Film, Arthouse

Beckett on Film: Catastrophe: Directed by David Mamet and starring Harold Pinter, Rebecca Pidgeon and John Gielgud. Rough for Theatre II: Directed by Katie Mitchell and starring Jim Norton, Timothy Spall and Hugh B O’Brien. Breath: Directed by Damien †Hirst.

Minimalist composer Philip Glass’s magical reimagining of Jean Cocteau’s 1946 La Belle et la Bête combines the classic black and white film with live performance in a Šsophisticated work that is at once a touching fairy tale and a meditation on creativity. Removing the film’s original dialogue track and score by Georges…

A video of a complete performance of the 1999 OBIE-winning collision of Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights with Joseph Mawra’s B-movie classic, Olga’s House of Shame. ‘Bedazzling … there’s nothing else like it around; it turns disorientation into a primary sensual pleasure, even as it raises terrifying…

Robert Powell and Liza Goddard explore the first hundred years of cinema, starting with the Lumiere Brothers, making their way through Mickey Mouse, Clark Gable and Groucho Marx, and ending with Bond 22. Clive Conway and Christine Croshaw provide musical accompaniment.

Third annual festival of 16mm film projected inside an old Dutch barge. The programme is mostly chosen from the BFI Film Archive with a special mystery film on the Sunday chosen by Kate Muir, Chief Film Critic at The Times.