“Arena changed the way film-makers approached the arts.”
The Sunday Telegraph

The BBC’s longest running arts strand, Arena, is making a rare visit to Curzon Soho’s big screen with this season of pioneering documentaries. Together with the series editor Anthony Wall we have made a selection of programmes that will give an insight into the treasures that Arena’s archive holds.

“Arena is the oasis in the sea of insanity that is television”
Werner Herzog

SUN 22 JUNE Chelsea Hotel & Robert Mapplethorpe

SUN 6 JULY Saint Genet & William S. Burroughs, presented by director Nigel Williams, author Barry Miles and series editor Anthony Wall.

SUN 10 AUGUST Dear Antonioni & Kurosawa