The Emirates British Film Festival 2014, showcaseing the best of contemporary British Cinema with 15 new films and a specially curated program featuring six classic British Films in our ‘Six From The 60s’ retrospective.

The long rich history of British Cinema is represented in there ‘Six From The 60s’ retrospective with six standout films from the era. The festival will present the digitally restored 50th anniversary screenings of Richard Lester’s “A Hard Day’s Night” featuring a day in the life of The Beatles at the height of Beatlemania and a snapshot of the cultural revolution of the 60’s with Tom Courtenay as “Billy Liar”, Julie Christie in her Academy Award Winning role in “Darling”, the quintessential British caper film “The Italian Job” and Lindsay Anderson’s classic “IF…”. Michael Caine is featured in his first major film role in one of the great epic war films of the 1960’s “Zulu” .

Billy Liar

”One of the great movies of the 1960s.”

– New York Times

The legendary John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) helms one of the most memorable and universally acclaimed films of the 60’s which was predominantly shot in Bradford. Billy Liar stars Tom Courtenay (Quartet) in a star-making turn as Billy Fisher, and is supported by an effortless performance from Julie Christie (Darling).
Running from an unsympathetic working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancées and an insecure job at an undertaker’s, Billy escapes into a world of fantasy where he can realize his dream ambitions. As work and family pressures build to new intolerable levels, Liz (Christie), enters Billy’s drab life and offers him the one real chance he’ll ever get to leave the past behind in this story that has been delightfully described as the British cousin of Walter Mitty.