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SCREENING FROM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5TH
Following a world tour for the release of his American Utopia album, former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne adapted the show for a Broadway run. Following in the footsteps of Jonathan Demme and Stop Making... Read More
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Taking its title from Preston Sturges’s comedy Sullivan’s Travels (1941), in which a director takes to the road in Depression-era America, O Brother . . . sees the Coen Brothers put their own slant on Homer. Ulysses Everett McGill (George... Read More
Following the global success of Amélie, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and star Audrey Tautou reunited for this story of a woman who, like Penelope, refuses to give up on her husband’s return from war, even when it seems that all hope... Read More
Franco Piavoli’s lyrical retelling of Homer largely dispenses with dialogue in favour of visual storytelling. Its emphasis is on Odysseus’s struggle with his memory, from the childhood memories and recollections of love that were formative to the experiences of war... Read More
Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop has more in common with Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969) in its examination of the America in which its vaguely melancholic and alienated anti-heroes roam, their destination far less important than the journey. In contrast to... Read More
While Odysseus is motivated by his desire for home, Aguirre, as portrayed unforgettably by Klaus Kinski, is spurred on his voyage by dreams of wealth and conquest. Kinski plays the titular conquistador whose search for El Dorado, the legendary city... Read More
Despite one of the most chaotic productions in film history, one that could qualify as an odyssey of its own as depicted in Eleanor Coppola’s documentary Hearts Of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola’s monomaniacal excesses resulted in one of American cinema’s towering achievements.... Read More
Adapted from Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson’s epic poem, first published in 1956, Aniara sees a ship searching for home knocked off course, just as Odysseus was. However, unlike their fellow voyager, the souls aboard the titular spaceship, abandoning a... Read More
John Ford’s Western offers a bleak assessment of the possibility of ever truly returning home following wartime experiences. After years of fighting, Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) arrives at his brother’s farm ready for peace. When Comanches attack and kill his... Read More
A PRIVATE LIFE 18.00 (+ Q&A)
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: LET’S DANCE! (PROGRAMME 2) 12.30
BACKROOMS 15.40
BOOGIE NIGHTS (4K RESTORATION) 15.05
CACTUS PEARS 15.40
DISCLOSURE DAY (70mm) 20.25 (Digital)
NINO 18.15
OBSESSION 20.45
STRICTLY BALLROOM (4K RESTORATION) 13.00, 20.55
THE LAST VIKING 13.10, 18.10
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH 11.00
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