What’s on

20 Jan 2019, 16:00

Regarded by many as Buster Keaton’s greatest achievement, and reportedly his own personal favourite, The General is equal parts comedy and action-adventure.

22 Jan 2019

An endlessly entertaining character study with an Oscar®-worthy performance from Melissa McCarthy as celebrity biographer-turned-forger Lee Israel.

22 Jan 2019, 18:45

Tchaikovsky's most ambitious opera contains some of his greatest music and is a powerful study of destructive obsession.

26 Jan 2019, 10:00

We get silly with a special workshop on slapstick before a screening of three classic Laurel and Hardy films with live musical accompaniment from Wendy Hiscocks.

29 Jan 2019

In Patrick Keiller’s (London, Robinson in Ruins) ‘lost’ film, a fictional researcher (Tilda Swinton) dissects Britain’s relationship with its extraordinarily expensive, backwards housing.

29 Jan 2019

In Patrick Keiller’s (London, Robinson in Ruins) ‘lost’ film, a fictional researcher (Tilda Swinton) dissects Britain’s relationship with its extraordinarily expensive, backwards housing.

30 Jan 2019, 18:45

Richard Eyre’s beautiful production provides the perfect setting for Verdi's opera about a courtesan who sacrifices all for love.

31 Jan 2019, 14:00

An exhaustive documentary exploring the life and work of Salvador Dalí, and that of his muse Gala, from the height of his surrealist powers in 1929 to his death in 1989.

31 Jan 2019, 19:00

I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and being broadcast live to our cinema.

2 Feb 2019, 11:00

Getting ready for awards season with a screening of this Oscar®-winning classic documentary that was one of the first to open our eyes to the journey of emperor penguins.