Films in Treasures
Revived and restored from the world’s archives.
Archive gala
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Shiraz: A Romance of India
Dir Franz Osten | UK-Germany-India
The world premiere of Anoushka Shankar’s new score for Shiraz, a spectacular silent film romance, filmed entirely in India.
Please note that tickets are now available to book through the Barbican website.
Feature films
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
Dir-Prod-Scr Lois Weber | USA
Female filmmaking pioneer Lois Weber presents a grand opera adapted for silent film, starring the divine Anna Pavlova in her only feature film role.
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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask
Dir Isaac Julien | UK-Tunisia-Martinique
World premiere of the new digitally-remastered 2K version of Isaac Julien and Mark Nash’s celebrated experimental documentary about the Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and revolutionary.
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Funeral Parade of Roses
Dir-Scr Toshio Matsumoto | Japan
1960s Japan receives an electrifying charge of counter cultural subversion in this visually striking, anti-establishment classic.
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Jabberwocky
Dir Terry Gilliam | UK
Restored by the BFI from the original camera negative, Terry Gilliam’s first film as a solo director is a beautifully crazed landmark in British cinema.
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The L-Shaped Room
Dir-Scr Bryan Forbes | UK
An unmarried mother-to-be finds companionship among a gallery of warm and eccentric characters when she comes to London to have her child.
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Little Veronika (Innocence)
Dir Robert Land | Austria-Germany
A visually sumptuous film of a young girl’s journey to Vienna and her encounter with the city’s seamier side.
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Lucía
Dir Humberto Solás | Cuba
A beautifully restored cinematic tour de force from Humberto Solás, the enfant terrible of Cuban cinema in the 1960s.
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A Matter of Life and Death
Dir-Prod-Scr Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | UK
A glorious love story and grand cosmic adventure wrapped up in a single masterpiece – courtesy of the twin geniuses of British cinema, Powell and Pressburger.
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Mildred Pierce
Dir Michael Curtiz | USA
The golden age of Hollywood was never more dazzling – the great Joan Crawford stars in the role of her career in this flawless noir-melodrama.
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Oh, Sun!
Dir-Prod-Scr Med Hondo | Mauritania
This beautifully restored, prize-winning film offers a scathing attack on colonialism and a shocking exposé of racism.
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The Prince of Adventurers
Dir Alexandre Volkoff | France
If irresistible charm is what you’re seeking, Casanova is the man for you.
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Salesman
Dir Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin | USA
A portrait of Bible salesmen selling their wares becomes a fascinating window on 1960s American life.
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Saturday Night Fever
Dir John Badham | USA
This 1977 restored classic centres around John Travolta playing Tony Manero – the role that made him a superstar.
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Scarface
Dir Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | USA
A landmark gangster movie and a subversive take on the American Dream, Howard Hawks’ masterpiece boasts a brilliant Paul Muni as brutish, ruthlessly ambitious Tony Camonte.
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Suspiria
Dir Dario Argento | Italy
As the tagline promised – “The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of this film are the first 92.”
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La Vérité
Dir Henri-Georges Clouzot | France-Italy
Brigitte Bardot gives her greatest performance in Clouzot’s bitter drama about a free-spirited young woman in a fraught relationship in late 1950s Left Bank Paris.
Short films programme
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From Jealous Dolls to Brutish Bulldogs
Take another look at British animation with this genre-hopping, whistle-stop tour of an animated century of surprises. All newly remastered by the BFI National Archive, this selection of shorts salutes the independence, innovation and irreverence of generations of British animation talent.
Special event
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The Ernest Lindgren Lecture: Kinemacolor with Luke McKernan
Film historian Luke McKernan discusses the innovative early colour film process, Kinemacolor.
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Festival calendar
2018 Festival submissions
2018 BFI London Film Festival submissions are now open.
