Films in London this week: LEEDS ANIMATION WORKSHOP AT 40 at Rio (02 DEC).
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SCREEN GUIDE DAILY: Films in London today 02.12.18

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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: LFFF: LEEDS ANIMATION WORKSHOP AT 40! at Rio Cinema (02 DEC 15:30): London Feminist Film Festival presents a one-off afternoon of feminist animation films by the amazing Leeds Animation Workshop, to celebrate their 40th birthday. A selection of their best feminist shorts from the last four decades, is followed by a panel discussion, and an exhibition of artwork and archive material.

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.

FILMS IN LONDON TODAY

SINGLE-O EXHIBITS

Films in London today: THE IMAGE BOOK at Ciné Lumière (02 DEC).
Films in London today: THE IMAGE BOOK at Ciné Lumière (02 DEC).

ARSENAL + LIVE SCORE by Grok at Genesis Cinema (02 DEC 18:25 – Free! / Booking recommended):

  • Grok will perform a live score to Alexander Dovzhenko’s ARSENAL (1929). A montage of images depicts the social upheaval in Russia following World War I leading to the Russian Revolution.

BANDE À PART + SALON by Nick Walker, Rochester Kino at Ciné Lumière (02 DEC 14:00):

  • Godard transposes an American B-movie-style film noir to the grey Parisian suburbs in his homage to Hollywood pulp fiction movies of the 1940s. Odile, a shy young girl falls in with two small-time crooks and is drawn into a plot to rob her aunt’s lodger.

THE IMAGE BOOK aka Le Livre d’image + Panel: A Short History of Jean-Luc Godard at Ciné Lumière (02 DEC 16:00):

  • Following his most recent full-length works, GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE, Jean-Luc Godard pushes his exploration of words, sounds and images to vivid new extremes in this complex, dizzying mosaic of film, essay and collage. This polyphonic discourse about the contemporary condition shows Godard, at 87, as intransigently and vitally confrontational as ever and won him a Special Palme d’Or in Cannes this year.

LFFF: LEEDS ANIMATION WORKSHOP AT 40! at Rio Cinema (02 DEC 15:30):

  • London Feminist Film Festival presents a one-off afternoon of feminist animation films by the amazing Leeds Animation Workshop, to celebrate their 40th birthday. A selection of their best feminist shorts from the last four decades, is followed by a panel discussion, and an exhibition of artwork and archive material.

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU + Skype Q&A with director Boots Riley at Curzon Soho (02 DEC 17:45):

  • Cash (Lakeith Stanfield) is a black call centre worker, who is asked to ‘sound white’ in order to drive sales. This brilliant absurdist film savages capitalism, low-paid labour and racism in a cutting, visually surprising trip that will leave you baffled, buoyed and bruised in equal parts.

More films in London today (A – Z):

MUSEUM SHOWS 1 // SEASONS

Films in London today: GREMLINS 70mm at The Prince Charles (02 DEC).
Films in London today: GREMLINS 70mm at The Prince Charles (02 DEC).

70mm PRESENTATIONS at The Prince Charles (ongoing):

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):

COMEDIES MADE IN FRANCE at Ciné Lumière (02 DEC to 16 JAN):

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

KICK-ASS 80S COMEDIES at House of Vans (09 NOV to 02 DEC – Free! / No booking required):

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

MUSEUM SHOWS 2 // FESTIVALS

Films in London today: THE BOTTOMLESS BAG at Regent Street Cinema, part of Russian Film Week (02 DEC).
Films in London today: THE BOTTOMLESS BAG at Regent Street Cinema, part of Russian Film Week (02 DEC).

Film festivals in London today include:

GRIND SHOWS

Films in London today: WARU at Rio Cinema (30 NOV to 06 DEC).
Films in London today: WARU at Rio Cinema (30 NOV to 06 DEC).

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS at Phoenix Cinema (02 DEC 19:50):

  • 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 (02 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 (02 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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