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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Carolyn Owen-King will be in conversation with Professor Tamar Jeffers McDonald about her book British Masculinity in Transatlantic Cinema: Ronald Colman and Basil Rathbone (Bloomsbury). Total ...

In Sidney Poitier’s box-office breakout he plays a prisoner on the run who is chained to Tony Curtis’s racist con. Poitier’s first collaboration with director Stanley Kramer is an action-packed ...

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 ...

This is easily the most ‘neorealist’ of Visconti’s films, featuring non-professional actors playing versions of themselves and speaking in real Sicilian dialect. An epic story, it follows the lives of ...

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 ...

Jason Higgs is a civil-rights activist-turned-radical who believes ‘nonviolence is one thing’, but ‘passive dying is another’. Wounded during an armed robbery that was intended to finance the Black ...

Two worlds collide in Susan Seidelman’s feminist comedy-drama as Rosanna Arquette’s bored housewife makes a life-changing decision that brings her into contact with Madonna’s carefree spirit. When she ...