Film screening selected by Howard Hodgkin.

Dir. Bernard Rose, UK/USA, 2000, 92 minutes.             Certificate 18

A remarkably raw and powerful work set in Hollywood and partly based on Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Shot on digital camera it portrays the last day in the life of LA movie agent Ivan Beckman, demonically played by Danny Huston.

‘ivans xtc emerges as a powerful, chilling, and affecting study of one man's dying fall.’ BBC Films.