Films in London today: World AIDS Day at 30 at BFI (01 DEC).
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SCREEN GUIDE DAILY: Films in London today 01.12.18

RADIANT CIRCUS is your handcrafted guide to London’s DIY, indie & alternative movie nights, film events & gallery screenings. Our DAILY UPDATE helps you find great films in London today*.

Find films in London today by: SINGLE-O EXHIBITS (one-off attractions) // MUSEUM SHOWS (several exhibits under one roof – seasons & festivals) // GRIND SHOWS (a selection of regular runs).

Featured attraction: World AIDS Day at 30 at BFI Southbank (01 DEC 13:40): BFI Flare supports World AIDS Day with a special event featuring rarely-seen archive extracts and an open discussion. #ROCKTHERIBBON

New at RADIANT CIRCUS: 

In the first of a new series of guest articles at RADIANT CIRCUS, Manila-based film writer & critic Richard Bolisay introduces John Torres’ debut feature TODO TODO TEROS (2006), Filikino’s next screening at Genesis Cinema (05 DEC 18:15).

> HERE.

In our continuing series with Close-Up Film Centre, RADIANT CIRCUS chats to curator Andrew Gutman about UP NORTH & UNDERGROUND, a programme of under-screened classics of the Canadian underground film scene (03 to 04 DEC).

> HERE.

FILMS IN LONDON TODAY

SINGLE-O EXHIBITS

Films in London today: World AIDS Day at 30 at BFI (01 DEC).
Films in London today: World AIDS Day at 30 at BFI (01 DEC).

THE BOX OF DELIGHTS + INTRO by Renny Rye at Picturehouse Central (01 DEC 13:00):

  • Open THE BOX OF DELIGHTS and take a wondrous step back in time to Christmas 1984 with Kay Harker, the Punch & Judy Man, Herne the Hunter, Mouse, and co. for a vintage television marathon of the complete six-episode BBC children’s series. Splendiferous!

Jóhann Jóhannsson: LAST AND FIRST MEN + LIVE SCORE by the London Symphony Orchestra at Barbican (01 DEC 20:00):

  • Based on the cult science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, music, film and narration form a poetic meditation on memory and loss in a performance of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s breathtaking multimedia work.

The Live Ghost Tent – quarterly meeting of The Laurel and Hardy Societyat The Cinema Museum (01 DEC 15:00):

  • The December programme is based on members’ requests: BIG BUSINESS (1929 – sound version), short directed by James W. Horne and Leo McCarey; THEM THAR HILLS (1934), short directed by Charley Rogers; TIT FOR TAT (1935), short directed by Charley Rogers; THE MIDNIGHT PATROL (1933), short directed by Lloyd French; and BONNIE SCOTLAND (1935), directed by James W. Horne.

Open Forms – The Films of Dane Komljen + INTRO by Dane Komljen & Kieron Corless at ICA (01 DEC 14:30):

  • This retrospective presents six works by Berlin-based director Dane Komljen. His films employ innovative approaches to cinema exploring hybridisation and deliberately open forms. Komljen’s cinema lingers between dreams and memories, creating a fluid space that moves freely between imaginaries and realities.

World AIDS Day at 30 at BFI Southbank (01 DEC 13:40):

  • BFI Flare supports World AIDS Day with a special event featuring rarely-seen archive extracts and an open discussion. Confirmed speakers include Ash Kotak (AIDS Memory UK campaign), Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth (cultural historian based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) & Jeffrey Hinton (DJ, filmmaker and archivist). #ROCKTHERIBBON

More films in London today (A – Z):

MUSEUM SHOWS 1 // SEASONS

Films in London today: SHAME at Close-Up (01 DEC).
Films in London today: SHAME at Close-Up (01 DEC).

CHRISTMAS AT THE PCC at The Prince Charles (30 NOV to 27 DEC):

CLOSE-UP ON INGMAR BERGMAN at Close-Up (02 NOV to 30 DEC):

CLOSE UP: SEBASTIÁN LELIO at BFI Southbank (OCT to NOV):

COMEDY GENIUS at BFI Southbank (OCT 2018 to JAN 2019):

JANE FONDA: COMING OF AGE at BFI Southbank (OCT to DEC):

Limina VR Weekender at Picturehouse Central (01 to 02 DEC):

MUSEUM SHOWS 2 // FESTIVALS

Films in London today: PREVENGE at Deptford Cinema (01 DEC).
Films in London today: PREVENGE at Deptford Cinema (01 DEC).

Film festivals in London today include:

GRIND SHOWS

Films in London today: THE WILD PEAR TREE at ArtHouse Crouch End (30 NOV to 06 DEC).
Films in London today: THE WILD PEAR TREE at ArtHouse Crouch End (30 NOV to 06 DEC).

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS at Phoenix Cinema (01 DEC 13:40 & 18:15):

  • The astonishing story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of 19, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio’s joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret.

WARU at Rio Cinema (01 DEC 18:30):

  • A groundbreaking production from eight female Māori filmmakers, WARU is the story of a small New Zealand town coming to terms with a bitter tragedy – the death of a small boy, Waru, at the hands of his carer.

THE WILD PEAR TREE at ArtHouse Crouch End (01 DEC 12:45 & 19:30):

  • Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest feature is ingrained with literary references that touch on existential and philosophical questions, such as the place of religion in our lives, while also rendering a sensitive and distinctive portrait of young people in contemporary Turkey.

More films in London this week (A – Z):

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