Programme

75th anniversary of Robert Wise’s landmark sci-fi classic about an alien who arrives in Washington with a warning for humanity.

30th anniversary of quite possibly the most eye poppingly gorgeous film ever made, a sumptuous allegorical tale focusing on an almost extinct nomadic tribe of South Eastern Iran who are famed for their intricately designed Persian carpets.

Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with his AI assistant in Spike Jonze’s tender, funny and surprisingly prescient sci-fi romance about what it means to be human.

In Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's thriller, tennis star Guy Haines strikes up a conversation with a stranger, Bruno Anthony, and unwittingly sets in motion a deadly chain of events. 

Wim Wenders' adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley's Game, follows a terminally ill picture framer in Hamburg who is manipulated by the enigmatic con man Tom Ripley into becoming a hired assassin for a criminal syndicate.