Simba, having become king of the Pride Lands, is determined for his cub to follow in his paw prints while the origins of his late father Mufasa are explored. Told in flashbacks, the story introduces ...

Alain Tanner’s most widely known work is a comical rumination on the power and effectiveness of radical action. Another collaboration with John Berger and arguably Tanner’s masterpiece, Jonah follows ...

A beautifully told romantic drama and a meditation on the nature of existence. Amid the languid pace of a small town, the lives of a terminally ill photographer and a young parking-enforcement officer ...

In Tsui Hark’s timeless romantic comedy, two people fall in love, are separated soon after and attempt to overcome the burden of not knowing what the other looks like. In 1937, during a Japanese air ...

Now one of the great lines in film history, ‘They call me Mr Tibbs!’ announced the arrival of Poitier’s detective to Rod Steiger’s racist Mississippi sheriff. They find themselves working together on ...

Sidney Poitier woos Diahann Carroll in the city of love and to the strains of a rich Duke Ellington score. Poitier makes for a dashing romantic lead as jazz saxophonist Eddie Cook, enjoying the ...

The move to sound film production brought disruption to film industries across the world. Until recently, Britain’s transition experience had been relatively unexplored. Geoff Brown’s fascinating ...

Accompanying the release of Victor Kossakovsky’s Architecton are two earlier films by the director, which make up his trilogy exploring our place in the world. Victor Kossakovsky’s film essay looks at ...

Join fellow film lovers and explore the magnificent realism and literary adaptations of Luchino Visconti. For more details and to book your place on this course, please contact City Lit on 0207 492 ...

In John Landis’s beloved musical-comedy crime caper, Belushi and Ackroyd’s Jake and Elwood Blues set out, ‘on a mission from God’, to reunite their band. John Landis’ hugely entertaining ...

Alain Delon stars in this beautiful family epic of love, pugilism, and tested loyalty. Alain Delon stars in Luchino Visconti’s beautiful family epic of love, pugilism and tested loyalty. Visconti’s ...