SCREEN DIARY: MARCH 2018
RADIANT CIRCUS is gathering a nomadic tribe of film fans – like-minded adventurers committed to supporting London’s independent attractions. Here’s our SCREEN QUEST diaries for March 2018.
Each month, we pick the finest attractions and invite you to experience them with us. These are our SCREEN QUESTS.
This is a summary of the screens we’ve seen in March 2018 (with links to relevant tweets, writeups and SPECIAL FEATURES).
Like STRAIN ANDROMEDA THE, everything here runs backwards…
30 MAR
MALILA: THE FAREWELL FLOWER / HARD PAINT
Presented by BFI Flare at BFI Southbank. // Q&A with director Anucha Boonyawatana (MALILA: THE FAREWELL FLOWER).
#SCREENQUEST [30 MAR]: Excellent double @BFIFlare with Anucha Boonyawatana’s MALILA: THE FAREWELL FLOWER and Filipe Matzembacher & Marcio Reolon’s HARD PAINT. Thanks to programmer Brian Robinson for an insightful Q&A about Boonyawatana’s meditative study of life, death & rebirth. pic.twitter.com/Dyj33jPy4y
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 31, 2018
28 MAR
HOW VIKTOR ‘THE GARLIC’ TOOK ALEXEY ‘THE STUD’ TO THE NURSING HOME
Presented by New East Cinema at Barbican. // Q&A with director Alexander Hant.
#SCREENQUEST [28 MAR]: Excellent night at HOW VIKTOR ‘THE GARLIC’ TOOK ALEXEY ‘THE STUD’ TO THE NURSING HOME + Q&A + Alexander Hant @New_East_Cinema @JamesGreeneKing @BarbicanCentre. An energetic road movie of yellow trainers, saturated visuals, parental absence & reconciliation. pic.twitter.com/QZAsrl2mDZ
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 29, 2018
24 MAR
120 BPM / MY OWN PRIVATE HELL
Presented by BFI Flare at BFI Southbank. // Q&As with director Robert Campillo (120 BPM) & co-director Guto Parente (MY OWN PRIVATE HELL).
#SCREENQUEST [24 MAR]: Time to head @BFI for our first taste of this year’s @BFIFlare. The grownup gay inside knows that 120 BPM will be tonight’s essential LGBTQ classic, but we are also drawn like glorious moths to the lo-fi flame of MY OWN PRIVATE HELL. https://t.co/BvX1WCstJH pic.twitter.com/ILX5F6GRFc
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 24, 2018
> You can read our writeup here.
22 MAR
ST ELMO’S FIRE
Presented by the Celluloid Sorceress at Genesis Cinema.
#SCREENQUEST: Thanks @SorceressOfFilm @GenesisCinema for bringing an essential 1980s film out of the critical darkness, illuminating ST ELMO’S FIRE with an insightful intro & stunning #35mm print. Can’t wait for more: “I’m obsessed, thank you very much” // https://t.co/Y7plhzxfqx pic.twitter.com/gSUlM7WAMK
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 23, 2018
> You can read our interview with the Celluloid Sorceress here.
16 MAR
YEELEN
Presented by BFI at BFI Southbank. // Intro by Ben Okri.
#SCREENQUEST Last weekend, our hunt for adventurous moving pictures gave us back-to-back encounters with 1980s wonders YEELEN + INTRO @benokri @gaylene_g @BFI (16 MAR) & THE DARK CRYSTAL @ThePCCLondon @ParkCircusFilms (until 29 MAR). Here’s our writeup: https://t.co/yuseF8hHVg pic.twitter.com/73yAn4rj8s
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 20, 2018
> You can read our writeup here.
16 MAR
ANGEL HEART
Presented by BFI at BFI Southbank. // Q&A with Sir Alan Parker.
In the Q&A after the film, Sir Alan Parker reflects on how to work with Robert De Niro in between takes. Lessons learned? Avoid making sarcastic pirate asides – “Arrrrrrrh, Jim lad” – to the rest of the crew when the “greatest actor ever” might have laid it on a bit thick…
16 MAR
NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE
Presented by UK Asian Film Festival at Regent Street Cinema. // Skype Q&A with co-directors Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Shivkumar.
“Without hope, architects have nothing to do.”
#SCREENQUEST [16 MAR 15:00 – free!]: Just booked for NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE + Q&A with Professor Rosie Thomas @UoW_CREAM @cometoUKAFF @RegentStCinema #UKAFF. “About the architecture of the home, modernity & the making of the Indian citizen.” Book here: https://t.co/MVKcxcTdp6 pic.twitter.com/0m3w9davDJ
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 15, 2018
14 MAR
STRAIN ANDROMEDA THE
Presented at Close-Up Centre. // Introduction by curator Erik Martinson.
#SCREENQUEST [14 MAR]: Head is still spinning (in reverse!) from STRAIN ANDROMEDA THE @closeupcentre. Two films really. Robert Wise’s classic edited backwards but also Anne McGuire’s creation playing forwards. Watch in awe as everything (you think) you know reverts to zero hour. pic.twitter.com/Naxqdk3T7f
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 15, 2018
08 MAR
NOVA NIGHTS EP#10: KUO’S EYES & OTHER TALES OF DARKNESS
Presented by Billy Chainsaw at The Horse Hospital. // Q&A with director O.B. De Alessi.
#SCREENQUEST [08 MAR]: We love films shot entirely on soundstages (CARAVAGGIO / BALLAD OF NARAYAMA). Filmed in an old church, KUO’S EYES @BeneDeAlessi @horsehospital is a beautifully hand-rendered fairytale, crafting profound horror from fake trees, fright wigs & electrical tape. pic.twitter.com/kzR8PbkbOq
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 9, 2018
07 MAR
BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY
Presented by Women In Film & TV at the Courthouse Hotel. // Q&A with director Alexandra Dean.
#IWD2018 We had the privilege of seeing @AlexHaggiagDean’s film #BombshellDoc at last night’s preview + Q&A @WFTV_UK. Jaw-dropping revelations come thick & fast about inspiring, complex, “underdog, crimefighter by night” Hedy Lamarr. Thanks @EmmaPJones @dogwoof @HotelCourthouse pic.twitter.com/shYZjTXUql
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 8, 2018
03 MAR
LABYRINTHS: THE FILMS OF PETER BURR
Presented by Edge of Frame Weekend at Barbican. // Q&A with Peter Burr.
#SCREENQUEST: We went to 3 events @EdgeofFrame Weekend 2018 [02 to 04 MAR]. Here’s our writeup of LABYRINTHS: THE FILMS OF @petereburr + artist Q&A with @lilly_husbands @BarbicanCentre @EdwinRostron. An early contender for our screen event of the year? https://t.co/ptxPknyDDq
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 6, 2018
> You can read our writeup here.
02 MAR
PERSISTENCE OF VISION / BEYOND THE FRAME
Presented by Edge of Frame at BFI Southbank. // Q&A with the artists.
Excellent day @EdgeofFrame @BFI. Fave question? “Have you shown the film to many dogs & what was the response?” posed @peter_millard. Fave “cartoon”? Split between @petereburr viral rat attack DESCENT & Laura Harrison’s THE LINGERIE SHOW. Some ? left @BarbicanCentre for 03 MAR! pic.twitter.com/ziHdWgSbZs
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 2, 2018
02 MAR
A FANTASTIC WOMAN
Presented by Curzon Artificial Eye at Film London Exhibitor’s Breakfast at Rich Mix.
Excellent morning meeting folk @Film_London #exhibsbrek & chance to see the stunning A FANTASTIC WOMAN @RichMixLondon. Time to scoot across the snow & ice to @EdgeofFrame @BFI. pic.twitter.com/C0UImTsliX
— Radiant Circus (@radiantcircus) March 2, 2018
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Featured images: HARD PAINT (2018).
