"Too much perfection is a mistake"

Venue: Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Road, London E1 4UJ
​​Date: Thursday 30 January, 6.20pm (box office open at 6.00pm)

"A picaresque journey past the principal myths and symbols of human culture, shot in the style of an incredibly bloody, violent Italian Western"

"You're better suited for making love than for making war"

Venue: Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT
​​Date: Sunday 12 January, 2.00pm (box office open at 1.00pm)

"A brilliant surrealistic joke about a group of friends whose attempts to dine are continually thwarted."

"Tullio Kezich, who collaborated with Olmi on the script, was a famous Italian film critic and also the most eminent biographer of  Fellini"

Venue: Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX
​Date: Monday 16 December, ​7pm (box office and bar open at 6pm)

"Ermanno Olmi films simply and affectingly to give a sweet and faithful rendition of the Austrian novelist Joseph Roth’s 1939 novella"