Butley

About the film:<div>A university lecturer, Ben Butley, shares his office and his flat with a former star pupil, Joey, now also a lecturer. Butley faces both the ultimate breakdown of his marriage and of his intense friendship with Joey. Butley’s painful discoveries are made against a background of petty university politics and unease about student dissent. He greets them with a blistering torrent of repartee and rhetoric.</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">GRAY MATTERS: The Films of Simon Gray</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">"It is a curious thing, being alive... It's like living in a room with a clock that ticks the wrong time, but there's no one around to tell you.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">The Chiswick Cinema are delighted to host this exclusive season celebrating the career of Simon Gray.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">About SIMON GRAY:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Simon Gray (1936 - 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, best known for his deep and witty explorations of the human condition. His darkly comedic work often featured academic, middle-class characters caught in emotional or intellectual crisis, told with razor sharp dialogue. His ability to balance humour with existential despair has earned him a lasting place in theatre. His contemporary Harold Pinter, directed several of his plays.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Gray wrote novels, screenplays and candid memoirs that reflected on his work, health, smoking and depression. His style has a dryly intelligent rigor, with brilliant wit, self-deprecation and philosophic honesty often going hand in hand. Disillusionment, achievement, and the despair in everyday entrapments are a throughline to the psychologically complex texts.</span></div></div>DramaPT2H5MTBC2026-09-25
Alan Bates
Richard O’Callaghan
Michael Byrne
Jessica Tandy
Susan Engel
Georgina Hale
Simon Rouse
John Savident
Harold Pinter
Butley"Butley"

Showtimes

September 25, 7:45 pm

Chiswick Cinema