TUESDAY: What’s on in London today [28/02/23]

TUESDAY 28 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

THE CREMATOR d. Juraj Herz, 1969 presented by Fleshed Out Cinema Club at SET Social (28 FEB 19:00).

“Fleshed Out Cinema Club invites you to the first of a series of 3 weekly horror(ish) film nights at SET Social Peckham. Each film sways unsteadily along the spectrum between the uncanny, weird and horrifying. Although they span nearly 50 years and utilise these effects in very different ways, the three selected films use psychological horror to draw us into an increasingly distorted consciousness. Mingling with mundane rituals, their internal unravellings question everyday obsession and control. Join us as we explore horror as a slippery, adaptive and invasive mode in these masterpieces.”

“The club starts with The Cremator, a Czechoslovak comedic horror directed by Juraj Herz that follows a crematorium manager in 1930s Prague who develops a dangerously liberatory view of his work. Interior and exterior horror are uniquely combined as Herz’s surreal and disorienting cinematography operates within the context of Karl’s growing entanglement with Nazi ideology. The next films in the series will be POSSESSION (1981) on 06 March and RAW (2016) on 14 March.”

• BENEDICTION d. Terence Davies, 2021 presented by Wimbledon Film Club at Curzon Wimbledon (28 FEB 20:30).
• Preview: CLOSE d. Lukas Dhont, 2022 at Picturehouse Cinemas (28 FEB various).
• THE CREMATOR d. Juraj Herz, 1969 presented by Fleshed Out Cinema Club at SET Social (28 FEB 19:00).
• ELECTRIC MALADY d. Marie Lidén, 2022 + Q&A with the director at ICA (28 FEB 18:30).
• EO d. Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022 at The David Lean (28 FEB 19:30).
• NANA d. Jean Renoir, 1926 presented in-venue & on-line by Sands Films Cinema Club at Sands Films Studios (28 FEB 19:30 – Donation requested!).
• NITRAM d. Justin Kurzel, 2021 at Whirled Cinema (28 FEB 20:00 / 01 MAR 20:00 / 05 MAR 17:00).
• QUEER EGYPT UNDER ATTACK + Q&A chaired by Ramita Navai at Frontline Club (28 FEB 19:00).
• VICTIM d. Basil Dearden, 1961 presented by Tufnell Park Film Club at The Lord Palmerston (28 FEB 20:00).
• VOICES: RECORDING HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE – A FILM CAPTURING THE STORIES OF THE GENDER IDENTITY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION SOCIETY at The Cinema Museum (28 FEB 19:30).
• WATTSTAX – 50th Anniversary d. Mel Stuart, 1973 at Everyman Cinemas (28 FEB various).
• YEAR(S) OF RESISTANCE Short film programme + Q&A/Networking with the filmmakers raising funds for Ukraine at Genesis Cinema (28 FEB 18:30).

Check venues for full listings…

35MM PRESENTATIONS at The Prince Charles

• CINEMA PARADISO 35mm aka Nuovo Cinema Paradiso d. Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988 (28 FEB 15:20).
• BATMAN + BATMAN RETURNS 35mm d. Tim Burton, 1989 + 1992 (28 FEB 18:10).

IMAX PRESENTATIONS at BFI IMAX

• ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA 3D d. Peyton Reed, 2023 (until 02 MAR).
• ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA 2D d. Peyton Reed, 2023 (until 02 MAR).

AKIRA KUROSAWA at BFI Southbank & BFI IMAX 

• Unclassifiable Kurosawa: MÂDADAYO 35mm d. Akira Kurosawa, 1993 (28 FEB 18:00).

CARL MAYER MINI SEASON at Austrian Cultural Forum

• TARTUFFE aka Herr Tartüff d. F. W. Murnau, 1926 (28 FEB 19:00).

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

• EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE d. Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, 2022 (28 FEB 12:15 – 4K).

THE FILMS OF TERRY GILLIAM at The Garden Cinema

• 12 MONKEYS d. Terry Gilliam, 1995 (28 FEB 15:00).
• THE FISHER KING d. Terry Gilliam, 1991 (28 FEB 20:00).

MOVIE MARATHONS at The Prince Charles

• BATMAN + BATMAN RETURNS 35mm d. Tim Burton, 1989 + 1992 (28 FEB 18:10).

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

• 31= MIRROR aka Zerkalo d. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975 (28 FEB 20:50).

SPOTLIGHT ON WOMEN FILMMAKERS at The Prince Charles

• AFTERSUN d. Charlotte Wells, 2022 (until 02 MAR).

WOMEN SHAPING THE WORLD at Ciné Lumière

• SIMONE VEIL, A WOMAN OF THE CENTURY aka Simone, le voyage du siècle d. Olivier Dahan, 2022 + Q&A with actor Elsa Zylberstein (28 FEB 19:15).

• Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour (16 to 25 FEB).
• Glasgow Film Festival (01 to 12 MAR).
• Kendal Mountain Festival Tour (01 to 02 MAR).
• London Mountain Film Festival (20 FEB to 05 MAR).

Also 24 FEB to 02 MAR (various dates/times):

• A HOLY FAMILY d. Elvis A-Liang Lu, 2022 at: Bertha DocHouse (see also CHARM CIRCLE).
• CHARM CIRCLE d. Nira Burstein, 2021 at: Bertha DocHouse (see also A HOLY FAMILY).

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