[JULY]: Pride 2020 has been like no other. To mark this changing season, Queer East is streaming four documentaries focusing on racial inequalities within the LGBTQ+ community & the work that still needs to be done to ensure an inclusive movement worldwide.
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Japan Foundation London has announced a new programme of FREE film screenings, their PRE-SUMMER EXPLORERS (26 to 30 JUN)! The lineup of comedies covers anime, time-travel, a feudal musical extravaganza & 60s noir. Here’s what’s showing.
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Every week we do our bit to make cinema going in London that little more affordable by finding & flagging as many FREE! film nights as we can. Here’s our guide to highly affordable cinema screens this week.
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Joining forces with our friends at Birkbeck Film, Media & Cultural Studies, RADIANT CIRCUS invites you to talk about our work, discuss how we make independent movies matter at a time of crisis, & watch Joe Dante’s MATINEE together (for FREE!).
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The yearlong investigation of genre cinema continues at Austrian Cultural Forum London, shifting focus from HORROR to HISTORICAL PERIOD DRAMAS (02 APR to 30 MAY). With a varied programme of films in FREE regular screenings, this really is one not to miss.
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One of the joys of sticking to your local purveyor of moving pictures is that you rarely get lost on the way. The downside is that, unless you live next to the most adventurous of screens, you will miss out on a lot. Having an insatiable appetite, we like to travel. Which sometimes means…
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Silent classic THE HANDS OF ORLAC (24 JAN 19:00) starts a new season of horror screenings at Austrian Cultural Forum, Knightsbridge. And they’re all FREE! Here’s everything you need to know about this small but beautifully formed season of shocks.
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RADIANT CIRCUS went to see A PETAL (1996) at the Korean Cultural Centre UK. Introduced by Asia film expert Tony Rayns, the event was part of an ongoing series of free film nights, Korean Novels On Screen. Here’s our writeup.
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Anime expert Helen McCarthy went from MIA (hiding in plain sight in the second row…) to giving awesome intro at Japan Foundation London’s screening of PATEMA INVERTED, the first film in this year’s free programme, Spring Explorers! Here’s our writeup.
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Finding that your wallet isn’t renewing as quickly as the seasons? Wondering how you can afford to keep going to the cinema? Worry not. Our Radiant Circus guide to FREE films in London this Spring & Summer is crammed with no-cost film nights, festivals & special events.
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