All screenings and events

All films, TV and events at BFI Southbank.

• 12 Stars: Sebastian Lelio on Wings of Desire
• 9 to 5
• Preview: 9 to 5 + intro by Jane Fonda
• Member Exclusive: 9 to 5
• TV Preview: The ABC Murders + Q&A
• Ace in the Hole
• Airplane!
• Airplane! + intro by Comedian and Actress Hattie Hayridge
• All of Me
• All That Heaven Allows
• All That Heaven Allows + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
• Alternative Comedy: The Early Years + intro by Paul Jackson
• UK Premiere: Animation 2018 + Q&A
• The Apartment
• The Apartment + intro by Jonathan Wakeham, Co-founder of LOCO London Comedy Film Festival
• Asino + Q&A
• BFI Blu-ray Launch: Atoll K + discussion
• An Audience with The League of Gentlemen
• The Awful Truth
• Bad Santa
• Barbarella
• Barefoot in the Park
• Barry Lyndon
• Beau Travail
• Beau Travail + intro by Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer and critic
• The Belles of St. Trinian’s
• The Belles of St. Trinian’s + intro by actor Steve Nallon
• Best Friends Forever + Q&A
• BFI Future Film & BBC Comedy present A Sitcom Workshop
• Bicycle Thieves
• Bicycle Thieves + intro by Dr Silvia Angeli, Nottingham Trent University
• Bigger Than Life
• Bigger Than Life + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
• The Black Comedy Revolution
• Preview: Black Mother + Q&A with director Khalik Allah
• Blood and Roses
• London Restoration Premiere: Blue Black Permanent + intro by writer So Mayer
• Bob Godfrey’s Great + Q&A with Tom Lowe and guests, chaired by the Jez Stewart, Curator, BFI National Archive
• Brazil
• Bringing Up Baby
• Broad Strokes: Trailblazing Comedy Screenwriters
• Opening Night Gala (UK Premiere): The Burial of Kojo + Q&A with director Blitz Bazawule
• Buster Keaton Double-bill: One Week + The General
• The Cable Guy
• Carry On Cleo + intro by Amanda Barrie
• TV Preview: Catastrophe + Q&A with Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney
• Cat Ballou
• Charlie Chaplin Silent Shorts
• The China Syndrome
• Chinatown
• Christmas
• Christmas Move IT! Family Animators
• The Christmas Short Films + Q&A with directors Dave Unwin and Richard Williams
• A Chump at Oxford
• Citizen Kane
• Closing Night Film: Coach + Q&A
• Comedians Cinema Club presents Groundhog Day + live performance
• Comedy Cuts
• Coming Home
• Coming to America + Q&A with director John Landis and costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis
• The Court Jester
• Preview: Creed II
• Cries and Whispers
• Critics’ Salon: Disobedience
• Experimenta Presents: Cross-generation Dialogue: The Margaret Tait Award + Q&A
• Member Picks: Die Hard
• Dinosaurs Live! Animation Workshop
• Disobedience
• Preview: Disobedience + Q&A with Sebastián Lelio
• Doctor Who: Earthshock + Q&A with writer Eric Saward and actor Matthew Waterhouse
• Dogman
• Duck Soup
• Easy Living
• Elf
• Ethel & Ernest - A Tribute to Roger Mainwood
• Philosophical screens: The Ethics of Humour in ‘To Be or Not to Be’
• Halloween Special: The Evil Dead
• Exit Smiling + She Done Him Wrong
• ICO Archive Screening Day: Exit Smiling
• Experimenta Salon: Don’t You Want Me
• Eyes Without a Face
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• A Fantastic Woman
• BFI Screen Epiphany: Felicity Kendal introduces Some Like It Hot
• Film at the BFI: Comedy Double Acts - Like Two Peas in a Pod
• Film Poems + discussion with Anna Coatman, So Mayer, Lucy Reynolds and Peter Todd
• Films To Be Buried With LIVE with Brett Goldstein and Amazing Special Guest
• The First Born + intro by Christine Gledhill, Professor, Cinema Studies
• Free Solo
• Preview: Free Solo + Q&A
• Opening Night: The Future Belongs to Us + Q&A
• Future Film Labs: The Magnanimity Method
• Future Film Labs: The On-set Analysis
• Genesis 2.0 + Q&A
• Gert and Daisy’s Weekend + intro by Claire Mortimer, University of East Anglia
• Ghibliotheque
• Girls Trip
• Gloria
• The Great Dictator
• The Great Dictator + intro by comedian John Bishop
• Griefcast - A podcast about death… with comedians
• Hallelujah Anyhow + Q&A with actor Doña Croll
• Preview: Happy New Year, Colin Burstead + Q&A with director Ben Wheatley and cast
• Henning Wehn: Are Germans Funny? + Manta, Manta
• His Girl Friday
• Home Alone
• A Hotel Called Memory + intro
• The Hot Take: It’s Political Correctness Gone Mad
• The House of Mirth
• House Party
• Hysterical + Q&A
• Ice + Q&A
• I Love Lucy
• Preview: The Image Book
• Innocence
• Member Picks: In the Bleak Midwinter (aka A Midwinter’s Tale)
• The Iron Rose
• It’s a Wonderful Life
• Jaaaaam and Moooooore
• Jane Fonda in Conversation
• TV Preview: Jane Fonda in Five Acts
• Jennifer Saunders in Conversation
• The Jerk
• The Jerk + intro by actor Marc Wootton
• Jeweller’s Jubilee + Q&A
• Jo Brand: The Unvarnished Truth
• BFI Screen Epiphany: Joe Thomas introduces The Big Lebowski
• Journey to Italy
• The Joy of Smut
• Julia
• Jumpman + Q&A
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Kiss Me Deadly
• Klute
• The Lady Eve
• Lake Mungo
• Land Makar + intro by season curator Peter Todd
• Le fantastique: A Curious Tour of the French Weird
• The Leopard
• Lift to the Scaffold
• Preview: Lizzie
• Lola Montès
• Lola Montès + intro by Sight & Sound’s Isabel Stevens
• Lost Warrior + Q&A
• The Lost World + live score, and intro by bfi curator Bryony Dixon
• Love’s Crucible + intro by BFI curator Bryony Dixon
• Magic Lantern Show
• Magic Lantern Slide Making (and Other Optical Toys)
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Magnificent Ambersons + intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-large
• La Main du diable
• Malpertuis
• Maniac
• The Many Lives of Jane Fonda
• Mark Kermode Live in 4D at the BFI
• Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI
• Mean Girls
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Member Salon: 9 to 5
• Mickey
• ICO Archive Screening Day: Mickey + intro
• TV Preview: The Midnight Gang + Q&A with David Walliams and actor Alan Davies
• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday + extended intro by Professor John O Maoilearca, Kingston University
• Monty Python’s Life of Brian
• Monty Python’s Life of Brian + intro by actor David Schneider
• Mostly Lit Live
• Mouchette
• TV Preview: Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas Special + Q&A
• Preview: Mug
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Music and More!
• My Man Godfrey
• New Writings: Avengers Assemble! James Bond Playboy!
• New Writings: Scala Confidential with Jane Giles
• New Year’s Eve Party
• BFI Screen Epiphany: Nick Helm introduces The Naked Gun
• Nighty Night + Q&A
• Nosferatu the Vampyre
• La Nuit fantastique
• Oh! What a Lovely War
• Once Upon a Time + Q&A
• On Golden Pond
• Open All Night (aka One Parisian Night) + intro by BFI curator Bryony Dixon
• Orphée
• Overboard
• The Palm Beach Story
• Panel Discussion: Sitcom Production
• TV Preview: People Just Do Nothing (Series 5) + Q&A with cast
• Peterloo
• The Phantom Baron
• Philip Morris Presents... + intro by TIEA CEO Philip Morris
• Philosophy up to 11: Memory, Truth and Masculinity in This Is Spinal Tap
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again + intro by actor and author David Walliams
• Places of Work + intro by season curator Peter Todd
• Playing the Fool
• Podstock
• Private Peaceful
• Private Peaceful + discussion with silent film pianist, writer and broadcaster Neil Brand
• The Producers
• Preview: Ralph Breaks the Internet
• Preview: RBG + Q&A
• The Real McCoy Reunion
• Regeneration
• Regeneration + intro by director Gillies MacKinnon
• René Clair Double-bill (with live piano accompaniment)
• #RIPVine
• The Sacred Family
• Sebastian Lelio in Conversation
• TV Preview: The Secrets of British Animation + Q&A with director Seb Barfield and animator Joanna Quinn
• Seniors’ Matinee: Buster Keaton Double-bill: One Week + The General
• Seniors’ Free Matinee: The Naked Truth + Q&A with author Graham Rinaldi and BFI programmer Dick Fiddy
• Seniors’ Programme Matinee: A Portrait of Margaret Tait: Filmmaker and Poet
• Seniors’ Free Matinee: Say It With Flowers + intro
• Seniors’ Free Talk: What Have the Film Comedians Ever Done for Us?
• Serial Mom
• Halloween Special: Shaun of the Dead + Q&A with writer and director Edgar Wright
• Preview: Shoplifters
• Should We Still Be At It?
• Sister Act
• Some Like It Hot
• Sonic Cinema presents: Mabel Normand Shorts with live score by the Meg Morley trio
• Sorry to Bother You
• Preview: Sorry to Bother You
• TV Preview: Sound of Movie Musicals + Q&A with Neil Brand
• Soundtracking Live!
• Stance Podcast presents Breakthrough Voices: How to Stand Out in Film and TV
• Stereoscopy: A Wonder of Victorian Entertainment
• Stir Crazy
• Summer + Q&A
• Summer
• Supa Modo + intro
• Superbad
• Sylvia + intro
• Temporary Difficulties + Q&A
• Theorem
• Theorem + Q&A with Terence Stamp
• Theorem + intro by Dr Matilde Nardelli, University of West London
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
• The Thief and the Cobbler: A Moment in Time + Q&A with director Richard Williams
• 15th Anniversary: Thirteen + intro by programmer Anna Bogutskaya
• This Is Spinal Tap
• This Is Spinal Tap + intro by comedy actor-writer Morwenna Banks
• Preview: Three Identical Strangers + Q&A with director Tim Wardle
• Throne of Blood
• Throne of Blood + intro by Dr Alastair Phillips, University of Warwick
• Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
• To Be or Not To Be
• Tokyo Story
• Tout va bien
• Tracey Ullman on Ullman
• Trading Places
• Trading Places + intro by actors Jim Howick and Ben Willbond
• Traveller’s Joy + intro by BFI curator Jo Botting
• TV Preview: Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out + Q&A with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer
• Les Visiteurs du soir
• The Wages of Fear
• TV Preview: Watership Down + Q&A
• The Wedding Ring
• What’s the Big Idea? Screenwriting for Beginners
• What’s Up, Doc?
• Funday: Who Framed Roger Rabbit + Q&A with animation director Richard Williams
• Why Rachael Low Matters
• Wildlife
• Withnail & I
• Withnail & I + intro by actor Mathew Baynton
• Withnail & I + intro by actor Paul McGann
• Woman With a Movie Camera presents: A New Leaf
• Woman With a Movie Camera presents: A New Leaf + intro
• ICO Archive Screening Day: Women in Silent Film Comedy
• World AIDS Day at 30
• The Year of the Tiger
• The Young Ones + Q&A
• Youth