Featuring Post-Film Q&A with John Minton (Director), Marc Bessant (lead actor) and Geoff Barrow (Producer)

Late summer 1993. After stealing a stash of money and drugs, aging raver David crashes his car deep in the woods - trapped in the wreckage, injured and helpless, he hangs suspended between life and death. When a mysterious poacher discovers him, no rescue comes, only a watchful, unsettling presence that seems intent on letting nature finish the job. As the hours stretch and the elements close in, a tense and claustrophobic battle of wills, and wits, unfolds - where survival hinges on outlasting both the wilderness and the predator at its edge.​

Funeral Parade is proud to present Teorema (Theorem), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s bisexual arthouse classic of the Swinging Sixties.

An upper-class Milanese family is turned on its head by arrival of a beautiful, mysterious stranger known only as The Vistor (Terence Stamp). He takes up residence in the family’s vast estate and soon begins seducing them one by one: the tortured patriarch (Massimo Girotti) and his repressed wife (Silvana Mangano); their devoutly religious maid (Laura Betti); and their troubled teenage children (Anne Wiazemsky and Andrés José Cruz Soublette). What profound revelations will these affairs bring about for this typical bourgeoise family? At once sensual, scandalous, and spiritual, Teorema remains one of Pasolini’s essential films.

Actor, podcaster and former rapper Scroobius Pip presents four short films (a mixture of dramas and comedy’s) he has had some involvement in, and chats to those involved before rounding the evening off with an audience Q&A.

Short Films featured in the programme:
- Dead Man Walks (dir. Scroobius Pip)
- Stutterbug (dir. Matthew Tallon)
- More than it Hurts you (dir. Syvret Rose)
- The Breakdown of a Toxic Relationship as told by Fluffmeister, a Poodle of Questionable Heritage  (dir. Peter Fellows)

Lost Reels presents Lianna (1983) from 35mm + online Q&A with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi.

Written, directed and edited by John Sayles, Lianna concerns the unhappily married Lianna (Linda Griffiths) who, after developing a crush on her female teacher Ruth (Jane Hallaren), embarks on an affair causing her to reassess her sexuality. This is complicated by her pompous unfaithful college professor husband Dick (Jon DeVries), Ruth’s uncertainty about the durability of their relationship, the rejection of her best friend Sandy (Jo Henderson), and the stress placed on her relationships with her children.

The screenplay by Sayles is smart, illuminating and true. Lianna enjoys the liberation of her new life but also experiences a lack of confidence and fear of rejection. The less progressive attitudes to same-sex relationships in the 1980s are explored through her experiences of lesbian bars, hook-ups, and the changing dynamics with her friends. Lianna broke new ground with its realistic depiction of an ordinary woman in mid-life discovering her sexuality and making the necessary, often painful changes. 

Both a queer classic and a deeply felt chronicle of a woman’s personal journey, Lianna has been virtually unseen in the UK since its limited release in 1984 and is currently unavailable on any domestic home media or streaming platform. Lost Reels is proud to bring this pioneering film back to UK audiences from an original 35mm print together with an online Q&A discussion with filmmaking legend John Sayles and his producer and partner Maggie Renzi.

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Featuring Post-Film Q&A with Walter Murch and Director Howard Berry

Invented in 1922, the Moviola remained for a long time the dominant machine for editing film in English-language cinema. Mastering it allowed an editor, in tandem with the director and producer, to create a language and rhythm within a film. Her Name Was Moviola sees Academy Award®-winning sound and film editor Walter Murch working with a team to rebuild a Moviola editing suite to take us through the process of how a film was pieced together. Using two scenes from Mike Leigh’s 2014 drama Mr. Turner – reverse-engineered from digital to 35mm prints – Murch and his collaborators take us through the way the Moviola was employed to bring a multitude on individual shots together into one cohesive narrative. It’s a riveting deep-dive into a process that is key to every form of filmmaking.

Another big screen celebration of the artform and cultural phenomenon of Music Video is coming to the Prince Charles Cinema on Thursday, June 11th.

Music Video Preservation Society is an event that highlights the astonishing creativity and cultural influence of music videos through the decades, with an eclectic programme featuring some of the most iconic and visually inventive pop promos ever made, spanning from the 1970s to the 2020s.

MVPS host David Knight, the country’s foremost music video commentator, provides the background and context to another curated selection of fantastic pop promos - and welcomes guests who have made some unforgettable contributions to the medium.

This latest meeting of Music Video Preservation Society follows previous memorable shows at The PCC where guest directors from across the span of music video history have discussed and introduced their work - including Julien Temple, Luna Carmoon and members of directing collective Hammer & Tongs. 

And this promises to be another great night watching brilliant music videos as they deserve to be seen and heard - on the beautiful big screen at the Prince Charles Cinema.