Genesis Cinema is leading the way, the first indie to reopen in London & now the first to resume their regular film club events. Cult Classic Collective featured regular rockstar host, Nick Walker, guiding us through the shock & awe of Dario Argento’s debut. Here’s our screen diary…
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[GUEST POST]: In the next in our series of posts about cinema-going at the time of COVID-19, guest contributor Steve Care writes about visits to Everyman Hampstead, Genesis Cinema &, after some reopening box office trials, an ODEON Luxe. Steve shares his personal thoughts on venue safety arrangements & why his return to the darkness is so welcome.
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If you’re still searching for ways to support independent film exhibition across cinemas & festivals (& we really hope you are!), streaming sensation & indie film distributor MUBI has launched a UK Cinema Fund to accept all your ££££ donations. Here’s everything you need to know.
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We’re asking our wonderful readers to celebrate London’s alternative cinema scene with a #LDNindieFILM Love Story! Here’s the first of their tributes to the amazing people & places that illuminate the darkness with great cinema.
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We loved the first part of Aperture earlier this year but – thanks to our hectic summer – had rather lost track of its return. Without any further hesitation, here’s everything you need to know about Part 2 (11 to 15 SEP).
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London’s favourite, Genesis Cinema (not our words, but those of the recent Time Out 25 Best Cinemas where they polled first!) celebrates two modern auteurs with mini seasons wrapped around their latest releases (AUG 2019). Here’s everything you need to know.
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Our friends Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest have teamed up with The People’s Film Club and Genesis Cinema to support LGBTQ+ crisis shelter The Outside Project with a special fundraiser (25 JUL 21:00).
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We loved the lineup at Genesis Cinema’s inaugural Fragments Festival (07 to 15 JUN 2019) & really hope this “celebration of inclusivity through film” returns in future years. Until then, here’s news about the 2019 jury award winners.
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Pia Hellenthal’s debut documentary feature SEARCHING EVA (Germany, 2019) screened at the inaugural Fragments Festival at Genesis Cinema. The film was introduced by Fragments programmer Christina Papasotiriou and followed by a Q&A with Eva Collé. Here’s our writeup.
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Fragments Film Festival at Genesis Cinema (07 to 15 JUN 2019) celebrates “inclusivity through film” & features a high proportion of directors who identify as women, people of colour, disabled & LGBTQ+ . We’ve taken a look at the programme to produce this handy guide (& make a few cheeky recommends).
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Genesis Cinema has announced a new David Lynch season called, appropriately enough, SECRETS, MYSTERY, ABSURDITY: THE WORLD OF DAVID LYNCH. As well as some great films, there’s a transcendental collab with the David Lynch Foundation. Here’s all you need to know.
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In the first of a new series of guest articles at RADIANT CIRCUS, Manila-based film writer & critic Richard Bolisay introduces John Torres’ debut feature TODO TODO TEROS (2006), Filikino’s next screening at Genesis Cinema (05 DEC 18:15).
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In our continuing series of interviews with London’s independent curators, Anna de Guia-Eriksson talks Filikino, a programme of classic and contemporary Philippine cinema, the Philippine film industry and recent audience responses to ALIPATO by Khavn De La Cruz at Genesis Cinema.
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A film blog should have an actual blog, right…? In the second of a new series of posts at RADIANT CIRCUS, our Barker-In-Chief shares a few screening notes from a week spent in darkness.
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Blake Williams’ new 3D film PROTOTYPE gets its UK premiere at Genesis Cinema on 19 JUN 2018 (19:00). We caught up with indie promoters Matt Turner & Ben Nicholson to chat about this awesome adventure in inter-dimensionality.
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In the first of our new SPECIAL FEATURES series of interviews with the working acts behind the screens, Rebecca Nicole Williams, aka The Celluloid Sorceress, discusses the maximalist widescreen aesthetic of Joel Schumacher.
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