Films in Treasures
Revived and restored from the world’s archives.
Archive gala
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The Great Victorian Moving Picture Show
120 years in the waiting... we bring you Britain’s earliest films at their grandest scale, on the nation’s biggest screen, the BFI IMAX.
Feature films
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7th Heaven
Dir Frank Borzage | USA
One of the silent era’s greatest love stories, starring perfect screen couple Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, finds Frank Borzage creating a cinematic heaven.
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Enamorada
Dir Emilio Fernández | Mexico
A glorious story of love and revolution from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, beautifully restored and guaranteed to set the heart racing.
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The Fog
Dir John Carpenter | USA
An eerie mist brings forth the vengeful spirits of the dead in John Carpenter’s atmospheric maritime shocker.
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Fragment of an Empire
Dir Fridrikh Ermler | Russian Federation
An exquisitely observed story of an amnesiac Tsarist conscript from the First World War who returns to his present mind ten years after the Communists gained power.
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High Tension
Dir Ingmar Bergman | Sweden
Restored for the centenary of Ingmar Bergman’s birth, the espionage drama that he requested to remain unshown during his lifetime finally returns to the screen.
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The Last Movie
Dir Dennis Hopper | USA
Dennis Hopper’s personal, audaciously experimental follow-up to Easy Rider explores the essential artifice of filmmaking and is as wild, courageous and fascinating as its creator.
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Lights of Old Broadway
Dir-Prod Monta Bell | USA
Marion Davies plays twins separated at birth – one rich, one poor – as electrification hits old New York in a restoration that features gorgeous colour scenes.
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Maria Lassnig: New York Films 1970-1980
Dir-Scr Maria Lassnig | USA-Austria
A rare chance to see the personal, intimate and newly restored films of the internationally celebrated Austrian portrait painter Maria Lassnig, who died in 2014.
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My Little Chickadee
Dir Edward F Cline | USA
Classic comedy Western with the once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Mae West as Miss Flower Belle Lee and WC Fields as Cuthbert J Twillie.
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None Shall Escape
Dir André De Toth | USA
A film of terrifying prescience, this is a major rediscovery: the only wartime Hollywood drama to depict the Holocaust.
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Pixote
Dir Hector Babenco | Brazil
Like a bullet to the heart, Hector Babenco’s visceral portrait of the brutalisation of children and teenagers has lost none of its power.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Dir Alexander Korda | UK
This biopic of England’s most infamous ruler took America by storm and ushered in a new era of British filmmaking.
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Silence is Golden
Dir-Scr René Clair | France
Though less well known than his comedies of the 1920s and early 1930s, René Clair’s first post-war film – a very funny cautionary tale – is arguably his masterpiece.
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Some Like it Hot
Dir-Scr-Prod Billy Wilder | USA
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon have a riot in cinema’s great screwball comedy of errors and cross-dressing.
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Sugar Cane Alley
Dir-Scr Euzhan Palcy | France-Martinique
Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Joseph Zobel and directed by Euzhan Palcy, Sugar Cane Alley is a critically acclaimed and award-winning coming-of-age story.
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Tunes of Glory
Dir Ronald Neame | UK
British acting greats Alec Guinness and John Mills are outstanding as two officers engaged in a battle of wills in this military drama.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Dir Philip Kaufman | USA
A new restoration provides a welcome opportunity to revisit Philip Kaufman’s acclaimed adaptation of Milan Kundera’s novel – one of the most ambitious American films of the 1980s.
