2023 Programme

John Huston's film, now restored for its 50th anniversary, is a ripping, gripping yarn, a surprisingly erotic love story and, as it happens, a premonition of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. Humphrey Bogart plays the boozy riverboat captain, Katharine Hepburn the prim Christian missionary. ...

Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. ...

A must-see film for movie lovers, this Martin Scorsese masterpiece is as hard-hitting as it is compelling, with Robert De Niro at his best. - Rotten Tomatoes ...

Perhaps the most iconic and revered Western ever made, It was named the 15th greatest film of all time in the Sight and Sound Critics Poll last year. Martin Scorcese said of John Wayne's leading role "It’s the greatest performance of a great American actor." ...

The hauntingly strange world of a travelling carnival is the setting for this moody melodrama about a charlatan spiritualist and his fall from grace. ...

This brilliant folk horror classic follows a devoutly Christian policeman (Edward Woodward) whose search for a missing girl on a remote Scottish island is led astray by the pagan-worshipping inhabitants ...

A penniless musician finds a lottery ticket and a young girl defies convention to become a newspaper seller in these two wonderful featurettes from the famed Senegalese director ...

With its heightened aesthetic ... its alt-rock soundtrack and the central figure of a skateboarding vampire wearing a chador, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is one of the coolest, most unusual films on our 2023 programme. ...

A gentle, big-hearted drama about a gravedigger seeking money for his wife’s operation. “This Somali language film’s simplicity and economy is its power.”– The Observer ...

Gallant Indies offers a behind-the-scenes look into a completely reimagined production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera "Les Indes Galantes”. Artist Clément Cogitore uses the performance to tackle issues of racism, colonialism and slavery. ...

A lively, endlessly fascinating documentary about the incredible art world stirring in Kinshasa. “A full-blown nosedive into a unique moment of collective creation” – Hollywood Reporter ...

A German deserter in WWII discovers great power in an abandoned Nazi captain’s uniform. “Parable, historical reckoning and pitch-black comedy. Clever and well-crafted” – Film Comment ...

Forbidden love for a stepmother sets in motion a chain of devastating events in pre-colonial West Africa. Cannes Grand Prix. Winner of the 1990 Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. ...

Dumont takes aim at 24-hour news culture, with Léa Seydoux as a TV journalist juggling her unflappable public image and chaotic family life. “A biting and complex satire” – Les Inrockuptibles ...

One of the final works of German Expressionism offers a sophisticated melding of genres, as a young poet dreams up fantastical tales inspired by the waxworks of some notorious personages ...

A dark childhood fable about a young girl who escapes into her fantasies. “One of the best films about childhood since The 400 Blows” – Time Out ...

This archive-heavy documentary revisits the vibrant music and art scene of West Berlin during the divided city’s punky, druggy, trashy 1980s heyday.” – Hollywood Reporter ...

Broadway has never been as seductive or as menacing as it is in this bitter farce about a venomous gossip columnist (Burt Lancaster) and his soulless lackey (Tony Curtis) ...

This unclassifiable satire of Poland’s disconnected upper-class follows an angelic masseur as he tries to draw meaning out of his clients’ lives. “A magical… tour-de-force" ...

Gangland subterfuge tumbles into a dazzling nocturnal manhunt in this film noir par excellence – a modern genre classic in the making. “Spellbinding pulp noir” – Rolling Stone ...

A centuries-old way of life tending wild beehives deep in the countryside is disrupted by the arrival of new neighbours. “An elemental struggle between ancient tradition and greed… an incredible true story” – Time Out ...

Highly controversial on its original release, Cronenberg’s provocative satire about a group of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists remains as unsettling as it is mesmerising ...

Former animator Frank Tashlin brings cartoonish exuberance to this wild satire of ’50s mores, as a put-upon ad-exec attempts to wrangle a glamorous movie star for a lipstick commercial. With Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield ...

A heroic reporter investigates a shocking health-care fraud in the aftermath of a tragic nightclub fire. “The best film about journalism since All the President’s Men” – The Times ...