June 14th  
Blanche Fury** "A" (PG)  
(National Film Theatre)      

(GB 1947)         
Rank/Cineguild. 94m.

An independent minded woman moves to a family estate where she falls in love with the illegitimate rightful heir to the Fury household, with murder in mind...
Watchable Victorian melodrama, made almost as a more modest British Gone with the Wind with the heroine bedecked in various luscious dresses, and stylistically speaking somewhere between the Gainsborough melodramas and the later Hammer films. Shown in an original archived print as part of the BFI's "Film on Film" season.

Written by: Anthony Erskine Lindop, Cecil McGovern, Hugh Mills, from the novel by Marjorie Bowen.
Producer: Anthony Havelock-Allan.
Director: Marc Allegret.
Starring: Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough, Walter  Fitzgerald, Suzanne Gibbs, Maurice Denham, George Woodbridge, Amy Veness.
Photography: Guy Green, Geoffrey Unsworth.
Music: Clifton Parker.
Production Design: John Bryan.

+ the story is based on the real-life Stanfield Hall murders in Norfolk

Jun 11th   
Ballerina* (15)   
(Curzon Colchester)

(US/Hungary/Czech 2025)  
Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment/Thunder Road Films/87 Eleven Entertainment. 125m. ws

A ballet dancer tutored within a secret guild of assassins is out to avenge her father's murder, but finds herself delving into murky waters.
Practically two hours of actions speaking louder than words (such as there are in the script), a "sidequal" to Part 3 of the John Wick saga, slick and stylish within its own preposterous world, and with moments of visual wit amidst the mayhem. 

Written by: Shay Hatten.
Producers: Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, Chad Stahelski.
Director: Len Wiseman.
Starring: Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Gabriel Byrne, Anjelica Huston, Ian McShane, Norman Reedus, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Lance Reddick, Ava McCarthy, Anne Parillaud.
Photography: Romain Lacourbas.
Editing: Jason Ballantine, Julian Clarke, Nicholas Lundgren (and others).
Production Design: Philip Ivey.

Jun 10th   
Summertime**       
(GB 1955)    
United Artists/London Films. 99m.

An American spinster spends her first holiday in Venice, and falls for its charms and for an antiques dealer. 
Director and star in are holiday mood for this travelogue romance, a little repetitive and lacking some of the edge of the similar Brief Encounter and Roman Holiday, with luxurious Venetian locations softening the drama. Captures a fair impression of travelling into Venice.

Written by: David Leam, H.E. Bates, from the play "The Time of the Cuckoo" by Arthur Laurents.
Producer: Ilya Lopert.
Director: David Lean.
Starring: Katherine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon, Jane Rose, MacDonald Parke, Gaetana Autiero, Jeremy Spenser, Andre Morell.
Photography: Jack Hildyard.
Music: Alessandra Cocognini.

Preceded by:
Train Arriving at Liverpool Street Station*
(GB 2025. Granville Films. 3m,; "Un homage" to the Lumieres' first train films made 130 years ago.; ph: Joseph Sales.)