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Too Much - Melodrama on Film

Delivered in partnership with the BFI, Too Much: Melodrama on Film celebrates the visual excess and dramatic potency of a form of cinema which champions emotional intensity over propriety and ‘good taste’.

Too Much: The Eternal Breasts (aka Forever a Woman)

Widely considered Kinuyo Tanaka’s first personal film, The Eternal Breasts (aka Forever a Woman) tells the story of a recent divorcée...
07 October 2025
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Too Much: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? + Drag Performance

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford go head-to-head in a sibling battle for the ages. Drag performers, Trudy Scrumptious and Electra La C*nt, channel...
10 October 2025
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Too Much: Girls of the Night + Introduction

With Girls of the Night, Kinuyo Tanaka reunited with screenwriter Sumie Tanaka to explore Japan’s attempted reformation of former...
16 October 2025
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Too Much: The Color Purple

Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey star in director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The...
17 October 2025 until 18 October 2025
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Too Much: All That Heaven Allows

A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood...
24 October 2025 until 30 October 2025
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Too Much: LUMI Presents: Nights of Cabiria

Giulietta Masina delivers a career-defining performance as Cabiria, a spirited and big-hearted sex worker navigating the streets of Rome in search of...
25 October 2025
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Too Much: The Flower of My Secret + Wine Tasting

Filled with melodrama, tears, and wonderfully inventive dialogue, Pedro Almodóvar's (Volver) The Flower of My...
07 November 2025
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Too Much: The Flower of My Secret (Film Only)

Filled with melodrama, tears, and wonderfully inventive dialogue, Pedro Almodóvar's (Volver) The Flower of My...
07 November 2025
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Too Much: Imitation of Life (1959)

Douglas Sirk’s (All That Heaven Allows) final Hollywood film—and perhaps his crowning achievement—is one of the all-time great...
09 November 2025
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Too Much: Now, Voyager

An undisputed classic of Hollywood’s golden age, Now, Voyager features Bette Davis in one of the greatest performances of her career.
10 November 2025
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Too Much: Victims of Sin + Introduction

A treasure of Mexico’s cinematic golden age, this deliriously plotted blend of gritty crime film, heart-tugging maternal melodrama, and mambo...
14 November 2025
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Too Much: Woman of Tokyo + Introduction

In this powerful, compassionate melodrama, Chikako (Yoshiko Okada) works by day as a typist to help put her brother Ryoichi (Ureo Egawa) through...
15 November 2025
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Too Much: Letter from an Unknown Woman + Introduction

Max Ophüls (The Earrings of Madame de...) brought his trademark flowing camera style and a taste of the old Vienna to Hollywood for this...
16 November 2025
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Too Much: Volver

A mother returns from the dead to confront unfinished business with her daughters, who are embroiled in their own emotional turmoil and entwined...
22 November 2025 until 23 November 2025
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Too Much: Fried Green Tomatoes

Pull up a chair at the Whistle Stop Cafe for a tale of friendship, food and murder. Based on Fannie Flagg's novel, this '90s cult classic is...
22 November 2025 , 25 November 2025
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Too Much: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is a fever dream of desire, built on the sharp lines of emotional...
24 November 2025
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Too Much: LUMI Presents: Taipei Story

Edward Yang’s second feature is a mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present. Chosen by our LUMI Programmers.
26 November 2025
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Too Much: Rebecca + Introduction

Romance becomes psychodrama in the elegantly crafted Rebecca, Alfred Hitchcock’s first foray into Hollywood filmmaking.
29 November 2025
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Too Much: Penny Serenade

A woman contemplating divorce reflects on the joys and unexpected sorrows of her marriage in this honest melodrama about life, love, and family.
30 November 2025
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Too Much: Il Mare

Lee Jung-jae and Jun Ji-hyun, a magical time-portal mailbox, and a house by the lake were all mixed into the melodrama pot in 2000 and out came Il...
06 December 2025
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Too Much: The Magnificent Ambersons (35mm) + Choir

Screening here in 35mm, Orson Welles’s beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature—the subject of one of cinema’s greatest...
07 December 2025
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