Architecture on screen at the BFI

06 November 2009

Alongside the obligatory showing of The Fountainhead, there will be a re-release of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, and screenings of Murnau’s Sunrise, Jacques Demy’s Model Shop and Jacques Tati’s Playtime. Documentaries include Sydney Pollack’s Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005), Paul Strand’s Manhattan (1921), Terence Davies’ paean to Liverpool, Of Time and the City (2008) and Proud City: A Plan for London (1946), directed by Ralph Keene.

The 1948 Central Office of Information film Charley in New Town can be seen at the BFI mediatheques.

The season is complemented by a selection of films available at the BFI mediatheques at the South Bank as well as at Quad in Derby and Cambridge Central Library. Selections include an early look at New Architecture at the London Zoo (1937), The Ten Year Plan (1945), which features Carry On actor Charles Hawtrey promoting post-war prefab housing, the HG Wells-scripted Things To Come.

RIBA president Ruth Reed will introduce a screening of Peter Greenaway’s The Belly of An Architect, while Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse (1962) will be introduced by Claudio Silvestrin. BFI Southbank will also host a RIBA debate featuring Eric Parry and Sean Griffiths of Fat on November 17.

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