SUNDAY: What’s on in London today [25/06/23]

SUNDAY 25 JUNE 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.

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Non-Aligned Film Archives 05: Tibelkachoutine (Mohamed Zinet) + Intro by Saad Chakali at ICA (25 JUN 16:15).

“The Non-Aligned Film Archives is an ongoing project 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 marginalised from dominant cinematic narratives. Each session revolves around a single lost work that is instead invoked through other films that have survived.”

“This session takes as its focus an unrealised film – Tibelkachoutine – by Algerian filmmaker, director and actor Mohamed Zinet (1932–1995). Zinet had planned to adapt his 1953 play of the same name but the project never came to fruition, and the three films included in the programme act together in an endeavour to reconstruct Zinet’s suppressed cinema. Zinet’s own masterpiece from 1971, Tahia ya Didou! – the only film he completed as a director – is screened alongside films by Hassen Ferhani and René Vautier. As with many other Algerian filmmakers of his generation, Ferhani’s work is inspired by the acerbic and anti-authoritarian tone of Tahia ya Didou!, whilst Les Ajoncs by the militant anti-colonial filmmaker Rene Vautier features Zinet in the central role.

“With Tibelkachoutine, Zinet aimed to present a ‘Chaplinesque’ vision of the War of Independence, providing a comedic reflection on the idea that ‘anyone can become a hero, depending on the events and the situation’. This seemingly displeased the film authorities, particularly the heroes of the Algerian revolution, as noted by Tatem Belkacem in Khelfa Ben Aissa’s 1990 book Tahia ya Zinet!.” (Léa Morin and Annabelle Aventurin)

• Never On Sunday: AL-MUMIA: THE NIGHT OF COUNTING THE YEARS d. Shadi Abdel Salam, 1969 + Intro by by Ehsan Khoshbakht at Close-Up (25 JUN 20:15).
• BARREL CHILDREN: THE FAMILIES WINDRUSH LEFT BEHIND d. Nadine White, 2023 + Recorded Q&A at Picturehouse Cinemas (25 JUN various).
• THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS d. Paul Schrader, 1990 presented by Deeper Into Movies at TT Liquor (25 JUN 15:30).
• Polish Film Talk: CORPUS CHRISTI aka Boze Cialo d. Jan Komasa, 2019 + Intro by Michael Brooke at Watermans (25 JUN 13:00).
• EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE d. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, 2022 at Whirled Cinema (25 JUN 17:00).
• JUBILEE d. Derek Jarman, 1978 presented by Deptford Cinema at Music Room London (25 JUN 17:00).
• THE KILLING OF THE 5TH ELEMENT: A HIP-HOP DOCUMENTARY d. Monique N. Reed, 2018 + Intro/Q&A presented by Black History Studies at The Lexi Cinema (25 JUN 15:00).
• Non-Aligned Film Archives 05: Tibelkachoutine (Mohamed Zinet) + Intro by Saad Chakali at ICA (25 JUN 16:15).
• Short Films Screening by Film Tottenham at Blighty Tottenham (25 JUN 18:30 – FREE!).
• THE STORY OF QIU JU aka Qiu Ju da guan si d. Yimou Zhang, 1992 at Babel Art Club (25 SUN 19:30).
• WHITE RIOT d. Rubika Shah, 2019 presented by Deptford Cinema at Music Room London (25 JUN 14:00).

Check venues for full listings…

16MM SCREENINGS at The Castle Cinema

• THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE 16mm d. Víctor Erice, 1973 + Intro (25 JUN 16:15).
• Presented by Ciné-Real 16mm Film Club.

35MM PRESENTATIONS at The Prince Charles

• PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMBILES 35mm d. John Hughes, 1987 (25 JUN 12:00).
• AFTER HOURS 35mm d. Martin Scorsese, 1985 (25 JUN 14:15).
• GOODFELLAS 35mm d. Martin Scorsese, 1990 (25 JUN 16:35).
• CASINO 35mm d. Martin Scorsese, 1995 (25 JUN 19:45).
• BUFFALO 66 35mm d. Vincent Gallo, 1998 (25 JUN 20:45).

IMAX PRESENTATIONS at BFI IMAX

• COUNTDOWN TO OPPENHEIMER: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES IMAX 70mm d. Christopher Nolan, 2012 (25 JUN 11:30).

ALFRED HITCHCOCK: ACT 1 – 1927 TO 1945 at The Garden Cinema

• SHADOW OF A DOUBT d. Alfred Hitchcock, 1943 (25 JUN 14:00).
• REBECCA d. Alfred Hitchcock, 1940 (25 JUN 16:15).
• SABOTAGE d. Alfred Hitchcock, 1936 (25 JUN 19:15).

BIG SCREEN CLASSICS: THERE’S A PLACE… at BFI Southbank

• THE THIRD MAN d. Carol Reed, 1949 (25 JUN 12:30).

CINECITTÀ PRESENTS: ITALIAN DOCS at Bertha DocHouse

• BELLA CIAO – PER LA LIBERTÀ d. Giulia Giapponesi, 2022 + Q&A with the director (25 JUN 15:30).

COUNTDOWN TO OPPENHEIMER at BFI IMAX

• THE DARK KNIGHT RISES IMAX 70mm d. Christopher Nolan, 2012 (25 JUN 11:30).

ESSENTIAL CINEMA at Close-Up Film Centre

• GREY GARDENS d. David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer, 1976 (25 JUN 15:00).
• SOLARIS d. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972 (25 JUN 17:00).

GOD BLESS THE 80S at The Prince Charles

• PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMBILES 35mm d. John Hughes, 1987 (25 JUN 12:00).

MARILYN MONROE at The Prince Charles

• SOME LIKE IT HOT d. Billy Wilder, 1959 (25 JUN 15:35 – 4K).

MARTIN SCORSESE: THE 90S PICTURES / THE 80S PICTURES at The Prince Charles

• AFTER HOURS 35mm d. Martin Scorsese, 1985 (25 JUN 14:15).
• CASINO 35mm d. Martin Scorsese, 1995 (25 JUN 19:45).
• GOODFELLAS 35mm d. Martin Scorsese, 1990 (25 JUN 16:35).

MICHEL PICCOLI: A FEARLESS TALENT at BFI Southbank

• HABEMUS PAPAM aka We Have a Pope d. Nanni Moretti, 2011 (25 JUN 14:00).
• BELLE TOUJOURS 35mm d. Manoel de Oliveira, 2006 (25 JUN 16:30).
• BELLE DE JOUR d. Luis Buñuel, 1967 (25 JUN 18:45).

PRIDE at Catford Mews

• REBEL DYKES d. Harri Shanahan & Siân A. Williams, 2021 (25 JUN 18:15).

QUEER 90S: CINEMA FROM A DECADE OF RADICAL CHANGE at Barbican

• FIRE d. Deepa Mehta, 1996 + Intro by Bidisha Mamata (25 JUN 15:00).

RAZOR SHARP: THE FABULOUS WOMEN OF HOWARD HAWKS at BFI Southbank

• I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE aka You Can’t Sleep Here d. Howard Hawks, 1949 (25 JUN 18:30).

RIVERSIDE PRIDE at Riverside Studios

• NIGHTHAWKS: 45th Anniversary Screening d. Ron Peck, 1978 (25 JUN 14:45).
• JOYLAND d. Saim Sadiq, 2022 + Recorded Q&A (25 JUN 20:10).

SIGHT & SOUND GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME 2022 at Ciné Lumière 

• LE MÉPRIS aka Contempt d. Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 (25 JUN 11:20).

TECHNOLOGY ON SCREEN at Ciné Lumière

• BLOW-UP d. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966 (25 JUN 11:45).
• ECCENTRICS aka შერეკილები d. Eldar Shengelaia, 1973 (25 JUN 14:00).

THROWBACK SEASON at Everyman Cinemas

• THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT d. Stephan Elliott, 1994 (from 25 JUN various).

THE WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI at The Prince Charles

• CHUNGKING EXPRESS d. Wong Kar Wai, 1994 (25 JUN 18:15 – 4K).

YOU SHOULD BE DANCING at Picturehouse Cinemas

• BYE BYE BIRDIE d. George Sidney, 1963 (25 JUN various).

Check venues for full listings…

ROOFTOP FILM CLUB at Bussey Building

• MEAN GIRLS (25 JUN 15:10).
• SHE’S ALL THAT (25 JUN 18:30).
• THE LITTLE MERMAID, 2023 (25 JUN 21:20).

ROOFTOP FILM CLUB at Roof East

• BACK TO THE FUTURE (25 JUN 17:30).
• 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (25 JUN 20:30).

• Kingston International Film Festival (23 to 25 JUN).
• London Festival of Architecture x Brixton Community Cinema (09 JUN to 02 JUL).
• London Indian Film Festival (22 to 29 JUN).
• Magnum Photos Film Festival (24 to 30 JUN).
• Odyssey Film Festival (26 MAY to 30 JUN).
• Refugee Week (19 to 25 JUN).
• SAFAR Film Festival (29 JUN to 09 JUL).
• Windrush Caribbean Film Festival (06 to 30 JUN).

Also 23 to 29 JUN (various dates/times):

• JESUS REVOLUTION d. Jon Erwin & Brent McCorkle, 2023 at: Everyman Cinemas / Peckhamplex / Picturehouse Cinemas.
• KEEP ROLLING (好好拍電影) d. Man Lim-chung, 2020 at: ICA.
• NIMONA d. Nick Bruno & Troy Quane, 2023 at: Curzon Cinemas.

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