WEDNESDAY: What’s on in London today [05/10/22]

WEDNESDAY 05 OCTOBER 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

KAILI BLUES d. Bi Gan, 2015 + Short presented by Baesianz Cinema Club at Spanners SW9 (05 OCT 19:00).

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“Kicking us off, we’ll be showing the short film by April Lin 林森 “(Tending) (to) (Ta): Morning Offering” (2021). (Tending) (to) (Ta): Morning Offering, is the opening scene of (Tending) (to) (Ta), a narrative-led speculative fiction which follows an exchange of internal letters between two protagonists who imagine one another across parallel dimensions.”

“April has selected the film “Kaili Blues” (2015) by Bi Gan. An audacious, richly imagined feature debut that has collected prizes around the world, Kaili Blues heralds the arrival of a major new filmmaker. Chen, a preoccupied doctor working in a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili, decides to fulfill his late mother’s wish and sets off on a journey to look for his brother’s abandoned child. His partner in the clinic, a lonely old lady, asks him to also find her former lover, giving him a photograph, a shirt, and a music cassette. On the way, Chen passes through a mysterious town where distinctions between past, present, and future appear to slip away.”

• ERIC RAVILIOUS: DRAWN TO WAR d. Margy Kinmonth, 2022 at The David Lean (05 OCT 19:30).
• KAILI BLUES d. Bi Gan, 2015 + Short presented by Baesianz Cinema Club at Spanners SW9 (05 OCT 19:00).
• Pink Palace: LUMINOUS PROCURESS d. Steven Arnold, 1971 + Intro/discussion in the Rio Cinema Basement Bar (05 OCT 19:30).
• PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT aka Les Olympiades, Paris 13e d. Jacques Audiard, 2021 at Whirled Cinema (05 OCT 20:00 / 09 OCT 17:00).
• PROJECT PIPE DREAMS d. Manus Fraser, 2022 at ArtHouse Crouch End (05 OCT 19:00).
• REGAIN aka Harvest d. Marcel Pagnol, 1937 presented by Rare Cinema Europe at The Cinema Museum (05 OCT 19:30).
• ROME, OPEN CITY d. Roberto Rossellini, 1945 presented by Leytonstone Pop-up Cinema at Leytonstone Library (05 OCT 19:45).
• THE STUART HALL PROJECT d. John Akomfrah, 2013 at Picturehouse Hackney (05 OCT 18:20).

Check venues for full listings…

35MM PRESENTATIONS at The Prince Charles

• THE EXORCIST 35mm d. William Friedkin, 1973 (05 OCT 13:00).
• UNSTOPPABLE 35mm d. Tony Scott, 2010 (05 OCT 16:00).

BLACK & WHITE MOVIES at The Prince Charles

• THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN d. James Whale, 1935 (05 OCT 18:10).

BOWIE: SOUND AND VISION at Picturehouse Cinemas

• THE HUNGER d. Tony Scott, 1983 (05 OCT various).

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT at Chiswick Cinema

• DRACULA d. Tod Browning, 1931 + Intro by film critic Clarisse Loughrey (05 OCT 19:00).
• Presented by Movies On Weekends.

FROM THE REQUEST BOARD… at The Prince Charles

• UNSTOPPABLE 35mm d. Tony Scott, 2010 (05 OCT 16:00).

HORROCTOBER – A MONTH OF THRILLS, CHILLS & SPILLS at The Prince Charles

• THE EXORCIST 35mm d. William Friedkin, 1973 (05 OCT 13:00).
• THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN d. James Whale, 1935 (05 OCT 18:10).
• BRIDE OF CHUCKY d. Ronny Yu, 1998 (05 OCT 20:15).

MAD MAX ON 35MM at Everyman Screen on the Green

• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 35mm d. George Miller, 2015 (05 OCT 10:30).

PATRICIO GUZMÁN CHILE TRILOGY at Bertha DocHouse

• THE PEARL BUTTON d. Patricio Guzman, 2015 (05 OCT 18:30).

SPOTLIGHT ON ISABELLE HUPPERT at Ciné Lumière

• MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS d. Anthony Fabian, 2021 (30 SEP to 18 OCT).

UNIVERSAL CLASSIC MONSTERS at The Prince Charles 

• THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN d. James Whale, 1935 (05 OCT 18:10).

• BFI London Film Festival (05 to 16 OCT).
• Chiswick In Film Festival (30 SEP to 02 OCT).
• Everyman Music Film Festival (01 to 30 SEP).
• Fragments Festival (29 SEP to 02 OCT).
• London Georgian Film Festival (30 SEP to 05 OCT).
• London Kurdish Film Festival (23 to 30 SEP).

• Also 30 SEP to 06 OCT (various dates/times): A BIRD FLEW IN d. Kirsty Bell, 2021 at: Everyman Cinemas // FAR FAR AWAY d. Amos Why, 2022 at: Picturehouse Cinemas / The Prince Charles // GIRLS GIRLS GIRLSd. Alli Haapasalo, 2022 at: Picturehouse Cinemas / Rio Cinema // GOING HOME d. Mashroor Parvez, 2022 at: Genesis Cinema // THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER d. Peter Farrelly, 2022 at: Genesis Cinema // INVSIBLE DEMONS d. Rahul Jain, 2021 at: ICA // LOVE AROUND THE WORLD d. Andela Rostuhar & Davor Rostuhar, 2021 at: Rio Cinema // LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE d. Mike Barker, 2022 at: Curzon Cinemas // MIDWIVES d. Hnin Ei Hlaing, 2022 at: Bertha DocHouse / ICA // MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS d. Anthony Fabian, 2021 at:  ArtHouse Crouch End / Catford Mews / Chiswick Cinema / Ciné Lumière / Curzon Cinemas / Electric Cinemas / Everyman Cinemas / Kino Bermondsey / Olympic Studios / Peckhamplex / Phoenix Cinema / Picturehouse Cinemas / Regent Street Cinema / Riverside Studios // MUTZENBACHER d. Ruth Beckermann, 2022 at: ICA.

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