We’re asking our wonderful readers to celebrate London’s alternative cinema scene with a #LDNindieFILM Love Story! Here’s the next of their tributes to the amazing people & places that illuminate the darkness & this one’s a WINNER!!
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#LDNindieFILM Love Story: Prince Charles Cinema
We’re asking our wonderful readers to celebrate London’s alternative cinema scene with a #LDNindieFILM Love Story! Here’s the next of their tributes to the amazing people & places that illuminate the darkness with great cinema.
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Support #LDNindieFILM: UK Cinema Fund
If you’re still searching for ways to support independent film exhibition across cinemas & festivals (& we really hope you are!), streaming sensation & indie film distributor MUBI has launched a UK Cinema Fund to accept all your ££££ donations. Here’s everything you need to know.
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#LDNindieFILM Love Story: The Cinema Museum
We’re asking our wonderful readers to celebrate London’s alternative cinema scene with a #LDNindieFILM Love Story! Here’s the next of their tributes to the amazing people & places that illuminate the darkness with great cinema.
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#LDNindieFILM Love Story: Everyman Hampstead
We’re asking our wonderful readers to celebrate London’s alternative cinema scene with a #LDNindieFILM Love Story! Here’s the next of their tributes to the amazing people & places that illuminate the darkness with great cinema.
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#LDNindieFILM Love Story: Genesis Cinema
We’re asking our wonderful readers to celebrate London’s alternative cinema scene with a #LDNindieFILM Love Story! Here’s the first of their tributes to the amazing people & places that illuminate the darkness with great cinema.
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COMPETITION 2: Submit your #LDNindieFILM Love Story to win!
COMPETITION 2 IS NOW CLOSED!! >> // We’re giving away two annual subscriptions to RADIANT CIRCUS’ unique event listings service. For your chance to stay looped about what’s on when everything starts projecting again, submit a #LDNindieFILM Love Story about your favourite London film TRIBE by 23:59 26 APR or a film EVENT that blew your mind by 23:59 03 MAY. T&Cs apply.
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COMPETITION 1: Submit your #LDNindieFILM Love Story to win!
COMPETITION 1 IS NOW CLOSED! > // Thanks to our regular subscribers & donors, we have a lovely prize to celebrate your #LDNindieFILM Love Story! Write, sketch or even sing about your favourite indie film venue to keep the spotlight shining on London’s alternative cinema scene (& help you stay home/stay safe).
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THE VIEW FROM ROW E: Celebrating the social side of cinema [2]
[PART TWO] We’re inviting audiences to submit a #LDNindieFILM Love Story to support London’s alternative cinema scene at this time of crisis. In the second part of our celebration of the social side of cinema, our Barker-In-Chief shares some of his favourite ‘brief encounters’ in the dark from the last two years.
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Submit your #LDNindieFILM Love Story!
SUPPORT #LDNindieFILM // Given that we can’t produce our usual indie event listings, we’re keen to throw our pages open to our wonderful readers to keep the content flowing! It’s time to submit your #LDNindieFILM Love Stories!
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UPDATE: Venues told to close indefinitely
As of this evening (20 MAR), venues including cinemas have been told to close indefinitely “as soon as they reasonably can”. The government commits to pay 80% of wages of all staff “furloughed” until the COVID-19 outbreak passes.
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THE VIEW FROM ROW E: Celebrating the social side of cinema [1]
[PART ONE] At a time when streaming has become the officially sanctioned chemsex of self-isolation, our Barker-In-Chief writes a personal love letter to the social side of cinema, that potent ritual of gathering together in darkness to see stories projected on the wall.
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Support #LDNindieFILM: Venue A–Z
[UPDATE 19 MAR]: We are collating information from venues & other indie exhibitors about how audiences can support #LDNindieFILM through this time of crisis. We will post everything we find here & share widely via Twitter @radiantcircus. Follow us there for news & updates. Get in touch if you have anything to add or update!
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UPDATE: Londoners told to stop all non-essential social contact.
As of this evening (16 MAR), Londoners have been told to stop all non-essential contact to reduce the spread of COVID-19. This includes stopping visits to “pubs, clubs, theatres or other venues” with immediate effect. We are therefore suspending our event listings until this advice updates & it is safe to return to the cinema.
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SCREEN DIARY: NINOTCHKA at Wimbledon Film Club (03 DEC 2019)
#32BoroughsOfFilm: The latest leg of our 2019-2020 odyssey around London’s alternative cinema scene took RADIANT CIRCUS to Wimbledon Film Club for a pre-Christmas screening of NINOTCHKA – “Garbo laughs!” – complete with introduction by Lubitsch expert & author, Nick Smedley. Here’s what we found…
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FRINGE! DIARIES: FISH OUT OF WATER at Rose Lipman (17 NOV 2019)
Continuing our reporting from this year’s Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (12 to 17 NOV 2019) we take a look at FISH OUT OF WATER, a wide-reaching programme of short films curated by young people from Project Indigo.
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FRINGE! DIARIES: (DEEP) INTO YOU at Rose Lipman (16 NOV 2019)
Continuing our reporting from this year’s Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (12 to 17 NOV 2019) we take a look at (DEEP) INTO YOU, the festival’s ever-popular sex-, queer- & body-positive short film programme. NSFW (depending upon where you work…).
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FRINGE! DIARIES: BEING IMPOSSIBLE at Barbican (14 NOV 2019)
As well as volunteering at this year’s Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (12 to 17 NOV), RADIANT CIRCUS managed to catch a number of film screenings. In the first of our special FRINGE! DIARIES we look at Patricia Ortega’s Venezuelan intersex drama, BEING IMPOSSIBLE (2018).
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