Lost Reels All Day Event 13 September 2026

About Lost Reels All Day Event 13 September 2026

This full-day programme is curated into categories that characterise Lost Reels:

· Missing in Action – Fondly remembered films that are inexplicably missing
· Forgotten Classic – Rarely shown gems ripe for rediscovery
· Deep Cut – Deep cut/cult picks for curious minds
· Special 35mm Presentation – Ultra-rare 35mm screenings

Introductions and Q&A’s to be announced in the coming weeks.

Early Matinee: Butterfly Kiss (1995) dir. Michael Winterbottom

Missing in Action: A one-of-a-kind serial killer lesbian love story set in the anonymous motorways and service stations cafés of Northern England. A heady cocktail of road movie, psychodrama, black comedy, and religious allegory as we follow unpredictable schizophrenic Eunice (Amanda Plummer) wandering through petrol stations in search of a mysterious woman named Judith. Miriam (Saskia Reeves), her hard of hearing and hopelessly in love companion, joins her on the road, becoming her lover, caretaker, and murderous assistant.

Compared to Thelma and Louise and Natural Born Killers, Michael Winterbottom’s debut feature is a dreamlike, downbeat British film – a jarringly uncomfortable ride through a British landscape rarely travelled.

Lost Reels is proud to present the UK theatrical premiere of the 2025 digital restoration of Butterfly Kiss.

Early Matinee: Girlfight (2000) dir. Karyn Kusama

Forgotten Classic: Karyn Kusama’s debut feature follows a rebellious Latina teenager (a star-making turn for Michelle Rodriguez) who channels her aggression into boxing. It successfully combines urban social drama, romance, coming-of-age, and sports action to create a rewarding, uplifting, and emotionally satisfying whole.

Inner-city locations and boxing sequences are shot with gritty authenticity, based on Kusama’s own experiences. The performances are first rate, particularly Rodriguez (who at times resembles a young Brando) and Jaime Tirelli as her trainer and surrogate father, Hector.
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Unavailable on any streaming platform and with the DVD long out of print, Lost Reels is pleased to present Girlfight from a rare original 35mm print.

17.00-18.00 Break

Early Evening: Kissed (1996) dir. Lynne Stopkewich

Deep Cut: A hauntingly beautiful and breathlessly romantic film about necrophilia is a tricky proposition, but that’s exactly what writer-director Lynne Stopkewich delivers.

The film concerns a young woman, Sandra (Molly Parker) who is fascinated by death. As a child she dances around the bodies of dead animals and as an adult studies biology, taking a job at a funeral home to be near the recently deceased. She studies embalming, eventually consummating her forbidden passion. Sharing her secret with Matt (Peter Outerbridge), they embark on a doomed romance. Kissed is filled with jaw-dropping surprises among them a squirm-inducing embalming session with her creepy mortician boss.

Lost Reels is excited to be showing Kissed from a beautiful 35mm print. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see this extraordinarily bold, stimulating and controversial film.

Early Evening: Safe (1995) dir. Todd Haynes

Special 35mm Presentation: A Todd Haynes masterpiece about middle-class suburban housewife Carol (Julianne Moore), who contracts a mystery illness and gradually descends into sickness and possibly madness.

Described by Haynes as a “horror movie of the soul,” Carol’s unexciting passionless existence is disrupted when she becomes increasingly afflicted by the sounds, odours, and chemical substances of her contemporary Los Angeles life. Haynes tracks her degeneration in calmly distanced, perfectly composed scenes, recalling the work of Stanley Kubrick. In Safe, everything is open to interpretation. The ambiguous nature of Carol’s affliction and lack of concrete solutions slowly increase our uncertainty and horror.

Lost Reels is pleased to present a rare 35mm screening of Safe to mark the 30th anniversary of its UK release.