1 LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE
Jean Cocteau’s most popular cinematic offering was this spellbinding fairytale classic from 1946. Ciné Lumière, Queensberry Place, SW7 (www.institut-francais.org.uk 020-7073 1350), Mon (6.30pm)
2 THE GENERAL
New print of Buster Keaton’s best-known feature, a painstakingly constructed action comedy revolving around the silent clown’s love affair with the eponymous loco during the American Civil War. Queen’s Film Theatre, University Square, Belfast (www.queensfilmtheatre.com 028-9097 1097), Fri (6.20pm)
3 DOUBLE INDEMNITY
Fred MacMurray falls under the spell of femme fatale Barbara Stanwyck in Billy Wilder’s terrific 1944 noir thriller. Phoenix Arts, Newarke Street, Leicester (www.phoenix.org.uk 0116-255 4854), Tues (6pm)
4 THE INNOCENTS
Jack Clayton’s chillingly effective and teasingly ambivalent 1961 adaptation of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield (www.showroom.org.uk 0114-275 7727), Fri (2pm & 6.45pm)
5 JOUR DE FÊTE/ MONSIEUR HULOT’S HOLIDAY
Double bill of Jacques Tati features. Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6 (www.riversidestudios.co.uk 020-8237 1111), Sun
(from 7pm)