SATURDAY: What’s on in London today [24/09/22]

SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 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.

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#QueerHorrorNights presents a very special event at the historic Rio Cinema – our Halloween Monsters Ball: NIGHTBREED (28 OCT 22:00+).

Films for Food: THE STREET d. Zed Nelson, 2019 presented by Nunhead Community Cinema at The Green Community Centre SE15 (24 SEP 18:30 – FREE/Food donation for Southwark Foodbank requested).

“As the glinting steel and mirror-glass skyscrapers of London’s financial hub edge ever closer, the area surrounding Hoxton Street has been transformed by ‘luxury’ developments and sky-high property prices. This traditional East London street, less than a mile from the City of London, has become the last bastion of the area’s disadvantaged – a concentration of the aged, poor and dispossessed.”

“Hoxton Street’s close-knit working-class community has absorbed waves of immigrants since the 1950’s. But as traditional industry has withered, the latest influx of young urban hipsters followed closely by expensive restaurants, digital media start-ups and corporate property developers has brought with it a deepening social and financial divide.”

“Sensing they have been left behind, the street’s ageing white residents lament the loss of their jobs and former ways of life, echoing the 52% who voted to leave the EU. Set against rapid gentrification, years of austerity and the eruption of Brexit, Zed Nelson’s feature-length debut is a comic, tragic and deeply moving portrait of not just a street, but a nation on the cusp of enormous change.” (zednelson.com)

This is a free screening, but if possible please bring a food donation for Southwark Foodbank.

Check venues for full listings…

35MM PRESENTATIONS at The Prince Charles

IMAX PRESENTATIONS at BFI IMAX

  • AVATAR 3D d. James Cameron, 2009 (23 to 29 SEP various).

ANIME at The Prince Charles

BBC CENTENARY LGBTQ+ SCREENINGS at The Cinema Museum 

BIG SCREEN CLASSICS: FATEFUL MOMENTS IN TIME! at BFI Southbank

CHANNEL 4: 40 YEARS OF REVOLUTION at BFI Southbank

THE FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH at The Prince Charles 

FROM THE REQUEST BOARD… at The Prince Charles

KINUYO TANAKA: A LIFE IN FILM at BFI Southbank

MAD MAX ON 35MM at Everyman Screen on the Green

MOVIE MARATHONS at The Prince Charles

PAM GRIER at Picturehouse Cinemas

PAM GRIER: FOXY, FIERCE & FEARLESS at BFI Southbank 

  • JACKIE BROWN d. Quentin Tarantino, 1997 + Intro with Dope Black Women co-founder Roshan Roberts (24 SEP 17:30).
  • BLACK MAMA, WHITE MAMA d. Eddie Romero, 1973 (24 SEP 20:50).
  • Re-release: JACKIE BROWN d. Quentin Tarantino, 1997 (16 SEP to 02 OCT).

PORTRAITS FROM AN OTHER GERMANY: THE EARLY FILMS OF HELKE MISSELWITZ at ICA

TSUCHIMOTO NORIAKI: FILM IS A WORK OF LIVING BEINGS at Close-Up

THE WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI at The Prince Charles

ROOFTOP FILM CLUB at Bussey Building, Peckham

ROOFTOP FILM CLUB at Roof East, Stratford

DON’T WORRY DARLING dir. Olivia Wilde, 2022:

IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE aka Dangsin-eolgul-apeseo dir. Hong Sangsoo, 2021:

IT IS IN US ALL dir. Antonia Campbell Hughes, 2022:

SILENT LAND aka Cicha Ziemia dir. Aga Woszczyńska, 2022

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