Radiant Circus Screen Guide - Films in London today: ORLANDO at Curzon Soho (04 JUL).

SCREEN GUIDE DAILY: Films in London today 04.07.18

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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 (regular runs).


Featured attraction: Birds’ Eye View presents ORLANDO 35mm + READINGS by Deborah Levy & Lara Feigel at Curzon Soho (04 JUL 18:30): “Directed with sly grace and quiet elegance by Sally Potter, it is not about a story or a plot, but about a vision of human existence. What does it mean to be born as a woman, or a man?” – Roger Ebert.


FILMS IN LONDON TODAY

SINGLE-O EXHIBITS

Films in London today: CARMEN JONES at BFI (04 JUL).
Films in London today: CARMEN JONES at BFI (04 JUL).

CARMEN JONES + INTRO by Karen Alexander at BFI Southbank (04 JUL 18:15):

  • Bizet’s opera (itself from Prosper Merimée’s novella) was transformed into a stage musical with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein and an all African-American cast, and then turned by Otto Preminger into a film. Set during World War Two, it finds Carmen (Dorothy Dandridge) working in a parachute factory.

ORLANDO 35mm + READINGS by Deborah Levy & Lara Feigel at Curzon Soho (04 JUL 18:30):

  • Birds’ Eye View presents: A story of the quest for love, and an ironic dance through English history. Tilda Swinton’s innocent aristocrat journeys through 400 years of English history first as a man, then as a woman.

THE RED LANTERN at The Cinema Museum (04 JUL 19:30):

  • Kennington Bioscope presents THE RED LANTERN (1919), directed by Albert Capellani, and starring Alla Nazimova and Noah Beery. A programme of silent shorts precedes the main film.

More films in London today (A – Z):


MUSEUM SHOWS 1 // SEASONS

Radiant Circus Screen Guide - Films in London today: M at Close-Up (04 JUL).
Films in London today: M at Close-Up (04 JUL).

AGNÈS VARDA: VISION OF AN ARTIST at BFI Southbank (JUN to JUL).

CREATURE FEATURES at The Prince Charles (until 18 AUG):

  • JAWS (04 JUL 20:45).

JACQUES RANCIÈRE: PHILOSOPHY & CINEMA at Close-Up (04 to 28 JUL):

  • M (04 JUL 19:30).

LA FÊTE DU CINÉMA at Ciné Lumière (01 to 04 JUL):

SATIRE AND MORALITY: THE CINEMA OF MARCO BELLOCCHIO at BFI Southbank and Ciné Lumière (22 JUN to 31 JUL):


MUSEUM SHOWS 2 // FESTIVALS

Radiant Circus Screen Guide - Films in London this week: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA at Aperture (05 JUL).
Films in London this week: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA at Aperture (05 JUL).

Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival (29 JUN to 08 JUL):


GRIND SHOWS

Radiant Circus Screen Guide - Films in London today: VAGABOND at BFI.
Films in London today: VAGABOND at BFI.

THE ENDLESS at The Prince Charles (04 JUL 16:00):

  • Directors Benson and Moorhead play brothers, former members of a “crazy UFO death cult”, who receive a mysterious video cassette in the mail. The tape contains an eerie calling card from their past, inviting them to attend an event called the Ascension.

TARPAULINS at DocHouse (04 JUL 16:30):

  • The simple study of colourful tarpaulins reveals the destruction of modern-day urbanisation at the hands of insects. Los Angeles is losing the fight against a growing infestation of termites, and the city’s best weaponry is tarpaulins.

VAGABOND at BFI Southbank (04 JUL 14:30, 18:10 & 20:30):

  • Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Agnès Varda’s VAGABOND is a cinematic landmark that introduced one of the most intriguing, complex and uncompromising female protagonists in modern cinema.

More films in London this week (A – Z): 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 70mm at BFI IMAX (04 to 05 JUL). ARCADIA at BFI (until 05 JUL). THE CIAMBRA at Watermans (29 JUN to 05 JUL). ENTEBBE at JW3 (01 to 05 JUL). FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK at ICA (01 to 05 JUL). HEREDITARY at Institute Of Light (29 JUN to 05 JUL). MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER at The Prince Charles (29 JUN to 05 JUL). RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA at DocHouse (29 JUN to 05 JUL). SHAKEDOWN at ICA (30 JUN to 05 JUL). THE SQUARE at ICA (30 JUN to 05 JUL). STUDIO 54 at DocHouse (29 JUN to 03 JUL). TIME TRIAL at Picturehouse Central (30 JUN to o5 JUL). ZAMA at Whirled Cinema (02 to 08 JUL).


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