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What makes a CineMaster?

Years of experience, global renown, a career of landmark films and a public fascination with every move they make – and that’s just for starters.

Our ongoing season celebrates directors and key figures from filmmaking history, and gives you the opportunity to watch their work on the big screen.

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CineMasters: Wong Kar Wai

September 2025

With his lush and sensual visuals, pitch-perfect soundtracks, and soulful romanticism, Wong Kar Wai has established himself as one of the defining auteurs of contemporary cinema. Joined by key collaborators such as cinematographer Christopher Doyle, editor and production and costume designer William Chang, and actors Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, Wong (or WKW, as he is often known) has enraptured audiences and critics worldwide. He’s inspired countless other filmmakers with his movies’ poetic moods, narrative and stylistic daring, and potent themes of alienation and memory. Whether tragically romantic, soaked in blood, or quirkily comedic, the films in this retrospective are an invitation into the unique and wistful world of a deeply influential artist.

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CineMasters: Tennessee Williams

November 2025

Tennessee Williams was one of the most adapted playwrights in Hollywood’s Golden Age. By the mid-1950s, competing with television for audience’s attention, Hollywood turned to the established playwright to bring “mature” themes such as desire, sexuality, mental health, and dysfunctional families to the big screen. A legend of melodrama, adaptations of Tennessee Williams’ plays created some of Hollywood’s darkest and most shocking films for the era as well as providing provocative roles for stars such as Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Katharine Hepburn. This programme presents some of Tennessee Williams’ best adapted melodramas for the big screen, screening as part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film.

Too Much has been made possible thanks to the BFI Film Audience Network, through funding from the National Lottery.

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CineMasters: Wong Kar Wai

September 2025

With his lush and sensual visuals, pitch-perfect soundtracks, and soulful romanticism, Wong Kar Wai has established himself as one of the defining auteurs of contemporary cinema. Joined by key collaborators such as cinematographer Christopher Doyle, editor and production and costume designer William Chang, and actors Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, Wong (or WKW, as he is often known) has enraptured audiences and critics worldwide. He’s inspired countless other filmmakers with his movies’ poetic moods, narrative and stylistic daring, and potent themes of alienation and memory. Whether tragically romantic, soaked in blood, or quirkily comedic, the films in this retrospective are an invitation into the unique and wistful world of a deeply influential artist.

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