Inside the MAJOR BFI Thriller project, coming this autumn

This autumn the BFI will embark on a nail-biting and suspense-filled UK-wide season BFI THRILLER,running from Friday 20 October – Sunday 10 December at BFI Southbank, online on BFI Player, and
at selected venues across the UK.

The season will feature classic film and TV screenings, preview
events, a UK-wide re-release of The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991), a UK-wide touring programme in partnership with the ICO (Independent Cinema Office), a new 4K restoration BFI DVD and Blu-ray release of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear (1953) and a new BFI Compendium with contributions from writers including award-winning author Lee Child – the mind behind Jack Reacher – and critically-acclaimed author Jake Arnott (The Long Firm). Exploring political conspiracies and paranoia, erotic thrillers, racial politics, espionage, the British thriller tradition, fake news, queer characters and femmes fatales, the project will feature leading talent on-stage, a launch event at BFI Southbank featuring a special screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s haunting surveillance
thriller The Conversation (1974) which will inspire a surprise artist-led experience, and THE BIG THRILL WEEKEND at BFI Southbank on 11 –12 November, offering audiences a chance to delve deeper into the genre.

Stuart Brown, BFI Head of Programme and Acquisitions said: “In our new reality of tumultuous global politics – Brexit, Trump, cyber-espionage, the fake news epidemic and terrorism – it’s hard not to feel disorientated amidst the pervasive atmosphere of fear and division.”