Screening as part of our CRUEL BRITANNIA season
Universally regarded as one of the greatest gangster films ever made, The Long Good Friday rocketed Hoskins to international stardom.
Connecting the glamorous thuggery of the Kray twins to Thatcherite enterprise culture with visual and narrative ingenuity, The Long Good Friday proves prophetic in many ways, not least its striking use of soon-to-be-developed Docklands locations, and belongs to British cinema’s rich heritage of gangster films.
Synopsis:
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
This screening is 18+, and will feature subtitles to aid accessibility.
The event will begin at the advertised time above.
