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Don't Look Now 

part of The Sound of Suspense

Don't Look Now

An exceptionally unsettling score by Italian composer Pino Donaggio underlies Nicholas Roeg’s haunting adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's supernaturally charged short story about a couple who relocate to Venice in an attempt to come to terms with the accidental death of their young daughter.

Sun 4 March

Vertigo 

part of The Sound of Suspense

Vertigo

An immortal masterwork of music composition, composer Bernard Herrmann’s peerless score for Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless thriller set such a high watermark for cinematic suspense it’s left everything that’s followed feeling a dizzyingly long way down in comparison.

Sun 11 March

Shiraz: A Romance of India 

Shiraz with Anoushka Shankar: A Romance of India

Based on the romance between 17th-century Mughal ruler Shah Jahan and his queen this epic silent film is the ravishing, romantic tale behind the creation of the Taj Mahal.

Fri 16 March

Sat 17 March

Sun 18 March

Sorcerer 

part of The Sound of Suspense

Sorcerer

Sorcerer William Friedkin’s breathtakingly visceral thriller is a supremely tense study in psychological breakdown and contains a soundtrack by German electronic outfit Tangerine Dream that has the ability to ratchet-up the suspense with every turn of its synthesized screw.

Sun 18 March

Inception 

part of The Sound of Suspense

Inception

Christopher Nolan’s smart, moving and intellectual thriller about dream invasion set a new bar for cerebral blockbusters and with Hans Zimmer’s score a new sonic direction in what we think of as the sound of suspense.

Sun 25 March

The Day the Earth Stood Still 

part of The Sound of Sci-Fi

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The quintessential alien visitation tale of its era, Robert Wise’s Sci-Fi classic has had an incalculable influence on big-screen science-fiction with its state of the art effects and its otherworldly and indispensable, theremin-laced score by composer Bernard Herrmann.

Sun 1 April

Planet of the Apes 

part of The Sound of Sci-Fi

Planet of the Apes

Composer Jerry Goldsmith’s seminal score for this sci-fi classic, about three astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and humans are slaves, has quite rightly passed into legend and set a standard for sci-fi film scores that has rarely been bettered.

Sun 8 April

Distant Sky - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen 

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds recorded live in Copenhagen

Performing new album Skeleton Tree’s exquisitely moving compositions alongside their essential catalogue, the band’s first shows in three years provoked an ecstatic and passionate response.

Thu 12 April

Alien 

part of The Sound of Sci-Fi

Alien

The iconic, dissonant soundscape to Ridley Scott’s landmark sci-fi horror is considered one of the best and most visceral of the many iconic scores by composer Jerry Goldsmith despite it suffering from a controversial post-production fallout between the pair.

Sun 15 April

Scoring Ex Machina 

part of The Sound of Sci-Fi

Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury Present Ex-Machina

Musicians Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury will share their experience of developing the score for Alex Garland’s visually stunning sci-fi masterpiece followed by a screening of the film.

Sun 15 April

The screening will be preceded by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury in conversation about creating their eerie soundtrack.

The Terminator 

part of The Sound of Sci-Fi

The Terminator

Composer Brad Fiedel’s metallic, percussive score functions as a robotic heartbeat throughout James Cameron’s original hi-tech nightmare about a violent cyborg who is time-warped from the future to alter the course of history.

Sun 22 April

Treasures from the Turin Film Museum 

Treasures from the Turin Film Museum

Join us for a rare screening of Italian silent films on 35mm with live musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne, plus Q&A.

Sun 22 April

Arrival 

part of The Sound of Sci-Fi

Arrival

Best known for blending the electronic with the classical, the recent tragic death of Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has robbed us of one of the world's most talented contemporary exponents of the film score. His otherworldly score to Denis Villeneuve's richly textured sci-fi drama Arrival is just one of many iconic scores he composed that he will rightly be revered and remembered for.

Sun 29 April