Director Vanessa Engel for BBC2's The Late Show, video, color, sound, 13 mins. , 1990
Made to celebrate the launch of the book Seeing in the Dark : A Compendium of Cinemagoing by Breakwell and Paul Hammond, the film contains some re-enactments of memorable movie experiences by Breakwell and others.

5th April 1975

London: National Film Theatre bar
An elegantly dressed man and an elegantly dressed woman are sitting opposite each other. She is dressed in a two-piece suit, the skirt just above her knees, and black calf-length boots. He is dressed in casual wear: grey sweater and slacks with knife-edge creases. His hair is parted on the right side of his head. He is telling her who, in his opinion, are the most important French film directors, pausing only to adjust the creases in his trousers. She listens, the little finger of her right hand cocked as she holds her coffee cup poised above its saucer. As he speaks he breaks the seal on the carton of cream for his coffee, inadvertently squeezes the carton, and squirts a little jet of cream up her skirt between her thighs.

15th December 1980

In the cinema
A gristly footnote to the scene in Raging Bull where Jake La Motta's face is pounded into pulp by Sugar Ray Robinson is revealed when I go to the Gents and discover I've been sitting on a meat pie which had been left on the upholstered cinema seat and was stuck to the seat of my trousers.