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BFI Southbank

The General

‘The moment you give me a locomotive and things like that to play with, as a rule I find some way of getting laughs out of it,’ Buster Keaton is quoted as saying. Trains had often been used for gag...

June 1, 2024 | BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7)

SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot. When was this immaculate feature film, Agnès Varda’s essay on time and space, love and death, ever not on our minds? Arriving with ...

June 1, 2024 | BIG SCREEN CLASSICS

Apocalypse Now
Final Cut

In the year of its 40th anniversary, Francis Ford Coppola’s acid-drenched odyssey to the dark heart of the Vietnam war is returning to the big screen, in what has been billed Apocalypse Now: Final ...

June 1, 2024 | BIG SCREEN CLASSICS