Black Star: Panic Room 
Join us in celebrating some of cinema’s greatest talents in Black Star, a major new season from the BFI, continuing until December.
Soldier, jazz musician, butler, samurai hitman, burglar, undertaker, ruthless dictator. These seven films demonstrate the versatility of Forest Whitaker, one of the finest – and most unassuming – actors working in cinema today. All films (except Bird) are screening from 35mm prints.
David Fincher’s follow-up to Fight Club is a triumph of technical filmmaking and tense, terrific, sweaty-palmed fun.
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart), play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders – played by Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam and Jared Leto – during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside.
Also screening as part of BFI Black Star: All About Forest Season:
