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Hamilton, cert 12A, 180 mins
Winner of 11 Tony Awards including Best Musical, 7 Olivier Awards including Best New Musical, and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  

To celebrate the 10^th Anniversary of Hamilton, the recording of the original Broadway cast is hitting the big screen for a limited 3-day engagement, including a cast reunion featuring all-new interviews with members of the original cast and creators.

Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and Broadway, Hamilton has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theatre – a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics and education.

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Battleship Potemkin: Music by the Pet Shop Boys, cert 12A, 75 mins
A special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein's legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated score by Pet Shop Boys.

Eisenstein's film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content. Battleship Potemkin is renowned for its dynamic compositional strength and editing of such frame-perfect precision that it's hard not to be swept along.

First revealed at a special outdoor screening in front of an estimated 25,000 in Trafalgar Square in 2004, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe's score, performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker, blends electronic beats with orchestral grandeur to create a contemporary cinematic experience.

We had hoped to include a recorded Q&A with Neil Tennant as part of this screening, but rights issues have prevented this. You can see the Q&A on the BFI’s youtube channel.

★★★★★ “The cleaned-up print and thumping score give Eisenstein an urgency and an emotional wallop that he hasn’t had in, well, 100 years.” The Times

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The Ballad of Wallis Island, cert 12A, 100 mins
Comedy. Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner, lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden & Carey Mulligan) back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.

★★★★ “warm, perceptive and quietly life-affirming… a big-hearted, consoling hug of a movie.” Empire

★★★★ “A bracing, windswept delight.” Time Out

★★★★ “Lovely, offbeat, acutely British” The Telegraph

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Jaws, cert 12A, 124 mins
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the film which helped coin the term 'Summer Blockbuster'! Academy Award-winner Steven Spielberg was only twenty-six years old when he directed Jaws, a movie that changed the way audiences experienced movies by setting the standard for edge-of-your-seat suspense.

When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

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NT Live: Inter Alia, cert 15, 105 mins
Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie, broadcast live.

Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright?

Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity.

★★★★ “A swaggering epic” The Independent ★★★★ “Rosamund Pike is a force of nature” The i paper ★★★★ “Suzie Miller’s vital gut punch of a play” Evening Standard ★★★★ Financial Times ★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ Daily Telegraph

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From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza, cert 12A, 113 mins
22 extraordinary stories, from 22 Palestinian filmmakers, living through the unimaginable. Showing as part of the Cheltenham International Film Festival, Palestine’s official entry to the 2025 Academy Awards brings dozens of emerging Palestinian artists to the fore in an urgent cry for humanity from a people under siege. 

Each film, ranging in length from 3 to 6 minutes, presents a unique perspective on the current reality in Gaza. Using a mix of genres including fiction, documentary, docu-fiction, animation and experimental cinema, From Ground Zero presents a rich diversity of stories that reflect the sorrow, joy and hope inherent in Gazan life.

★★★★ “It’s harrowing, it’s sobering, but it’s life.” The Times

★★★★ “a mosaic of images, ideas and microvignettes of what life is like for civilians under nonstop attack.” The Guardian

★★★★ “Some films make a nice way to pass an evening. Others are eyewitnesses to history.” Financial Times

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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, cert PG, 123 mins
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale follows the Crawley family as they navigate personal and financial challenges in the 1930s, culminating in a heartfelt farewell to the beloved series.

In this final instalment of the saga, Mary Crawley finds herself at the centre of a public scandal that threatens the family's reputation, while the entire household grapples with financial difficulties. The looming threat of social disgrace forces the Crawleys to confront their past and embrace change as they prepare for a new chapter in their lives.

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Young Mothers, cert 12A, 105 mins
Winner of the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes, the Dardenne brothers' social-realist drama follows five adolescent mothers living at a maternal support home in Belgium. In French, with subtitles. ★★★★★ “Gentleness, compassion and love are the keynotes of this quietly outstanding new movie… The Dardennes have again established their gold standard for social realist cinema.” The Guardian

★★★★★ “A quietly profound [film], about doing the right thing, or trying at least.” Financial Times

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Royal Opera House: Tosca, cert 12A, 210 mins
In war-torn Rome, Floria Tosca (Anna Netrebko) and Mario Cavaradossi live for each other and for their art. But when Cavaradossi helps an escaped prisoner, the lovers make a deadly enemy in the form of Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police. At the mercy of Scarpia's twisted desires, Tosca is forced to make a horrific bargain: sleeping with the man she hates in order to save the man she loves. Can she find a way out?

An alternative, modern-day Rome provides the backdrop for Oliver Mears' gripping new production of Puccini's thriller. Sung in Italian with subtitles.

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My Beautiful Laundrette, cert 15, 98 mins
This October, our selection from this year’s Cinema Rediscovered Festival features three films from their season Against the Grain: 1980s British Cinema. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism that dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England. It’s an uncommon love story between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role) who volunteers to help make his dream a reality.

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Holding Liat, cert 12A, 210 mins
This documentary follows the struggles of the Israeli-American family of Liat Beinin-Azili as they work to free her after she was taken hostage by Hamas in the October 7 2023 attacks on Israel. Through the intimate lens of a family’s experience, HOLDING LIAT poses complex questions of identity across generations, as the family is thrust into the epicentre of a global conflict rapidly unfolding in real-time. Partly subtitled.

★★★★ “Powerful and complex documentary… a valuable work” The Guardian

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Coming soon:

Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are The Roses (15)… Visit the World Porridge Making Championships in documentary The Golden Spurtle… Imelda Staunton stars in NT Live’s presentation of Mrs Warren’s Profession…

Plus, our selection from this year’s Cinema Rediscovered Festival continues with Absolute Beginners (15), and Rita, Sue and Bob Too (18).

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