TUESDAY: What’s on in London today [27/09/22]

TUESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2022 (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

MACHINES IN FLAMES d. Andrew Culp & Thomas Dekeyser, 2022 + Short: THE LUDDITES + Q&A with Thomas Dekeyser, presented by Mondo Nights at Biddle Bros (27 SEP 20:00).

“Sabotage is a chef pouring salt in the soup, an engineer pouring sand in the petrol tank, and a programmer writing bugs into the code. Our new season looks at the secret history of rebellion from the Luddites, to hackers to androids turning on themselves.”

“We start our new SABOTAGE SEASON with a screening of a new documentary from the DESTRUCTIONIST INTERNATIONAL about the French militants from a cell called ‘CLODO’ who saw the foreboding emergence of a new cybernetic society and took fire to it – before vanishing, never to be caught. We also plan to screen THE LUDDITES, a docudrama about the Yorkshire workers who took hammers to new technology which threatened their livelihoods, the OG sabotage movement.”

SABOTAGE SEASON… Desperate Measures for Desperate Times. Buy a one-off ticket or consider a season ticket for the whole 5 screenings for a saving. HACKERS (04 OCT), THE FIFTH POWER (11 OCT), NIGHT MOVES (18 OCT), 964 PINOCCHIO (25 OCT).

• UK Premiere: A FEATURE FILM ABOUT LIFE d. Dovile Sarutyte, 2021 + Q&A with the director, presented by New East Cinema at Barbican (27 SEP 18:15).
• BENT 35mm 25th Anniversary d. Sean Mathias, 1997 + Q&A with the director, writer Martin Sherman & actor Ian McKellen at BFI Southbank (27 SEP 18:10).
• Dreams Deferred: Reframing Stories of Migration & Displacement on Screen + Q&A with filmmakers short film programme, presented by Dailies at Genesis Cinema (27 SEP 18:20).
• ELVIS d. Baz Luhrman, 2022 at Whirled Cinema (27 SEP 20:00 / 28 SEP 20:00 / 02 OCT 17:00).
• The Female Force short film programme at The Lab E20 (27 SEP 19:00 – FREE!).
• GIRLFRIENDS d. Claudia Weill, 1978 presented by Tufnell Park Film Club at The Lord Palmerston (27 SEP 20:00).
• GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS d. Alli Haapasalo, 2022 + Q&A with the director at Picturehouse Finsbury Park (27 SEP 20:00).
• HAMLET d. Grigori Kozintsev, 1964 presented in-venue & online by Sands Films Cinema Club at Sands Films Studios (27 SEP 19:30).
• JOHN STEVENS ON FILM presented by Confront Recordings at Cafe OTO (27 SEP 20:00).
• LOVE AROUND THE WORLD d. Anđela Rostuhar & Davor Rostuhar, 2021 + Q&A at Rio Cinema (27 SEP 18:15).
• MACHINES IN FLAMES d. Andrew Culp & Thomas Dekeyser, 2022 + Short: THE LUDDITES + Q&A with Thomas Dekeyser, presented by Mondo Nights at Biddle Bros (27 SEP 20:00).
• OFFICIAL COMPETITION d. Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat, 2021 at The David Lean (27 SEP 19:30 / 29 SEP 14:30).

Check venues for full listings…

35MM PRESENTATIONS at The Prince Charles

• TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY 35mm d. James Cameron, 1991 (27 SEP 12:30).
• THE TRUMAN SHOW 35mm d. Peter Weir, 1998 (27 SEP 15:30).
• CITIZEN KANE 35mm d. Orson Welles, 1941 (27 SEP 20:50).

IMAX PRESENTATIONS at BFI IMAX

• AVATAR 3D d. James Cameron, 2009 (23 to 29 SEP various).

BIG SCREEN CLASSICS: FATEFUL MOMENTS IN TIME! at BFI Southbank

• LIFT TO THE SCAFFOLD d. Louis Malle, 1958 (27 SEP 21:00).

BLACK & WHITE MOVIES at The Prince Charles

• FRANCES HA d. Noah Baumbach, 2012 (27 SEP 16:00).
• MANK d. David Fincher, 2020 (27 SEP 18:00).
• CITIZEN KANE 35mm d. Orson Welles, 1941 (27 SEP 20:50).

NEW GERMAN CINEMA at The Garden Cinema

• ALICE IN THE CITIES d. Wim Wenders, 1974 (27 SEP 16:00).

PAM GRIER: FOXY, FIERCE & FEARLESSat BFI Southbank 

• IN TOO DEEP 35mm d. Michael Rymer, 1999 (27 SEP 18:15).
• THE ARENA 35mm d. Steve Carver, 1973 (27 SEP 20:50).
• Re-release: JACKIE BROWN d. Quentin Tarantino, 1997 (16 SEP to 02 OCT).

RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER at The Prince Charles

• THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN aka Die Ehe der Maria Braun d. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979 (27 SEP 18:15).

• A Look Into Film Festival (24 SEP).
• Alyssa Film Festival (16 to 24 SEP).
• EFN Short Film Festival (19 to 23 SEP).
• Everyman Music Film Festival (01 to 30 SEP).
• Fragments Festival (29 SEP to 02 OCT).
• Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest (20 to 25 SEP).
• The Island Triangle Film Festival (24 SEP).
• London Kurdish Film Festival (23 to 30 SEP).
• London Spanish Film Festival (22 to 29 SEP).
• New Renaissance Film Festival (22 to 24 SEP).
• Short Cuts: Deeper Into Movies Short Film Festival (25 SEP).
• Ukraine Defiant: Ukrainian Film Festival (22 to 25 SEP).

ROOFTOP FILM CLUB at Roof East, Stratford

• MAMMA MIA! (27 SEP 19:15).

• Also 23 to 29 SEP (various dates/times): AFTER YANG d. Kogonada, 2022 at: Everyman Cinemas / The Garden Cinema / Riverside Studios // AVATAR (some 3D) d. James Cameron, 2009 at: BFI IMAX 3D / Chiswick Cinema / Curzon Cinemas / Everyman Cinemas 3D / Peckhamplex 3D / Picturehouse Cinemas 3D // BLONDE d. Andrew Dominik, 2022 at: ArtHouse Crouch End / Barbican / Everyman Cinemas / Olympic Studios // CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY d. Lena Dunham, 2022 at: Everyman Cinemas / Genesis Cinema / Peckhamplex // SIDNEY d. Reginald Hudlin, 2022 at: Ciné Lumière / The Garden Cinema / ICA / Rio Cinema // SMILE d. Parker Finn, 2022 at (from 27 SEP): Everyman Cinemas / Genesis Cinema / Peckhamplex.

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