SUNDAY: What’s on in London today [05/02/23]

SUNDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2023 (A–Z) // What’s on in London today across DIY, indie & alternative cinema including one-off screen events, film seasons, film festivals & our selection of new releases.

By RADIANT CIRCUS // Twitter @radiantcircus / Instagram @radiantcircus

Non-Aligned Film Archives 02: Regards Inversés (Med Hondo) + Intro by Annabelle Aventurin at Close-Up Film Centre (05 FEB 15:00).

“The Non-Aligned Film Archives is an ongoing programme curated by researchers and archivists Léa Morin and Annabelle Aventurin in collaboration with Open City Documentary Film Festival. The project aims to create a space to share films that have been neglected and overlooked – important works, many of which have been recently restored, that have been marginalised from dominant cinematic narratives. Each session revolves around a single lost work that is instead invoked through other films that have survived.”

“At the centre of this programme is an unfinished documentary by Mauritanian filmmaker Med Hondo. Commissioned by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regards Inversés was shot between 1984 and 1985 yet remains unedited, its rushes and negatives currently lost. The aim of Hondo’s project was “to attempt, as a team, an inversion and revision of the ethnological approach, to enable researchers from the Third World, the ‘former observed’, to take a critical look at the deep structures of Western, rural and urban societies”. – Modou Ngo

“The films in this programme act together as an invocation of Hondo’s lost work. From their positions as outsiders, Désiré Ecaré, Mostafa Derkaoui, Hamid Bensaïd and Ibrahim Shaddad borrow and subvert the codes of the dominant Western cinema to present their perspectives on Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. Filmed in France, Poland and Germany respectively, these works examine the colonial spectre and its consequences for the mental and physical health of the African diasporas living at the margins of the political and social realities of their host countries.” (The Non-Aligned Film Archives)

• ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT d. Edward Berger, 2022 + Q&A with the director, Producer Malte Grunert, Actor Albrecht Schuch, Composer Volker Bertelmann, Editor Sven Budelmann and Sound Designer Frank Kruse at Cinema In The Power Station (05 FEB 11:40).
• THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI d. Robert Wiene, 1920 at Picturehouse Cinemas (05 FEB various).
• CESÁRIA ÉVORA d. Ana Sofia Fonseca, 2022 at Bertha DocHouse (05 FEB 13:50).
• THE CRUSADE d. Louis Garrel, 2021 at Ciné Lumière (05 FEB 13:30).
• DRIVE MY CAR d. Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021 at Whirled Cinema (05 FEB 17:00).
• JOURNEY TO THE WEST d. Kong Dashan, 2021 at The Garden Cinema (05 FEB 14:30).
• Non-Aligned Film Archives 02: Regards Inversés (Med Hondo) + Intro by Annabelle Aventurin at Close-Up Film Centre (05 FEB 15:00).
• THE QUIET GIRL d. Colm Bairéad, 2022 + Q&A with the director at Curzon Bloomsbury (05 FEB 11:40).
• RASHOMON d. Akira Kurosawa, 1950 at at ActOne Cinema (05 FEB 14:15).
• RASHOMON d. Akira Kurosawa, 1950 at Phoenix Cinema (05 FEB 13:00 / 07 FEB 11:45).
• Chinese New Year: Year of the Rabbit – WHAT ABOUT CHINA? d. Trinh Minh-ha, 2022 + Intro by Hyun Jin Cho, BFI London Film Festival Programmer at BFI Southbank (05 FEB 14:30).

Check venues for full listings…

IMAX PRESENTATIONS at BFI IMAX

• AVATAR 2: THE WAY OF WATER 3D d. James Cameron, 2022 (until 15 FEB).
• SIGHT & SOUND GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME 2022: 54= BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT 4K d. Ridley Scott, 1982 (05 FEB 20:40).

AKIRA KUROSAWA at BFI Southbank & BFI IMAX 

• Family: RAN 4K d. Akira Kurosawa, 1985 + Intro by Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London (05 FEB 17:30).
• Talks & Events: Kurosawa and Shakespeare, Adaptation and Reinvention: An illustrated talk by Adrian Wootton (05 FEB 15:15).
• Re-release: RASHOMON d. Akira Kurosawa, 1950 (until 23 FEB).

ANNIVERSARY SEASON at Everyman Belsize Park

• BICYCLE THIEVES aka Ladri di biciclette d. Vittorio De Sica, 1948 (05 FEB 13:45).

A TASTE OF QUEER CINEMA at The Garden Cinema

• ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED d. Laura Poitras, 2022 (until 09 FEB).

AU CONTRAIRE: JEAN-LUC GODARD at Close-Up

• LA CHINOISE d. Jean-Luc Godard, 1967 (05 FEB 18:00).

CELEBRATING JACK NICHOLSON at The Garden Cinema

• EASY RIDER d. Dennis Hopper, 1969 (05 FEB 17:15).

CINEMATIC JUKEBOX / CLASSIC FILM SEASON at The Prince Charles (not listed elsewhere!)

• DUNE d. Denis Villeneuve, 2021 (05 FEB 15:00 – 4K).
• WITHNAIL & I d. Bruce Robinson, 1987 (05 FEB 20:45).

ESSENTIAL CINEMA at Close-Up Film Centre

• HEROIC PURGATORY dir Yoshishige Yoshida, 1970 (05 FEB 20:00).

JAPAN FOUNDATION TOURING FILM PROGRAMME at ICA

•  ITO aka いとみち, d. Satoko Yokohama, 2021 (05 FEB 13:15).
• THE MILLION RYO POT aka 丹下左膳余話 百萬両の壺 d. Sadao Yamanaka, 1935 (05 FEB 15:45 / 09 FEB 16:00).
• ANGRY SON aka 世界は僕らに気づかない d. Kasho Izuka, 2022 (05 FEB 17:50).
• THE PAST IS ALWAYS NEW, THE FUTURE IS ALWAYS NOSTALGIC: PHOTOGRAPHER DAIDO MORIYAMA aka 過去はいつも新しく、未来はつねに懐かしい 写真家 森山大道 d. Gen Iwama, 2021 (05 FEB 20:15).

MARILYN MONROE at The Prince Charles

• ALL ABOUT EVE d. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950 (05 FEB 12:00).

NICOLAS ROEG: HAUNTING MEMORIES at Riverside Studios

• DON’T LOOK NOW [4K Restoration] d. Nicolas Roeg, 1973 + Intro by Kim Newman (05 FEB 14:30 / 06 FEB 14:30).

SIGHT & SOUND GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME 2022 at BFI Southbank & BFI IMAX

• 38= REAR WINDOW 4K d. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954 (05 FEB 12:20).
• 34 L’ATALANTE d. Jean Vigo, 1934 (05 FEB 12:15).
• 43= STALKER d. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979 (05 FEB 17:40).
• Re-release: 41= RASHOMON d. Akira Kurosawa, 1950 (until 23 FEB).

SPOTLIGHT ON WOMEN FILMMAKERS at The Prince Charles

• AFTERSUN d. Charlotte Wells, 2022 (05 FEB 20:35).

THROWBACK SEASON at Everyman Cinemas

• WHEN HARRY MET SALLY d. Rob Reiner, 1989 (05 FEB various).

TRINTIGNANT: THE NON-CONFORMIST at Ciné Lumière

• SEE HOW THEY FALL aka Regarde les hommes tomber d. Jacques Audiard, 1993 (05 FEB 14:00).

TONY PALEY’S GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME at Close-Up Film Centre

• HEROIC PURGATORY dir Yoshishige Yoshida, 1970 (05 FEB 20:00).
• Presented by Tony Paley at Capital Celluloid.

THE WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI at The Prince Charles

• HAPPY TOGETHER d. Wong Kar Wai, 1997 (05 FEB 18:20 – 4K).

• Before the Night (03 to 08 FEB).
• From Venice… To London (03 to 06 FEB).
• St Brigid’s Day Film Festival (03 to 05 FEB).

Also 03 to 09 FEB (various dates/times):

• BONEY PILES aka Terykony d. Taras Tomenko, 2022 at: Bertha DocHouse.
• ROMAN HOLIDAY [4K Restoration] d. William Wyler, 1953 at: ICA.
• YOU RESEMBLE ME d. Dina Amer, 2023 at: Curzon Cinemas.

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