You'll swoon. You'll weep. You'll fear your heart might break... but 'Too Much' melodrama is never enough at Showroom Cinema.
Too Much - A Season of Melodrama on Film | Oct-Dec
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Supported by BFI and BFI FAN, this new season bursts onto our screens in a blaze of passion and desire!
Showroom Classics | From Fri 24 Oct
Enjoy iconic entries into the melodrama canon with Showroom Classics screenings throughout the season. Starting with the intoxicating and vivid All That Heaven Allows (U).
Film Studies: Gaslight Melodramas | From Wed 15 Oct
Dr Sheldon Hall dissects the persecuted protagonists and shadow-filled settings of 40s 'gaslight noirs' in four films and lectures.
Stranger than Love | Tue 25 Nov + Tue 2 Dec
Explore Mexico's Golden Age, through two ravishing melodramas of heightened aesthetic and unruly emotion. This touring programme from Invisible Women reframes the genre as a subversive space for women's passion and defiance.
The Phantom Lives! | Sun 30 Nov
A double bill celebrating the centenary of The Phantom of the Opera. Film historian Craig Ian Mann pairs a live scored screening of the 1925 silent horror, with Brian De Palma's cult rock musical Phantom of Paradise. A night of obsession and passion!
More screenings to be added...
