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  • SEASON 3
    Sculpting in Time

    Summer 2020 • 12 films

    Sculpting in Time describes the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s distinctive approach to film-making. Film can freeze, fragment and dissect time like no other medium, as free to mirror time’s inexorable linearity as it is to create new, thrilling forms of associative logic. TANKtv’s third season presents a collection of films that deal with this most important of magical powers: the control over time. We look at films spanning five decades that approach time in profound ways, featuring Abbas Kiarostami, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Yorgos Lanthimos, Roy Andersson and more. From the hyper-real to the arcane, each provides its own portal into what Tarkovsky described as the “inner, moral qualities essentially inherent in time itself”. No Longer available.

  • Mirror

    Andrei Tarkovsky | 1975

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    Mirror

    Andrei Tarkovsky | 1975

    Mirror is Andrei Tarkovsky’s quasi-autobiographical meditation on consciousness, memory and childhood. A shifting tapestry of dreams, flashbacks and pseudo-realities, the film creates an uncanny representation of not just what time looks like, but how it feels. Featuring both his real-life mother and second wife – as well as poetry from his father, Arseny Tarkovsky – Mirror is both Tarkovsky’s most personal film, inscrutable and yet universally resonant.

  • The Consequences of Love

    Paolo Sorrentino | 2004

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    The Consequences of Love

    Paolo Sorrentino | 2004

    Titta Di Girolamo has spent eight time-warped years living the same routine in a secluded Swiss hotel. Sins of the past have condemned him to this well-appointed purgatory, but when gun-toting ghosts from that past return, he is finally forced to choose between stasis and action. Paolo Sorrentino’s film immerses us in sumptuously stylised neurosis – and climaxes in an unforgettable literal immersion.

  • Jacquot de Nantes

    Agnès Varda | 1991

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    Jacquot de Nantes

    Agnès Varda | 1991

    Both a conceptually formidable work and a paean to her late husband, Agnès Varda’s Jacquot de Nantes is an attempt to capture the spirit of Jacques Demy’s life and work. Shot during Demy’s final months, the film weaves together dramatisations of his childhood and clips from his films, as well as contemplative shots of the filmmaker himself. Together, they form a cinematic diorama of Demy, told with a disarming openness and intimacy.

  • Alps

    Yorgos Lanthimos | 2011

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    Alps

    Yorgos Lanthimos | 2011

    The Alps in Yorgos Lanthimos’ film are a group of four individuals who impersonate the recently dead for the benefit of the bereaved. As the group engage in this obscure work – underlined by the film’s hallucinatory style – Alps invites a closer study of the basic assumptions of identity through a pseudo-reality that feels disturbingly familiar.

  • My Dinner With Andre

    Louis Malle | 1981

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    My Dinner With Andre

    Louis Malle | 1981

    Playwright Wallace Shawn and theatre director Andre Gregory meet for dinner in an upmarket New York restaurant after a long hiatus. Their characters are almost diametrically opposed: Andre spends his time philosophising about recent expeditions to Tibet, Poland and the Sahara, while Wallace seems more content with his 1980s New York bubble. Come for conceptual ingenuity, stay for great conversation.

  • Taste of Cherry

    Abbas Kiarostami | 1997

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    Taste of Cherry

    Abbas Kiarostami | 1997

    Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry follows the forlorn Mr Badii as he drives around the outskirts of Tehran in a battered Range Rover. We gather that he’s looking for assistance of some kind and is ready to pay serious money. While Badii feels his quest to be a noble one, others are horrified at what he asks of them and take turns persuading him to reconsider in a series of fabular dialogues.

  • Etre et Avoir

    Nicolas Philibert | 2002

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    Etre et Avoir

    Nicolas Philibert | 2002

    Summer holidays, January blues, crisp September mornings… do we ever really shake the rhythms of the school year, that first, fundamental measure of time? Nicolas Philbert’s documentary Être et Avoir tracks one such year against the seasons and landscapes of rural France. Through the prism of one mixed-age class and their beatifically patient teacher, the rupturing changes of childhood are mapped onto the unshakable constancies of rural life.

  • The Lunchbox

    Ritesh Batra | 2013

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    The Lunchbox

    Ritesh Batra | 2013

    Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox is a case of mistaken identity, a meditation on mortality and a subtle rebuke of unchecked globalism all rolled into one. Ila and Saajan pass secret notes to each other through Mumbai’s dabbawala delivery service, and their ritualistic correspondence becomes a sacred lifeline for them both as they navigate personal trauma and tragedy. Food always tastes better when you have something good to read.

  • A Late Quartet

    Yaron Zilberman | 2012

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    A Late Quartet

    Yaron Zilberman | 2012

    When the cellist of the world-famous Fugue String Quartet is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the group’s steady harmony faces existential threat. As they prepare a farewell concert for the ailing maestro – played by Christopher Walken – the group’s dynamics become increasingly overrun by solo individualism. Against a snow-covered New York City, the players must decide whether to huddle together or risk being left in the cold.

  • Archipelago

    Joanna Hogg | 2010

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    Archipelago

    Joanna Hogg | 2010

    Joanna Hogg’s exacting film Archipelago takes place on the Isles of Scilly, as a family gathers to see off their son Edward who has quit his job in the City to volunteer in Africa. With characteristic clarity, Hogg presents the messy workings of a functionally dysfunctional family through a series of uncomfortable dinner-table conversations and inscrutable domestic tableaux. Like the islands they’re on, Hogg’s characters appear connected, interdependent and yet woefully estranged.

  • Two Days, One Night

    Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 2013

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    Two Days, One Night

    Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 2013

    A ticking-clock film with a beating heart to match, Two Days, One Night is our kind of thriller. Marion Cotillard plays a factory worker who must persuade her colleagues to surrender their bonuses to save her job. The premise’s simplicity is a measure of its urgency: the Dardenne brothers’ film is a contemporary fable of labour and social life from whose 95 minutes you emerge ballasted and galvanised.

  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

    Roy Andersson | 2014

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    A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

    Roy Andersson | 2014

    Swedish director Roy Andersson is a master of the absurd. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence takes place in a drab, Scandinavian setting as we follow two lonely, lugubrious salesmen selling novelty items. With exquisitely drawn tableaux of human life and dark, Beckettian humour, the film treads a narrow, slippery path between meaning and meaninglessness.

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SEASON 14 True Brit

Spring 2025 • 10 films

British cinema is synonymous with the kitchen sink drama and its claims to realism. On this season of Now Showing we present a series of realist classics from these islands that emerge not only from specific cultural and historic moments, but also interrogate the very nature of representation itself. Whether through the quiet serenity of turn-of-the-century Wales, the Technicolour vibrancy of the Swinging Sixties or the quiet despair of crisis-riven 1970s London, these films examine how British filmmakers have used the medium to explore the complexities of identity, class, race, and gender; not just documenting the world as it is, but questioning how we perceive it.

SEASON 13 The Stranger

Autumn 2024 • 10 films

What happens when a stranger comes to town? A staple of cinematic diets, this season considers characters who enter lives, communities, or even minds, serving as a catalyst for profound revelation. Featuring films by Francois Truffaut, Juliet Bashore, Isaac Julien, Yasujirō Ozu, Werner Herzog, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, Claire Denis and Peter Greenaway, Season 13 of TANKtv Now Showing considers the Stranger: mysterious encounters, parallel selves, and the essential weirdness of one's own psyche.

SEASON 12 Lust for Life

Spring 2024 • 14 films

Guest-curated by filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman, season 12 of Now Showing ranges across many decades of cinema in pursuit of the pulses of desire and resistance in lives and locations often deemed marginal. Season 12, featuring films by Robert Bresson, Dennis Hopper, Ron Peck, Kent Mackenzie, Mira Nair, Leontine Sagan, Bill Douglas, Sally Potter, Lorenza Mazzetti, John Akomfrah and Andrea Luka Zimmerman, both examines and embodies humanity’s limitless lust for living.

SEASON 11 Forbidden Colour

Autumn 2023 • 12 films

These kaleidoscopic films by visionaries Bergman, Bidgood, Bakari, Greenaway, Herzog, Pasolini, Ozu, Jarman and Rosso represent the most enchanting, troubling and shocking uses of colour in cinematic history.

SEASON 10 Lives of the Saints

Spring 2023 • 12 films

There can be no sainthood without struggle, and for Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Robert Bresson, Margaret Tait, Carl Th. Dreyer, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Christopher Newby, Liv Ullman, Toshio Matsumoto, Timothy Neat, Jamil Dehlavi and Edward Bennett, the divine vision is in the details. Available for rental only.

SEASON 9 Conception

Autumn 2022 • 12 films

TANK’s ninth season, featuring films by John Cassavetes, Jean Cocteau, Terence Davies, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Derek Jarman, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Mike Leigh, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen and Yasujiro Ozu, show that between the idea and the story there is a universe of possibility. Available for rental only

SEASON 8 Escape

Summer 2022 • 10 films

With films by Kryzsztof Kieślowski, Deniz Gamze Egüven, Andrei Tarkovsky, François Ozon, Cristian Mungiu, Hal Hartley, Atom Egoyan, Jean Vigo, Michael Haneke and Louis Malle – offering stories that cross borders, identities and contexts – this season looks at escape anew, not as resignation from our environment, but as re-engagement with it. No Longer available.

SEASON 7 Back to Earth

Autumn 2021 • 10 films

TANK presents ten films selected by the curators at Serpentine Galleries, as part of their multi-year project Back to Earth. Showing films by Agnès Varda, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Gianfranco Rosi, Charlie Chaplin, Luc Jacquet, Bela Tarr, Thomas Vinterberg, Lars von Trier and Babak Jalali. No Longer available.

SEASON 6 Ritual

Summer 2021 • 10 films

This season, we present 10 films spanning six decades by directors who train their lens on this ancient human practice, who, in doing so, capture the often unsaid behaviours and gestures that make us us. Showing films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrew Haigh, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, Agnès Varda, Corneliu Porumboiu, Aki Kaurismäki and Atom Egoyan. No Longer available.

SEASON 5 Metamorphosis

Spring 2021 • 10 films

We are pleased to be showing you 10 films spanning seven decades from the greatest names in cinema, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Béla Tarr, Paweł Pawlikowski, Gabriel Axel, Robert Bresson, Olivier Assayas and Atom Egoyan. No Longer available.

SEASON 4 On Versimilitude

Autumn 2020 • 12 films

This season, we are pleased to be showing 12 films spanning seven decades from the greatest names in cinema, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Michael Haneke, Paolo Sorrentino, Agnès Varda, Louis Malle, Roy Andersson, Andrea Arnold, Hal Hartley, Denis Villeneuve, Peter Strickland, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Mia Hansen-Løve. Through rich storytelling and technical nuance, these directors bring to light cinema's raw power to move and to persuade, and perhaps, to flicker more truthfully than life itself. No Longer available.

SEASON 2 Growing Pains

Spring 2020 • 12 films

Filmmakers return to childhood because while it is universal, it is rarely identical. Whether delving deep into the turbulent experience of our earliest years or tracing their reverberations into adolescence and adulthood, these twelve films journey back to where it all begins. No Longer available.

SEASON 1 Beyond Varda

Winter 2019 • 10 films

With director Agnès Varda’s death in 2019, the film world lost a leading (and too-often overlooked) member of the Nouvelle Vague, a cinematic innovator and a pioneering voice. This season of TANKtv marks that legacy with 10 films by female directors for whom Varda laid a cinematic foundation. No Longer available.