Feature, animated and experimental films from 1933 to the 1981 exploring themes related to the exhibition Love & Death: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria.
Free admission.

Wednesday 13 March
Sunday 17 March
Luna, Luna, Luna 1981 Dir. Viviane Elnecave 13 min. Innovative animation depicting a moonlit fantasy of the mysteries and magic of a forest at night as experienced by a sleepwalking child.
Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Dir. Peter Weir 113 min. On St Valentine's Day 1900, a group of schoolgirls from an elite Victorian boarding school mysteriously disappear while on a bush picnic to Hanging Rock.

Wednesday 20 March
Sunday 24 March
Sisyphus 1975 Dir. Marcell Jankovics, b&w 3 min. Animated telling of the classic Greek tale of a greedy king doomed forever to push a heavy boulder up a mountain.
Excalibur 1981 Dir. John Boorman 140 min. Spectacular cinematic interpretation of the Arthurian legend: the rise to power of King Arthur, the forbidden love of Queen Guinevere and Sir Lancelot and the quest of the Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail.

Wednesday 27 March
Sunday 31 March
The Importance of Being Earnest 1952 Dir. Anthony Asquith 95 min. A peerless cast brings this version of the Oscar Wilde classic to vivid life.

Wednesday 3 April
Sunday 7 April
Little Red Riding Hood 1960 Dir. Zlato Bourek 9 min. A Zagreb animated cartoon presenting a rather different version of this famous fairytale.
Kind Hearts and Coronets 106 Dir. Robert Hamer, b&w 106 min. A wickedly elegant black comedy in which a poorer member of the d'Ascoyne family kills off the other family heirs in order to speed up his inheritance.

Wednesday 10 April
Sunday 14 April
Oliver Twist 1948 Dir. David Lean, b&w 105 min. Brilliant cinematic adaption of the Charles Dickens story of a young boy forced into a life of thievery.

Wednesday 17 April
Sunday 21 April
Trapline 1976 Dir. Ellie Epp 18 min. Experimental film shot in a deserted Victorian swimming bath in London.
Gaslight 1944 Dir. George Cukor, b&w 114 min. A definitive psychological thriller set in a claustrophobic house in fog-bound Victorian London in which a scheming husband is trying to drive his wife insane.

Wednesday 24 April
Sunday 28 April
Night on Bald Mountain 1933 Dir. Alexander Alexeiff & Claire Parker, b&w 8 min. A classic of film animation.
The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 Dir. Albert Lewin 110 min. Classic adaption of the Oscar Wilde novel in which a young man's painted portrait ages while he remains eternally youthful.

Wednesday 1 May
Sunday 5 May
Cleopatra 1934 Dir. Cecil B. DeMille 95 min. A sensuous epic of pagan abandon.

Wednesday 8 May 2pm
Sunday 12 May 2pm
(Note earlier start)
Tess 1979 Dir. Roman Polanski 170 min. Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's late-19th Century novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"