Earth's future, a global crop blight and second Dust Bowl are slowly rendering the planet uninhabitable. Professor Brand (Michael Caine), a brilliant NASA physicist, is working on plans to save mankind by transporting Earth's population to a new home via a wormhole. But first, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and a team of researchers through the wormhole and across the galaxy to find out which of three planets could be mankind's new home.

Mystery Movie
1878 92mins We can't tell you (18) Film
Directed by Who Knows? Starring It's a Secret

Don't miss our fan favourite MYSTERY MOVIE screenings! On a near weekly basis we will serve up a random mystery movie, with No Clues and No Hints as to what they will be. In 2026, we'll be presenting these as STAFF CURATED selections each and every week by our lovely Front of House, Duty Manager, and Projection Team! You can find the schedule below:

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Wed 16th September - Sarah's Pick (122 minutes)

Wed 30th September - Fil's Pick (80 minutes)  "The first film I ever ushered at the Prince Charles Cinema"

You can find a list of every MYSTERY MOVIE we have ever screened HERE ; if a film is on this list, it is not eligible for future Mystery Movie screenings!

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Content Advice : As these films are a mystery, we aren't able to provide specific ratings / guidance on the film's content. We strongly advise that you take this into consideration before purchasing a ticket.

Millennium Actress
2001 87mins Japan (PG) Anime
Directed by Satoshi Kon Starring Mami Koyama, Miyoko Shôji, Shôzô Îzuka, Fumiko Orikasa

Filmmaker Genya Tachibana begins work on a documentary about famed Japanese actress Chiyoko Fujiwara. Now well into old age, Chiyoko has become reclusive and shy about any publicity, but she eventually warms up to Tachibana and starts to relate her life story. As the decades pass, Chiyoko is transformed from a teen with big dreams into a full-blown celebrity, while her cinematic characters span various eras, from ancient Japan to the distant future.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 83mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Tobe Hooper Starring Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow

When Sally (Marilyn Burns) hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.

Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut
2005 190mins Germany, UK, USA (15) War
Directed by Ridley Scott Starring Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Eva Green

Ridley Scott's extended cut of an epic adventure about a common man who finds himself thrust into a decades-long war. Orlando Bloom plays a humble blacksmith who discovers that he is the son of a knght, and travels to the Holy Land to fight in the crusades. A stranger in a strange land, he serves a doomed King, falls in love with an exotic and forbidden Queen, and rises to knighthood. Ultimately, he must protect the people of Jerusalem from overwhelming forces, while striving to keep a fragile peace.

The Godfather
1972 175mins USA (15) Crime
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Richard Castellano

Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don's youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), he is drawn deeper into the family business.

Birth
2004 100mins USA (15) Psychological Drama
Directed by Jonathan Glazer Starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Cameron Bright, Danny Houston

It took Anna (Nicole Kidman) 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph (Danny Huston), and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean (Cameron Bright) turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

The Shining [UK Version]
1980 119mins UK, USA (15) Horror
Directed by Stanley Kubrick Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer's block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack's writing goes nowhere and Danny's visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family.

The Blair Witch Project
1999 81mins USA (15) Horror
Directed by Daniel Myrick|Eduardo Sánchez Starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard

Found video footage tells the tale of three film students (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams) who've traveled to a small town to collect documentary footage about the Blair Witch, a legendary local murderer. Over the course of several days, the students interview townspeople and gather clues to support the tale's veracity. But the project takes a frightening turn when the students lose their way in the woods and begin hearing horrific noises.

Yi Yi
2000 173mins Taiwan (15) Drama
Directed by Edward Yang Starring Wu Nien-jen, Elaine Jin, Issey Ogata, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Su-Yun Ko, Lawrence Ko

The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.

4K digital restoration carried out by Pony Canyon Inc., with analog and digital processes provided by Imagica Entertainment Media Services, Inc.

Alien (Theatrical Cut)
1979 117mins UK, USA (15) Sci-Fi / Horror
Directed by Ridley Scott Starring Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt

In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma.

Nosferatu
1922 94mins Germany (PG) Horror
Directed by F.W. Murnau Starring Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim

This performance will feature a live score performed by Hugo Max.

"I first saw Murnau’s Symphony of Horror when I was nine years old. The film’s expressionistic images continue to haunt me, the chiaroscuro compositions tapping vividly into timeless subconscious fears.

My improvisations on viola and piano draw inspiration from the leitmotifs and sound effects of 70s horror soundtracks and the languages of Second Viennese School composers contemporary to Murnau, also Jewish Traditional Music that informs my personal approach to creating a score for the film." - Hugo Max

Please view this YouTube video for a sample of Hugo's work.


Photo Credit - Richard Ecclestone

An iconic film of the German expressionist cinema, and one of the most famous of all silent movies, F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror continues to haunt — and, indeed, terrify — modern audiences with the unshakable power of its images. By teasing a host of occult atmospherics out of dilapidated set-pieces and innocuous real-world locations alike, Murnau captured on celluloid the deeply-rooted elements of a waking nightmare, and launched the signature "Murnau-style" that would change cinema history forever.

In this first-ever screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, a simple real-estate transaction leads an intrepid businessman deep into the superstitious heart of Transylvania. There he encounters the otherworldly Count Orlok — portrayed by the legendary Max Schreck, in a performance the very backstory of which has spawned its own mythology — who soon after embarks upon a cross-continental voyage to take up residence in a distant new land... and establish his ambiguous dominion. As to whether the count's campaign against the plague-wracked populace erupts from satanic decree, erotic compulsion, or the simple impulse of survival — that remains, perhaps, the greatest mystery of all in this film that's like a blackout...

Mulholland Dr.
2001 147mins France, USA (15) Neo Noir
Directed by David Lynch Starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux

A dark-haired woman (Laura Elena Harring) is left amnesiac after a car crash. She wanders the streets of Los Angeles in a daze before taking refuge in an apartment. There she is discovered by Betty (Naomi Watts), a wholesome Midwestern blonde who has come to the City of Angels seeking fame as an actress. Together, the two attempt to solve the mystery of Rita's true identity. The story is set in a dream-like Los Angeles, spoilt neither by traffic jams nor smog.

Sleepaway Camp
1983 84mins USA (15) Horror
Directed by Robert Hiltzik Starring Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Mike Kellin, Katherine Kamhi, Paul DeAngelo

Years after a terrible boating accident, Angela is sent to Camp Arawak where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of various campers.

Tampopo
1985 114mins Japan (15) Comedy / Western
Directed by Jûzô Itami Starring Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto

The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft satire of the way social conventions distort the most natural of human urges—our appetites. Interspersing the efforts of Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) and friends to make her café a success with the erotic exploits of a gastronome gangster and glimpses of food culture both high and low, the sweet, sexy, and surreal Tampopo is a lavishly inclusive paean to the sensual joys of nourishment, and one of the most mouthwatering examples of food on film ever made.

Jurassic Park
1993 127mins USA (12A) Sci-Fi / Adventure
Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neil

In Steven Spielberg's massive blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park's mastermind, billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt.

The Lost Boys
1987 97mins USA (15) Supernatural / Horror
Directed by Joel Schumacher Starring Dianne Wiest, Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland

Teenage brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to a small town in northern California. While the younger Sam meets a pair of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book nerds Edward (Corey Feldman) and Alan (Jamison Newlander), the angst-ridden Michael soon falls for Star (Jami Gertz) -- who turns out to be in thrall to David (Kiefer Sutherland), leader of a local gang of vampires. Sam and his new friends must save Michael and Star from the undead.

Event Horizon
1997 96mins UK, USA (18) Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson Starring Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, Kathleen Quinlan, Sam Neil

Captain Miller and his team discover unbelievable secrets when they board the Event Horizon, a starship that had mysteriously disappeared during its maiden voyage, which puts their lives in danger.

Halloween (1978)
1978 91mins USA (15) Horror
Directed by John Carpenter Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, P. J. Soles, Nancy Loomis

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

In the Mouth of Madness
1994 96mins USA (18) Horror / Fantasy
Directed by John Carpenter Starring Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen, Sam Neil

When horror novelist Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow) goes missing, insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) scrutinizes the claim made by his publisher, Jackson Harglow (Charlton Heston), and endeavors to retrieve a yet-to-be-released manuscript and ascertain the writer's whereabouts. Accompanied by the novelist's editor, Linda Styles (Julie Carmen), and disturbed by nightmares from reading Cane's other novels, Trent makes an eerie nighttime trek to a supernatural town in New Hampshire.

There Will Be Blood
2007 158mins USA (15) Thriller / Western
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son HW to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainviews motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
 

Possession
1981 124mins France, West Germany (18) Horror
Directed by Andrzej Zulawski Starring Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani, Margit Carstensen, Sam Neil

After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Mark is devastated, and seeks out Heinrich (Heinz Bennent), the man who cuckolded him, only to receive a beating. After a series of violent confrontations between Mark and Anna, Mark hires a private investigator to follow her. Anna descends into madness, and it's soon clear that she is hiding a much bigger secret -- one that is both inexplicable and shocking.

Young Frankenstein
1974 106mins USA (12A) Horror / Comedy
Directed by Mel Brooks Starring Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman

Respected medical lecturer Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) learns that he has inherited his infamous grandfather's estate in Transylvania. Arriving at the castle, Dr. Frankenstein soon begins to recreate his grandfather's experiments with the help of servants Igor (Marty Feldman), Inga (Teri Garr) and the fearsome Frau Blücher (Cloris Leachman). After he creates his own monster (Peter Boyle), new complications ensue with the arrival of the doctor's fiancée, Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn).

Perfect Blue
1997 81mins Japan (18) Anime
Directed by Satoshi Kon Starring Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji

A young Japanese singer is encouraged by her agent to quit singing and pursue an acting career, beginning with a role in a murder mystery TV show.


Our 11th October performance of Perfect Blue will be preceded by the European Premiere of brand-new short film, IDOLS.

Idols | South Korea, Japan, UK | 20 min.
Dir. by Matt Halsall

Kim Min-ha (Hojo Shin) has always dreamed of the spotlight. Now, nearing 30, she’s still chasing a K-pop debut while everyone else sees only her uncanny resemblance to superstar Park Hye-mi (Hojo Shin)—the woman she believes is living the life that should have been hers. 

Matt Halsall’s slick, darkly funny short turns that obsession into an increasingly unhinged psychological thriller. 

IDOLS made its world premiere at Fantasia before being selected for Sitges, Beyond Fest and Tokyo’s Yami International Film Festival.

Barry Lyndon
1975 195mins UK, USA (12A) Drama
Directed by Stanley Kubrick Starring Ryan O'Neal, Patrick Magee, Marisa Berenson

Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years’ War and the parlours of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish costume and production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The result is a masterpiece—a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart.

Please Note: The film will be presented with a brief 5-10min intermission. 

Suspiria [1977]
1977 99mins Italy (18) Horror
Directed by Dario Argento Starring Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci

Suzy (Jessica Harper) travels to Germany to attend ballet school. When she arrives, late on a stormy night, no one lets her in, and she sees Pat (Eva Axén), another student, fleeing from the school. When Pat reaches her apartment, she is murdered. The next day, Suzy is admitted to her new school, but has a difficult time settling in. She hears noises, and often feels ill. As more people die, Suzy uncovers the terrifying secret history of the place.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Live Score)
1920 77mins Germany (U) Horror
Directed by Robert Wiene Starring Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Fehér, Hans Heinz v. Twardowski, Lil Dagover, Rudolf Lettinger, Werner Krauss

This performance will feature a live score performed by Hugo Max

The rich timbre of the viola perfectly captures the aura of Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. My improvisations translate the film's angular painted shadows into unnerving melodies inspired by musical techniques that were evolving during the 1920s. The nefarious showmanship of Caligari invites theatrical and macabre sounds, in contrast with ghostly gestures evoking ‘the somnambulist' who is compelled to act against his will.


THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI : One of the most iconic masterpieces in cinema history, Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari shook filmgoers worldwide and changed the direction of the art form. Now presented in a definitive restoration, the film's chilling, radically expressionist vision is set to grip viewers again.

At a local carnival in a small German town, hypnotist Dr. Caligari presents the somnambulist Cesare, who can purportedly predict the future of curious fairgoers. But at night, the doctor wakes Cesare from his sleep to enact his evil bidding…

Incalculably influential, the film's nightmarishly jagged sets, sinister atmospheric and psychological emphasis left an immediate impact in its wake (horror, film noir, and gothic cinema would all be shaped directly by it).

A Nightmare On Elm Street
1984 89mins USA (15) Horror
Directed by Wes Craven Starring Johnny Depp, Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund

In Wes Craven's classic slasher film, several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a disfigured midnight mangler who preys on the teenagers in their dreams -- which, in turn, kills them in reality. After investigating the phenomenon, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) begins to suspect that a dark secret kept by her and her friends' parents may be the key to unraveling the mystery, but can Nancy and her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp) solve the puzzle before it's too late?

Nadja • 4K Restoration • London Premiere
1994 93mins USA (15) Horror / Drama
Directed by Michael Almereyda Starring Elina Lowensohn, Suzy Amis, Galaxy Craze, David Lynch

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

The film follows estranged vampire twins Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) and Edgar (a young Jared Harris) as they reunite following their father’s death by the flamboyantly unhinged Dr. Van Helsing, played with relish by Peter Fonda. 

The film’s striking visuals combine high-contrast black-and-white 35mm cinematography with the hallucinatory grain of Pixelvision video, looking better than ever in this new 4K restoration of the director’s cut.

London Premiere of the New 4K restoration of the director’s cut c/o Arbelos Films and Radiance Films.

Cruising
1980 102mins USA (18) Crime / Thriller
Directed by William Friedkin Starring Al Pacino, Karen Allen, Paul Sorvino

There’s a killer on the loose in New York City, and he’s targeting gay men in the West Village. Fortunately for the NYPD, he’s got a type – slim, dark-haired, handsome – and officer Steve Burns (Al Pacino) fits the bill. To crack the case, Steve must journey into the city’s nocturnal underworld of S&M and leather bars, hoping to catch the killer’s eye – but will he lose himself along the way? Controversial with both straight and gay audiences upon its initial release, Friedkin’s film still retains its power to shock and unsettle 45 years later.

The Howling
1981 91mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Joe Dante Starring Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

Wake in Fright - 4K Restoration
1971 108mins Australia, USA (18) Psychological Thriller
Directed by Ted Kotcheff Starring Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty

After finishing up the school term in a remote outback town, teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) looks forward to spending his holiday with his girlfriend in Sydney. But John gets waylaid in a mining town where a gambling spree leaves him completely broke. He quickly falls in with the hard-drinking locals, who constantly ply him with alcohol and force him to participate in a gruesome kangaroo hunt. Disgusted, John tries to hitchhike out of town and, when that fails, begins to contemplate suicide.

Terminator 2 : Judgment Day
1991 137mins USA (15) Sci-Fi / Action
Directed by James Cameron Starring Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong

In this sequel set eleven years after "The Terminator," young John Connor (Edward Furlong), the key to civilization's victory over a future robot uprising, is the target of the shape-shifting T-1000 (Robert Patrick), a Terminator sent from the future to kill him. Another Terminator, the revamped T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger), has been sent back to protect the boy. As John and his mother (Linda Hamilton) go on the run with the T-800, the boy forms an unexpected bond with the robot.

The Thing
1982 108mins USA (18) Sci-Fi / Horror
Directed by John Carpenter Starring Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David

In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.

Teen Wolf
1985 91mins USA (PG) Comedy / Sport
Directed by Rod Daniel Starring Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, Jerry Levine, Susan Ursitti, Lorie Griffin

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When a shy teenager’s newfound powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.

An American Werewolf in London
1981 97mins UK, USA (15) Horror / Comedy
Directed by John Landis Starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne

David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne), two American college students, are backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them. David survives with a bite, but Jack is brutally killed. As David heals in the hospital, he's plagued by violent nightmares of his mutilated friend, who warns David that he is becoming a werewolf. When David discovers the horrible truth, he contemplates committing suicide before the next full moon causes him to transform from man to murderous beast.

Sinners
2025 138mins USA (15) Horror / Thriller
Directed by Ryan Coogler Starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Delroy Lindo, Miles Caton

From Ryan Coogler—director of “Black Panther” and “Creed”—and starring Michael B. Jordan comes a new vision of fear: “Sinners.”

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.”

Written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Coogler, “Sinners” stars Jordan (the “Black Panther” and “Creed” franchises) in a dual role, joined by Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld (“Bumblebee,” “True Grit”), Jack O’Connell (“Ferrari”), Wunmi Mosaku (“Passenger”), Jayme Lawson (“The Woman King”), Omar Miller (“True Lies”), and Delroy Lindo (“Da 5 Bloods”).

The film is produced by Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Ryan Coogler. The executive producers are Ludwig Göransson, Will Greenfield and Rebecca Cho.

Hellraiser
1987 94mins UK (18) Horror
Directed by Clive Barker Starring Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence

Sexual deviant Frank (Sean Chapman) inadvertently opens a portal to hell when he tinkers with a box he bought while abroad. The act unleashes gruesome beings called Cenobites, who tear Frank's body apart. When Frank's brother (Andrew Robinson) and his wife, Julia (Clare Higgins), move into Frank's old house, they accidentally bring what is left of Frank back to life. Frank then convinces Julia, his one-time lover, to lure men back to the house so he can use their blood to reconstruct himself.

Obsession (2026)
2026 108mins USA (18) Horror / Thriller
Directed by Curry Barker Starring Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

Irreversible
2002 97mins France (18) Horror / Thriller
Directed by Gaspar Noé Starring Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel

A woman's lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can't be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

The Exorcist (Extended Cut)
1973 132mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by William Friedkin Starring Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow

One of the most profitable horror movies ever made, this tale of an exorcism is based loosely on actual events. When young Regan (Linda Blair) starts acting odd -- levitating, speaking in tongues -- her worried mother (Ellen Burstyn) seeks medical help, only to hit a dead end. A local priest (Jason Miller), however, thinks the girl may be seized by the devil. The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert (Max von Sydow) to help with the difficult job.

The Room
2003 99mins USA (18) Romance/Drama
Directed by Tommy Wiseau Starring Juliette Danielle, Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero

PLEASE NOTE: Tommy Wiseau will NOT be in attendance for these screenings!!! 

Oh hai Prince Charles Cinema website visitor… 

Tommy Wiseau's "masterpiece" The Room has been hailed as the biggest cult film since Rocky Horror. 

So bad it's good, it's drawn a cult following in the US with viewers acting out skits, storming out in disgust, and throwing plastic cutlery during screenings. However unlike other cult films such as Rocky Horror, or the Big Lebowski, these fans are drawn to how bad they regard the film to be! Come and see the birth of a cult with it's poor score, terrible acting and internet meme generating script. 

Links www.TheRoomMovie.com - Official Trailer 

"If a lot of people love each other the world will be a better place to live." - Tommy Wiseau 

"The Room" is not a movie IT IS THE EVENT! - Tommy Wiseau 

Johnny is a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored of him and decides to seduce Johnny's best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again.

American Footballs and metal Spoons are prohibited from all screenings of THE ROOM. If you bring either, they will be confiscated by security. Failure to comply with this rule could result in your removal from the screening and a lifetime ban from the PCC.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982 98mins USA (15) Horror
Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace Starring Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy

After a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital clutching the year's most popular Halloween mask, Dr. Daniel Challis sets out to investigate the strange events and finds himself thrust into a nightmarish conspiracy.

Child's Play (1988)
1988 87mins USA (15) Horror
Directed by Tom Holland Starring Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif

When serial killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) is mortally wounded in a police shoot-out, he uses a voodoo spell to transfer his soul into Chucky, an innocuous ‘Good Guys' doll. Young Andy (Alex Vincent) receives him as a birthday gift, and Chucky soon embarks on a killing spree. However, Charles doesn't want to be trapped in the body of the doll forever; escape is possible by transferring his personality into the first human he reveals his identity to... and naturally Andy is curious about his new toy.

Mystery Horror Movie
1896 95mins We can't tell you (18) Horror
Directed by Who Knows? Starring It's a Secret

HorrOctober invades our Mystery Movie strand this October! We'll be serving up four Mystery Horror Movies over four weeks! That is the only hint we will give you! No other hints. No clues. No refunds!

You can find a list of every MYSTERY MOVIE we have ever screened HERE; if a film is on this list, it is not eligible for future Mystery Movie screenings!

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Content Advice : As these films are a mystery, we aren't able to provide specific ratings / guidance on the film's content. We strongly advise that you take this into consideration before purchasing a ticket.

Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall
2026 71mins USA (15) Concert Film
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Starring Cameron Winter

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

One Battle After Another director Paul Thomas Anderson creates an intimate document of Geese frontman Cameron Winter’s solo piano performance at the legendary New York concert hall.

In December 2025, Paul Thomas Anderson collaborated with fellow filmmaker Benny Safdie on a multi-perspective and multi-format recording of Winter's solo performance. The warm hues capture the feeling in the room, including audience reactions, to create an immersive cinematic experience for those of us who couldn’t be there. It's a rapturous celebration of live performance, whose appeal should reach far beyond the band and Winter's existing fan base.

Land of Hope and Gory [Shorts Programme]
2026 89mins (18) LFF

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

From the body-horror side-effects of pushing yourself too far to an intense ski ride and some grisly cooking ideas, the way we spend our time has never appeared so strange.

FILMS IN THE PROGRAMME:

The Sorrows of Young Charlotte
Director- Shir Ariya
UK - 2026 - 13min
When Werther finds Charlie’s ex-boyfriend’s potency pills in the bathroom, he takes a double dose.

Meatmylk
Director- Lucy Luscombe
UK - 2026 - 15min
A personal trainer decides to bulk-up with a new protein shake, only to discover that it has side effects.

Fishbrain
Director - Max Vanderspuy
USA - 2026 - 22min
Trapped in her decaying coastal town and desperate to escape, Ori feeds her stubborn grandfather tainted fish.

All Yours
Director - Sophia Di Martino
UK - 2025 - 8min
After discovering her skin is peeling off, a bored mother is compelled to bake it into little pastries.

The Last Snow
Director - Rodolphe Bouquet-Populus
France - 2025 - 19min
In a ski resort where snow is starting to disappear, Isabelle and Guillaume find themselves stuck on a chairlift.

Man Eating Pussy
Director - Emily Lawson
Canada - 2026 - 12min
A dying man seeks comfort in a mysterious sex worker whose monstrous anatomy offers pleasure and the ultimate release.

Zombie Flesh Eaters [Zombi 2]
1979 91mins Italy (18) Horror
Directed by Lucio Fulci Starring Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson

After an abandoned boat sails into New York harbor with a zombie aboard, a reporter teams up with the daughter of the boat's missing captain to investigate the island where he was last seen conducting research—the site of an alleged zombie outbreak.

Nostalgia [Nostalghia]
1983 125mins Italy, Soviet Union (15) Drama
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Starring Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano

Andrei Tarkovsky’s unforgettably haunting film, his first to be made outside Russia, explores the melancholy of the expatriate through the film’s protagonist, Gorchakov, a Russian poet researching in Italy.

Arriving at a Tuscan village spa with Eugenia, his beautiful Italian interpreter, Gorchakov is visited by memories of Russia and of his wife and children, and he encounters the local mystic who sets him a challenging task.

‘Nostalgia’ is filled with a series of mysterious and extraordinary images, all of which coalesce into a miraculous whole in the film’s final shot. As in all Tarkovsky’s films, nature, the elements of fire and water, music, painting and poetry all play a major role.

★★★★ “Hauntingly beautiful” - David Parkinson, Empire

Cinema Paradiso [Nuovo Cinema Paradiso]
1988 124mins Italy (12A) Drama
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore Starring Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili

A winner of awards across the world including Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, 5 BAFTA Awards including Best Actor, Original Screenplay and Score, the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival and many more.

Giuseppe Tornatore's loving homage to the cinema tells the story of Salvatore, a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was the projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood. Soon memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena and all the highs and lows that shaped his life come flooding back, as Salvatore reconnects with the community he left 30 years earlier.

House of 1000 Corpses
2003 89mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Rob Zombie Starring Sid Haig, Sheri Moon Zombie, Karen Black, Bill Moseley

Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

Making Marie Antoinette
2026 86mins (15) LFF
Directed by Eleanor Coppola

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

Eleanor Coppola’s documentary on the making of Marie Antoinette is a rousing love letter to filmic craft and the joys and complexities of leading an artistic life.

Drawn from over 80 hours of footage, Coppola’s insightful eye is complimented by her production diaries (voiced by Diane Lane) which form the narrative spine of this profound exploration of creativity, the unique pressures placed on female artists and maternal love. The beauty of her words gives pause, not only to the ambitious artistry onscreen, but the historical character at the centre of this fiction.

This screening will be presented with Descriptive Subtitles. 

The Devil's Rejects
2005 107mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Rob Zombie Starring Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie

The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.

Call Your Bluff [Shorts Programme]
93mins (15) LFF

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

Whether it’s cutting your own hair, winning the lottery, looking for love or livening up a dull day at work, these uk shorts will cover all your comedy needs.

FILMS IN THE PROGRAMME:

A Twist of Hate
Director- Maddy Shenai
UK - 2026 - 9min
Newlyweds encounter an unusual lawyer who probes their motivations for love.

Date Night
Director- Tanya Reynolds
UK - 2026 - 16min
Danielle and Harry's latest attempt at kinky roleplay shines a discomforting light on what they really want from life.

Laundreams
Director - Amber Gadd, Evie Ward-Drummond
USA - 2026 - 15min
In an empty laundrette manned by 20-year-olds Minnie and Leah, nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes.

Micro Bangs
Director - Iris Breward
UK - 2026 - 5min
A woman starts to spiral as she considers a drastic haircut.

Sweet Bitter Sweet
Director - Nicolee Tsin
UK - 2025 - 9min
After moving to London, a young Chinese woman searches for love while working at a bakery.

The Devil Is In Me
Director - Tia Salisbury
UK - 2026 - 11min
In late 18th-century England, a nightmarish teenager and a rookie reverend lock horns over Sunday school attendance.

A Kind of Purity
Director - Theo Shivdasani
UK - 2026 - 15min
At an art gallery, a disillusioned assistant's pretence of normality is pushed to breaking point when a sudden act takes place.

How To Hide It
Director - Ramla Ali, Richard A. Moore
UK - 2025 - 13min
After winning the lottery, a woman faces tension between dreams of a better life and her deeply held beliefs.

Don't Look Now
1973 110mins Italy, UK (15) Horror / Mystery
Directed by Nicolas Roeg Starring Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Julie Christie

After the death of their child, a couple moves to Venice, where the husband has an assignment of restoring a church. There, they meet a sister who claims their kid is trying to warn them of a danger.

The Craft
1996 101mins USA (15) Teen / Horror
Directed by Andrew Fleming Starring Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell

After transferring to a Los Angeles high school, Sarah (Robin Tunney) finds that her telekinetic gift appeals to a group of three wannabe witches, who happen to be seeking a fourth member for their rituals. Bonnie (Neve Campbell), Rochelle (Rachel True) and Nancy (Fairuza Balk), like Sarah herself, all have troubled backgrounds, which combined with their nascent powers lead to dangerous consequences. When a minor spell causes a fellow student to lose her hair, the girls grow power-mad.

Life / Drawing [Shorts Programme]
2026 96mins Czech Republic, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden (15) LFF

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

A selection of animated shorts exploring what connects us to people, the world around us and, most importantly, ourselves.

FILMS IN THE PROGRAMME:

Babyface
Director- Sacha Beeley
UK - 2026 - 6min
Spoon finds a coupon!

Dance of the Spirits
Director- Andreea-Lorena Florea
UK - 2026 - 6min
A young shepherd boy, living in rural Romania, finds more comfort among his sheep than with his dad.

Eyeliner
Director - Aisha Boudjillouli
UK - 2026 - 8min
When two friends receive different receptions to wearing eyeliner, Nina discovers that her journey as a trans girl might not be so easy.

Dummy
Director - Adrian Maganza
UK - 2026 - 7min
Everyone forgets the rescue dummy that's left at the bottom of a swimming pool.

Film Film
Director - Arturs Voblikovs
UK - 2025 - 12min
A print-shop owner with seasonal depression becomes obsessed with copying the life of his new customer.

I Was Kidnapped!
Director - Dhananjay Barangule
UK-Latvia - 2026 - 7min
Dhananjay enjoys recounting stories from his childhood when it slowly starts to dawn on him how they may have affected his mum.

PLEASE
Director - Anna Mantzaris
Sweden-France-Czech Republic - 2026 - 8min
In a big city, several characters looking for affection are plunged into situations that are absurd, comical and moving.

The Bird's Placebo
Director - Rami Jarboui
Tunisia - 2025 - 20min
Told through rotoscope and 3D animation, a young man from a marginalised neighborhood in Tunisia’s capital dreams of crossing the Mediterranean.

The Clouds of Odessa
Director - Luca Arcangeli
Italy - 2026 - 13min
A Ukrainian director thinks about the film, a love story, that she would have liked to make but that she may never be able to.

Fantasies of a Rescue Dummy
Director - Adrian Maganza
U.K - 2025 - 7min
Everyone forgets the rescue dummy that's left at the bottom of a swimming pool.

The Fox
2026 90mins Australia (18) LFF
Directed by Dario Russo Starring Emily Browning, Jai Courtney, Olivia Colman

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

A talking fox, voiced by Olivia Colman, persuades a hunter to transform his cheating wife into an ideal spouse, in this gleefully outrageous, shape-shifting comedy.

As revenge for adultery, who wouldn’t take a talking fox’s advice to throw your cheating partner into a magical outback hole with transformative powers? Dario Russo’s sly, irreverent black comedy mercilessly satirises our baser animal instincts, and is played straight by a terrifically committed cast that includes Jai Courtney and Emily Browning, alongside the vocal talents of Colman and the late, great Sam Neill.

Inherit
2026 128mins Thailand (15) LFF
Directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun Starring Davika Hoorne, Thitiya Jirapornsilp, Sinjai Plengpanich

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

A rich Thai family falls apart with the arrival of a distant relative in Banjong Pisanthanakun's (The Medium, LFF 2021) gripping and unpredictable new horror.

Grandma Woranart is full of surprises. She claims to be 80, but has the face of a beautiful young woman. That turns out to be the tip of the iceberg, as family secrets are gradually revealed and it becomes all too apparent that something sinister lurks inside this seemingly benign relative. Featuring a magnetic performance by Davika Hoorne (A Useful Ghost), Inherit thrills as much as it chills.

Thai Language with English subtitles

Content Warning: Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury, self-harm, and sex.

Psycho
1960 108mins USA (15) Horror
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.

Musk
2026 225mins USA (15) LFF
Directed by Alex Gibney

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

In this riveting documentary portrait, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney brings insight and a fearlessness in peeling away the many layers of Elon Musk’s world.

Like his Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side and Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Gibney brings a forensic eye to the life and career of the richest – and certainly one of the most divisive – figures in contemporary life. There is also intelligence and no small amount of wit to the way he frames his approach, resulting in a film that’s sure to start conversations.

Nightborn
2026 92mins Finland, France, Lithuania, UK (15) LFF
Directed by Hanna Bergholm Starring Rupert Grint, Seidi Haarla, Pamela Tola

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

A couple’s dream of idyllic family life in the Finnish woods is shattered by the arrival of their nightmarish new baby, in Hanna Bergholm’s riotously gory folk horror.

Drawing deeply from the wells of folk horror and psychological post-natal angst, director Bergholm pits Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint’s new parents against their hairy, howling offspring, which displays a taste for raw meat over milk. Gruesome and bloody, it’s also chock-full of self-aware humour that surely guarantees the film’s place as a future cult classic.

English and Finnish Language with some English subtitles

Content warning: Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury and harm towards children.

Hot Spot
2026 101mins Greece, Poland (15) LFF
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska Starring Andrzej Konopka, Noomi Rapace, Reika Kirishima

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

The new film from the acclaimed director of The Silent Twins is a daring and distinctive sci-fi thriller set in a near-future society ruled by sentient AI.

Djonny, a vibrantly dressed private eye, is called to solve a mysterious murder case, only to discover a rebel group capable of undermining the digital overlord led by Rana, who may or may not be a cyber witch. Agnieszka Smoczynska creates a hypnotic, dystopian world that lures you in with its breathtaking aesthetics and hallucinatory images.

English, Japanese Language and Polish Language with some English Subtitles

Content Warning: Contains flashing images

The Red Shoes
1948 135mins UK (PG) Musical / Romance
Directed by Michael Powell|Emeric Pressburger Starring Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer

In this classic drama, Vicky Page (Moira Shearer) is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring). Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

Wild Horse Nine
2026 118mins Chile, UK, USA (15) LFF
Directed by Martin McDonagh Starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, Parker Posey

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

Martin McDonagh continues to mine the absurdities and complexities of male relationships in a film that brims with energy and is sure to delight.

On the cusp of dictator Augusto Pinochet taking power in Chile, a trio of CIA agents snipe and bicker as they await the ‘go’ date on their part in yet another military coup. However, against the stunning natural beauty and mysterious ancient artefacts of Easter Island, their plan starts to unravel. John Malkovich’s peerless performance chimes beautifully with co-stars Sam Rockwell and Steve Buscemi, who together bring McDonagh’s brilliantly acerbic and witty script hilariously to life.

English and Spanish Language with English Subtitles

This screening will be presented with Descriptive Subtitles and will have Audio Description available on request.

Content Warning: Contains scenes of drug use and graphic violence or injury.

The Liberation
2026 119mins USA (15) LFF
Directed by Guy Nattiv Starring Carrie Coon, Lily James, Bella Ramsey

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

In Guy Nattiv’s tense, probing film, two young women attempt to extract their mother from a cult, but find themselves susceptible to its mysterious leader.

Carrie Coon has never been better than she is as Rita, who lives an ‘ordinary’ life as a bank teller, wife and mother. But beneath the veneer of this seemingly ordinary life, she hides the deep trauma of being a holocaust survivor. When she falls into the orbit of the seductive Ricki (a compelling Lily James), Rita finds the space to heal. But at what cost to her family?

Black Swan
2010 108mins USA (15) Horror / Thriller
Directed by Darren Aronofsky Starring Vincent Cassel, Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Mila Kunis

Nina, a ballerina, gets the chance to play the White Swan, Princess Odette. But she finds herself slipping into madness when Thomas, the artistic director, decides that Lily might fit the role better.

Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
2026 122mins USA (15) LFF
Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka Starring Rinko Kikuchi, Alberto Guerra, Alejandro Edda

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

Recently widowed Haru rediscovers her love for ballroom dancing, only to find herself attracted to her new instructor, in this zany, toe-tapping film.

Haru (an excellent Rinko Kikuchi) loves ballroom dancing. But after tragedy strikes, she retreats into isolation. Her concerned friends convince her to return to the studio, where she soon becomes infatuated with a new instructor. With Haru throwing caution to the wind, director Josef Kubota Wladyka delivers an exploration of grief that is bold, surprisingly playful and crowd-pleasing.

English and Japanese Language with some English subtitles

Ken Russell's The Devils: The Director's Cut
1971 114mins UK (18) LFF
Directed by Ken Russell Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Gemma Jones, Dudley Sutton

Tickets on sale to PCC Members Friday 25th September 00:01 for 24hrs (on sale to everyone Saturday 26th September 00:01).

Following the sold-out LFF performance on 12th October, Ken Russell's THE DEVILS will screen daily from 30th October. Screenings from both 35mm and Digital. 35mm performances will be noted next to the time. If there is no note next to the time, the performance is Digital.

Censored for over half a century, Ken Russell’s film returns in a landmark director’s cut reconstruction that reveals the full power of his original vision. 

Inspired by the true story of 17th-century priest Urbain Grandier, accused of bewitching a convent of nuns, The Devils lays bare the collusion of church and state through a searing vision of religious persecution, collective hysteria and institutional corruption. The restoration many believed would never happen reaffirms Russell’s incendiary masterpiece as among the most overwhelming and uncompromising achievements in British cinema.

Assembled from original camera negative, this 4k restoration is Ken Russell’s 2004 preferred edit. Picture and sound restoration by Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services, Water Tower Color and Warner Bros. Sound.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
1956 80mins USA (PG) Sci-Fi / Horror
Directed by Don Siegel Starring Dana Wynter, Kevin McCarthy, Carolyn Jones, King Donovan, Larry Gates, Virginia Christine

* ON SALE 23rd SEPT *

In the sleepy Californian town of Santa Mira, strange happenings are afoot. Dr. Miles Bennell finds residents experiencing an epidemic of mass hysteria, imagining their relatives replaced by detached, emotionless copies. As Bennell gets closer to the horrifying truth - that the substitutions are part of an extraterrestrial invasion scheme and the copies are emerging from giant seed pods - the 'pod people' begin to close in.

Under the Skin (2013)
2013 108mins Switzerland, UK, USA (15) Sci-Fi / Horror
Directed by Jonathan Glazer Starring Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay

An alien entity inhabits the earthly form of a seductive young woman who combs the Scottish highways in search of the human prey it is here to plunder. It lures its isolated and forsaken male victims into an otherworldly dimension where they are stripped and consumed. But life in all its complexity starts to change the alien. It begins to see itself as 'she', as human, with tragic and terrifying consequences.

Rogue Trooper
2026 120mins UK (15) LFF
Directed by Duncan Jones Starring Aneurin Barnard, Matt Berry, Hayley Atwell, Jack Lowden

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

Duncan Jones brings the beloved 2000 AD comic strip to life with an all-guns-blazing sci-fi animation, about a soldier in a dystopian future who is sent on an impossible mission.

Biochipped genetic soldiers, whose personalities can be downloaded should they fall on the battlefield, fight a futile, violent war across a chemically toxic landscape. Time is of the essence for their mission, but a raft of horrors await them. Fast and funny, Rogue Trooper is skilfully directed by Jones (Moon and Source Code), who gives this terrific British indie the feel of a Hollywood blockbuster.

Jennifer's Body
2009 102mins USA (15) Teen / Horror
Directed by Karyn Kusama Starring Megan Fox, Adam Brody, Amanda Seyfried

"She's evil… and not just high school evil.” 

A demon possesses high-school It-girl Jennifer (Megan Fox) after she is kidnapped and sacrificed in a failed occult ritual. Bloodthirsty, she seeks revenge through any man who crosses her path, but is challenged when her best friend, Needy (Amanda Seyfried), won´t stand idly by as the body-count rises. 

Campy, funny, horrific and truly impressive. After initially receiving mixed critical reception, Jennifer´s Body has become a horror and teen cult-classic as queer and female audiences have reclaimed the title. Ahead of its time, the film is still referenced in Halloween costumes, fan-theories, and video edits as audiences are hungrier than ever for the iconic maneater, Jennifer Check! 

Jennifer´s Body is featured as part of MANEATERS, a season exploring the female supernatural on screen. The season is presented with the National Film and Television School’s Film Studies, Programming and Curation MA.

Funeral Parade presents A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
1985 87mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Jack Sholder Starring Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers

Just in time for Spooky Season, Funeral Parade is proud to present A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, a queer-coded slasher classic.

The man of your dreams is BACK! That’s right, Freddy Krueger has returned to stalk Elm Street once again – and this time he’s enlisting teenager Jesse Walsh to help carry out his evil deeds. Freddy intends to possess Jesse’s body in order to take his bloody revenge on the teenage population of Springwood, Ohio. Will Jesse be able to resist him? A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge has become infamous for its homoerotic subtext and features an iconic performance from Mark Patton as slasher cinema’s first male “scream queen”.

With intro from film curator Sarah Cleary.

The History of Concrete
2026 101mins USA (15) LFF
Directed by John Wilson

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

Having attended a Hallmark movie workshop, John Wilson applies his learnings to a documentary about concrete, albeit with a dryly funny and deceptively understated tone.

After finding himself with too much time on his hands, documentarian Wilson attends a workshop on how to make Hallmark romcoms. It inspires him to apply the formula to a film investigating the story of concrete. Infused with Wilson’s trademark curiosity and wit, the film project introduces him to a variety of unusual people and places. The result is a wry and humane meditation on the modern world.

These screenings will be presented with Descriptive Subtitles. 

Queer Edward II
2026 95mins UK (15) LFF
Directed by Theo Rollason Starring Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry

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This all-archival tour de force takes us behind the scenes of Derek Jarman’s Edward II, set against the backdrop of the anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation of 1980s Britain.

This all-archival tour de force takes us behind the scenes of Derek Jarman’s Edward II, set against the backdrop of the anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation of 1980s Britain. In 1991, Jarman started production on Edward II, just as queer life in the UK was under renewed threat from the British government. Seamus McGarvey captured all the drama on set in a previously unseen treasure trove of behind-the-scenes footage. Queer Edward II masterfully reanimates this archive as a vigorous and radical reflection on the power of art as protest.

Inland Empire
2006 180mins France, Poland, USA (15) Mind F**k
Directed by David Lynch Starring Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux

An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.

Mikey and Nicky
1976 106mins USA (15) Crime / Thriller
Directed by Elaine May Starring Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty

Our performance on 14th October is presented with an introduction by Christina Newland

Elaine May crafted a gangster film like no other in the nocturnal odyssey Mikey and Nicky, capitalising on the chemistry between frequent collaborators John Cassavetes and Peter Falk by casting them together as small-time mobsters whose lifelong relationship has turned sour. Set over the course of one night, this restless drama finds Nicky (Cassavetes) holed up in a hotel after the boss he stole money from puts a hit out on him. Terrified, he calls on Mikey (Falk), the one person he thinks can save him. Scripted to match the live-wire energy of its stars—alongside supporting players Ned Beatty, Joyce Van Patten, and Carol Grace—and inspired by real-life characters from May’s own childhood, this unbridled portrait of male friendship turned tragic is an unsung masterpiece of American cinema.

Our performance on 14th October is featured as part of Gangsters Have Feelings Too, a season exploring the sensitive gangster film. The season is presented with the National Film and Television School’s Film Studies, Programming and Curation MA.

The Blood Countess
2026 119mins Austria, Germany, Luxembourg (15) LFF
Directed by Ulrike Ottinger Starring Isabelle Huppert, Birgit Minichmayr, Thomas Schubert

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

Isabelle Huppert dazzles as the Blood Countess in this delightful and high-camp gothic fantasy from visionary filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger.

After awakening from a long slumber, the Blood Countess embarks on a quest, with her devoted maid and trusty pet bat in tow, to search for an ancient text that could cause the demise of her vampire realm. Based on the legend of Countess Elizabeth Báthory, Huppert perfectly embodies the role of the bloodthirsty seductress who reigns over present-day Vienna.

German and French Language with English subtitles

It Gets Worse
2026 69mins UK (15) LFF
Directed by Mounia Akl Starring Leo Reich, Emily Fairn, Olive Gray

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

Leo Reich’s new series turns the struggles of young Londoners into its playground, mining a generation’s problems for biting, clever comedy.

Ethan, Abi and Sam, inseparable friends in their mid-20s, are forced into real adulthood when eviction looms. Razor-sharp and witty, It Gets Worse skewers a generation stuck between housing crisis, humiliating jobs and messy relationships, while savouring the joy of youth in one of the buzziest cities in the world. It’s anchored by standout performances from the three leads, alongside unforgettable cameos from the likes of Lena Dunham and Andrew Scott.

The Story of Documentary Film (The 1990s)
2026 120mins UK (15) LFF
Directed by Mark Cousins

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

This fascinating chapter from Mark Cousins’ epic essay on the history of documentary chronicles a decade of formal reinvention and mainstream success.

Cousins, the creator of the groundbreaking The Story of Film: A New Generation and Women Make Film, trains his distinctive film-historian lens on the evolution of documentary. The result is a rich tapestry of landmark works and underappreciated gems. In this illuminating chapter, he guides us through the 1990s, a decade of filmmakers exploring bodies, spirituality, labour, war and politics, against the backdrop of rising commercial interest in the form.

The Unknown
2026 140mins France (15) LFF
Directed by Arthur Harari Starring Léa Seydoux, Niels Schneider, Valérie Dréville

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Mesmerising, stimulating and unsettling, Niels Schneider and Léa Seydoux star in this body-swap tale that grapples with the existential implications of being trapped inside someone else’s physical being.

David, a withdrawn photographer, meets a mysterious woman at a party. The two share a sexual encounter, only for David to wake up the morning after in the woman’s body. Arthur Harari’s (co-writer of Anatomy of a Fall) vertiginous, occasionally harrowing and ultimately rewarding ride eschews straightforward resolution in favour of a reflection on the aftermath of severing the link between body and mind.

French Language with English subtitles

The Face of Horror
2026 120mins UK (15) LFF
Directed by Anna Biller Starring Jonah Hauer-King, Kristine Froseth, Ellie Bamber, Bella Heathcote

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In this stunning, blood-soaked homage to Technicolor horror films, a woman in medieval England rises from the grave to wreak revenge on her husband.

Returning as a ghost after a cruel betrayal results in her death, Eleanor and her sister deliver bloody vengeance on the man who took her life and murdered their father. Anna Biller, writer-director of The Love Witch, here delivers a rich visual feast. Gloriously shot on 35mm, this supernatural Gothic melodrama vibrantly brings 14th-century England to life.

Weapons
2025 129mins USA (18) Supernatural / Horror
Directed by Zach Cregger Starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

Too Many Beasts
2026 95mins France (15) LFF
Directed by Sarah Arnold Starring Alexis Manenti, Ella Rumpf, Vincent Dedienne

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In this deliciously unhinged mash-up of rural thriller and dark comedy, enormous wild boars create havoc in a small French town.

Farmers and hunters are openly at war in the rural town of Sérieux. Wild boars are ruining crops and putting everyone on edge. When a local farmer mysteriously disappears, gendarme Fulda is put on the case. As he reluctantly teams up with psychologist Stéphane, the investigation gradually spirals out of control, and so does this offbeat and absurdly funny comedy.

French Language with English subtitles

I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997 102mins USA (15) Teen / Horror
Directed by Jim Gillespie Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr, Johnny Galecki, Bridgette Wilson

Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town.

Mouse
2026 120mins USA (15) LFF
Directed by Alex Thompson|Kelly O'Sullivan Starring Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Sophie Okonedo, Chloe Coleman

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

Katherine Mallen Kupferer and Sophie Okonedo excel in this moving drama about facing up to life in the aftermath of a tragedy.

Lifelong friends Callie and Minnie are like ying and yang: one loud and popular, the other shy and quiet. Abruptly forced out from her friend’s shadow, it’s finally time for Minnie to figure out who she is on her own terms. Kupferer and Okonedo’s performances drive this beautiful film that’s guaranteed to have audiences alternating between crying and laughing out loud.

The Others
2001 104mins Spain, USA (12A) Horror / Mystery
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar Starring Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan

Academy Award® winner Nicole Kidman (Best Actress, The Hours, 2003) delivers an unforgettable performance in this gothic supernatural thriller. In 1945, Grace (Kidman) and her two children wait for her husband's return from the war, living an unusually isolated existence behind the locked doors and drawn curtains of a secluded mansion in Jersey. Three mysterious new servants arrive and it becomes chillingly clear that there is far more to this house than can be seen, and Grace finds herself in a terrifying fight to save her children and preserve her sanity. Acclaimed by critics, the unpredictable twists and turns of this compelling psychological horror classic will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Godzilla Minus Zero
2026 135mins Japan (15) LFF
Directed by Takashi Yamazaki Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

The sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s acclaimed 2023 film is a true cinematic spectacle that’s sure to grip fans of Godzilla, as well as newcomers to the franchise.

Japan, 1949. Pilot Kōichi, his wife Noriko and adoptive daughter Akiko are attempting from recover from Godzilla’s recent attacks. But just as everything seems settled, a new danger emerges. Meanwhile, at the bottom of the sea, something is stirring. The first Japanese film to be shot for IMAX, Godzilla Minus Zero combines high-octane thrills with more than a little heart.

Japanese Language with English subtitles

Halloween (1978) + Halloween II (1981) • Double Feature
1978 183mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by John Carpenter|Rick Rosenthal Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, The Shape

HALLOWEEN (1978): Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

HALLOWEEN II (1981): After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she’s been admitted for Myers’ attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favourite victim.

Presented with a 10-15 minute break between features

The Idiot(s)
2026 118mins Germany, Poland (15) LFF
Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska|Michał Englert Starring Aimee Lou Wood, Johnny Flynn, Vicky Krieps

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

Aimee Lou Wood and Johnny Flynn are superb as Anna and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s acerbic and joyful period film.

Anna Dostoevsky loves her husband Fyodor. Fyodor loves his wife, but he also loves gambling and booze. Living in self-imposed exile in Germany, Fyodor’s biggest obstacle to creative progress is himself. Anna tries desperately to rid him of his procrastination so he can deliver a new novel and they can avoid destitution. Sending up the myth of the male genius, The Idiot(s) is also a beautiful love story about the writer and the wife that saved him.

English and French Language with English subtitles

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998 86mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Steve Miner Starring Michelle Williams, Jamie Lee Curtis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, L.L. Cool J

20 Years after escaping her brother Michael Myers's attacks, Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance.

Wildwood
2026 132mins USA (15) LFF
Directed by Travis Knight Starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

A forest inhabited by magical beings is the setting for this epic stop-motion saga from LAIKA Studios.

When her baby brother is kidnapped by a large flock of crows, Prue hotfoots it to a local forest where a wondrous world of mystery and peril awaits. This breathtaking, hugely ambitious new film from LAIKA Studios (Coraline, Kubo and the Two Strings) is a masterpiece of stop-motion storytelling on an epic scale and quite unlike anything previously seen.

Scream
1996 111mins USA (18) Horror / Comedy
Directed by Wes Craven Starring Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, Neve Campbell, Rose McGowan

Wes Craven re-invented and revitalised the slasher-horror genre with this modern horror classic, which manages to be funny, clever and scary, as a fright-masked knife maniac stalks high-school students in middle-class suburbia. Craven is happy to provide both tension and self-parody as the body count mounts - but the victims aren't always the ones you'd expect.

Scream 2
1997 122mins USA (18) Horror / Comedy
Directed by Wes Craven Starring Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jada Pinkett Smith, Neve Campbell

Sydney (Neve Campbell) and tabloid reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) survived the events of the first "Scream," but their nightmare isn't over. When two college students are murdered at a sneak preview of "Stab," a movie based on the events from the first film, it's clear a copycat killer is on the loose. Sydney and Gail, as well as fellow survivors Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) and Randy (Jamie Kennedy) have to find out who is behind this new murder spree, before they all end up dead.

Paper Tiger
2026 114mins USA (15) LFF
Directed by James Gray Starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Miles Teller

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James Gray goes back to his roots with this tense and atmospheric thriller, set in 1980s New York, which finds two brothers becoming embroiled with the Russian mafia.

Irwin Pearl (Miles Teller, on top form) is an engineer and family man living in Queens. When his brother, a showboating ex-police officer (a magnetic Adam Driver), enlists him for a high paying job, things rapidly take a turn for the worse. Channelling the spirit of Sidney Lumet and Michael Mann, Gray’s own, distinctive directorial style is on full display in this instant classic of American crime cinema.

Scream 3
2000 117mins USA (18) Horror / Comedy
Directed by Wes Craven Starring Courteney Cox, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Arquette, Deon Richmond, Jenny McCarthy, Neve Campbell, Parker Posey, Patrick Dempsey

As bodies begin dropping around the set of 'STAB 3', a movie sequel based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney Prescott and the other survivors are once again drawn into a game of a horror movie mayhem.

Scream 4
2011 111mins USA (15) Horror / Comedy
Directed by Wes Craven Starring Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox

Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
2026 111mins UK, USA (15) LFF
Directed by Bassam Tariq Starring Mahershala Ali, John Cho, Laith Nakli, Adia , Giancarlo Esposito

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

Bassam Tariq follows Mogul Mowgli (LFF 2020) with this gripping, inventive thriller, featuring a commanding central performance by Oscar winner Mahershala Ali.

An assassin and father of three, Latif’s life is turned upside down when his wife dies. He struggles to balance his two very different worlds, but when a hit goes south and as forces close in around him, he sets off on a desperate journey to protect his children. Amid all the mayhem, Tariq’s stylish and exhilarating thriller offers a tender portrait of grief and fatherhood, and a testament to maintaining one’s faith.

English and Arabic Language with English Subtitles

This screening will be presented with Descriptive Subtitles and will have Audio Description available on request. 

Content Warning: Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury.

Club Kid
2026 122mins (15) LFF
Directed by Jordan Firstman Starring Jordan Firstman, Reggie Absolom, Diego Calva, Cara Delevingne, Kirby Howell-Baptise

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

A jaded New York club promoter finds his messy lifestyle upended by the discovery that he has a son, in Jordan Firstman’s hilarious feature directorial debut.

A decade of drinking, drugs and clubs is finally starting to take its toll on Peter. The unexpected arrival of an infant son means it’s finally time for him to get his life together. How hard can it be? The perfect skewering of millennial malaise that is also deeply touching, it’s easy to see why Club Kid was one of the most talked-about films at Cannes this year.

This screening will be presented with Descriptive Subtitles.

Content Warning: Contains flashing images, scenes of drug use and sex, and themes of suicide.

The Debut
2026 105mins USA (PG) LFF
Directed by Jesse Eisenberg Starring Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, Halle Bailey, Jesse Eisenberg, Cara Buono

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2026 10:00am: Click Here To Book

For LFF 2026’s curtain call, writer-director Jesse Eisenberg delivers a rapturous and raucously funny love letter to community theatre, featuring a luminous lead performance by Julianne Moore.

Quiet housewife Mona has become a supporting role in her own life; her husband barely acknowledges her presence and their children are on the cusp of fleeing the nest. So when, on an impulse, she auditions for a local production of an original musical, Mona suddenly finds herself in the spotlight when she is cast in a leading role, as Miss Danielle. However, she is unprepared for the theatrical hurricane that is Jerry, her enigmatic director and the ‘biggest name in New Jersey community theatre’. As she continues to be creatively pushed by him, Mona finds herself going to extreme lengths to unlock her character. The Debut once again finds the perfect balance between humour and drama that Eisenberg delivered with his previous films A Real Pain (LFF 2024) and When You Finish Saving the World. It’s both sparklingly witty and laugh-out-loud funny, while every scene works to build on the emotional undercurrents and heartbreaking revelations that make the characters so credible. This time, Eisenberg’s talents even stretch to writing the songs for the fictional stage musical. Moore is in her element, giving one of her finest performances, while Paul Giamatti’s Jerry continues his run from The Holdovers as the master of dramedy. Ultimately, The Debut is an elegant and intelligent coming-of-older-age story about how it’s never too late to find our true selves, and the redemptive powers of community and art. Take your seats... It’s showtime!

This screening will be presented with Descriptive Subtitles and will have Audio Description available on request. 

The Wicker Man - The Final Cut
1973 94mins UK (15) Horror
Directed by Robin Hardy Starring Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Edward Woodward

A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.

Urban Legend
1998 100mins USA (18) Teen / Horror
Directed by Jamie Blanks Starring Robert Englund, Jared Leto, Joshua Jackson, Rebecca Gayheart, Tara Reid, Alicia Witt

When a series of murders take place in and around her university, Natalie begins to suspect that the deaths are inspired by various urban legends.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948 83mins USA (PG) Horror / Comedy
Directed by Charles Barton Starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert

* ON SALE 23rd SEP *

The popular comedy team of the 1940s and 1950s, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, goes up against Universal Studios’s monsters in this zany spoof. Dracula (Bela Lugosi), the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.), and Frankenstein’s Monster (Glenn Strange) all make memorable appearances in this horror comedy mashup, which manages to do justice to both genres―a feat frequently attempted but rarely achieved.

Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
1931 145mins USA (PG) Movie Marathons
Directed by James Whale Starring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, E. E. Clive

FRANKENSTEIN (1931): Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935): Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.

Presented with a 10-minute break between features.

La Haine
1995 98mins France (15) Crime
Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz Starring Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui

Hatred breeds hatred...

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

Carrie
1976 99mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Brian De Palma Starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving

In this chilling adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel, withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother (Piper Laurie) at home. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers. Invited to the prom by the empathetic Tommy Ross (William Katt), Carrie tries to let her guard down, but things eventually take a dark and violent turn.

The Witch
2015 93mins Canada, USA (15) Horror
Directed by Robert Eggers Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Kate Dickie, Ralph Ineson

Featuring an intro from Writer/Director Robert Eggers on Tuesday 20th October

In 1630 New England, panic and despair envelops a farmer, his wife and their children when youngest son Samuel suddenly vanishes. The family blames Thomasin, the oldest daughter who was watching the boy at the time of his disappearance. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, twin siblings Mercy and Jonas suspect Thomasin of witchcraft, testing the clan's faith, loyalty and love to one another.

Seven
1995 127mins USA (18) Crime / Thriller
Directed by David Fincher Starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, John Doe

GLUTTONY. GREED. SLOTH. WRATH. PRIDE. LUST. ENVY. 

Two cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders, each kill targeting a practitioner of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gwyneth Paltrow also stars in this acclaimed thriller set in a dour, drizzly city sick with pain and blight. David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) guides the action - physical, mental and spiritual - with a sure understanding of what terrifies us, right up to a stunning denouement that will rip the scar tissue off the most hardened soul.

The 4K restoration of “Se7en” was completed at Warner Bros. Discovery’s Motion Picture Imaging and sourced from the original camera negative. The restoration was overseen by David Fincher. 

The Innocents (1961)
1961 100mins UK, USA (12A) Supernatural / Horror
Directed by Jack Clayton Starring Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins

In Victorian England, the uncle of orphaned niece Flora and nephew Miles hires Miss Giddens as governess to raise the children at his estate with total independence and authority. Soon after her arrival, Miss Giddens comes to believe that the spirits of the former governess Miss Jessel and valet Peter Quint are possessing the children. Miss Giddens decides to help the children to face and exorcise the spirits.

Halloween II (1981)
1981 92mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Rick Rosenthal Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, The Shape

After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.

The Sacrifice
1986 148mins France, Sweden, UK (12A) Drama
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Starring Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall

Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary final film unfolds in the hours before a nuclear holocaust. Erland Josephson, in an award-winning role, plays retired actor Alexander who is celebrating his birthday with family and friends when a crackly TV announcement warns of an imminent nuclear catastrophe.

Alexander makes a promise to God that he will sacrifice all he holds dear, if the disaster can be averted. The next day dawns and, as if in a dream, everything is restored to normality. But Alexander must keep his vow.

Among many other awards, The Sacrifice won the Cannes Grand Prix in 1986, the same year that Tarkovsky died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54.

Haxan
1922 106mins (15) Horror
Directed by Benjamin Christensen Starring Benjamin Christensen, Ella La Cour, Emmy Schønfeld

This performance will feature a live score performed by Hugo Max

Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan must to be seen to be believed. Playing out as a lecture on witchcraft ‘made flesh’, the film foreshadows the found footage horror genre and features many of the most imaginatively realised and grotesque visuals of silent cinema history. My viola takes on the voice of the occult-obsessed lecturer(/director), possessed by the alluring darkness of the subject, wrestling with the film’s message of hierarchal corruption and its prevailing controversies.

Please view this YouTube video for a sample of Hugo's work.

Cube
1997 90mins Canada (15) Horror / Mystery
Directed by Vincenzo Natali Starring Nicole De Boer, Nicky Guadagni, Maurice Dean Wint

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition With Bonus Footage
2026 126mins USA (15) Horror
Directed by Kane Parsons Starring Renate Reinsve, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mark Duplass

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Solve Along A Murder She Wrote
1984 120mins USA (18) PCC Event
Directed by Various Starring Angela Lansbury

Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote returns to the Prince Charles Cinema with an interactive screening of a classic Murder, She Wrote episode. Watch as Cabot Cove gets caught up in a murder mystery only JB Fletcher (or you!) can solve!

Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote is a unique and hilarious night featuring games, prizes and audience participation, with special permission from NBC Universal Television. See the show Time Out rated one of 2021 and 2019’s 50 Great Nights Out in London that has played to sell-out audiences across the UK and Australia.

Hosted by super-fan Tim Benzie, Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote features:
* A race to solve to the crime, via the Fameometer and the Suspiciometer!
* A Cabot Cove quiz!
* A singalong to the theme tune with new lyrics!
* Clips and biogs of the campy guest stars!

Tim Benzie is obsessed with Murder, She Wrote, having watched the original series when it was first broadcast, and now relishing the repeats on television everywhere. Tim is the writer/performer of “It’s a Mystery!”, all about our love of whodunnits. An award-winning playwright and co-writer of the Royal Vauxhall Tavern’s 2017-2023 pantos (‘Goosed’, ‘Rubbed’, ‘Slipped’, ‘Pricked’, ‘Cracked’ and ‘Tossed’). He is the co-producer of the camp club night PopHorror.

Visit us at www.solvealongamurdershewrote.com, or follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @solvealonga.

2026 SCHEDULE:

Tuesday 8th September 2026
"Dead Man's Gold" 
Directed by Seymour Robbie
Starring Angela Lansbury, Leslie Nielsen, Tom Bosley
1986 | 120mins | USA

Thursday 22nd October 2026
Encore Halloween special - "The Witch's Curse"
Directed by Jerry Jameson
Starring Angela Lansbury, Robert Vaughn, Mary Crosby
1992 | 120mins | USA

Thursday 26th November 2026
New episode TBC

Thursday 17th December 2026
Encore screening - "A Christmas Secret"
Directed by Anthony Pullen Shaw
Starring Angela Lansbury, Larry Wilcox, Amy Brenneman
1992 | 120mins | USA

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The Critics speak!

“You’ll be swept away with Jessica Fletcher feels … it has the BEST HOST.” - Time Out London

"A cinematic, theatrical and hilarious experience ... Before the night I had never seen an episode of Murder, She Wrote before, unlike some dedicated fans who had even dressed up. However, this really was an evening everyone could enjoy.” - Nottingham Post


"As soon as I saw it was on at the [Edinburgh] Fringe I elbowed my way through the other BW reviewers, pushed a couple of them over … just so I could get to the front of the queue and see this show again. And it did not disappoint ... I'd go again in a heartbeat.” 5 stars ***** - Broadway World

"The self-confessed super-fan and award-winning playwright will lead you into a silly whirlwind of nostalgic giggle, using his wealth of camp trivia and sound logic to solve these killings.” 5 stars ***** - One4Review

"Benzie knows how to put on a great show ... I would happily see it again, with all the fervour of the ‘Jessica Fletcher eating popcorn’ meme." 5 stars ***** - Everything Theatre

“Whodunnit? Tim dunnit – and he did it so well I can’t wait for the next one!" 5 stars ***** - Fairy-Powered Productions

“I’d challenge anyone to sit through this show and not get utterly invested in figuring out whodunit.” 4 stars **** - West End Wilma

“This is a highly entertaining production even if you have never seen an episode, filled with outrageous fun." 4 stars **** - British Theatre Guide

"For a funny, campy evening, there is little that could beat Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote’s unique qualities and Benzie’s wit and charm. Personally this reviewer can’t wait to revisit 
Cabot Cove. Never mind 'whodunnit', more like 'yougottadoit!" 4 stars **** - The Reviews Hub

“A lighthearted two hours of entertainment that both die-hard devotees and Cabot Cove novices will enjoy ... A solve-along, sing-along hit." 4 stars **** - Broadway Baby

“Benzie's passion and knowledge shines through." 4 stars **** - West End Best Friend

"Tim Benzie is the perfect host ... Benzie’s insights help keep the audience engaged with the show and not just passively watching the episode unfold.” 4 stars **** - The Nerd Party

“It didn’t take long for Benzie to have the audience in stitches and he had the whole crowd in the palm of his hand the entire evening.” - Bristol 24/7

“A unique and thoroughly enjoyable theatre experience” - Blue Curtains Brisbane

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For links to the full reviews visit www.solvealongamurdershewrote.com
 

Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007)
2007 110mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Rob Zombie Starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Danielle Harris

After being committed for 15 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution and immediately returns to Haddonfield to find his baby sister, Laurie.

Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009)
2009 105mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Rob Zombie Starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane

Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.

Scooby-Dooble Feature
2002 198mins USA (PG) Movie Marathons
Directed by Raja Gosnell Starring Freddie Prinze Jr, Freddie Prinze Jr., Linda Cardellini, Matthew Lillard, Rowan Atkinson, Sarah Michelle Gellar

Don't miss the return of the original SCOOBY-DOOBLE FEATURE : featuring the loveable 2002 live-action adaptation of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, SCOOBY-DOO, and its 2004 sequel, SCOOBY DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED, back-to-back from 35mm prints in one night! Accept no imitations!

SCOOBY-DOO (2002) : Zoinks! Two years after a clash of egos forced Mystery Inc. to close its doors, Scooby-Doo and his clever crime-solving cohorts Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and Velma (Linda Cardellini) are individually summoned to Spooky Island to investigate a series of paranormal incidents at the ultra-hip Spring Break hot spot.

SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED (2004) : In this live-action sequel, the lovable dog Scooby-Doo once again joins his pals Shaggy (Matthew Lillard), Velma (Linda Cardellini), Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar) as they stumble into another seemingly supernatural mystery. In addition to facing off against various monsters that are tormenting their town, the gang must deal with television journalist Heather Jasper-Howe (Alicia Silverstone), who is out to discredit their investigations.

The Mummy [1999]
1999 125mins USA (12A) Action/Adventure
Directed by Stephen Sommers Starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah

The Mummy is a rousing, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara Desert in 1925. Stumbling upon an ancient tomb, the hunters unwittingly set loose a 3,000-year-old legacy of terror, which is embodied in the vengeful reincarnation of an Egyptian priest who had been sentenced to an eternity as one of the living dead.

We're All Going to the World's Fair
2021 86mins (15) Horror / Thriller
Directed by Jane Schoenbrun Starring Anna Cobb, Michael J Rogers, May Leitz

Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.

I Saw the TV Glow
2024 100mins USA (15) Horror / Drama
Directed by Jane Schoenbrun Starring Justice Smith, Jack Haven, Ian Foreman

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
2026 112mins USA (15) Horror
Directed by Jane Schoenbrun Starring Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Fix

Hacks breakout star Hannah Einbinder and, in a playful bit of meta-casting, Gillian Anderson (The X Files, Sex Education) headline this heady, gory slasher homage from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun. Like Schoenbrun’s previous films I Saw the TV Glow and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, it uses a horror genre lens to explore a rich array of themes and ideas – queer identity and sexuality, memory and nostalgia, the nature of female desire, the state of the entertainment industry – with humour, vulnerability and affection.

After years of slapdash sequels, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic, cerebral young director (Einbinder) – who credits the first film with her own queer awakening – to resurrect. But fantasy and reality collide when she visits the original film’s star (Anderson), now a mysterious recluse living on its old set, and the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of fear, desire and delirium

Mystery Horror Movie Marathon
1896 500mins We can't tell you (18) Movie Marathons
Directed by Who Knows? Starring Various

ALL NIGHTER : FAQs, HOUSE RULES & TIPS

Please Note: We will have a late licence on the night, and the bar will close at 2am.

Don't miss a  MYSTERY HORROR MOVIE MARATHON, featuring 5 random horror films that have been plucked from the history of the genre! No Clues! No Hints! No Refunds! Only Dread!

Tickets are only £20 Members / £22.50 Non-Members!

That's an incredible deal for 5 films; so why not take a chance and let a little mystery into your life!?!

MYSTERY HORROR MOVIE MARATHON line-up
• MYSTERY MOVIE 1
• MYSTERY MOVIE 2
• MYSTERY MOVIE 3
• MYSTERY MOVIE 4
• MYSTERY MOVIE 5

(We will update end time shortly)

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NO ADMISSIONS TO THE CINEMA AFTER MIDNIGHT

NO ALCOHOL PURCHASED FROM OUTSIDE IS PERMITTED IN THE BUILDING!

AGE RESTRICTIONS: This event is strictly 18+

Classic Horror Marathon
1974 533mins USA (18) Movie Marathons
Directed by John Carpenter|William Friedkin|Stanley Kubrick|Wes Craven|Tobe Hooper Starring Kurt Russell, Ellen Burstyn, Jack Nicholson, Robert Englund, Marilyn Burns

ALL NIGHTER : FAQs, HOUSE RULES & TIPS

THE THING : In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.

THE EXORCIST (Extended Cut) : When young Regan (Linda Blair) starts acting odd -- levitating, speaking in tongues -- her worried mother (Ellen Burstyn) seeks medical help, only to hit a dead end. A local priest (Jason Miller), however, thinks the girl may be seized by the devil. The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert (Max von Sydow) to help with the difficult job.

THE SHINING : Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer's block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack's writing goes nowhere and Danny's visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel's dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: In Wes Craven's classic slasher film, several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a disfigured midnight mangler who preys on the teenagers in their dreams -- which, in turn, kills them in reality. After investigating the phenomenon, Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) begins to suspect that a dark secret kept by her and her friends' parents may be the key to unraveling the mystery, but can Nancy and her boyfriend Glen (Johnny Depp) solve the puzzle before it's too late?

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE : When Sally (Marilyn Burns) hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.

Marathon is due to end at 08:38am

Please Note: The Bar closes at 11pm

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NO ADMISSIONS TO THE CINEMA AFTER MIDNIGHT!

NO ALCOHOL PURCHASED FROM OUTSIDE IS PERMITTED IN THE BUILDING!

AGE RESTRICTIONS: This event is strictly 18+

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
1968 96mins USA (15) Horror
Directed by George A. Romero Starring Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman

New 4K Restoration!

A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. The pragmatic Ben (Duane Jones) does his best to control the situation, but when the re-animated bodies surround the house, the other survivors begin to panic. As any semblance of order within the group begins to dissipate, the zombies start to find ways inside. One by one, the living humans become the prey of the deceased ones.

"Night of the Living Dead was restored by the Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation and the Celeste Bartos Preservation Fund."

Shaun of the Dead
2004 99mins UK (15) Horror / Comedy
Directed by Edgar Wright Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Peter Serafinowicz

There comes a day in every man's life when he has to get off the couch…and kill some zombies. When flesh-eating zombies are on the hunt for a bite to eat, it's up to slacker Shaun and his best pal to save their friends and family from becoming the next entrée.

The Return of the Living Dead
1985 91mins USA (18) Horror / Comedy
Directed by Dan O'Bannon Starring Clu Gulager, Don Calfa, James Karen

When foreman Frank (James Karen) shows new employee Freddy (Thom Mathews) a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout Louisville, Ky., and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss (Clu Gulager) and a mysterious mortician (Don Calfa).

The Cable Guy
1996 96mins USA (12A) Comedy
Directed by Ben Stiller Starring Jack Black, Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann

* ON SALE 23rd SEP *

Oddball cable installer Chip Douglas (Jim Carrey) attempts to strike up a friendship with customer Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) by offering him premium channels at no cost. When Steven rebuffs Chip's frequent need for companionship, Chip goes from a mildly eccentric acquaintance to a full-fledged psycho stalker. Though it's increasingly apparent to Steven that the cable guy is dangerous, convincing his friends, family and the authorities of that is another matter entirely.

Friday The 13th
1980 95mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Sean S. Cunningham Starring Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor

A group of teenage camp counselors attempt to re-open an abandoned summer camp with a tragic past, but they are stalked by a mysterious, relentless killer.

Prince Charles Cinema Film Quiz
2024 140mins UK (18) Film Quiz
Directed by Chevy Mclaren

Put your cinematic knowledge to the test with The Prince Charles Cinema Film Quiz!

This is a full-blown, no-holds-barred celebration of cinematic chaos, cult classics, and endless movie trivia. Hosted by Chevy Mclaren live in the heart of London cinema - this is your chance to test your film knowledge in this night of movie madness!

Expect limited-edition PCC merch, free cinema tickets, exclusive movie prizes, live performances, and bonkers audience games. Bring your cinephile friends (teams up to 5), grab a drink, and prepare to scream, guess, act, and laugh your way through the most chaotic quiz night in London!

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
2025 100mins Canada (15) Comedy / Fantasy
Directed by Matt Johnson Starring Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol, Ben Petrie

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.

Brother
2000 114mins France, Japan, UK, USA (18) Crime / Thriller
Directed by Takeshi Kitano Starring Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps, Claude Maki

Legendary comedian and TV host turned director Takeshi Kitano writes, directs, and stars in his first and only American co-production. Disgraced yakuza Yamamoto (Kitano) seeks refuge in Los Angeles, reconnecting with his younger half-brother Ken (Claude Maki) after his clan suffered defeat at the hands of a rival gang back in Tokyo. Cool and detached, Brother marries Japanese and American disillusionment in Kitano’s signature violent minimalist style through the growing bonds between Yamamoto and the multinational gang that he cultivates in L.A. 

Brother is featured as part of Gangsters Have Feelings Too, a season exploring the sensitive gangster film. The season is presented with the National Film and Television School’s Film Studies, Programming and Curation MA.

Interview With The Vampire
1994 122mins USA (15) Horror / Drama
Directed by Neil Jordan Starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas

Born as an 18th-century lord, Louis is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer. Suicidal after the death of his family, he meets Lestat, a vampire who persuades him to choose immortality over death and become his companion. Eventually, gentle Louis resolves to leave his violent maker, but Lestat guilts him into staying by turning a young girl -- whose addition to the "family" breeds even more conflict.

From Dusk Till Dawn
1996 108mins USA (18) Horror / Action
Directed by Robert Rodriguez Starring George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Quentin Tarantino, Selma Hayek

After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.

Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992 127mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Starring Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder

Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down.

Blade
1998 120mins USA (18) Supernatural / Horror
Directed by Stephen Norrington Starring Stephen Dorff, Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson

A half-mortal, half-immortal is out to avenge his mother's death and rid the world of vampires. The modern-day technologically advanced vampires he is going after are in search of his special blood type needed to summon an evil god who plays a key role in their plan to execute the human race.

Sing-A-Long-A Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975 100mins USA (15) Sing-a-long-a
Directed by Jim Sharman Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick

The Campest Cult Classic of all time gets the Singalonga treatment it’s been SCREAMING for! Featuring the film, starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Meatloaf and Richard O’Brien, it’s the most outrageous, riotous, kitsch, wonderful romp ever. If you’ve done The Time Warp before, you’ll never have done it quite like this!

The evening begins with your host leading a vocal warm-up before they show you how to use your free interactive props bag. Fancy dress is not obligatory but highly recommended!

Please Note : The 15 rating we have placed upon this screening is due to the Adult content of the hosted pre-show which may not be suitable for those under 15.

Please Note : This is a screening of the movie not a live stage show. Also this screening may contain sudden loud noises and flashing lights.

For Sing-a-long-a Grease, Rocky Horror, Dirty Dancing and The Greatest Showman at the Prince Charles Cinema, London we can offer a discount for groups of 10+.

Simply get in touch with us via email at [email protected] before buying so we can arrange!

Halloween Marathon
1978 617mins USA (18) Movie Marathons
Directed by John Carpenter| Various Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, The Shape, Danielle Harris, Paul Rudd

ALL NIGHTER : FAQs, HOUSE RULES & TIPS

HALLOWEEN (1978): Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

HALLOWEEN II (1981): After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she’s been admitted for Myers’ attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favourite victim.

HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982): After a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital, clutching the year’s most popular Halloween mask, Dr. Daniel Challis sets out to investigate the strange events and finds himself thrust into a nightmarish conspiracy.

HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS (1988): Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece.

HALLOWEEN 5: THE REVENGE OF MICHAEL MYERS (1989): After lying in a coma for a year, Michael Myers awakens and stalks his way back to his small hometown in Illinois, intent on killing his niece, Jamie, who has been confined to a mental institution since his last attempt to slay her.

HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS [Producer's Cut] (1995): Six years after being presumed dead in a fire, and just as the town prepares to finally celebrate Halloween again, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield to continue his reign of terror.

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Donnie Darko [Theatrical Cut]
2001 113mins USA (15) Science Fiction
Directed by Richard Kelly Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell

During the presidential election of 1988, a teenager named Donnie Darko sleepwalks out of his house one night and sees a giant, demonic-looking rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world will end in 28 days. When Donnie returns home, he finds that a jet engine has crashed into his bedroom. Is Donnie living in a parallel universe, is he suffering from mental illness - or will the world really end?

Paris, Texas
1984 145mins France, Germany, UK, USA, West Germany (12A) Drama
Directed by Wim Wenders Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell

A disheveled man who wanders out of the desert, Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) seems to have no idea who he is. When a stranger manages to contact his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell), Travis is awkwardly reunited with his sibling. Travis has been missing for years, and his presence unsettles Walt and his family, which also includes Travis's own son, Hunter (Hunter Carson). Soon Travis must confront his wife, Jane (Nastassja Kinski), and try to put his life back together.

Your Name [Kimi no Na wa.]
2016 106mins Japan (12A) Anime
Directed by Makoto Shinkai Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi

Two teenagers share a profound, magical connection upon discovering they are swapping bodies. Things manage to become even more complicated when the boy and girl decide to meet in person.

In the Realm of the Senses
1976 102mins Japan (18) Psychological Drama
Directed by Nagisa Oshima Starring Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji, Aoi Nakajima, Taiji Tonoyama

Still censored in its own country, In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida), by Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, remains one of the most controversial films of all time. A graphic portrayal of insatiable sexual desire, Oshima’s film, set in 1936 and based on a true incident, depicts a man and a woman (Tatsuya Fuji and Eiko Matsuda) consumed by a transcendent, destructive love while living in an era of ever-escalating imperialism and governmental control. Less a work of pornography than of politics, In the Realm of the Senses is a brave, taboo-breaking milestone.

Content Warning: This film contains scenes of graphic sex and violence. Further information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found on Common Sense Media, IMDb and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989 124mins France, UK (18) Crime
Directed by Peter Greenaway Starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren

When churlish mobster Albert Spica (Michael Gambon) acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina (Helen Mirren), is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with another restaurant guest, Michael (Alan Howard). Despite their efforts to keep it a secret, however, Spica finds out about their trysts, and he plans to exact a terrible revenge.

Eyes Wide Shut
1999 159mins UK, USA (18) Thriller / Mystery
Directed by Stanley Kubrick Starring Todd Field, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack

Stanley Kubrick's daring last film is many things. It is a compelling psychosexual journey. A haunting dreamscape. A riveting tale of suspense. A major milestone in the careers of stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. And "a worthy final chapter to a great director's career" (Roger Ebert).

Cruise plays Dr William Hartford, who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage - and may even ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery - after his wife's (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. Graceful tracking shots, controlled pacing, rich colours, startling images: bravura traits that make Kubrick a filmmaker for the ages are here to keep everyone's eyes wide shut.

Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 118mins USA (PG) Comedy/Crime
Directed by Frank Capra Starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull

*ON SALE 23rd OCT * Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

Antichrist
2009 108mins Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden (18) Horror / Mystery
Directed by Lars von Trier Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm, Willem Dafoe

While a married couple (Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg) is having sex, their infant son in a nearby room falls out a window to his death. She becomes distraught and is hospitalized, but her husband, who is a psychiatrist, attempts to treat her. Deciding that she needs to face her fears, he takes her to a cabin in the woods where she spent a previous summer with the boy. Once they are there, she becomes more unhinged and starts perpetrating sexual violence on her husband and herself.

Heat
1995 171mins USA (15) Crime
Directed by Michael Mann Starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer

A group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a verbal clue at their latest heist.

Original Cut from a 35mm print. 

Black Narcissus
1947 101mins UK (U) Psychological Drama
Directed by Michael Powell|Emeric Pressburger Starring Deborah Kerr, Kathleen Byron, Flora Robson, David Farrar

This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the epitome of the sensuous style of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. A group of nuns—played by some of Britain's finest actresses, including Deborah Kerr, Kathleen Byron, and Flora Robson—struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad. A darkly grand film that won Oscars for Alfred Junge's art direction and Jack Cardiff's cinematography, Black Narcissus is one of the greatest achievements by two of cinema's true visionaries.

The Zone of Interest
2023 105mins Poland, UK, USA (12A) Psychological Drama
Directed by Jonathan Glazer Starring Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

Funeral Parade presents "An Actor's Revenge"
1963 114mins Japan (12A) Drama
Directed by Kon Ichikawa Starring Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao

Funeral Parade is proud to present An Actor’s Revenge, Kon Ichikawa’s melodrama about kabuki and vengeance.

Taking place during Japan’s Edo period, the story follows Yukitaro, a kabuki theatre performer, as he seeks revenge on the three criminals who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier. A renowned onnagata — a male actor who portrays female characters — Yukitaro is as bewitchingly androgynous as he is deadly with a sword. However, his plan to mete out retribution is complicated when he develops feelings for Namiji, the daughter of one of his foes. A stunningly beautiful tragedy with lush widescreen compositions, An Actor’s Revenge is both a classic of 1960s Japanese cinema and landmark example of on-screen gender fluidity.

With intro from curator Sarah Cleary.

Amelie - 25th Anniversary
2001 123mins France (15) Romance/Comedy
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet Starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus

23-year-old Amélie is lonely. After an isolating childhood, she moves to Paris and becomes a waitress at the Café des Deux Moulins, a bar restaurant filled with a colourful cast of diners and employees. One night, Amélie happens across a box of treasures hidden in her apartment, left by a little boy in the Fifties, that changes the course of her life. Henceforth, she dedicates herself to giving back to her community, tracking down the owner of these keepsakes, consoling a widowed neighbour and befriending a reclusive artist. When completing these good deeds, she crosses paths with Nino, a photobooth collagist who shares her oddball sensibilities. She quickly falls in love with him.  

La La Land
2016 128mins USA (12A) Musical
Directed by Damien Chazelle Starring Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Rosemarie DeWitt

Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Dogtooth [Kynodontas]
2009 97mins Greece (18) Psychological Drama
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Starring Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia

Newly restored in 4K, DOGTOOTH follows a controlling, manipulative father who locks his three adult children in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.

Fantastic Planet
1973 72mins Czechoslovakia, France (PG) Animation
Directed by René Laloux Starring Gérard Hernandez, Jean Valmont, Jennifer Drake

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

Taste of Cherry
1997 99mins Iran (PG) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami Starring Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Safar Ali Moradi

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami’s _Taste of Cherry_ is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran—searching for someone to rescue or bury him.

The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 164mins USA (15) Drama
Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey

Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas - despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the saviour of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt. As he is put to death on the cross, Jesus is tempted by visions of an ordinary life married to Mary Magdalene.

Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom
1975 117mins France, Italy (18) Arthouse Horror
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Elsa De Giorgi

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

V For Vendetta
2005 132mins Germany, UK, USA (15) Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Directed by James McTeigue Starring Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves

In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004 108mins USA (15) Sci-Fi / Romance
Directed by Michel Gondry Starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson

After a painful breakup, Clementine (Kate Winslet) undergoes a procedure to erase memories of her former boyfriend Joel (Jim Carrey) from her mind. When Joel discovers that Clementine is going to extremes to forget their relationship, he undergoes the same procedure and slowly begins to forget the woman that he loved. Directed by former music video director Michel Gondry, the visually arresting film explores the intricacy of relationships and the pain of loss.

Excalibur
1981 141mins UK, USA (15) Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by John Boorman Starring Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Helen Mirren

Arthur fulfills his fate by bringing together the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot and unifying the country. However, this flawed monarch faces greater tests ahead in pursuit of love, the Holy Grail, and his nation's survival.

Short Cuts : 35mm Roadshow Tour
1993 188mins USA (18) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Robert Altman Starring Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Andie MacDowell, Tom Waits

A multi-storied, fish-eyed look at the human condition against the backdrop of contemporary middle-class LA. Twenty two characters intersect, profoundly and fleetingly, through each other’s lives. It runs the emotional gamut from disturbing to humorous.

Don't miss a rare opportunity to see Robert Altman's sprawling epic, showing from an original 35mm print as part of our SHORT CUTS 35mm Roadshow Tour. The 35mm Roadshow Tour will begin at the Prince Charles Cinema, before heading to other sites across the UK in a limited run this November. Special thanks to David Levy for helping us make this happen, and to Curzon for giving us and participating sites access to their print.

The Fifth Element
1997 126mins France (PG) Sci-Fi / Action
Directed by Luc Besson Starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman

The Earth is about to be destroyed by a huge ball of fire racing toward the planet. Cornelius, an old monk, knows how to stop the burning sphere with the help of Korben Dallas, a taxi driver and former secret agent and a woman named Leeloo.

Bugsy Malone
1976 93mins UK (U) Musical / Comedy
Directed by Alan Parker Starring Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger

It is 1929 in New York and the city is divided by gang warfare. On one side, Dandy Dan's mob terrorise the district, taking out those they turn against with their new splurge guns. On the other side, Dandy Dan's rival, Fat Sam, runs his successful Grand Slam Speakeasy.

Big Trouble in Little China
1986 100mins USA (15) Action/Adventure
Directed by John Carpenter Starring Dennis Dun, Kim Cattrall, Kurt Russell

Kurt Russell plays hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton, who gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and underneath, San Francisco's Chinatown. An ancient Chinese prince and Chinatown crime lord has kidnapped a beautiful green-eyed woman, who is the fiancee to Jack's best friend. Jack must help his friend rescue the girl before the evil Lo Pan uses her to break the ancient curse that keeps him a fleshless and immortal spirit.

Romeo + Juliet (1996)
1996 120mins USA (12A) Crime / Romance
Directed by Baz Luhrmann Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, John Leguizamo, Claire Danes

Against the urban backdrop of Verona Beach, California, the Montague and Capulet families are embroiled in a long-running feud. When Romeo, a Montague, attends a Capulet ball in disguise, he falls in love with the beautiful Juliet. Although already engaged to Dave Paris, whom she does not love, Juliet vows to marry Romeo. They ask the kindly Father Laurence to perform the ceremony in secret, but bloodshed and tragedy threaten the couple's future together.

Whisper of the Heart
1995 111mins Japan (U) Anime
Directed by Yoshifumi Kondô Starring Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana

Discover the brilliance of this heartwarming coming-of-age classic from the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of My Neighbour Totoro and the Academy Award®-winning Spirited Away.

A chance encounter with a mysterious cat sends Shizuku, a girl with her head in the clouds, on a quest for her true talent. Together with Seiji, a boy determined to follow his dreams, and enchanted by The Baron, an antique cat figurine who guides her to listen to the whispers of her heart, Shizuku embarks on a life-changing adventure that takes her beyond the boundaries of her imagination. Based on a screenplay and storyboards from Hayao Miyazaki, WHISPER OF THE HEART is a precious gem in the Studio Ghibli catalogue, directed by veteran animator Yoshifumi Kondo.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1958 88mins USA (U) Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by Nathan Juran Starring Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Torin Thatcher

When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
1975 134mins USA (15) Drama
Directed by Milos Forman Starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd

Adapted from Ken Kesey’s novel, the film centres on Randle McMurphy (Nicholson), a convict who simulates mental illness in the hope that a transfer to psychiatric hospital might ensure his early release. But he hasn’t bargained for the rigid regimen of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher, also superb), who dislikes his disruptive — though he’d say liberating — effect on the ward.

Inspired casting (Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif and Christopher Lloyd are among the patients) and Forman’s naturalistic direction lend authenticity to the proceedings, so that the film succeeds both as anti-authoritarian parable and as an affecting reminder of the psychiatric practices of the past.

Pulp Fiction
1994 155mins USA (18) Crime
Directed by Quentin Tarantino Starring John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames

Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) are hitmen with a penchant for philosophical discussions. In this ultra-hip, multi-strand crime movie, their storyline is interwoven with those of their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) ; his actress wife, Mia (Uma Thurman) ; struggling boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) ; master fixer Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel) and a nervous pair of armed robbers, "Pumpkin" (Tim Roth) and "Honey Bunny" (Amanda Plummer).

Oldboy [Oldeuboi]
2003 120mins South Korea (18) Psychological Horror
Directed by Chan-wook Park Starring Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang

Dae-Su is an obnoxious drunk bailed from the police station yet again by a friend. However, he's abducted from the street and wakes up in a cell, where he remains for the next 15 years, drugged unconscious when human contact is unavoidable, otherwise with only the television as company. And then, suddenly released, he is invited to track down his jailor with a denouement that is simply stunning.

Idiocracy
2006 84mins USA (15) Comedy
Directed by Mike Judge Starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard

**ON SALE 23rd OCT**

In 2005, average in every way private Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is selected to take part in a secret military experiment to put him in hibernation for a year along with a woman named Rita (Maya Rudolph). The slumbering duo is forgotten when the base they are stored on is closed down and are left in stasis until 2505. When they finally wake up, they discover the average intelligence of humans has decreased so much that Joe is now the smartest man in the world.

Boyhood
2014 165mins USA (15) Drama
Directed by Richard Linklater Starring Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane

The joys and pitfalls of growing up are seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), his parents (Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke) and his sister (Lorelei Linklater). Vignettes, filmed with the same cast over the course of 12 years, capture family meals, road trips, birthday parties, graduations and other important milestones. Songs from Coldplay, Arcade Fire and other artists capture the time period.

Come and See
1985 141mins Soviet Union (15) War / Horror
Directed by Elem Klimov Starring Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova

This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a stunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in one of the screen’s most searing depictions of anguish since Renée Falconetti’s Joan of Arc) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camerawork and expressionistic sound design. Nearly suppressed by Soviet censors who took eight years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.

The Holy Mountain
1973 115mins Mexico (18) Mind F**k
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky Starring Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders

In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.

Sunset Boulevard
1950 110mins USA (PG) Black Comedy / Film Noir
Directed by Billy Wilder Starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

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. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong. The screenwriters ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence, madness, and death.

The Departed
2006 151mins USA (18) Crime / Thriller
Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

Ms. 45
1981 80mins USA (18) Thriller
Directed by Abel Ferrara Starring Zoë Tamerlis, Steve Singer, Jack Thibeau, Peter Yellen

Eerie and unforgettable, MS. 45 is an essential snapshot of New York City in the early 1980s from Abel Ferrara (DRILLER KILLER, THE ADDICTION)—one of the greatest and most unique living filmmakers on the planet. Thana (Zoë Tamerlis) is a garment worker who’s had the ultimate bad day, as she’s assaulted twice in visceral fashion. Shocked to her core, Thana's nights become consumed by vengeful prowls through the city, which result in men winding up on the wrong end of a bullet. Knocking the DEATH WISH rip-off subgenre into a new stratosphere, MS. 45 showcases a haunting performance from Tamerlis and Ferrara's knack for transforming limited resources into genre revolutions.

Content Warning: Contains scenes of sexual assault that some viewers may find distressing. Further information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found on Common Sense Media, IMDb and DoesTheDogDie.com, as well as through general internet searches.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed
1926 67mins Germany (PG) Animation
Directed by Lotte Reiniger

This performance will feature a live score performed by Hugo Max.

Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed is an enchanting amalgamation of stories from the Arabian Nights animated in cut paper silhouettes, an exquisite artefact of Weimar Cinema and a genre-defying experiment in melding international folk art traditions with the technical possibilities of a new medium.

Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one another in a series of wondrous adventures.

Please view this YouTube video for a sample of Hugo's work.

The Odyssey
2026 173mins UK, USA (15) Fantasy
Directed by Christopher Nolan Starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway

Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.

Angel's Egg
1985 71mins Japan (12A) Anime
Directed by Mamoru Oshii Starring Keiichi Noda, Mako Hyodo, Jinpachi Nezu

In an underwater city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. A boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in his dream. At first, it seems as if feelings of sympathy are developing between the two.

Forty years after the film’s original release, Anime Limited is proud to present an all-new 4K restoration of the film, supervised by director Mamoru Oshii, in cinemas nationwide for the very first time.

The film is a creative collaboration between acclaimed director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), who wrote and directed the feature, and revered artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D). The film beautifully intertwines Oshii’s thematic reflections on philosophy and theology with Amano’s distinctive ink painting style, culminating in an arrestingly beautiful hand-drawn allegorical fantasy.

Benedetta
2021 131mins France, Netherlands (18) Film
Directed by Paul Verhoeven Starring Virginie Efira, Lambert Wilson, Daphne Patakia, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Olivier

With this orgiastic immersion in the mystic reveries of a real-life historical figure, the king of the erotic thriller Paul Verhoeven gives the nunsploitation flick a high-art makeover. Elegant, perverse, and teasingly scandalous, Benedetta critiques religious hypocrisy with an impish grin.

The Love Witch
2016 120mins USA (15) Horror / Comedy
Directed by Anna Biller Starring Samantha Robinson, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Laura Waddell

“She Loved Men... To Death.”

Addicted to love, Elaine – the love witch – casts love and sex spells to seek her perfect man, finding herself with more dead bodies than she does a long-term partner… 

A visually-striking, humorous and thought-provoking film by the continuously playful Anna Biller, The Love Witch has caused immense debate by audiences through its feminist themes. Visually drenched in 1970s fashion and cinematography, the film´s style feels as magical as the love witch herself. 

The Love Witch is featured as part of MANEATERS, a season exploring the female supernatural on screen. The season is presented with the National Film and Television School’s Film Studies, Programming and Curation MA.

Have A Gd Trip presents Welcome To Hell & Bag of Suck Double Feature
1996 95mins USA (18) Skateboarding Video
Directed by Jamie Thomas|Matt Eversole|Kyle Camarillo Starring Ed Templeton, Jamie Thomas, Chad Muska, Jerry Hsu, Louie Barletta, Marc Johnson

For one night only, Have A Gd Trip brings Skateboarding Film Club back to Prince Charles Cinema for an essential double bill celebrating two definitive eras of skate culture.

Kicking off the night is the 20th anniversary of Enjoi’s Bag of Suck (2006)—a Transworld Video of the Year winner that balanced jaw-dropping technical progression (anchored by Jerry Hsu’s legendary parts) with the irreverent, fun-first humour that made Enjoi an instant classic.

Followed by the 30th anniversary of Toy Machine’s Welcome to Hell (1996)—a relentless masterpiece that set the standard for high-impact handrail skating, immortalised Jamie Thomas’s raw style, and helped launch legends like Elissa Steamer.

Welcome to Hell
1996 | 45mins | USA | (18) | Skateboarding Video
Directed by Jamie Thomas, Video introduction by Ed Templeton
Starring Jamie Thomas, Ed Templeton, Elissa Steamer, Chad Muska, Brian Anderson, Donny Barley

Bag of Suck
2006 | 50mins | USA | (18) | Skateboarding Video
Directed by Matt Eversole and Kyle Camarillo, Video introduction by Louie Barletta
Starring Jerry Hsu, Louie Barletta, Marc Johnson, Caswell Berry, Stevie Williams, Cairo Foster
"Pandas, heavy handrails, and pure raw energy."

Two iconic videos, three decades of skate history, together for one night only. Rarely seen on the big screen—don't miss out.

Network - 50th Anniversary
1976 122mins USA (15) Drama
Directed by Sidney Lumet Starring William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

Ricochet
1991 102mins USA (18) Crime / Thriller
Directed by Russell Mulcahy Starring Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T

Nick Styles, a rookie cop, sends Earl Blake, a psychotic hitman, to prison. Years later, Blake escapes prison with a well-calculated plan to seek revenge on Styles.

Jason and the Argonauts
1963 104mins UK, USA (U) Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by Don Chaffey Starring Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond

Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.

The Time Masters
1982 79mins France (PG) Animation / Sci-Fi
Directed by René Laloux Starring Jean Valmont, Michel Elias, Frédéric Legros

Directed by visionary science-fiction animator René Laloux (Fantastic Planet) and designed by the legendary Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Mœbius) The Time Masters is a visually fantastic foray into existentialist space adventure. After his parents are killed on the dangerous planet Perdide, young Piel (voiced by Frédéric Legros) survives by maintaining radio contact with Jaffar (Jean Valmont), a pilot transporting the exiled Prince Matton (Yves-Marie Maurin) and Princess Belle (Monique Thierry) from their former kingdom. Jaffar seeks the help of Silbad (Michel Elias), a cheerful old-timer who knows how to circumvent Perdide’s hazards, including brain-devouring insects and watery graves. Along the way, Jaffar and company encounter a pair of impish homunculi stowaways, identity-less angels controlled by an amorphous hive mind, and the Masters of Time, mysterious beings who can bend reality and perhaps reveal to the heroes their secret origins and destinies.

Restored in 4K in 2023 at the initiative of CITE FILMS in collaboration with the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and with the support of the CNC

Evangelion: Death (True)² + The End of Evangelion : Double Feature
1998 156mins Japan (15) Anime
Directed by Hideaki Anno Starring Megumi Hayashibara, Megumi Ogata, Yuko Miyamura

EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)²: A recap of the first 24 episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Fifteen years after the Second Impact, apathetic teen Shinji joins his father's group NERV to fight the Angels. But the truth may destroy them all.

THE END OF EVANGELION: Concurrent theatrical ending of the TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). Seele orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can trigger Third Impact and Instrumentality under his control.

Troy
2004 162mins Mexico, UK, USA (15) Epic
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Starring Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.

The Princess Bride
1987 98mins USA (PG) Romance/Comedy
Directed by Rob Reiner Starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright

A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other.

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 100mins Germany, UK, USA (15) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Wes Anderson Starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric

In the 1930s, the Grand Budapest Hotel is a popular European ski resort, presided over by concierge Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes). Zero, a junior lobby boy, becomes Gustave's friend and protege. Gustave prides himself on providing first-class service to the hotel's guests, including satisfying the sexual needs of the many elderly women who stay there. When one of Gustave's lovers dies mysteriously, Gustave finds himself the recipient of a priceless painting and the chief suspect in her murder.

Predator
1987 107mins USA (18) Sci-Fi / Action
Directed by John McTiernan Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Fargo
1996 100mins UK, USA (15) Crime/Comedy
Directed by Ethan Coen|Joel Coen Starring Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy

Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

Labyrinth - 40th Anniversary
1986 101mins UK, USA (U) Romance / Fantasy
Directed by Jim Henson Starring David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Jennifer Connelly and Numerous Goblins and Creatures

Step back into the fantastical world of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth as the beloved classic returns to cinemas for a special 40th-anniversary re-release. Starring David Bowie in one of his most entertaining film performances as the enigmatic Goblin King, this 4K re-issue brings Jim Henson’s dazzling puppetry, imaginative landscapes, and iconic musical moments back to the big screen where they belong. Join the adventure as Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) races against time to navigate the mysterious Labyrinth and rescue her baby brother in this spellbinding cult favourite.

Mildred Pierce
1945 111mins USA (PG) Film Noir
Directed by Michael Curtiz Starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott

When Mildred Pierce's wealthy husband leaves her for another woman, Mildred decides to raise her two daughters on her own. Despite Mildred's financial successes in the restaurant business, her oldest daughter, Veda, resents her mother for degrading their social status. In the midst of a police investigation after the death of her second husband, Mildred must evaluate her own freedom and her complicated relationship with her daughter.

Highlander
1986 116mins UK (15) Action / Fantasy
Directed by Russell Mulcahy Starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown

After inexplicably surviving a mortal wound during a clan battle in the Scottish Highlands in 1536, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) is accused of witchcraft and banished from his village. Years later, he meets Ramirez (Sean Connery), a swordsman who teaches MacLeod the truth about himself: he belongs to an immortal race who can only die when the head is cut from the body.

MacLeod fights his way through the centuries until the time of The Gathering, when the few immortals who have survived the ages will come together to fight until just one remains. In 1980s New York City the final fight is about to begin and, in the end, there can be only one...

In a Lonely Place
94mins (PG) Film Noir
Directed by Nicholas Ray Starring Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy

A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.

Everything Everywhere All At Once
2022 140mins USA (15) Comedy / Action
Directed by Dan Kwan|Daniel Scheinert Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong

When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely hero must channel her newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

Whiplash
2014 106mins USA (15) Drama
Directed by Damien Chazelle Starring Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist

Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is an ambitious young jazz drummer, in pursuit of rising to the top of his elite music conservatory. Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), an instructor known for his terrifying teaching methods, discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into the top jazz ensemble, forever changing the young man's life. But Andrew's passion to achieve perfection quickly spirals into obsession, as his ruthless teacher pushes him to the brink of his ability and his sanity.

Empire of Passion
1978 105mins Japan (18) Horror / Drama
Directed by Nagisa Oshima Starring Takahiro Tamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji

With an arresting mix of eroticism and horror, Oshima plunges the viewer into a nightmarish tale of guilt and retribution in Empire of Passion (Ai no borei). Set in a Japanese village at the end of the nineteenth century, the film details the emotional and physical downfall of a married woman and her younger lover following their decision to murder her husband and dump his body in a well. Empire of Passion was Oshima's only true kaidan (Japanese ghost story), and the film, a savage, unrelenting experience, earned him the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Taxi Driver
1976 113mins USA (18) Crime
Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Robert De Niro, Albert Brooks, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. When Travis meets pretty campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster).

The Squid & The Whale
2005 81mins USA (15) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Noah Baumbach Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Owen Kline

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With excruciating honesty, The Squid and the Whale chronicles the experiences of two young brothers growing up in 1980s Park Slope, Brooklyn, as they navigate the jagged contours of the divorce of their parents, both writers. The acclaimed third feature by Noah Baumbach marked a critical development for the filmmaker as he turned toward an increasingly personal style—a move that garnered him an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. Shot in Super 16 mm and featuring a quartet of nuanced, understated performances from Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline, this comic and poignant drama, peppered with autobiographical elements, deftly captures the heartache and confusion of a fracturing family.

Trainspotting - 30th Anniversary
1996 93mins UK (18) Drama
Directed by Danny Boyle Starring Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner

Heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Tommy (Kevin McKidd). He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane (Kelly Macdonald), along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

Love Exposure
2001 237mins (18) Comedy
Directed by Sion Sono Starring Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô

The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.

Contains very strong bloody violence and sex references
 

The Colour of Pomegranates [Sayat Nova]
1969 80mins Soviet Union (PG) Drama
Directed by Sergei Parajanov Starring Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan

Sergei Parajanov's celebrated masterpiece paints an astonishing portrait of the 18th century Armenian poet Sayat Nova, the 'King of Song'. Parajanov's aim was not a conventional biography but a cinematic expression of his work, resulting in an extraordinary visual poem. Key moments in his subject's life are illustrated through a series of exquisitely orchestrated tableaux filled with rich colour and stunning iconography, each scene a celluloid painting alive with stylised movement.

The Warriors
1979 93mins USA (15) Gang
Directed by Walter Hill Starring Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright

A turf battle between New York City street gangs that rages from Coney Island to the Bronx. The Warriors are mistakenly fingered for the killing of a gang leader. Soon they have every gang in the city out to get revenge and they must make their way across the city to their own turf.

Escape from New York
1981 99mins USA (15) Sci-Fi / Action
Directed by John Carpenter Starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Adrienne Barbeau, Donald Pleasence, Harry Dean Stanton, Ernest Borgnine

In 1997, a major war between the United States and the Soviet Union is concluding, and the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison. When Air Force One is hijacked and crashes into the island, the president (Donald Pleasence) is taken hostage by a group of inmates. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), a former Special Forces soldier turned criminal, is recruited to retrieve the president in exchange for his own freedom.

Before Sunrise
1995 101mins USA (15) Romance/Drama
Directed by Richard Linklater Starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert

On his way to Vienna, American Jesse (Ethan Hawke) meets Celine (Julie Delpy), a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. departs the next morning and he has no money for lodging, they wander the city together, taking in the experiences of Vienna and each other. As the night progresses, their bond makes separating in the morning a difficult choice.

Laura
1944 88mins USA (U) Film Noir
Directed by Otto Preminger Starring Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, Dorothy Adams, Gene Tierney, James Flavin, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

No Country For Old Men
2007 122mins USA (15) Crime / Thriller
Directed by Ethan Coen|Joel Coen Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem

While out hunting, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) finds the grisly aftermath of a drug deal. Though he knows better, he cannot resist the cash left behind and takes it with him. The hunter becomes the hunted when a merciless killer named Chigurh (Javier Bardem) picks up his trail. Also looking for Moss is Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), an aging lawman who reflects on a changing world and a dark secret of his own, as he tries to find and protect Moss.

Out of the Past
1947 97mins USA (PG) Film Noir
Directed by Jacques Tourneur Starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.

The Big Lebowski
1998 117mins USA (18) Comedy
Directed by Ethan Coen|Joel Coen Starring Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, John Goodman

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

Daisies (Sedmikrásky)
1966 76mins Czechoslovakia, Slovakia (15) Comedy
Directed by Vera Chytilová Starring Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová

After realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?

Music Video Preservation Society with special guest Tim Pope
135mins (18) Music Video

Music Video Preservation Society, the big screen celebration of the art and cultural impact of music videos returns to the big screen at the Prince Charles Cinema on Wednesday November 18th, with special guest, filmmaker Tim Pope (director of classic videos for The Cure, Neil Young, The The, Bowie, etc).

Vertigo
1958 128mins USA (PG) Thriller/Suspense
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.

The Piano
1993 121mins Australia, France, New Zealand (15) Romance/Drama
Directed by Jane Campion Starring Holly Hunter, Sam Neill, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker, Genevieve Lemon

In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.

Byzantium
2012 118mins Belgium, Ireland, UK, USA (15) Horror / Fantasy
Directed by Neil Jordan Starring Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley

“We are a brotherhood. There are no women amongst us” 

Hunted for two centuries, Clara and Eleanor Webb are the only female vampires alive: a mother who feeds on human blood and will go to any lengths to survive, and her daughter who despises what she is and tries to live a moral life. Forced to find refuge in a run-down coastal hotel, they realise that they can not hide forever; not when their past and secrets are coming back to haunt them. 

Blood waterfalls, razor-sharp claws and cults of knowledge; from the director of Interview with the Vampire (1994), Byzantium is deliciously gothic, seductively atmospheric, and inescapably tragic. A must-watch title in the vampire genre, Neil Jordan depicts vampire lore in a contemporary way while staying true to its archaic themes. 

Byzantium is featured as part of MANEATERS, a season exploring the female supernatural on screen. The season is presented with the National Film and Television School’s Film Studies, Programming and Curation MA.

Ten Years of Monkey Tennis (with Peter Serafinowicz)
2026 90mins UK (15) Live Podcast
Directed by Monkey Tennis Starring Adam Brooks, Nick Alder, Tom Dark, Tom Stabb, Jed Shepherd

“One of the best TV and film podcasts” – The Telegraph

“What’s the best thing?” It’s a question for our times. It’s the question of our lives. And it’s one of Alan Partridge’s best-known phone-in topics.

Finally, as part of their 10-year birthday celebrations, the hosts of Monkey Tennis (the award-winning, chart-topping Alan Partridge fan podcast) will tackle it live, armed with only four microphones and a live audience. Join them as they pit elements of the APU (Alan Partridge Universe) against each other to determine, once and for all, the answer to Alan’s largest question: “What’s the Best Thing?” Will it be 'Alpha Papa’ or Sidekick Simon, a shop-soiled chocolate orange or a can of Sprünt, Flench and Sons Tanning or Bangkok Chick Boys?

Afterwards, they’ll also be speaking to star of I’m Alan Partridge (as well as Guardians of the Galaxy, Amandaland, Parks & Recreation, Shaun of the Dead, Spaced and 100+ more), Peter Serafinowicz, about his epic career and his time as Alan’s antagonist and lover of American things, Tex.

In the meantime, catch up on over 150 episodes of the Monkey Tennis podcast, covering almost everything Alan's ever done, at podfollow.com/monkeytennis

Crash (1996)
1996 100mins Canada (18) Erotic / Thriller
Directed by David Cronenberg Starring James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas

Technology and sexuality meet in a head-on collision in David Cronenberg's controversial adaptation of writer J.G. Ballard's hugely transgressive 1973 novel, starring James Spader and Holly Hunter.

Spader stars as James Ballard, a film producer whose deviant sexual desires are awakened by a near-fatal automobile accident with Dr. Helen Remington (Hunter). Soon, the pair, alongside Ballard's wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), are drawn into an underground world of car crash fetishism presided over by renegade scientist Vaughan (Elias Koteas). Danger, sex and death become entwined as eroticism and technology join together in a disturbing, deadly union.

A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 125mins USA (12A) Drama
Directed by Elia Kazan Starring Kim Hunter, Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh

Based on the play by Tennessee Williams, this renowned drama follows troubled former schoolteacher Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) as she leaves small-town Mississippi and moves in with her sister, Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter), and her husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando), in New Orleans. Blanche's flirtatious Southern-belle presence causes problems for Stella and Stanley, who already have a volatile relationship, leading to even greater conflict in the Kowalski household.

My Dinner with Andre
1981 110mins USA (12A) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Louis Malle Starring Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn, Jean Lenauer

Two legends of the theatre discuss life, the universe and pretty much everything else in this hugely admired conversation piece from Louis Malle.

Acclaimed playwrights, essayists and actors Wallace Shawn and André Gregory meet at Café des Artistes in Manhattan. Initially, Gregory dominates the conversation with his exploits over the course of the previous five years, from working with theatre groups in Europe to traveling through the Sahara. Shawn’s response is to ground the conversation in the virtues of everyday life – that its pleasures can be obtained through the simplest acts. Malle’s camera is the third member of the group and we are given a rare insight into the minds of two fascinating – albeit slightly fictional – people. My Dinner with Andre is a celebration of friendship, conversation and the pleasures of a cup of coffee.

Gandahar
1987 83mins France (12A) Animation / Sci-Fi
Directed by René Laloux Starring Catherine Chevallier, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Anny Duperey

An entire civilisation must confront its destiny in alternative-animation pioneer René Laloux's final feature, a cult classic of mind-bending science fiction. In a distant world, a merciless army of automata attacks Gandahar, turning its peace-loving people to stone. Hoping to discover the source of these Men of Metal, a council of matriarchs enlists the brave yet inexperienced warrior Sylvain (Pierre-Marie Escourro), who, while journeying through his planet's outer regions, teams up with the Deformed, a race cast out from Gandahar after failed science experiments rendered them mutants. Soon, Sylvain learns that a gargantuan brain called Metamorphis (Georges Wilson) is responsible for his utopian society's strife and—together with the beautiful Airelle (Catherine Chevallier)—travels through time to defeat him, in the process risking their lives and Gandahar's very existence. Featuring stunningly surreal creatures and wondrously bizarre environments designed by renowned comic-book artist Caza, Gandahar is a visceral, visionary head-trip in which animation opens a gateway to the furthest reaches of the imagination.

The Prestige
2006 130mins UK, USA (12A) Psychological Thriller
Directed by Christopher Nolan Starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson

Period thriller set in Edwardian London where two rival magicians, partners until the tragic death of an assistant during a show, feud bitterly after one of them performs the ultimate magic trick - teleportation. His rival tries desperately to uncover the secret of his routine, experimenting with dangerous new science as his quest takes him to the brink of insanity and jeopardises the lives of everyone around the pair.

Arrietty
2010 94mins Japan (U) Anime
Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi Starring Mirai Shida, Tomokazu Miura, Shinobu Ohtake

From the creators of Spirited Away and Ponyo, and Academy Award®-nominated director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, comes a gorgeous and adventure-filled adaptation of The Borrowers, one of the most beloved children’s books of all time.
 
In a secret world hidden beneath the floorboards, tiny people called Borrowers live out of sight of humans. But when brave Arrietty is out gathering supplies, she is discovered by Shawn, a human boy, and they begin to form a friendship that blossoms into a heartwarming adventure.

Double Indemnity
1944 107mins USA (PG) Film Noir
Directed by Billy Wilder Starring Barbara St, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Fred MacMurray

In this classic film noir, insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) gets roped into a murderous scheme when he falls for the sensual Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), who is intent on killing her husband (Tom Powers) and living off the fraudulent accidental death claim. Prompted by the late Mr. Dietrichson's daughter, Lola (Jean Heather), insurance investigator Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) looks into the case, and gradually begins to uncover the sinister truth.

Tenet
2020 150mins UK, USA (12A) Sci-Fi / Thriller
Directed by Christopher Nolan Starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine, Elizabeth Debicki

Armed with only one word—Tenet—and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

Cure
1997 111mins Japan (15) Horror
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa Starring Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances are sweeping Tokyo.

Blue Velvet
1986 121mins USA (18) Neo Noir
Directed by David Lynch Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini

College student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) returns home after his father has a stroke. When he discovers a severed ear in an abandoned field, Beaumont teams up with detective's daughter Sandy Williams (Laura Dern) to solve the mystery. They believe beautiful lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) may be connected with the case, and Beaumont finds himself becoming drawn into her dark, twisted world, where he encounters sexually depraved psychopath Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper)

Clash of the Titans
1981 118mins UK, USA (12) Adventure / Fantasy
Directed by Desmond Davis Starring Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith

To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken.

Insomnia
2002 118mins USA (15) Crime / Thriller
Directed by Christopher Nolan Starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank

Under the glare of the permanent Alaska sun, two veteran Los Angeles police officers close in on their suspect in the murder of a teenage girl. But when officer Will Dormer (Al Pacino) accidentally shoots his partner, their murder suspect, reclusive novelist Walter Finch (Robin Williams), witnesses the shooting--and blackmails Dormer. Now, as an idealistic local detective (Hillary Swank) investigates the case, and the stakes rise, Dormer's sanity begins to falter.

It's Such a Beautiful Day
2008 62mins USA (12A) Animation
Directed by Don Hertzfeldt Starring Don Hertzfeldt, Sara Cushman

Originally released as three short films over the course of six years, the picture was captured entirely in-camera on a 35mm rostrum animation stand. Built in the 1940s and used by Hertzfeldt on all of his animated films since 1999, it was one of the last surviving cameras of its kind still operating in the world, indispensable in creating the story's unique images and visual effects. IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY painstakingly blended traditional hand-drawn animation and experimental optical effects with new digital hybrids, printed out one frame at a time, and placed under the camera. The film's signature "split screen" effects were achieved by photographing the animation through small holes that were positioned just beneath the camera lens. One area of the film frame would be individually photographed, the film was then rewound, another section of the frame would be exposed through a different hole, and the process repeated until all elements of a scene were composited together. Towards the end of production, the old camera's motor began to fail and could no longer advance the film properly, riddling the final reels with unintentional light leaks.

In 2012, the three completed short films about a man named Bill were seamlessly combined to create a new feature film. Upon its original release, IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY was named by many critics as one of the best films of the year. The L.A. Film Critics Association named it runner-up for “Best Animated Film.”In 2014, Time Out New York ranked IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY #16 on its list of the “100 Best Animated Movies Ever Made.”In 2016, The Film Stage's critics ranked the film #1 on their list of “The 50 Best Animated Films of the 21st Century Thus Far.”In 2019, The Wrap named IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY the #1 “Best Animated Film of the 2010s.”The same year, Vulture's film critics ranked it #12 on their overall list of the “Best Movies of the Decade.”In 2021, IGN's Cinefix placed it #1 on their “Top 10 Animated Films of All Time” list.

IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY is currently ranked #103 on Letterboxd’s official list of the Top 500 highest-rated narrative feature films of all time.

Inception
2010 148mins UK, USA (12A) Science Fiction
Directed by Christopher Nolan Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page

A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.

Dead Poets Society
1989 129mins USA (PG) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Peter Weir Starring Ethan Hawke, Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard

A new English teacher, John Keating (Robin Williams), is introduced to an all-boys preparatory school that is known for its ancient traditions and high standards. He uses unorthodox methods to reach out to his students, who face enormous pressures from their parents and the school. With Keating's help, students Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke) and others learn to break out of their shells, pursue their dreams and seize the day.

Ikiru
1952 143mins Japan (PG) Drama
Directed by Akira Kurosawa Starring Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori

Mr. Watanabe suddenly finds that he has terminal cancer. He vows to make his final days meaningful. His attempts to communicate his anguish to his son and daughter-in-law lead only to heartbreak. Finally, inspired by an unselfish co-worker, he turns his efforts to bringing happiness to others by building a playground in a dreary slum neighborhood. When the park is finally completed, he is able to face death with peaceful acceptance.

Speed Racer
2008 135mins USA (PG) Action/Adventure
Directed by Lana Wachowski|Lilly Wachowski Starring Christina Ricci, Emile Hirsch, Matthew Fox

Born into a family business of race cars, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is one of the track's hot stars. Sitting at the wheel of his Mach 5, he consistently deflates the competition. When Speed turns down an offer from the head of Royalton Industries, he uncovers a secret. Powerful moguls fix the races to boost profits. Hoping to beat the executive, Speed enters the same arduous cross-country race that killed his brother.

Brute Force
1947 98mins USA (12A) Film Noir
Directed by Jules Dassin Starring Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford

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Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?

The Fly (1986)
1986 96mins USA (18) Sci-Fi / Horror
Directed by David Cronenberg Starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, Joy Boushel, Les Carlson, Gordon Chuvalo

When scientist Seth Brundle completes his teleportation device, he decides to test its abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a housefly slips in during the process, leading to a merger of man and insect. Initially, Brundle appears to have undergone a successful teleportation, but the fly's cells begin to take over his body. As he becomes increasingly fly-like, Brundle's girlfriend is horrified as the person she once loved deteriorates into a monster.

Peeping Tom
1960 101mins UK (15) Crime / Thriller
Directed by Michael Powell Starring Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

Goodfellas
1990 145mins USA (18) Crime
Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco

Young Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), with his friends Jimmy (Robert De Niro) and Tommy (Joe Pesci), grows up in the mob and works very hard to advance himself through the ranks. He enjoys his life of money and luxury, but is oblivious to the horror that he causes. A drug addiction and a few mistakes ultimately unravel his climb to the top. Based on the book "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1988 110mins USA (PG) Comedy/Crime
Directed by Frank Oz Starring Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first.

Thief
1981 122mins USA (18) Crime
Directed by Michael Mann Starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson

A highly skilled jewel thief, Frank (James Caan) longs to leave his dangerous trade and settle down with his girlfriend, Jessie (Tuesday Weld). Eager to make one last big score in order to begin living a legitimate life, Frank reluctantly associates with Leo (Robert Prosky), a powerful gangster. Unfortunately for Frank, Leo wants to keep him in his employ, resulting in a tense showdown when he finally tries to give up his criminal activities once and for all.

Boogie Nights
1997 156mins USA (18) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Starring Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds

In the San Fernando Valley in 1977, teenage busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) gets discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who transforms him into adult-film sensation Dirk Diggler. Brought into a supportive circle of friends, including fellow actors Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly), Dirk fulfills all his ambitions, but a toxic combination of drugs and egotism threatens to take him back down.

Miami Vice
2006 123mins USA (15) Action / Crime
Directed by Michael Mann Starring Colin Farrell, Gong Li, Jamie Foxx, Justin Theroux, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx). Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.

Apocalypse Now : Final Cut
1979 181mins USA (15) War
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall

In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.

Night Moves [1975]
1975 100mins USA (18) Thriller / Mystery
Directed by Arthur Penn Starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns

Hard-nosed private investigator Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), to distract himself from a rapidly deteriorating marriage, takes a case from an aging B-movie queen (Janet Ward) to locate her runaway daughter, Delly (Melanie Griffith). His search takes him to the Florida Keys, where the girl has been hiding out with her stepfather, Tom (John Crawford), and Tom's lover, Paula (Jennifer Warren). Harry initiates an affair with Paula and soon learns the case is more complex than he first assessed it.

West Side Story (1961)
1961 153mins USA (PG) Musical / Romance
Directed by Robert Wise|Jerome Robbins Starring Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Blade Runner : The Final Cut
1982 118mins USA (15) Science Fiction
Directed by Ridley Scott Starring Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer

Deckard (Harrison Ford) is forced by the police Boss (M. Emmet Walsh) to continue his old job as Replicant Hunter. His assignment: eliminate four escaped Replicants from the colonies who have returned to Earth. Before starting the job, Deckard goes to the Tyrell Corporation and he meets Rachel (Sean Young), a Replicant girl he falls in love with.

The Last Waltz - 50th Anniversary
1978 116mins USA (U) Documentary
Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Robbie Robertson, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters

Seventeen years after joining forces as the backing band for rockabilly cult hero Ronnie Hawkins, Canadian roots rockers The Band call it quits with a lavish farewell show at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Nov. 25, 1976. Filmed by Martin Scorsese, this documentary features standout performances by rock legends such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell and Muddy Waters, as well as interviews tracing the group's history and discussing road life.

Ginger Snaps
2000 108mins Canada (18) Teen / Horror
Directed by John Fawcett Starring Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche

“I get this ache... And I, I thought it was for sex, but it's to tear everything to fucking pieces.”

A wild and bloodthirsty hound has ravaged through the small town of Bailey Downs, attacking the neighbourhood's pet dogs. When the two teenage outcasts, the Fitzgerald sisters, stumble upon the creature one night, their lives change forever as Ginger is bitten, and her body starts to change. 

A true feast of practical effects, 2000s grunge, and snappy one-liners; Ginger Snaps has been credited in hindsight as a predecessor to the “maneater” supernatural woman most famously seen in Jennifer´s Body (2009). A coming-of-age story told in a fresh perspective; for maybe the true terror lies in growing up, or maybe it lies in the bloodthirsty hound who calls herself your sister. 

Ginger Snaps is featured as part of MANEATERS, a season exploring the female supernatural on screen. The season is presented with the National Film and Television School’s Film Studies, Programming and Curation MA.
 

Planes, Trains & Automobiles
1987 92mins USA (15) Comedy
Directed by John Hughes Starring John Candy, Laila Robins, Steve Martin

Easily excitable Neal Page (Steve Martin) is somewhat of a control freak. Trying to get home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his wife (Laila Robins) and kids, his flight is rerouted to a distant city in Kansas because of a freak snowstorm, and his sanity begins to fray. Worse yet, he is forced to bunk up with talkative Del Griffith (John Candy), whom he finds extremely annoying. Together they must overcome the insanity of holiday travel to reach their intended destination.

A Confucian Confusion
1994 125mins Taiwan (18) Comedy
Directed by Edward Yang Starring Chen Shiang-chyi, Chen Yi-wen, Danny Deng

Art versus commerce, friendship versus status, independence versus conformity—values clash and collide in Edward Yang's study of an increasingly Westernized country heading into the twenty-first century without moral guideposts. Moving from breakout hit A Brighter Summer Day's investigation of the past to a critical survey of the present, A Confucian Confusion charts the tangled web of emotional and professional manipulations among a group of young urbanites. At its center is Molly (Ni Shu-chun), director of a floundering public-relations firm. Alienated by the childish fiancé (Bosen Wang) who bankrolls her enterprise—and frustrated by the demands of an assistant, Qiqi (Chen Shiang-chyi), and her own fiancé, Ming (Wang Wei-ming)—Molly lashes out at everyone in her path and threatens to dismantle the company altogether. Meanwhile (amid several other subplots), Molly's talk-show-host sister (Chen Li-mei) attempts to dissuade her separated husband from continuing to write a dark novel about the return of Confucius to a jaded modern society. Injecting comedic elements into his patented brand of earnest soul-searching, Yang finds humor as well as pathos in the desperate behavior of a lost and lonely generation.

The Muppet Christmas Carol
1992 89mins USA (U) Musical / Comedy
Directed by Brian Henson Starring Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Michael Caine, Steve Whitmire, Meredith Braun

'Tis the season for love, laughter, and one of the most cherished stories of all time! Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and all the hilarious Muppets in this merry, magical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. Academy Award® winner Michael Caine (Best Supporting Actor) gives a performance that's anything but "bah, humbug!" as greedy, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge. One fateful Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Together with kind, humble Bob Cratchit (Kermit the Frog) and his family, the Spirits open Scrooge's eyes -- and his heart -- to the true meaning of Christmas. Filled with original music and dazzling special effects, THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL will become a holiday tradition your family will treasure all the days of the year.

Featuring the film’s famous long-lost song ‘When Love is Gone’!

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As always you can expect SING ALONG performances of this new version of THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL this Christmas - and now we don't need to pretend that we weren't going to just play the lost scene regardless! Performances will feature a Hosted Pre-Show with our very own Father Christmas, where you will be prepped on what to do throughout the film. Costumes aren't mandatory, but 'Tis the season, and we love seeing you dressed up in your favourite Christmas Jumpers! All this, and a few more surprises up our sleeves, makes this one of the must-see events this Christmas!

If you're wanting to Sing Along with The Muppet Christmas Carol, simply book for the performances marked SING ALONG [it's next to the start time]. All other screenings will be regular performances, and nothing will be written next to the start time. 

Unzipped
1995 73mins USA (15) Documentary
Directed by Douglas Keeve Starring Isaac Mizrahi, Sandra Bernhard, Naomi Campbell

Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with an effervescent intimacy by Douglas Keeve, Mizrahi’s then-partner. Both a time capsule of the buoyant, raucous 1990s, when pop culture and high art became interchangeable, and a vérité-style, in-the-trenches report on the daily agonies and ecstasies of the creative process, this seminal artistic portrait—sumptuously shot by Ellen Kuras and Robert Leacock—transcends glitz and glamour to offer an extraordinary view of the charisma and force of will inherent to genius, as well as its personal costs.

Digitally restored by the Sundance Institute and UCLA Film & Television Archive. Funding provided by Isaac Mizrahi Entertainment. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc. and Deluxe Media Audio Services.

Love Actually
2003 135mins UK (15) Romance/Comedy
Directed by Richard Curtis Starring Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Kiera Knightley, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Martine McCutcheon

Nine intertwined stories examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love. Among the characters explored are David (Hugh Grant), the handsome newly elected British prime minister who falls for a young junior staffer (Martine McCutcheon), Sarah (Laura Linney), a graphic designer whose devotion to her mentally ill brother complicates her love life, and Harry (Alan Rickman), a married man tempted by his attractive new secretary.

Cars
2006 117mins USA (PG) Animated / Comedy
Directed by John Lasseter Starring Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt

Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.

The Worst Person in the World
2022 128mins Denmark, Norway, Sweden (15) Romance/Comedy
Directed by Joachim Trier Starring Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum

On the verge of turning thirty, Julie is faced with a series of choices that force her to pursue new perspectives on her life in contemporary Oslo. Over the course of four years, she navigates love affairs and existential uncertainty as she starts deciding who she wants to become.

Moulin Rouge!
2001 128mins Australia, USA (12A) Musical
Directed by Baz Luhrmann Starring Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, Jacek Koman, Matthew Whittet

A young Englishman in the Paris of 1899, becomes infatuated with Satine, a singer at the Moulin Rouge. However, she has been promised by the manager to a Duke in return for funding his next production. As the young lovers meet in secret, Satine's wedding day draws closer but she hides a fatal secret from both Christian and the Duke.

The Holiday
2006 135mins USA (12A) Romance/Comedy
Directed by Nancy Meyers Starring Cameron Diaz, Jack Black, Jude Law, Kate Winslet

Dumped and depressed, English rose Iris agrees to swap homes with similarly unlucky in love Californian Amanda for a much-needed break. Iris finds herself in a palatial Hollywood mansion while Amanda navigates the lanes of a picture-perfect English village. Soon enough, both lovelorn ladies bump into local lads perfect for a romantic pick-me-up.

Stop Making Sense
1984 87mins USA (PG) Concert Film
Directed by Jonathan Demme Starring David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison

Stop Making Sense stars core band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison along with Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry and Edna Holt. The live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads' most memorable songs.

Studio Ghibli All-Nighter
1988 565mins Japan (16+) Movie Marathons
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki|Yoshifumi Kondô Starring Rumi Hiiragi, Hitoshi Takagi, Miyu Irino, Noriko Hidaka, Toshi, Chika Sakamoto

ALL NIGHTER : FAQs, HOUSE RULES & TIPS

Celebrate the legacy of 'the greatest animation house on the planet' with some of the most adored and iconic characters of all-time in this All-Night Movie Marathon!

MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO: When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.

KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE: Along with her black cat Jiji, Kiki settles in a seaside town and starts a high-flying delivery service. Here begins her magical encounter with independence and responsibility, making lifelong friends and finding her place in the world.

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE: When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.

PRINCESS MONONOKE: After a deadly curse forces him from home, young warrior Ashitaka journeys west and is drawn into a conflict between ancient forest spirits, an iron town, and a wolf-raised girl.

SPIRITED AWAY: During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

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NO ADMISSIONS TO THE CINEMA AFTER MIDNIGHT

NO ALCOHOL PURCHASED FROM OUTSIDE IS PERMITTED IN THE BUILDING! 

AGE RESTRICTIONS: This is strictly a 16+ event. Due to the event running through the night, anyone under the age 18  must be accompanied by a parent or guardian [aged 18+] for the full duration of the marathon.

The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 110mins USA (15) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Wes Anderson Starring Anjelica Huston, Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

2046
2004 128mins Hong Kong (12A) Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Directed by Wong Kar Wai Starring Gong Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ping Lam Siu, Carina Lau, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Chang, Tony Leung, Takuya Kimura, Faye Wong, Maggie Cheung, Wang Su

Wong Kar Wai’s loose sequel to In the Mood for Love combines that film’s languorous air of romantic longing with a dizzying time-hopping structure and avant-sci-fi twist. Tony Leung Chiu Wai reprises his role as writer Chow Mo-Wan, whose numerous failed relationships with women who drift in and out of his life (and the one who goes in and out of room 2046, down the hall from his apartment) inspire the delirious futuristic love story he pens. 2046’s dazzling fantasy sequences give Wong and two of his key collaborators—cinematographer Christopher Doyle and editor/costume designer/production designer William Chang Suk Ping—license to let their imaginations run wild, propelling the sumptuous visuals and operatic emotions skyward toward the sublime.


The Umbrellas of Cherbourg [Les parapluies de Cherbourg]
1964 91mins France, Germany, West Germany (PG) Musical / Romance
Directed by Jacques Demy Starring Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon

An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria, the two lovers must grow up quickly. Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colors, and told entirely through the lilting songs of the great composer Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time.

Perfect Days
2023 125mins Germany, Japan (PG) Drama
Directed by Wim Wenders Starring Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Yamada, Min Tanaka, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Yumi Aso

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000 104mins USA (PG) Family / Comedy
Directed by Ron Howard Starring Jim Carrey, Molly Shannon, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor

Based on the beloved children's tale by Dr. Seuss, the reclusive green Grinch (Jim Carrey) decides to ruin Christmas for the cheery citizens of Whoville. Reluctantly joined by his hapless dog, Max, the Grinch comes down from his mountaintop home and sneaks into town to swipe everything holiday-related from the Whos. However, the bitter grump finds a hitch in his plans when he encounters the endearing Cindy Lou Who (Taylor Momsen).

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983 123mins Japan, New Zealand, UK (15) War
Directed by Nagisa Oshima Starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Set in a POW camp in Japanese-occupied Java circa 1942, the film explores the relationship between British prisoners and their captors. Lt. Col. John Lawrence (Tom Conti), the lone Japanese speaker among the interned British, tries to negotiate an uneasy equilibrium within the camp, which is overseen by the vicious Capt. Yanoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). An ardent follower of the Bushido moral code, his eye is unexpectedly caught by the arrival Maj. Jack “Strafer” Celliers (David Bowie), an insolent and rabble-rousing new prisoner. Could Yanoi’s fascination with Celliers change everything? Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence has endured as a deeply moving anti-war statement, as well as a thoughtful exploration of national and sexual identity.

Lethal Weapon
1987 109mins USA (18) Action
Directed by Richard Donner Starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey

Following the death of his wife, Los Angeles police detective Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) becomes reckless and suicidal. When he is reassigned and partnered with Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover), Riggs immediately clashes with the older officer. Together they uncover a massive drug-trafficking ring. As they encounter increasingly dangerous situations, Riggs and Murtaugh begin to form a bond. Riggs' volatile behavior might just help them apprehend the criminals -- if it doesn't kill them both first.

The Holdovers
2023 134mins USA (15) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Alexander Payne Starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a prestigious American school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them -- a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) -- and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).

Go
1999 102mins USA (18) Crime/Comedy
Directed by Doug Liman Starring Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes, Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf

* ON SALE 23rd NOV *

A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.

Jingle All The Way
1996 89mins USA (PG) Family / Comedy
Directed by Brian Levant Starring Sinbad, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Phil Hartman

Workaholic Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) wants to make things up to his son, Jamie (Jake Lloyd), and wife, Liz (Rita Wilson). He promises to get Jamie the hottest toy of the season, Turbo-Man -- even though it's Christmas Eve and the toy is practically sold out. As Langston hunts down the elusive gift, he runs into mailman Myron (Sinbad), another father on the same quest. With the clock winding down, Langston's moral code is tested as he starts to learn the real meaning of Christmas.

Funeral Parade presents "The Long Day Closes"
1992 85mins UK (PG) Drama
Directed by Terence Davies Starring Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson

For the festive season, Funeral Parade is proud to present The Long Day Closes, Terence Davies’ bittersweet elegy to cinema-going and queer childhood.

Drawn from Davies’ own recollections of the mid-1950s, the film centres on Bud, a lonely boy growing up in working-class Liverpool. Bullied at school and largely friendless, he finds solace in trips to the local cinema and the faraway glamour of Hollywood. His loving family are also a source of comfort but, as he becomes aware of his burgeoning sexuality, Bud must ultimately confront his guilt, shame, and fear alone. Beautifully rendered from a child’s-eye-view, The Long Day Closes is a haunting and tender work of poetic cinema.

With intro from curator Sarah Cleary.
 

Phantom Thread
2017 130mins USA (15) Romance/Drama
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Starring Vicky Krieps, Daniel Day Lewis, Lesly Manville

Renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion in 1950s London -- dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites and debutantes. Women come and go in Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship. His carefully tailored existence soon gets disrupted by Alma, a young and strong-willed woman who becomes his muse and lover.

Black Christmas (1974)
1974 98mins USA (18) Horror
Directed by Bob Clark Starring Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Keir Dullea

As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters, including Jess (Olivia Hussey) and the often inebriated Barb (Margot Kidder), starts receiving anonymous, lascivious phone calls. Initially, Barb eggs the caller on, but stops when he responds threateningly. Soon, Barb's friend Clare (Lynne Griffin) goes missing from the sorority house, and a local adolescent girl is murdered, leading the girls to suspect a serial killer is on the loose. But no one realises just how near the culprit is.

The French Connection
1971 104mins USA (18) Neo Noir
Directed by William Friedkin Starring Roy Scheider, Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey

New York Detective "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and his partner (Roy Scheider) chase a French heroin smuggler.

Batman Returns
1992 126mins USA (12) Action / Thriller
Directed by Tim Burton Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton

The monstrous Penguin (Danny DeVito), who lives in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with wicked shock-headed businessman Max Shreck (Christopher Walken) to topple the Batman (Michael Keaton) once and for all. But when Shreck's timid assistant, Selina Kyle (Michelle Pfeiffer), finds out, and Shreck tries to kill her, she is transformed into the sexy Catwoman. She teams up with the Penguin and Shreck to destroy Batman, but sparks fly unexpectedly when she confronts the caped crusader.

The Silent Partner
1978 103mins USA (18) Neo Noir
Directed by Daryl Duke Starring Christopher Plummer, Elliott Gould, Susannah York

A masterpiece of cunning and suspense… Miles Cullen (Elliott Gould, The Long Goodbye) discovers how interesting life can be when he is transformed from mild-mannered bank teller into daring, ingenious bank robber in a matter of seconds. Held up at the bank by the criminal Reikle (Christopher Plummer, Ordeal by Innocence), Miles manages to stash most of the money in a deposit box first. When Reikle realizes he’s been shortchanged, he plans to take revenge—and a great battle of wits ensues.

To keep the money, Miles reaches new heights of courage, seducing the robber’s girlfriend (Céline Lomez, Plague) and his boss’s mistress (Susannah York, The Killing of Sister George). Filled with equal parts intrigue, romance and unexpected twists, this chilling psychological thriller also features comedy legend John Candy (Delirious) in an early film role. The screenplay by future filmmaker extraordinaire Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) was based on the book Think of a Number by Anders Bodelsen. Wonderfully directed by Daryl Duke (Payday).

Three Days of the Condor
1975 107mins USA (15) Thriller
Directed by Sydney Pollack Starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson

On a seemingly ordinary day, Joe Turner (Robert Redford), a quiet CIA codebreaker, walks into his workplace and finds that all of his coworkers have been murdered. Horrified, Joe flees the scene and tries to tell his supervisors about the tragedy. Unfortunately, he soon learns that CIA higher-ups were involved in the murders. With no one to trust, and a merciless hit man (Max von Sydow) close on his tail, Joe must somehow survive long enough to figure out why his own agency wants him dead.

Gremlins
1984 106mins USA (12A) Horror / Comedy
Directed by Joe Dante Starring Hoyt Axton, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates

A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds one at a store in Chinatown. The shopkeeper is reluctant to sell him the `mogwai' but sells it to him with the warning to never expose him to bright light, water, or to feed him after midnight. All of this happens and the result is a gang of gremlins that decide to tear up the town on Christmas Eve.

A Tale of Winter
114mins (15) Romance/Comedy
Directed by Éric Rohmer Starring Charlotte Véry, Frédéric van den Driessche, Michel Voletti

Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.

Trading Places
1983 116mins USA (15) Comedy
Directed by John Landis Starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy

Upper-crust executive Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) and down-and-out hustler Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) are the subjects of a bet by successful brokers Mortimer (Don Ameche) and Randolph Duke (Ralph Bellamy). An employee of the Dukes, Winthorpe is framed by the brothers for a crime he didn't commit, with the siblings then installing the street-smart Valentine in his position. When Winthorpe and Valentine uncover the scheme, they set out to turn the tables on the Dukes.

Home Alone
1990 103mins USA (PG) Family / Comedy
Directed by Chris Columbus Starring Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Stern, Joe Pesci, John Candy, John Heard, Macaulay Culkin

When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.

Die Hard [is a Christmas Movie]
1988 131mins USA (15) Christmas / Action
Directed by John McTiernan Starring Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Bruce Willis

New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there's no one to save the hostages -- but him.

Tokyo Godfathers
2003 88mins Japan (12) Anime
Directed by Satoshi Kon Starring Aya Okamoto, Tory Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki

Middle-aged alcoholic Gin, teenage runaway Miyuki and former drag queen Hana are a trio of homeless people surviving as a makeshift family on the streets of Tokyo. While rummaging in the trash for food on Christmas Eve, they stumble upon an abandoned newborn baby in a trash bin. With only a handful of clues to the baby's identity, the three misfits search the streets of Tokyo for help in returning the baby to its parents.

The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993 73mins USA (PG) Animated / Musical
Directed by Henry Selick Starring Catherine O'Hara, Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman

The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy [Theatrical Editions]
2001 558mins New Zealand, USA (12A) Movie Marathons
Directed by Peter Jackson Starring Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Cate Blanchett, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler

ALL NIGHTER : FAQs, HOUSE RULES & TIPS

Peter Jackson's THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY is back from the rarely screened Theatrical Editions – from 35mm! Join us as we venture back into Middle-earth the way you would have seen the films on release!

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING; A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.

THE TWO TOWERS; While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.

THE RETURN OF THE KING; Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.

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NO ADMISSIONS TO THE CINEMA AFTER MIDNIGHT

NO ALCOHOL PURCHASED FROM OUTSIDE IS PERMITTED IN THE BUILDING!

AGE RESTRICTIONS: For the All Night Marathon, due to the event running through the night, all attendees must be 16+. For the daytime marathon, the rating is 12a.

Elf
2003 97mins USA (PG) Comedy
Directed by Jon Favreau Starring Edward Asner, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Patrick Baynham, Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel

Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa's elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn't fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. After a DNA test proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.

The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996 121mins USA (18) Action / Thriller
Directed by Renny Harlin Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Geena Davis, Yvonne Zima

Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.

The Apartment
1960 125mins USA (PG) Comedy
Directed by Billy Wilder Starring Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine

Insurance worker C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his Upper West Side apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager Mr. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) begins using Baxter's apartment in exchange for promoting him, Baxter is disappointed to learn that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the elevator girl at work whom Baxter is interested in himself. Soon Baxter must decide between the girl he loves and the advancement of his career.

Krampus
2015 97mins USA (15) Horror
Directed by Michael Dougherty Starring Toni Collette, Adam Scott, David Koechner

Frustrated by the constant quarrel between the members of his dysfunctional family, Max loses interest to celebrate Christmas, awakening Krampus, a demon who will punish his entire family.

Carol
2015 118mins UK, USA (15) Romance/Drama
Directed by Todd Haynes Starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson

Aspiring photographer Therese spots the beautiful, elegant Carol perusing the doll displays in a 1950s Manhattan department store. The two women develop a fast bond that becomes a love with complicated consequences.

Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York
1992 120mins USA (PG) Family / Comedy
Directed by Chris Columbus Starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad’s credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he’s determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas eve.

The Night Before
2015 101mins USA (15) Comedy
Directed by Jonathan Levine Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anthony Mackie, Seth Rogen, Michael Shannon, Mindy Kaling, Lizzy Caplan, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer

Ethan, Isaac and Chris are best friends who have celebrated every Christmas Eve together. Things take a turn when Isaac and Chris decide to end their decade-long tradition.

The Shop Around the Corner
1940 98mins USA (PG) Romance/Comedy
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch Starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan

Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) are employees at Matuschek and Company, a general store in Budapest. Klara and Alfred are constantly at odds with each other, butting heads and disagreeing on almost everything. Both are enamored of their respective pen pals, who serve as welcome distractions in their lives. Little do they know, they are each the other's pen pal and, despite outward differences, have unwittingly fallen in love through their letters.

You've Got Mail
1998 116mins USA (PG) Romance/Comedy
Directed by Nora Ephron Starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear

Struggling boutique bookseller Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) hates Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), the owner of a corporate Foxbooks chain store that just moved in across the street. When they meet online, however, they begin an intense and anonymous Internet romance, oblivious of each other's true identity. Eventually Joe learns that the enchanting woman he's involved with is actually his business rival. He must now struggle to reconcile his real-life dislike for her with the cyber love he's come to feel.

Meet Me in St. Louis
1944 113mins USA (U) Musical / Romance
Directed by Vincente Minnelli Starring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor

In the year before the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters, who are attached to their ways of life, reluctantly prepare to move to New York when their father gets a transfer.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989 97mins USA (12A) Comedy
Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik Starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis

* ON SALE 1st DECEMBER *

As the holidays approach, Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) wants to have a perfect family Christmas, so he pesters his wife, Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo), and children, as he tries to make sure everything is in line, including the tree and house decorations. However, things go awry quickly. His hick cousin, Eddie (Randy Quaid), and his family show up unplanned and start living in their camper on the Griswold property. Even worse, Clark's employers renege on the holiday bonus he needs.

It's A Wonderful Life
1946 130mins USA (U) Family/Drama
Directed by Frank Capra Starring Donna Reed, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore

Screenings from both 35mm and Digital. 35mm performances will be noted next to the time. If there is no note next to the time, the performance is Digital.

Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. Seeing no way out, George considers suicide from the edge of a bridge ­ but Clarence, his guardian angel, intervenes and shows George what his beloved hometown of Bedford Falls would be like without him. 
 

Christmas Pyjama Party
1984 586mins USA (16+) Movie Marathons
Directed by Various Starring Loads of people

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THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL : The Muppets perform the classic Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine). Other Muppets -- Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear and Sam the Eagle -- weave in and out of the story, while Scrooge receives visits from spirits of three Christmases -- past, present and future. They show him the error of his self-serving ways, but the miserable old man seems to be past any hope of redemption and happiness.

ELF : Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa's elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn't fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. After a DNA test proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.

HOME ALONE : When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.

GREMLINS : A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds one at a store in Chinatown. The shopkeeper is reluctant to sell him the `mogwai' but sells it to him with the warning to never expose him to bright light, water, or to feed him after midnight. All of this happens and the result is a gang of gremlins that decide to tear up the town on Christmas Eve.

DIE HARD : New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there's no one to save the hostages -- but him.

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NO ADMISSIONS TO THE CINEMA AFTER MIDNIGHT

NO ALCOHOL PURCHASED FROM OUTSIDE IS PERMITTED IN THE BUILDING!

AGE RESTRICTIONS : Due to the event running through the night, all attendees must be 16+.

American Psycho
2000 101mins Canada, USA (18) Horror
Directed by Mary Harron Starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Chloe Sevigny

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
2011 90mins USA (18) Comedy
Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson Starring Kal Penn, John Cho, Neil Patrick Harris

Six years after their Guantanamo Bay adventure, stoner buds Harold Lee and Kumar Patel cause a holiday fracas by inadvertently burning down Harold's father-in-law's prize Christmas tree.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 135mins UK (PG) Action / Thriller
Directed by Peter R. Hunt Starring George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas

Agent 007 (George Lazenby) and the adventurous Tracy Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) join forces to battle the evil SPECTRE organization in the treacherous Swiss Alps. But the group's powerful leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), is launching his most calamitous scheme yet: a germ warfare plot that could kill millions!

The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 76mins USA (PG) Western
Directed by William A. Wellman Starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes

* ON SALE 23rd NOV *

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

Wings of Desire [Der Himmel über Berlin]
1987 128mins France, Germany, West Germany (12A) Drama
Directed by Wim Wenders Starring Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander

Two angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander), glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin), the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds--with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk (playing himself) -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
1971 100mins USA (U) Musical / Comedy
Directed by Mel Stuart Starring Denise Nickerson, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Jack Albertson Peter Ostrum, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear

A sweet boy from a poor family dreams of finding one of five golden tickets hidden inside chocolate bar wrappers which will admit him to the eccentric and reclusive Willy Wonka's magical factory. One after another, tickets are discovered by ghastly children - but will the lad find the last remaining one and have all his dreams come true?

The Great Escape
1963 172mins USA (PG) War
Directed by John Sturges Starring Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen

Imprisoned during World War II in a German POW camp, a group of Allied soldiers are intent on breaking out, not only to escape, but also to draw Nazi forces away from battle to search for fugitives. Among the prisoners determined to escape are American Captain Virgil Hilts and British Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett. Outwitting their captors by digging a tunnel out of the prison grounds, the soldiers find the stakes much higher when escape becomes a reality.

When Harry Met Sally
1989 95mins USA (15) Romance/Comedy
Directed by Rob Reiner Starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher

In 1977, college graduates Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) share a contentious car ride from Chicago to New York, during which they argue about whether men and women can ever truly be strictly platonic friends. Ten years later, Harry and Sally meet again at a bookstore, and in the company of their respective best friends, Jess (Bruno Kirby) and Marie (Carrie Fisher), attempt to stay friends without sex becoming an issue between them.

The Godfather : Part II
1974 202mins USA (15) Crime
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Starring Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire

The compelling sequel to "The Godfather," contrasting the life of Corleone father and son. Traces the problems of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in 1958 and that of a young immigrant Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) in 1917's Hell's Kitchen. Michael survives many misfortunes and Vito is introduced to a life of crime.

Project Hail Mary
2026 157mins USA (12A) Sci-Fi / Drama
Directed by Phil Lord|Christopher Miller Starring Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz

Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.

Playtime
1967 123mins France, Italy (PG) Comedy Genius
Directed by Jacques Tati Starring Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden

Clumsy Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an American tourist (Barbara Dennek), and as they weave through the inventive urban environment, they intermittently meet, developing an interest in one another. They eventually get together at a chaotic restaurant, along with several other quirky characters.

Tony
2026 106mins USA (15) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Matt Johnson Starring Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas, Emilia Jones, Leo Woodall, Stavros Halkias

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

2001 : A Space Odyssey
1968 160mins UK, USA (U) Science Fiction
Directed by Stanley Kubrick Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

Warner Bros. Pictures present an ‘unrestored’ 70mm print of the director’s groundbreaking science fiction epic!


"For the first time since the original release, this 70mm print was struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative. This is a true photochemical film recreation. There are no digital tricks, remastered effects, or revisionist edits. This is the unrestored film - that recreates the cinematic event that audiences experienced fifty years ago." - Christopher Nolan


Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award®-winning* achievement is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality. “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin.


Please Note: Our 70mm screenings of '2001: A Space Odyssey' follow a partictular presentation procedure;

- Overture (3mins / Music)

- 1st half of feature (86mins)

- * Intermission* (usually 10 for quieter shows, can be 20mins for busier ones)

- Entracte (2mins / Music)

- 2nd half of feature (54mins)

- Exit (5mins / Music)


- Total time; approx 170mins (though this is dependent on Intermission length)


Ghost in the Shell
1995 89mins Japan (15) Anime
Directed by Mamoru Oshii Starring Akio Ôtsuka, Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi

In this Japanese animation, cyborg federal agent Maj. Motoko Kusanagi (Mimi Woods) trails "The Puppet Master" (Abe Lasser), who illegally hacks into the computerized minds of cyborg-human hybrids. Her pursuit of a man who can modify the identity of strangers leaves Motoko pondering her own makeup and what life might be like if she had more human traits. With her partner (Richard George), she corners the hacker, but her curiosity about her identity sends the case in an unforeseen direction.

Sunshine
2007 107mins UK, USA (15) Sci-Fi / Thriller
Directed by Danny Boyle Starring Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne

* ON SALE 23rd NOV *

Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.

Marie Antoinette
2006 123mins USA (12A) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Sofia Coppola Starring Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn

An Austrian teenager marries the Dauphin of France and becomes that country's queen following the death of King Louis XV in 1774. Years later, after a life of luxury and privilege, Marie Antoinette loses her head during the French Revolution.

Rashomon [Rashômon]
1950 88mins Japan (12A) Drama
Directed by Akira Kurosawa Starring Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Toshi

Set in feudal Japan, this film presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters -- a bandit, a woman, her husband and a woodcutter. Only two things about the incident seem to be clear -- the woman was raped and her husband is now dead. However, the other elements radically differ as the four participants and/or witnesses relate their own stories (with the dead man, eerily enough, speaking through a medium). As each account is revealed, what seemed black-and-white turns to various hues of gray, leading to surprising -- and confounding -- revelations.

School of Rock
2003 109mins USA (PG) Musical / Comedy
Directed by Richard Linklater Starring Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White

Overly enthusiastic guitarist Dewey Finn (Jack Black) gets thrown out of his bar band and finds himself in desperate need of work. Posing as a substitute music teacher at an elite private elementary school, he exposes his students to the hard rock gods he idolizes and emulates -- much to the consternation of the uptight principal (Joan Cusack). As he gets his privileged and precocious charges in touch with their inner rock 'n' roll animals, he imagines redemption at a local Battle of the Bands.

The Invite
2026 107mins USA (15) Comedy / Drama
Directed by Olivia Wilde Starring Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz, Edward Norton

Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?