Big screen classics

The timeless films we urge you to see.

Tickets for these screenings are only £8

April

Citizen Kane

Welles’ ageless gem about the life and times of a media tycoon reveals further riches with each viewing.
Persona

Bergman’s modernist masterpiece features a chatty nurse and a traumatised actress on a period of isolated convalescence.
The Tango Lesson

Part troubled love story, part terrific dance movie, Potter’s tale of a filmmaker fighting creative block is too rarely screened.
The Tango Lesson + intro by So Mayer, author of The Cinema of Sally Potter

Part troubled love story, part terrific dance movie, Potter’s tale of a filmmaker fighting creative block is too rarely screened.
L’eclisse

Vitti and Delon shine in Antonioni’s cool, subtly stylised account of a failing relationship.
The Last Picture Show (director’s cut)

Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd star in this evocative teen drama set in the 50s.
The Gospel According to Matthew + intro by academic Catherine Wheatley, King’s College London

Pasolini’s classic account of the life of Christ foregoes pomp and piety to present him as a political man fighting social injustice.
The Gospel According to Matthew

Pasolini’s classic account of the life of Christ foregoes pomp and piety to present him as a political man fighting social injustice.
Raging Bull

A highpoint in Scorsese and De Niro’s careers, this portrait of boxing champ Jake La Motta is a corrosive study of flawed masculinity.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large

Keaton’s brilliantly inventive comedy is full of amazing sets and stunts.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Keaton’s brilliantly inventive comedy is full of amazing sets and stunts.
Relaxed Screening: Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Keaton’s brilliantly inventive comedy is full of amazing sets and stunts.
The Night of the Hunter

Robert Mitchum excels as a psychopathic preacher on the hunt for a fortune in a vividly recreated Depression-era America.
The Innocents

A supremely atmospheric and unsettling adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw.
The White Ribbon + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large

Michael Haneke’s masterly portrait of life in a quiet German village just before WWI examines the education of a troubled, and troubling, generation.
The White Ribbon

Michael Haneke’s masterly portrait of life in a quiet German village just before WWI examines the education of a troubled, and troubling, generation.
Eraserhead

David Lynch’s debut is an eccentric, darkly comic, nightmarish fable about the perils of parenthood, desire and urban existence.
Eraserhead + intro by Richard Martin, author of The Architecture of David Lynch

David Lynch’s debut is an eccentric, darkly comic, nightmarish fable about the perils of parenthood, desire and urban existence.