SCREEN GUIDE DAILY: Films in London today 12.08.18

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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: MEDITATION PARK at Genesis Cinema (12 AUG 20:30), part of CANADA NOW and #WomenInFilm2018: “Mina Shum’s new film is a touching, amusing, decidedly entertaining tale of an Asian-Canadian grandmother’s declaration of personal independence after discovering her longstanding husband may not be as worthy of her reverential treatment as she once believed.”

FILMS IN LONDON TODAY

SINGLE-O EXHIBITS

Films in London today: TIME BANDITS at Deptford Cinema (12 AUG).
Films in London today: TIME BANDITS at Deptford Cinema (12 AUG).

BUSTER KEATON TRIPLE BILL + LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT by Cyrus Gabrysch at BFI Southbank (12 AUG 13:30):

  • Celebrate the genius of director and star Buster Keaton with a triple bill of brilliant slapstick comedy, introduced by young programmer Keaton Leigh. Includes THE ELECTRIC HOUSE (1922, 22min), THE BALLOONATIC (1923, 22min), and COPS (1922, 18min).

P.T. at Rio Cinema (12 AUG 16:00):

  • Loading Bar presents: Released on August 12th 2014 as a free download, P.T. was an interactive teaser which turned out to be for the video game Silent Hills. Although that full game never went into production, this playable teaser recieved critical acclaim and terrified people for over a year until it was pulled. The brain child of Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro, Loading Bar have decided to play it on the big screen….

SEX & THE CITY IS 20 + PANEL at Genesis Cinema (12 AUG 19:00 – Free, booking required):

  • On the twentieth anniversary of SEX & THE CITY’S premiere, join Genesis for five carefully selected episodes of the show and an obligatory Cosmopolitan, followed by a discussion of friendships and relationships on the show and beyond, between Zhenya Tsenzharyk and Laura Staab, two women who have experienced life lived in a city and on the small screen, together.

More films in London today (A – Z):

MUSEUM SHOWS 1 // SEASONS

Films in London today: IMMACULATE CONCEPTION at BFI (12 AUG).
Films in London today: IMMACULATE CONCEPTION at BFI (12 AUG).

70mm PRESENTATIONS at The Prince Charles (ongoing):

AGNÈS VARDA: GLEANING TRUTHS various venues (AUG to SEP):

BETWEEN THE SACRED & PROFANE: THE CINEMA OF JAMIL DEHLAVI at BFI Southbank (10 to 12 AUG):

PINTER ON SCREEN: POWER, SEX & POLITICS at BFI Southbank (AUG):

REBEL WITH A CAUSE at Bertha DocHouse (until 12 AUG):

STUDIO GHIBLI FOREVER at The Prince Charles (until 06 JAN 2019):

SUMMER FILMS at House of Vans (until 26 AUG – Free! / No booking required):

MUSEUM SHOWS 2 // FESTIVALS

Films in London today: KIDS at The Five Bells (12 AUG).
Films in London today: KIDS at The Five Bells (12 AUG).

Festivals projecting today include:

Be Epic! London International Film Festival (10 to 12 AUG):

CANADA NOW 2018 showcase screening (12 AUG):

Larry Clark Film Festival (12 AUG):

London Korean Film Festival – Documentary Fortnight: Another World We Are Making (11 to 19 AUG):

Streatham Free Film Festival fundraiser screening (12 AUG):

West Norwood Free Film Festival (12 AUG – Free!):

GRIND SHOWS

Films in London this week: HEATHERS at The Prince Charles.
Films in London this week: HEATHERS at The Prince Charles.

DRAGONFLY EYES at ICA (12 AUG 16:45):

  • Created entirely from hundreds of hours of downloadable Chinese surveillance footage, DRAGONFLY EYES’ unsettling fictional narrative tells the story of a young woman who leaves a Buddhist monastery to begin a new life, working in various jobs until she ultimately finds fame online.

HEATHERS: 30TH ANNIVERSARY at The Prince Charles (12 AUG 15:45):

  • In order to get out of the snobby clique that is destroying her good-girl reputation, intelligent teen Veronica (Winona Ryder) teams up with a dark sociopath, J.D. (Christian Slater) in a plot to kill the cool kids in what is one of the decade’s defining cult classics of 1980s cinema.

LEANING INTO THE WIND – ANDY GOLDSWORTHY at ArtHouse Crouch End (12 AUG 12:25):

  • Sixteen years after their first collaboration on the groundbreaking RIVERS AND TIDES, filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer returns with an absorbing documentary portrait of the influential British sculptor and environmentalist.

More films in London this week (A – Z): THE APPARITION at Lexi Cinema (11 to 16 AUG). A SICILIAN GHOST STORY at The Castle Cinema (11 to 16 AUG). THE HEIRESS at The Institute Of Light (10 to 16 AUG). ISLE OF DOGS at Whirled Cinema (13 to 19 AUG). MAURICE at BFI (11 to 16 AUG). MCQUEEN at Rio Cinema (10 to 16 AUG). OF FATHERS AND SONS at ICA (10 to 16 AUG). POPE FRANCIS – A MAN OF HIS WORD at Phoenix Cinema (10 to 16 AUG). THROUGH LOTTE’S LENS at JW3 (12 to 16 AUG). UNDER THE TREE at Barbican (10 to 16 AUG).

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