RADIANT CIRCUS #ScreenGuide - Films in London today: TWO A.M. at ICA (05 OCT).
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SCREEN GUIDE DAILY: Films in London today 05.10.19

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).

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TWO A.M. d. Loretta Fahrenholz, 2019 European Premiere + Q&A with the director at ICA (05 OCT 19:00):

  • Artists’ Film Club presents: “A hallucinatory tale of coercion, control, and peer-to-peer surveillance on the fringes of present-day Berlin. Fahrenholz draws on Irmgard Keun’s 1937 novel, After Midnight, for her protagonist, Sanna. Where Keun’s young narrator turned a septic eye on the rise of the Nazis in prewar Germany, Fahrenholz’s Sanna is pitted against her own overbearing family of mind-reading ‘Watchers,’ who use their powers to monitor the thoughts and feelings of their human counterparts.”

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LUNCHTIME FILM SOCIETY is a brand new popup cinema screening daily programmes of bitesize films for busy City workers at the Bridewell Theatre in the City Of London (22 OCT to 01 NOV 2019). Bring your own lunch, relax & refocus as you feast on a world of inspiring short film drama, documentary & animation.

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Films in London this week: THE HORSE HOSPITAL.

Online at radiantcircus.com: Our epic OCTOBER roundup helps you navigate all the rep seasons & film festivals projecting across London this month. // Two venues are under threat – read appeals from Screen25 in South Norwood and The Horse Hospital & lend support where you can.

SCREEN DIARY: NEW HEIGHTS, part of Smartphone Film Festival at Leytonstone Loves Film (28 SEP).

#32BoroughsOfFilm: We started our yearlong tour of community cinema with visits to Richmond Film Society to see Hirokazu Kore-eda’s SHOPLIFTERS (24 SEP 2019) & Leytonstone Loves Film for the Smartphone Film Festival (28 SEP 2019). (Many) more to come!

FILMS IN LONDON TODAY

SINGLE-O EXHIBITS

Films in London today: THE DRILLER KILLER at Deptford Cinema (05 OCT).
Films in London today: THE DRILLER KILLER at Deptford Cinema (05 OCT).

Contested Identities in Costa Rica Book launch + Screening WE THE STONES d. Alvaro Torres Crespo, 2018 at Birkbeck Cinema (05 OCT 13:00 – FREE!):

  • “Join us for a presentation of Contested Identities in Costa Rica: Constructions of the ‘tico’ in literature and film (2019, Liverpool University Press) and a conversation with the author, Dr. Liz Harvey-Kattou, followed by a screening of Alvaro Torres Crespo’s recent film WE THE STONES aka Nosotros las piedras (2018, Costa Rica/Mexico), screened for the first time in the UK.”

THE DRILLER KILLER d. Abel Ferrara, 1979 at Deptford Cinema (05 OCT 19:30):

  • “Tortured and penniless artist Reno and his girlfriends Carol and Pamela hang out at their New York loft, enduring such problems as the phone bill, the rent, and a rock band that’s always practicing downstairs. When it all becomes too much, Reno grabs his drill and runs through the city on all-night rampages. Eventually, Carol moves out, Reno’s paintings don’t sell, and things just get worse from there.”

More films in London today (A – Z):

  • CIELO d. Alison McAlpine, 2018 at ICA (05 OCT 15:00).
  • HONEYLAND d. Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov at DocHouse (05 OCT 16:30). 
  • ONCE UPON A TIME IN… HOLLYWOOD d. Quentin Tarrantino, 2019 at Ciné Lumière (05 OCT 16:00).
  • STONES HAVE LAWS d. Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan & Tolin Erwin Alexander, 2018 + Discussion for Black History Month presented by Film Merton at Pollard Hill Library (05 OCT 13:00 – FREE!). 
  • THE SOUVENIR d. Joanna Hogg, 2019 at Ciné Lumière (05 OCT 19:45).

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MUSEUM SHOWS 1 // SEASONS

Films in London this month: GENDERNAUTS: A JOURNEY THROUGH SHIFTING IDENTITIES, part of CYBERFEMINISM ON FILM at Barbican (05 to 08 OCT).
Films in London today: GENDERNAUTS: A JOURNEY THROUGH SHIFTING IDENTITIES, part of CYBERFEMINISM ON FILM at Barbican (05 to 08 OCT).

CLOSE-UP ON DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBÉTY at Close-Up (05 to 20 OCT):

  • TOUKI BOUKI d. Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973 (05 OCT 20:00).

CLOSE-UP ON RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER at Close-Up (01 OCT to 01 DEC):

CYBERFEMINISM ON FILM: GENDER, SEXUALITY, TECHNOLOGY at Barbican (05 to 08 OCT):

THRILLERS & KILLERS & MONSTERS, OH MY! at The Prince Charles (27 SEP to 01 NOV):

“We bring you a strand of dark, twisted, scary, fun and bloody cinema!” Includes:

WITCHES & VAMPIRES at House Of Vans (03 to 27 OCT – FREE!/No booking required):

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MUSEUM SHOWS 2 // FESTIVALS

Films in London today: SECRETS OF A WINDMILL GIRL, part of Soho A Go Go Film Festival (05 OCT).
Films in London today: SECRETS OF A WINDMILL GIRL, part of Soho A Go Go Film Festival (05 OCT).

Film festivals in London today include:

GRIND SHOWS

Films in London this week: JUDY at Phoenix Cinema (04 to 10 OCT).
Films in London today: JUDY at Phoenix Cinema (04 to 10 OCT).

HITSVILLE: THE MAKING OF MOTOWN d. Gabe Turner & Benjamin Turner, 2019 + Pre-recorded Intro at DocHouse (05 OCT 14:10 & 20:30):

  • “With a soundtrack that will have you dancing in your seat, if not in the street, HITSVILLE: THE MAKING OF MOTOWN celebrates the astronomical success and enduring cultural impact of Motown Records. Founder of Motown Berry Gordy and his long-standing friend and co-creator Smokey Robinson recall the beginnings of the company that had a radically progressive approach and was way ahead of its time.”

JOKER d. Todd Phillips, 2019 at The Lexi (05 OCT 17:30 & 20:15):

  • “This origin story for Batman’s arch nemesis suggests that Arthur Fleck – indelibly portrayed here by Joaquin Phoenix – is a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night, but finds the joke always seems to be on him.”

JUDY d. Rupert Goold, 2019 at Phoenix Cinema (05 OCT 13:00, 15:30, 18:15 & 20:50):

  • “Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland (Renée Zellweger) arrives in Swinging London to perform in a sell-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in THE WIZARD OF OZ, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown.”

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

  • AMERICAN PSYCHO 35mm d. Mary Harron, 2000 at The Prince Charles (until 09 OCT). BAIT d. Mark Jenkin, 2019 at The Castle Cinema (until 10 OCT). CURTIZ d. as Yvan Topolanszky, 2018 at JW3 (until 10 OCT). THE FAREWELL d. Lulu Wang, 2019 at Barbican (until 10 OCT). FOR SAMA d. Waad Al-Khateab & Edward Watts, 2019 at The Castle Cinema (until 10 OCT). GOOD POSTURE d. Dolly Wells, 2019 at Rio Cinema (04 to 10 OCT). HUSTLERS d. Lorene Scafaria, 2019 at Genesis Cinema (until 10 OCT). THE LAST TREE d. Shola Amoo, 2019 at Peckhamplex (until 10 OCT). NORMAL d. Adele Tulli, 2019 at ICA (until 08 OCT). ONE CHILD NATION d. Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang, 2019 at DocHouse (04 to 09 OCT). PHOENIX d. Camilla Strøm Henriksen, 2018 at Whirled Cinema (07 to 13 OCT). ROJO d. Benjamín Naishtat, 2019 at Watermans (04 to 10 OCT). THE SOUVENIR d. Joanna Hogg, 2019 at The Prince Charles (until 03 OCT)

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

AD ASTRA d. James Gray, 2019 at The Lexi (until 03 OCT). BAIT d. Mark Jenkin, 2019 at ICA (until 03 OCT). BOOKSMART d. Olivia Wilde, 2019 at Whirled Cinema (30 SEP to 06 OCT). CIELO d. Alison McAlpine, 2018 at ICA (27 SEP to 02 OCT). CURTIZ d. as Yvan Topolanszky, 2018 at JW3 (02 to 10 OCT). THE FAREWELL d. Lulu Wang, 2019 at Barbican (until 03 OCT). FOR SAMA d. Waad Al-Khateab & Edward Watts, 2019 at The Castle Cinema (until 03 OCT). THE GOLDFINCH d. John Crowley, 2019 at Phoenix Cinema (27 SEP to 03 OCT). HONEYLAND d. Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov, 2019 at DocHouse (until 03 OCT). HOTEL MUMBAI d. Anthony Maras, 2019 at Rio Cinema (27 SEP to 03 OCT). HUSTLERS d. Lorene Scafaria, 2019 at Genesis Cinema (until 03 SEP). THE LAUNDROMAT at ArtHouse Crouch End d. Steven Soderbergh, 2019 (27 SEP to 03 OCT). ONCE UPON A TIME IN… HOLLYWOOD 35mm d. Quentin Tarrantino, 2019 at Genesis Cinema (until 03 OCT – Check schedule for formats). ONE CHILD NATION d. Zhang Lynn & Nanfu Wang, 2019 at Barbican (27 SEP to 01 OCT). ON THE PRESIDENT’S ORDERS d. James Jones & Olivier Sarbil, 2019 at DocHouse (27 SEP to 03 OCT). PAIN AND GLORY d. Pedro Almodóvar, 2019 at The Prince Charles (until 02 OCT). SEA OF SHADOWS at Ciné Lumière (27 SEP to 03 OCT). SKIN d. Guy Nattiv, 2018 at Genesis Cinema (27 SEP to 03 OCT). THE SOUVENIR d. Joanna Hogg, 2019 at The Prince Charles (until 03 OCT).

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