This is a film still from HEROIC PURGATORY dir Yoshishige Yoshida, 1970, showing at Close-Up Film Centre (05 & 11 February 2023).

SATURDAY: What’s on in London today [11/02/23]

SATURDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2023 (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.

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HEROIC PURGATORY dir Yoshishige Yoshida, 1970 (11 FEB 20:15) / Part of TONY PALEY’S GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME at Close-Up Film Centre.

“Heroic Purgatory is the [director’s] world-beater, a more condensed and intense dose of Yoshida-ness, in which a student gaggle of would-be terrorists angst about their communal non-action, a strange runaway teen infiltrates the lives of a middle-class couple, and characters keep taking off wigs, revealing that they’re someone else. Every vertiginous shot is an idea, and Yoshida musters the dislocation living in an arthouse science fiction film, when in fact it’s just life at the end of the Sixties.” – Michael Atkinson

  • BLUE JEAN dir Georgia Oakley, 2022 + Q&A with the director, actor Rosy McEwen & producer Hélène Sifre at Curzon Bloomsbury (11 FEB 18:10).
  • FANTASIA d. Various, 1940 at The Garden Cinema (11 FEB 11:00 – Pay What You Can).
  • PRIDE d. Matthew Warchus, 2014 for LGBT History Month at Bostall Library (11 FEB 18:00 – FREE!).
  • Queer Asian Diaspora Film Screening + Discussion for LGBT History Month at VFDalston (11 FEB 14:30).
  • ROMAN HOLIDAY d. William Wyler, 1953 at Ciné Lumière (11 FEB 11:15 / 14 FEB 16:00).

Check venues for full listings…

35MM PRESENTATIONS at The Prince Charles

IMAX PRESENTATIONS at BFI IMAX

AKIRA KUROSAWA at BFI Southbank & BFI IMAX 

A TASTE OF QUEER CINEMA at The Garden Cinema

  • BLUE JEAN d. Georgia Oakley, 2022 (10 to 23 FEB).

COEN BROTHERS ON 35MM at Everyman Screen On The Green

DISNEY MATINEES at The Prince Charles

DRUMROLL FOR FORTUITOUS HEROES at Ciné Lumière

ESSENTIAL CINEMA at Close-Up Film Centre

  • MIRROR d. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974 (11 FEB 18:00).
  • HEROIC PURGATORY dir Yoshishige Yoshida, 1970 (11 FEB 20:15).

JAPAN FOUNDATION TOURING FILM PROGRAMME at ICA

  • SAMURAI HUSTLE aka 超高速!参勤交代 d. Katsuhide Motoki, 2014 (11 FEB 13:00).
  • HOLD ME BACK aka 私をくいとめて d. Akiko Ohku, 2020 (11 FEB 15:20).
  • MY BROKEN MARIKO d. Yuki Tanada, 2022 (11 FEB 18:00).
  • WANDERING d. Lee Sang-il, 2022 (11 FEB 20:00).

JEAN-LUC GODARD: PERSPECTIVES at Ciné Lumière

MARILYN MONROE at The Prince Charles

SHENGELAIA AT 90 at The Garden Cinema

  • THE WHITE CARAVAN d. Eldar Shengelaia, 1964 (11 FEB 20:00).
  • Presented by Klassiki and the Georgian National Film Centre.

SIGHT & SOUND GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME 2022 at BFI Southbank & BFI IMAX

TONY PALEY’S GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME at Close-Up Film Centre

VALENTINE’S at The Cinema In The Power Station

VALENTINE’S at Olympic Studios

VALENTINE’S at The Prince Charles 

THE WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI at The Prince Charles

YOU BEAUTIES: NEW AUSTRALIAN CINEMA at BFI Southbank

  • SISSY d. Kane Senes & Hannah Barlow, 2022 + Short: PINK REEF d. Chloe de Brito, 2022 (11 FEB 20:30).

BLUE JEAN dir Georgia Oakley, 2022

WOMEN TALKING dir Sarah Polley, 2022

Also 10 to 16 FEB (various dates/times):

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