THE THIRD MAN (PG) - BATTERSEA PARK - LONDON

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CLICK ON THE SHOW MAP BUTTON BELOW TO SEE THE SCREENING SITE NEXT TO THE BOWLING GREEN IN THE CENTRE OF THE PARK. If you’re coming from Battersea Park or Queenstown Road Rail stations, use the Rosary Gate in the southeast corner of the park - this is also the best entrance if you’re coming by car and want to park onsite. If you’re coming from Chelsea Bridge then please use Chelsea Gate in the northeast corner of the park. And if you’re coming from Albert Bridge, please use Albert Bridge in the northwest corner of the park. Those are your three options. Enjoy!

Classic noir under the stars in one of London’s most impressive parks: join us for a special screening of the greatest British film of all time (discuss), The Third Man.

Graham Greene wrote the source novella and screenplay about an exhausted and cynical postwar Vienna, providing the atmospheric backdrop for a tale of troubled personal histories, friendship and betrayal. Shot on location in 1949, Austria’s capital, ruined, dark and seedy, is the real star of the show - that is, until Orson Welles emerges out of the darkness to reveal Harry Lime. Oh, yes, and the distorted expressionistic cinematography of Robert Krasker. And the bizarrely chart-topping zither theme by Anton Karas. The film went on to win the Grand Prix at Cannes that year, also picking up British and American Academy Awards.

Bring a blanket or low chair, a picnic (but no glass at this park please) and something warm to wear when the sun sets and those shadows start to slip over us. The Nomad is also at Battersea Park on August 3rd and 17th for outdoor screenings of Little Miss Sunshine and Labyrinth respectively.

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