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Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde ignited a seismic shift in American cinema, helping to usher in the New Hollywood era with its audacious blend of glamour, violence, and anti-establishment energy. Faye Dunaway’s iconic turn as Bonnie Parker captures both yearning and... Read More
Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair is a stylish, seductive caper that pairs Faye Dunaway’s razor-sharp insurance investigator with Steve McQueen’s enigmatic millionaire thief. Set against a backdrop of wealth and artifice, their cat-and-mouse game unfolds as a battle of wits... Read More
1937; cocky private investigator J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) becomes embroiled in a byzantine scandal surrounding the murder of Hollis Mulwray, chief engineer for the LA Department of Water & Power. Polanski’s brilliantly constructed masterpiece gradually exposes layers of intrigue involving... Read More
When news anchor Howard Beale (posthumous Oscar-winner Peter Finch) suffers an on-screen breakdown, Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway, in her Oscar-winning role), an ambitious network executive, exploits his fragile mental state to capitalise on his newfound celebrity. Cynical, blackly funny and... Read More
An incendiary portrait of Hollywood icon Joan Crawford, Mommie Dearest sees Faye Dunaway deliver a blistering turn, charting a volatile, abusive relationship with Crawford’s adopted daughter, Christina. The film’s initial critical backlash and negative public reception effectively stalled Dunaway’s career,... Read More
Robert Redford’s fourth collaboration with director Sydney Pollack is a classic example of the paranoid conspiracy thrillers that proliferated in the wake of Watergate. Redford plays CIA researcher Joe Turner who returns from lunch one day to find everyone in... Read More
Barbet Schroeder’s Barfly follows hard-drinking writer Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke) – literary alter-ego of writer Charles Bukowski – as he drifts between seedy Los Angeles bars, brawls, and writes poetry and short stories for magazines. He forms a tentative, turbulent... Read More
4-7 June // Iberscreen: Irish Film Festival Spain // Christy, Horseshoe, A Quiet Love + Q&A with producer Anne Heffernan, Listen to the Land Speak, The Song Cycle + Q&A with director-musician Nick Kelly // Golem Alhóndiga, Bilbao, Spain.... Read More
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: LET’S DANCE! (PROGRAMME 2) 13.00
BACKROOMS 18.20
DISCLOSURE DAY (70mm) 14.00, 17.15, 20.20
ENZO 15.50, 20.50
OBSESSION 20.40
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (4K RE-RELEASE) 13.15
POWER BALLAD 16.00
THE MISFITS (4K RESTORATION) 18.10
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