A stranger calls...
Please note : this season finished in March 2023
In Manuela Martelli’s stylish drama 1976, the lead character’s comfortable bourgeois domestic world is upturned when she is asked to look after an injured stranger.
This short season of films explores the rich themes of danger, disruption and transformation that can result when a stranger calls…
The season starts with the 1961 film Whistle Down The Wind, about a mysterious stranger discovered in a Lancashire barn who is mistaken for the Second Coming of Christ. Then on Sun 12 March, one of Orson Welles' final studio films The Stranger makes a triumphant return to the big screen. Alfred Hitchcock's tense and thrilling Shadow of a Doubt then screens on Sun 19 March, and finally the highly controversial (for 1968!) Theorem from Pier Paolo Pasolini closes out the season.
