QUAD Essentials

Make this year the year you see some of the highest regarded films in cinema history. In a new ongoing feature of QUAD’s programme, we are exploring some of the best films ever produced through our new strand QUAD Essentials. These are the films that every film publication, critic and film enthusiast will tell you “Oh you must see that!”. Well, now is your chance!

Starting with an eight-week programme, QUAD Essentials presents a film with an introduction detailing its place in cinema history as well as a post-show discussion where you can discuss if it deserves its place among the greats of cinema.

Join Darrell Buxton, film historian, as he hosts this new strand with a range of guest speakers bringing their love and knowledge of these films to QUAD.

What's On

What's On

Singin’ In The Rain with Intro + Post Show Discussion

U

A silent movie star (Gene Kelly) finds his career in jeopardy with the advent of talkies.

20 Mar

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Rashomon with Intro + Post Show Discussion

12A

A crime is recounted from four wildly differing viewpoints.

27 Mar

Rashomon with Intro + Post Show Discussion

12A

A crime is recounted from four wildly differing viewpoints.

27 Mar

Do The Right Thing with Intro + Post Show Discussion

15

Tensions rise on the hottest day of the year in Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

03 Apr

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The 400 Blows with Intro + Post Show Discussion

PG

A few months in the life of misunderstood and mistreated 12-year-old Antoine Doinel.

10 Apr

The 400 Blows with Intro + Post Show Discussion

PG

A few months in the life of misunderstood and mistreated 12-year-old Antoine Doinel.

10 Apr

Citizen Kane with Intro + Post Show Discussion

U

Orson Welles’ masterpiece opens our QUAD Essentials season.

20 Feb

Vertigo with Intro + Post Show Discussion

PG

An acrophobic detective becomes obsessed with a beautiful and troubled woman.

27 Feb

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles with Intro + Post Show Discussison

15

A feminist perspective on the stifling and frustratingly recurrent aspects of everyday life.

06 Mar

Sunrise – A Song Of Two Humans with Intro + Post Show Discussion

U

A man is urged to murder his wife, but matters take an unexpected turn.

13 Mar

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