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New releases this week include the eerie mother-daughter drama Gwen, starring Maxine Peake; Varda by Agnès, the late, great director’s documentary, shedding light on her experience as a director; and Never Look Away, inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history.

Our big summer film season Sound and Vision: Pop Stars On Film is finally here! Get your dancing shoes ready and come along to opening night film Purple Rain followed by a DJ set in the bar, and check out the other films and special events coming up this week.

This week we’ve also got small retrospective of work by the provocative and controversial Italian director Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar; and of course our David Lynch film season continues.

Highlights: Cinema

Sound and Vision: Pop Stars on Film

Fri 19 Jul 2019 – Wed 14 Aug 2019

A visual Jukebox of cinematic treats this summer, Sound and Vision, Pop Stars On Film offers an overview...

Lina Wertmuller: the Director in the White Glasses

Sat 20 Jul 2019 – Wed 24 Jul 2019

A retrospective of work by the provocative and controversial Italian director Lina Wertmüller, an assistant to Fellini who...

Next 7 Days: Cinema

The Dead Don’t Die (15)

Today 12.45, 14.45, 18.05, 20.30; Tomorrow 12.55, 15.55, 18.15, 20.35; Wed 12.55, 15.10, 17.40, 20.30 + more times

Jim Jarmusch's take on the zombie picture, featuring Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits, Danny Glover, Iggy Pop and Bill...

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Weekly Calendar

Fri 19 Jul - Thu 25 Jul

Gwen (15)

Today 12.50, 16.00, 20.35; Tomorrow 12.50, 20.40; Wed 15.40, 20.40; Thu 13.20, 18.30 + more times

A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother (Maxine...

Only You (15)

Today 12.55; Tomorrow 20.25; Wed 17.45; Thu 15.25

After a chance meeting on New Years Eve, Elena and Jake soon enter into a whirlwind relationship. Together,...

Midsommar (18)

Today 13.00, 15.05, 17.00, 20.00; Tomorrow 12.45, 15.00, 17.30, 20.00; Wed 12.50, 15.20, 17.30, 20.00 + more times

What begins as an idyllic retreat for a couple travelling through Sweden quickly devolves into an increasingly violent...

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Never Look Away (15)

Today 13.30; Tomorrow 13.30; Wed 18.20; Thu 13.30

Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, Never Look Away is in equal parts...

Varda by Agnès (15)

From Fri 19 Jul

The late great Agnès Varda returns with Varda by Agnès, a new a documentary that sheds light on...

Yesterday (12A)

Today 17.50; Tomorrow 13.00; Wed 12.45; Thu 20.15

From Academy Award-winning director and HOME-patron Danny Boyle, with screenwriter Richard Curtis, comes a rock-n-roll comedy about music,...

Love and Anarchy (15)

Today 18.00

The tale of a man who sets out to assassinate Benito Mussolini in pre-war Italy.

Apollo 11 (U)

Today 18.30, 20.40; Tomorrow 17.45; Wed 13.10, 15.50; Thu 18.05

Crafted from a newly discovered trove of footage and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo...

Gwen Q&A

Mon 22 Jul 2019

Director William McGregor and actors Maxine Peake and Eleanor Worthington-Cox join us for a Q&A following a screening...

Behind the White Glasses (18)

Tomorrow 18.10

The enormous significance and critical acclaim that was awarded Lina Wertmüller’s work in the 1970s is often forgotten...

Desperately Seeking Susan (15)

Tomorrow 20.30; Wed 13.00

Madonna burst onto the big screen in her first major role as Susan, the free-spirited New Yorker who...

Seven Beauties (18)

Wed 18.00

Wertmüller explores a range of political and personal questions through the story of a man who does anything...

Parent & Baby/ Vita and Virginia (12A)

Thu 11.00

Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds,...

The HOME Film Podcast #48: July 2019

For July, Jason and Andy talk all things Cannes, plus HOME screenings of Gwen, The Dead Don’t Die,...

NT Live/ The Lehman Trilogy (12A)

Thu 18.45

The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a...

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (12A)

From Fri 26 Jul

A beautiful love story between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen, beginning on the idyllic Greek island of...

Lisbon Beat (CTBA)

From Fri 26 Jul

This exuberant and illuminating documentary portrait of a city and its musicians highlights the innovative Afro-Portuguese music scene...

Making Noise Quietly (CTBA)

From Fri 26 Jul

Three stories of strangers meeting on the edge of war: a conscientious objector, a roaming artist, a bereaved...

The Chambermaid (CTBA)

From Fri 26 Jul

A young chambermaid confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships

Talent Development Surgeries / Film and Digital

Fri 26 Jul, 10.30, 11.15, 12.00, 14.30

This surgery will be with Isabelle Croissant whose focus is in Film & Digital.

The Small World of Sammy Lee (12)

Fri 20.30

The vibrant, down and dirty Soho of the 1960s lives on in British classic The Small World of...

The Small World of Sammy Lee (12) + Introduction & DJ Set

Fri 20.30

This 20:20 screening of The Small World of Sammy Lee on Fri 26 Jul will be introduced by...

Relaxed Screening (Autism Friendly): Hairspray (PG)

Sat 11.00

John Waters directs an eclectic cast of musicians (including Debbie Harry and Sonny Bono), actors and drag queens...

Hairspray (PG)

Sat 20.40

With Hairspray, John Waters leapt flamboyantly from the underground and found a wider audience, but this is still...

Bring The Family/ Hairspray (PG)

Sun 11.00

With Hairspray, John Waters leapt flamboyantly from the underground and found a wider audience, but this is still...

Performance (CTBA)

Sun 15.40

Mick Jagger is extremely convincing as a washed up singer (“old rubber lips”) whose seclusion is rudely disturbed...

Performance + Q&A

Sun 15.40

We will be joined by producer Sandy Lieberson and author of Performance: 50th Anniversary Book, Jay Glennie, for...

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Sharkwater: Extinction (12A)

Starts Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 20.40

Sharkwater: Extinction follows filmmaker Rob Stewart as he exposes the massive illegal shark fin industry and the political...

King Creole (PG)

Starts Tue 30 Jul 2019 at 18.00

In 1958 Presley released the third and arguably best film of his career. Set in New Orleans, Presley...

RSC Live/ Measure for Measure (Live)

Starts Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 18.45

When a young novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official, who offers to save her brother from...

Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows (18)

Starts Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 20.40

Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows is the incredible, untold story of British artist Penny Slinger and the...

Preview / Animals (15)

Thu 1 Aug

After a decade partying, Laura and Tyler’s friendship is strained by Laura’s new love and her focus on...

Celebrating Women in Global Cinema

A year-long celebration of women in global cinema.

Precious (15)

Starts Thu 1 Aug 2019 at 20.30

Precious is a pregnant teenager who gets a chance at a new future when she changes schools. Portraying...

The Cure: Anniversary 1978-2018 Live in Hyde Park (CTBA)

Starts Fri 2 Aug 2019 at 20.10

Directed by long-time Cure collaborator Tim Pope, this film captures their 2018 Hyde Park performance in glorious 4K.

Absolute Beginners (15)

Starts Sat 3 Aug 2019 at 18.00

Julien Temple’s flawed but hugely ambitious and entertaining attempt to bring the novel by Colin MacInnes to the...

Videodrome (18)

Starts Sun 4 Aug 2019 at 13.00

Cronenberg’s potent and prescient sci-fi thriller remains one of the director’s greatest achievements.

Reclaim the Frame presents / Dance with a Stranger (15)

Starts Mon 5 Aug 2019 at 18.00

Reclaim The Frame have curated a season as part of the BFI FAN Film Feels: Obsession season, on...

Juice (15)

Starts Thu 8 Aug 2019 at 18.10

Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Raheem (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins) are four Harlem friends who...

Out of Sight (15)

Starts Sat 10 Aug 2019 at 18.00

Having already established herself as an actress, Jennifer Lopez stars in arguably her most accomplished role as Karen...

One Hour Intro/ Believe: Rethinking Cher as Film Star

Sun 11 Aug 15.30

Cher has not only had a five-decade long music career, but also an impressive film career. This talk...

Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (18)

Starts Sun 11 Aug 2019 at 17.10

Cher, Sandy Dennis, and Karen Black sparkle in Robert Altman’s acclaimed film version of Ed Graczyk’s play.

WOFFF Best of the Fest/ North Star + Panel discussion

Mon 12 Aug 18.10

This screening will be accompanied by a panel discussion with Nuala O’Sullivan, WOFFF Festival Director; Katherine Townsend, director...

Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut + Dutch Angle: Chas Gerretsen & Apocalypse Now (CTBA)

From Tue 13 Aug

Don't miss this groundbreaking film on the big screen, from director Francis Ford Coppola, starring Martin Sheen and...

Set It Off (18)

Starts Tue 13 Aug 2019 at 20.30

Queen Latifah stars in a gritty crime thriller combining explosive action and social commentary in a story about...

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (15)

Starts Wed 14 Aug 2019 at 18.00

A captivating, skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima starring David Bowie in probably his finest role.

Dune (12)

Starts Sat 17 Aug 2019 at 17.30

David Lynch's adaptation of Frank Herbert’s all time best-selling sci-fi novel. Take a trip to an intergalactic world...

Blue Velvet (18)

Starts Sun 18 Aug 2019 at 13.00

A classic of American cinema starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern. A clean-cut young man makes...

Wild at Heart (18)

Starts Mon 19 Aug 2019 at 20.15

A road movie that fuses Bonnie and Clyde with The Wizard of Oz, the hyper-violent Wild at Heart...

Lost Highway... (18)

Starts Thu 22 Aug 2019 at 17.45

Director David Lynch travels the weird back roads of America, musing on dreams and identity.

The Straight Story (U)

Starts Fri 23 Aug 2019 at 18.00

A warm hearted David Lynch road movie with a difference.

Inland Empire (15)

Starts Sun 25 Aug 2019 at 14.00

David Lynch's sprawling Hollywood nightmare takes the perspective of Nikki Grace – an out-of-favour actress who's engulfed in...

Preview / The Souvenir (CTBA)

From Wed 28/Thu 29 Aug

A woman grappling with separating fact from fiction finds her ambitions are jeopardised by her first real romance.

For Sama (CTBA)

From Fri 13 Sep

For Sama is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.

NT Live/ Fleabag (15)

Starts Thu 12 Sep 2019 at 19.15

See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag,broadcast live to cinemas from...

The Wizard of Oz (U)

Starts Fri 13 Sep 2019 at 20.40

When Dorothy Gale gets caught in a tornado she ends up in the magical land of Oz.

Day Course/ Introduction to the Female Gothic

Sat 14 Sep, 10:30 – 17:00

This full-day session covers the development of the Female Gothic on screen.

Sunset Boulevard (PG)

Starts Sun 15 Sep 2019 at 13.00

This acid-etched portrait of Tinseltown remains one of the darkest movies on moviemaking.

Sweetie (15)

Mon 16 Sep 18:20

Campion’s stunning debut feature focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care...

A Place in the Sun (U)

Starts Thu 19 Sep 2019 at 17.50

George Stevens’ multi-Oscar winning A Place in the Sun is one of the most powerful and touching of...

Mon Oncle (U)

Starts Fri 20 Sep 2019 at 20.20

Slapstick prevails again when Tati’s eccentric Monsieur Hulot is set loose in the ultramodern home of his brother-in-law,...

8½ (15)

Starts Mon 23 Sep 2019 at 20.00

Mastroianni excels as Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life....

In Cold Blood (18)

Starts Wed 25 Sep 2019 at 20.10

Adapting Truman Capote’s true-crime novel about the senseless murder of a family in rural Kansas, In Cold Blood...

NT Live/ One Man, Two Guvnors (Encore) (12A)

Starts Thu 26 Sep 2019 at 18.45

Based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, with songs by Grant Olding and featuring a...

Stroszek (15)

Starts Fri 27 Sep 2019 at 18.10

Stroszek follows the fortunes of a street performer as he leaves Berlin for America. But once there, he...

The Man Without a Past (12)

Starts Sun 29 Sep 2019 at 16.00

In Helsinki, a man gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember anything from his...

Course / Women in Film Comedy

Tue 8 Oct 18.30

Explore the roles and representations of women in Anglo-American cinematic comedy: women as the butts, audiences and tellers...

ROh Live/ Don Giovanni (12A)

Starts Wed 16 Oct 2019 at 19.00

Mozart’s engaging masterpiece follows Don Giovanni, the women he serially seduces, and the vengeance that finally catches up...

NT Live/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Starts Thu 17 Oct 2019 at 18.45

A feuding fairy King and Queen of the forest cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe...

NT Live/ Hansard (12A)

Starts Thu 7 Nov 2019 at 18.45

See two-time Olivier Award winners, Lindsay Duncan (Birdman, About Time) and Alex Jennings (The Lady in the Van,...

NT Live/ Present Laughter (12A)

Starts Thu 28 Nov 2019 at 18.45

Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter.

ROH Live/ Coppélia (12A)

Starts Tue 10 Dec 2019 at 19.00

Ninette de Valois’ charming and funny Coppélia is a story of love, mischief and mechanical dolls.

ROH Live/ The Sleeping Beauty (12A)

Starts Sun 19 Jan 2020 at 13.45

This production of The Sleeping Beauty has been delighting audiences in Covent Garden since 1946.

ROH Live/ La Bohème (12A)

Starts Wed 29 Jan 2020 at 19.30

Puccini’s opera of young love in 19th-century Paris is packed with beautiful music, lyrical arias and a poignant...

ROH Live/ Fidelio (12A)

Starts Tue 17 Mar 2020 at 19.00

Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph.

ROH Live/ Swan Lake (12A)

Starts Wed 1 Apr 2020 at 19.00

Liam Scarlett's glorious production of Swan Lake, new in 2018, returns for its first revival.

ROH Live/ Cavalleria Rusticana + Pagliacci (12A)

Starts Tue 21 Apr 2020 at 18.45

Two opera classics are drawn together in this wonderfully observed re-creation of life in a south Italian village...

ROH Live/ The Dante Project (12A)

Starts Thu 28 May 2020 at 19.00

Wayne McGregor collaborates with an award-winning team to bring Dante's epic Divine Comedy to life on stage.

Coming soon: Cinema

Precious + Introduction

Thu 1 Aug 2019

The 20:30 screening of Precious will be introduced by season co-curator Dr Kirsty Fairclough, University of Salford.

Videodrome + introduction

Tue 6 Aug 20.40

The screening on Tuesday 06 August at 20:40 will be introduced by Ellen Smith, HOME Young Programmer and...

WOFFF Best of the Fest/ Guiding Light + Introduction

Wed 7 Aug 2019

This screening of WOFFF Best of the Fest/ Guiding Light at 18:10 onWed 7 Aug will be introduced...

WOFFF Best of the Fest / Guiding Light (15)

Wed 7 Aug 2019

A shining selection of WOFFF shorts including The Farmer’s Wife with Geraldine James, an impressive early work from...

Juice + Introduction

Thu 8 Aug 18.10

This screening will be introduced by Jason Wood Creative Director: Film and Culture at HOME.

Out of Sight + Introduction

Sat 10 Aug 2019

This 18:00 screening of Out of Sight will be introduced by Jason Wood Creative Director: Film and Culture...

WOFFF Best of the Fest/ North Star + Panel discussion

Mon 12 Aug 2019

This screening will be accompanied by a panel discussion with Nuala O’Sullivan, WOFFF Festival Director; Katherine Townsend, director...

Set It Off + Introduction

Tue 13 Aug 2019

This screening will be introduced by Karen Gabay, radio presenter and producer.

Eraserhead (15)

Fri 16 Aug 2019

Lynch's tale of an eccentric loner in a nightmare post-industrial landscape, it’s guaranteed to haunt your dreams.

Scalarama/ Eraserhead (15)

Sun 15 Aug 2004 – Fri 16 Aug 2019

Part of the Scalarama 2017 celebrations, we screen David Lynch’s astonishing feature debut, Eraserhead. A cult item that...

Dune + Introduction

Sat 17 Aug 2019

This screening of Dune on Sat 17 Aug at 17:30 will be introduced by Dr Amy C Chambers,...

Pay What You Can/ Peterloo (12A)

Sun 18 Aug 2019

Mike Leigh’s depiction of the infamous 1819 massacre at a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in...

Blue Velvet + Post-Screening Discussion

Sun 18 Aug 13.00

There will be a post screening discussion with filmmakers and visual artists AL and AL following the screening...

Wild at Heart + Introduction

Mon 19 Aug 2019

Th 20:15 screening of Wild at Heart will be introduced by Maggie Hoffgen, freelance film educator.

Hail Satan? (15)

From Fri 23 Aug

In the battle for justice and equality, the Satanic Temple is putting up a hell of a fight....

The Straight Story + Introduction

Fri 23 Aug 2019

This Fri 23 Aug, 18:00 screening of The Straight Story will be introduced by Jason Wood, Creative Director:...

Mulholland Drive (15)

Fri 4 Jan 2002 – Sat 24 Aug 2019

Consistently hailed as the best film of the 21st century, David Lynch's quintessential neo-noir thrives on Watts career-making...

Mulholland Drive + Introduction

Sat 24 Aug 20.00

This 20:00 screening of Mulholland Drive on sat 24 Aug will be introduced by Sarah Perks, curator David...

Stones Have Laws (12A)

From Fri 13 Sep

An immersive initiation into the life of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname

The Wizard of Oz + Introduction

Fri 13 Sep 20.40

This screening will be introduced by Dr Kirsty Fairclough, Associate Dean, School of Arts and Media, University of...

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