SATURDAY: What’s on in London today [06/08/22]

SATURDAY 06 AUGUST 2022 (A–Z) // What’s on in London today across DIY, indie & alternative cinema including one-off screen events, film seasons, film festivals & our selection of new releases.

By RADIANT CIRCUS // Twitter @radiantcircus / Instagram @radiantcircus

CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING 35mm d. Jacques Rivette, 1974 at ICA (06 AUG 13:00).

“A special 35mm screening co-presented with the London Short Film Festival and Zodiac Film Club as part of their Eye Rituals programme.

Jacques Rivette’s biggest hit is an exhilarating combination of theatricality, paranoia and la vie parisienne, all wrapped up in an extended and entrancing examination of the nature of filmmaking and film-watching.

Céline (Juliet Berto), a magician, and Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian, meet in Montmartre and wind up sharing the same flat, bed, fiancé, clothes, identity and imagination. Thanks to a magic sweet, they soon find themselves spectators and then participants in a Henry James-inspired ‘film-within-a-film’ – an unfolding melodrama in a mysterious suburban house populated by the ‘Phantom Ladies Over Paris’ (Bulle Ogier and Marie-France Pisier), a sinister man (Barbet Schroeder) and his child. 

Acknowledged by director Susan Seidelman as a huge influence on Desperately Seeking Susan, Céline and Julie Go Boating has a freewheeling, playful spirit that never tires.”

• THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T d. Roy Rowland, 1953 at BFI Southbank (06 AUG 12:10).
• Blinking Buzzards – Quarterly Meeting of the The UK Buster Keaton Society featuring shorts + BATTLING BUTLER d. Buster Keaton, 1926 at The Cinema Museum (06 AUG 16:00).
• CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING 35mm d. Jacques Rivette, 1974 at ICA (06 AUG 13:00).
• CONDEMNED d. Kit O’Connor + Q&A at Rio Cinema (06 AUG 13:30).
• ROCKY 4K d. John G. Avildsen, 1976 at BFI Southbank (06 AUG 17:40).
• SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE d. Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey, 2018 at The Prince Charles (06 AUG 12:35).

Check venues for full listings…

35MM PRESENTATIONS at The Prince Charles

• THE SACRIFICE 35mm d. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986 (06 AUG 15:05).
• ALIEN [Director’s Cut] 35mm d. Ridley Scott, 1979 (06 AUG 18:15 ).

90S CINEMA ON 35MM at Everyman Screen On The Green

• TRAINSPOTTING 35mm d. Danny Boyle, 1996 (06 AUG 22:30).

ANDREI TARKOVSKY at The Prince Charles

• THE SACRIFICE 35mm d. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986 (06 AUG 15:05).

BIG SCREEN CLASSICS: POWER! at BFI Southbank

• RAGING BULL d. Martin Scorsese, 1980 (06 AUG 20:30).
• LA HAINE 4K d. Mathieu Kassowitz, 1995 (06 AUG 21:00).

BLACK & WHITE MOVIES at The Prince Charles

• ERASERHEAD d. David Lynch, 1977 (06 AUG 18:10).

CELEBRATING FILM NOIR at The Garden Cinema

• THE WAGES OF FEAR d. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953 (06 AUG 16:00).

CELEBRATING PENÉLOPE CRUZ at The Garden Cinema

• VOLVER d. Pedro Almodóvar, 2006 (06 AUG 21:00).

CLOSE-UP ON WIM WENDERS at Close-Up

• KINGS OF THE ROAD d. Wim Wenders, 1976 (06 AUG 17:00).
• WINGS OF DESIRE d. Wim Wenders, 1987 (06 AUG 20:15).

COLLECTIVE MOBILISATION at ICA

• SUZANNE DAVEAU d. Luisa Homem, 2019 (05 to 11 AUG various).

THE FILMS OF BOB FOSSE at The Prince Charles:

• CABARET d. Bob Fosse, 1972 (06 AUG 20:50).

THE FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH at The Prince Charles 

• ERASERHEAD d. David Lynch, 1977 (06 AUG 18:10).

FROM JAMAICA TO THE WORLD: REGGAE ON FILM at BFI Southbank

• DANCEHALL QUEEN 35mm d. Don Letts & Rick Elgood, 1997 (06 AUG 18:40).
• Special events: Riddim Moves – A Dancehall day event (06 AUG 13:00).
• Re-release: THE HARDER THEY COME d. Perry Henzell, 1972 (05 to 18 AUG).

HONG KONG SEASON at The Prince Charles

• BLACK BAUHINIA d. Malte Philipp Kaeding, 2021 + Q&A with the director & producers (06 AUG 12:15).

INDIANA JONES IN 4K at The Prince Charles

• RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 4K d. Steven Spielberg, 1981 (06 AUG 15:20).

KINUYO TANAKA: A LIFE IN FILM at BFI Southbank

• LOVE LETTER 4K aka Koibumi d. Kinuyo Tanaka, 1953 (06 AUG 12:00).

PRINCE ON SCREEN at The Prince Charles

• PURPLE RAIN d. Albert Magnoli, 1984 (06 AUG 20:30).

SATYAJIT RAY: THE LANGUAGE OF FILM at BFI Southbank

• Includes (check venue for full listings):
• The woman question: DEVI 4K aka The Goddess d. Satyajit Ray, 1960 + Recorded intro by Sharmila Tagore (06 AUG 14:30).
• Re-release: THE BIG CITY aka Mahanagar d. Satyajit Ray, 1963 (06 AUG 17:20).

WIM WENDERS at Curzon Cinemas

• Check venue for details.

• BUFF 2022 MEDIA DAY (05 AUG).
• Sur-REEL & Uncanny Film Fest (06 AUG).

THE LUNA CINEMA at Dulwich Park

• WEST SIDE STORY 2021 (06 AUG 20:45).

THE LUNA CINEMA at Kensington Palace

• THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (06 AUG 20:45).

OUTDOOR CINEMA at The Cinema In The Arches

• THE LEGO MOVIE (06 AUG 14:30).
• BACK TO THE FUTURE (06 AUG 17:00).
• MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION (06 AUG 19:30).

ROOFTOP FILM CLUB at Bussey Building, Peckham

• EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (06 AUG 20:45).

ROOFTOP FILM CLUB at Roof East, Stratford

• THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (06 AUG 20:45).

SUNSET SCREENING SESSIONS at Beckenham Place Park

• CENSOR d. Prano Bailey-Bond, 2021 (06 AUG 20:45).

• Also 05 to 11 AUG (various dates/times): BURNING AN ILLUSION d. Menelik Shabazz, 1981 at: Picturehouse Cinemas (various) // FEATHERS d. Omar El Zohairy, 2021 at: ICA // MAISIE d. Lee Cooper, 2021 at: ICA / Peckhamplex // NIGHTCLUBBING: THE BIRTH OF PUNK ROCK IN NYC + SID: THE FINAL CURTAIN d. Danny Garcia, 2022 at: Rio Cinema // ROMAN HOLIDAY d. William Wyler, 1953 at Picturehouse Cinemas (various).

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