Roman Polanski at the Barbican

The Barbican Centre is holding a Roman Polanski Film Season starting on 5 May featuring a varied selection of the controversial Polish director’s movies. Below are the films included in the season.

5 May - Knife in the Water Polanski’s 1962 award-winning first feature film, made in Poland about a couple on a weekend trip who pick up a hitch-hiker and invite him aboard their yacht. Shown along with the Polanski short film Two Men And A Wardrobe. Tickets are £8.50 and the programme starts at 3.30pm.

12 May - Repulsion Catherine Deneuve stars in a psychological thriller set in South Kensington, London about a quiet, shy Belgian manicurist who retreats into a disturbing fantasy world. Starts 3.30pm, tickets £8.50.

19 May - Cul-De-Sac A black comedy about two gangsters on the run who take refuge in a Castle on the isolated Holy Island in Northumbria. Donald Pleasance stars. Begins 3.30pm and tickets cost £8.50.

26 May - Chinatown Probably Polanski’s most famous film starring Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittes investigating corruption in 1930s Los Angeles. Also with Faye Dunaway and John Huston. Film starts at 3.30pm, tickets £8.50.

2 June - The Pianist Polanski’s 2002 film which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival as well as Oscars for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. The story of a young Polish concert pianist who survives the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto and the concentration camps of World War II. Polanski’s own mother was killed at Auschswitz, his father sent to an Austrian concentration camp and he escaped from the Krakow ghetto while still a young boy. Begins 3.30pm, £8.50 tickets.

The Barbican is in the City of London and the nearest Underground Stations are Moorgate or Barbican.