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The Outdoor Cinema 2024 is supported by Associate Partner Mastercard and Destination Partner Culture Mile BID.

Barbican Cinema is delighted to announce an addition to this year’s line-up, the World Premiere of blur: Live At Wembley Stadium. Screening on Sat 31 Aug, this is a cinematic two-hour concert film immortalising the band’s historic 2023 show, which saw blur perform their iconic and much-loved songs for 150,000 fans in a transcendent, once-in-a-generation performance that delivered a sweep of ecstatic 5 star reviews. 

This completes the line-up of the Barbican’s Outdoor Cinema series which returns this summer with a sparkling programme of films to watch under the city’s stars, set in the cinematic surroundings of the iconic Barbican Sculpture Court, complete with a selection of street food vendors and bars. 

As ever Barbican cinema curators have created an outdoor programme like no other, inspired by the sweeping vision of some of cinema’s most original storytellers, among them Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Vincente Minnelli, Kamal Amrohi, Michel Gondry, Dee Rees, Hayao Miyazaki, and Ingmar Bergman, alongside the work of three of music’s most inventive artists, Prince, Björk and blur.

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