The individual lectures

1. Ken Loach: Red Ken Versus Iron Lady 
(17 Sep) Film Jimmy’s Hall
From Kes till The Wind That Shakes the Barley Britain’s most respected social realist has defended the decency of the ordinary man. Loach's portrayal of British working class life has always been honest and unsentimental.

2. David Cronenberg: Canada’s Baron of Blood (24 Sep) Film Maps to the Stars
‘The dichotomy between body and mind, that’s the main theme of my films: Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly … Everybody is a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live.’

3. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (1 Oct)Film The Ghost Writer
The life of this iconic Polish director reads like a movie. The impact of life on his oeuvre is ever-present: from Macbeth till The Pianist.

4. Anton Corbijn: Inside Out (8 Oct) Film A Most Wanted Man
Star photographer Anton Corbijn started his film career with Control, about the singer of Joy Division who committed suicide at the age of 23. After The American this most promising Dutch director has now adapted a 2008 John le Carré spy-thriller with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in the role of the German intelligence agent, Bachmann.

5. Jonathan Glazer: Cult Film Director (15 Oct) Film Under the Skin
English director Jonathan Glazer needed just three films to establish himself as a cult film director: Sexy Beast, Birth and now, ten years later, his third feature film described as a chilling masterpiece, visually stunning and deeply disturbing, starring Scarlett Johansson and
premiering tonight at Lumière.

This series is organised in cooperation with Film Theatre Lumière