Twentieth Century

What: Twentieth Century (1934)
Where: BFI Southbank https://whatson.bfi.org.uk
When: 29 January 2020

Synopsis (from the BFI website)
‘They didn’t have leading men and leading women make damn fools of themselves like they did in that picture,’ said Hawks of this seminal screwball, played by John Barrymore and Carole Lombard with the brakes off and no holds barred. Oscar Jaffe (Barrymore) is a Svengali-ish actor-manager, Mildred Plotka (Lombard) his protégée. A paean to the mettle of theatricality and the vitality of frauds, brilliantly adapted from their own play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

Schedule
• The film starts at 6:15. Purchase your tickets here: https://tinyurl.com/wczhfe2

• If you would like to sit with the group, check the comments below for seat numbers and leave a comment with your seat number when you have one.

• We can grab some snacks and drinks at the BFI Bar across from the box office after the film and have a chat.

See you there!