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EOS: David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts
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To mark the passing of David Hockney, we’re showing this Exhibition On Screen documentary from 2017. Featuring intimate and in-depth interviews with Hockney, this revealing film focuses on two exhibitions held at the Royal Academy in 2012 and 2016. Director Phil Grabsky secured privileged access to craft this cinematic celebration of a 21st century master of creativity.
Two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster delivers a dazzling, French-language performance in this darkly comic thriller, directed by Rebecca Zlotowski ( Other People’s Children ). When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner (Jodi Foster) learns of the death of one of her patients, she is convinced it was murder and takes it upon herself to investigate… “Jodie Foster is flawless” The Daily B...
When thief Anker (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is released after a 15-year jail term for robbery, he plans to retrieve his loot. The only problem is, his brother Manfred (Mads Mikkelsen) – who has dissociative identity disorder and currently believes he is Beatle John Lennon – is the only one who knows where the key is. The pair set off on a madcap treasure hunt to their childhood home, which is now a holida...
The cinema event of the year, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is an epic adaptation of Homer’s foundational saga, charting the perilous journey of Odysseus (Matt Damon), mighty warrior and king of Ithaca, as he attempts to return home to his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland) following the conclusion of the Trojan War. Also starring Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, ...
MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969) 4K restoration Introduction by Paul Schlesinger, with a post-film discussion between Paul Schlesinger and Jon Canter. Saturday 1st August 7pm The first and only X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, John Schlesinger’s classic from 1969, and his first American film, stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in standout roles as a con man and a Texas hustler t...
Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman's brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his album and tour of the same name. 'Do we get stupider as we grow up?’ In his wildly popular Broadway show American Utopia , David Byrne delivers an exhilarating rush of iconic songs, infectious energy and pure theatrical joy. Following the huge big-screen success of Stop Making Sense , and...
The era of the British New Wave came of age with John Schlesinger’s comedy, one of the enduring films from the movement that crucially combines humour and literary pedigree with its ‘kitchen sink’ realism. Tom Courtenay is Billy, an undertaker’s clerk with an overactive imagination who’s often lost in a world of Walter Mitty-esque fantasies. Julie Christie is the glamorous girlfriend who urges ...
Julie Christie turns in an astonishing, Oscar-winning performance in this tale about wanting it all - and getting exactly what you wish for. Directed by John Schlesinger from an Oscar-winning screenplay by Frederic Raphael. Ambitious model Diana Scott (Christie) uses her relationships to turn a low-rent career into a high-gear smorgasbord of jet-setting, love-making and the pursuit of hedonisti...
“Is it safe?” whispers Nazi war criminal and dentist Laurence Olivier, doing a Novocain-free probing on grad student and marathon runner Dustin Hoffman — what has his big brother Roy Scheider gotten him into? And who’s got those diamonds? Adapted by William Goldman, from his own bestselling novel, with Olivier’s walk through the 47th Street Diamond District a highlight, Marathon Man was another hu...
Sunday, Bloody Sunday + introduction by writer and film curator Marc David Jacobs. Marc will be joined on stage by Paul Schlesinger for a post-film discussion. “I knew from the start that it was really a piece of chamber music, that not everyone would appreciate it. But it was a film I believed I had to do. Not wanted to. Had to do.” - John Schlesinger A rare opportunity to see John Schle...