"Though named for a children’s story by Oscar Wilde," Clio Barnard’s THE SELFISH GIANT (2013) "finds little scope in its social realism for a happy ending." Screens 8.35pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2013/10/25/the-selfish-giant-2013/

"a schizophrenic study of the creative process itself": Robert Altman's IMAGES (1972) shows a childless children's author (Susannah York) fragmenting and losing herself. Screens 3.15pm at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2018/07/15/images-1972/

"an autoptic account of Nazi occupation’s devastating effects on ordinary Belorussians": Elem Klimov’s traumatising war film COME AND SEE (1985) screens noon today at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek https://projectedfigures.com/2025/06/01/come-and-see-idi-i-smotri-1985/

The tense, surreal, frustrating police procedural of Bong Joon-ho's MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003) shows a parochial nation stumbling and bumbling its way into modernity. Screens 8.30pm tonight at The Prince Charles Cinema. Highly recommended. #BleakWeek #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2018/02/04/memories-murder-2003/

"a mythic exploration of the ever shifting frontier between savagery and civilisation in an unforgiving landscape": John Hillcoat’s Aussie oater THE PROPOSITION (2005), scripted by Nick Cave, screens 5.45pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema, with Q&A from Hillcoat and star Emily Watson. #BleakWeek #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2022/09/08/the-proposition-2005/

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE (1997) is "an increasingly hallucinatory piece where murderousness is a disease spreading rapidly through the susceptible Japanese psyche". Screens 3.10pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2018/11/14/cure-kyua-1997/

"a quest for hidden meaning amid all the artifice and emptiness of Swinging London": Michelangelo Antonioni's BLOW UP (1966) screens 12.15pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek https://projectedfigures.com/2020/04/28/blowup-1966-the-shout-1978-cowboys-1991/#Blowup