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Projecting the Archive: The Brain Machine (U)
Elizabeth Allan plays a doctor who uses her new 'brain machine' to analyse the thought patterns of criminals. Maxwell Reed is the unfortunate petty thief she diagnoses as being on the brink of homicide. Despite a misleadingly sci-fi title The Brain Machine is, in fact, an underrated thriller that trawls through corporate corruption, marriage breakdown, drug smuggling and kidnap in an East End lock-up. Reed's anxious brute and Allan's cold-fish scientist make a surprisingly compelling couple.
Projecting the Archive Sunday Brunches
Please note: this is a old season with no further events to see
The BFI National Archive is one of the world's greatest film collections. To celebrate its 75th anniversary, we are screening films from their Projecting the Archive strand.
Past screenings that were part of this season
| Poison Pen | Sun 5 Sept 12:00 |
| The Halfway House | Sun 12 Sept 12:00 |
| The Brain Machine | Sun 19 Sept 12:00 |
| Nowhere to Go | Sun 26 Sept 12:00 |
Can you do it in 90 seconds?
DepicT! '12 is open for entries
Filmmakers from across the globe: show your stuff in just a minute and a half to be in with a chance of winning £1500, priceless industry exposure, and loads more exclusive prizes.
Free Men
Opens Fri 25 May
Based on true events in Nazi-occupied Paris during 1942, this uplifting drama follows Younes an immigrant (Tahar Rahim) who joins the resistance effort.
