Film4 Summer Screen 2012

Watching a movie under the stars in Somerset House’s beautiful courtyard on a balmy summer evening is a near-perfect London experience. And their 2012 season is a real dazzler, opening with the UK premiere of Walter Salles’s new film of Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ – a month before it hits cinema. Other highlights include Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’, ‘Paris, Texas’, ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ’80s faves ‘Pretty in Pink’ and ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’. Or, if you’re feeling experimental, what about Gaspar Noe’s controversial ‘Enter the Void’? The closing-night screening is another UK first – John Hillcoat’s crime drama ‘Lawless’. Tickets go on sale on May 18 and they shift quickly, so get in early. On the night doors, open at 6.30pm. Arrive early to save a spot and enjoy the atmosphere.