Films in London today: WAKEFUL at The Whitechapel Gallery (23 JAN).
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SCREEN GUIDE DAILY: Films in London today 23.01.20

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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

Anne Robinson: WAKEFUL with Mairéad McClean at The Whitechapel Gallery (23 JAN 19:00):

  • “Artist filmmaker Anne Robinson presents and is in conversation with writer Cherry Smyth about her long-term, multi-disciplinary project Wakeful. Building on a fragmented childhood memory and looking back to a 1918 sea voyage to the Baltic on which her father was ship’s cook, she experiments with film technologies to record time strangely. The screening will also include two films by artist Mairéad McClean: A LINE WAS DRAWN (2019) and NO MORE (2013).”

FILMS IN LONDON TODAY

SINGLE-O EXHIBITS

Films in London today: EAT at Regent Street Cinema (23 JAN).
Films in London today: EAT at Regent Street Cinema (23 JAN).

EAT + RESTAURANT d. Andy Warhol, 1963 + 1965 at Regent Street Cinema (23 JAN 19:30):

  • The Photographers’ Gallery presents: “To coincide with the current exhibition Feast for the Eyes, join us for a unique screening of Andy Warhol’s EAT (1963) and RESTAURANT (1965). The former captures the simple act of a man eating mushrooms in a one-man show starring Robert Indiana in a single 35-minute shot. RESTAURANT, on the other hand, is a moving still life, opening with a tight shot of a chequered tablecloth. With off camera conversations and the appearance of Warhol superstars like Edie Sedgwick, this 34-minute film documents a staged dinner in a New York restaurant.”

THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE d. Terry Gilliam, 2018 + Pre-recorded Q&A with the director at Rio Cinema (23 JAN 18:30):

  • “A legendary and fantastic literary tale of adventure and daring-do. A modern epic tale of disaster and disappointment with a happy ending that has already become a filmmaking legend. Terry Gilliam’s 30 year passionate but seemingly doomed struggle to complete his version of Cervantes’ masterpiece is finally over and the result is the gloriously witty THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE.”
  • Also at (by screening time): Curzon Victoria (23 JAN 18:00 – Other Curzons available!); Genesis Cinema (23 JAN 18:20); Everyman Hampstead & Muswell Hill (23 JAN 19:45) Picturehouse West Norwood (23 JAN 20:00 – Other Picturehouses available!).

More films in London today (A – Z):

  • BREAKING THE LIMITS aka Najlepszy d. Łukasz Palkowski, 2017 at Polish Social and Cultural Association (23 JAN 19:30).
  • CLUELESS d. Amy Heckerling, 1995 presented by Crofton Park Pictures at Rivoli Ballroom (23 JAN 20:00).
  • DUCK SOUP d. Leo McCarey, 1933 at The Prince Charles (23 JAN 16:20 – £1 Members Screening).
  • EL TOPO d. Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970 at ICA (23 JAN 21:15).
  • LA BELLE ÉPOQUE d. Nicolas Bedos, 2019 at The David Lean (23 JAN 14:30 & 19:30).
  • LA DOLCE VITA d. Federico Fellini, 1960 at ICA (23 JAN 14:45).

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MUSEUM SHOWS 1 // SEASONS

Films in London today: JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES, part of TRIBUTE TO DELPHINE SEYRIG – ACTRESS, DIRECTOR AND ACTIVIST at Ciné Lumière (19 & 23 JAN).
Films in London today: JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES, part of TRIBUTE TO DELPHINE SEYRIG – ACTRESS, DIRECTOR AND ACTIVIST at Ciné Lumière (23 JAN).

A WORM’S TAIL VIEW IS OFTEN THE TRUE ONE: FILMS BY PERE PORTABELLA at Close-Up & BFI Southbank (26 NOV 2019 to 15 FEB 2020):

BIG SCREEN CLASSICS at BFI Southbank (DEC to JAN):

CHINESE NEW YEAR at BFI Southbank (19 to 26 JAN):

FELLINI at BFI Southbank (JAN to FEB):

  • Society & Spectacle: GINGER & FRED 4K aka Ginger e Fred d. Federico Fellini, 1986 (23 JAN 18:10).
  • Re-release: LA DOLCE VITA 4K d. Federico Fellini, 1960 (06 to 26 JAN).

HAPPY B-DAY JIM! at House Of Vans (16 JAN to 02 FEB – FREE!/No booking required):

MUSICULTS at Genesis Cinema (JAN):

  • TOMMY d. Ken Russell, 1974 (23 JAN 21:00).

TRIBUTE TO DELPHINE SEYRIG – ACTRESS, DIRECTOR AND ACTIVIST at Ciné Lumière (01 DEC 2019 to 04 FEB 2020):

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MUSEUM SHOWS 2 // FESTIVALS

Maybe nothing today… let us know what we’ve missed!

GRIND SHOWS

RADIANT CIRCUS #ScreenGuide - Films in London today: WAVES at BFI Southbank (17 to 23 JAN).
Films in London today: WAVES at BFI Southbank (17 to 23 JAN).

BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ d. Pamela B. Green, 2018 at Ciné Lumière (23 JAN 18:20 – LAST CHANCE!):

  • “When Alice Guy-Blaché completed her first film in 1896 Paris, she was not only the first female filmmaker, but one of the first directors ever to make a narrative film. Narrated by Jodie Foster, this documentary follows her rise from Gaumont secretary to her appointment as head of production a year later, and her subsequent illustrious 20-year international career.”

WAVES d. Trey Edward Shults, 2019 at BFI (23 JAN 14:30 & 20:20 – LAST CHANCE!):

  • “Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr) is a high-school senior with a star spot on the wrestling team, an adoring girlfriend and an affluent middle-class home. Yet bubbling pressures slowly cause his bright future to unravel. This complex and devastating family melodrama is fuelled by an array of raw and intense performances. An eclectic soundtrack fused with vivid camerawork firmly establishes Shults (IT COMES AT NIGHT) as one of contemporary cinema’s most exciting new voices.”

WEATHERING WITH YOU d. Makoto Shinkai, 2019 at ICA (23 JAN 12:30):

  • “The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky…”
  • Extended to 29 JAN.

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

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