WEDNESDAY: What’s on in London today [09/03/22]

WEDNESDAY 09 MARCH 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

F FOR FAKE d. Orson Welles, 1973 + Intro by Programmer-at-large, Geoff Andrew (09 MAR 18:10) / Part of BIG SCREEN CLASSICS: PUTTING ON A SHOW at BFI Southbank:

“Welles performs various kinds of magic while considering questions of art, artifice and authorship in a brilliantly inventive essay film that juxtaposes his own colourful history with the case of celebrated art forger Elmyr de Hory and his unreliable biographer Clifford Irving. A witty, wise and playfully mischievous meditation on numerous aspects of creativity, the film also provides philosophical food for thought about cinema itself.”

• CASABLANCA d. Michael Curtiz, 1942 at Riverside Studios (09 MAR 12:30).
• Encounters Short Film & Animation Collection at Kino Bermondsey (09 MAR 20:30). 
• GREAT FREEDOM aka Große Freiheit d. Sebastian Meise, 2021 + Q&A with the director at Everyman Muswell Hill (09 MAR 18:30).
• International Women’s Day: HAPPENING d. Audrey Diwan, 2022 + Pre-recorded Q&A with the director at BFI Southbank (09 MAR 20:40).
• KING RICHARD d. Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2021 at Whirled Cinema (09 MAR 20:00).
• MEMORIA d. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021 at Close-Up (09 MAR 20:00).
• REBEL DREAD d. William E Badgley, 2020 + Q&A with Don Letts hosted by Zak Cochrane of Love Music Hate Racism at Curzon Soho (09 MAR 18:15).
• REBEL DREAD d. William E Badgley, 2020 + Recorded Q&A with Don Letts at Everyman Cinema (09 MAR various).
• Experiments in Film: REMINISCENSES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA 16mm d. Jonas Mekas, 1950–1953 & 1971 + Intro by Herb Shellenberger & poetry reading by Paulina Pukytė at Barbican (09 MAR 18:30).

35MM PRESENTATIONS at The Prince Charles

• Includes (check venue for full listings): LICORICE PIZZA 35mm d. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021 (until 19 MAR various).

70MM PRESENTATIONS at The Prince Charles

• Includes (check venue for full listings): THE MASTER 70mm d. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012 (09 MAR 20:30).

THE ABC OF ASTA NIELSEN at BFI Southbank

• Includes (check venue for full listings): IMPOSSIBLE LOVE aka Unmögliche Liebe d. Erich Waschneck, 1932 (09 MAR 18:20); EARTH SPIRIT aka Erdgeist d. Leopold Jessner, 1923 + Live piano accompaniment by Meg Morley (09 MAR 20:50). 

BEST OF CÉSAR at Ciné Lumière

• Includes (check venue for full listings): ALINE, THE VOICE OF LOVE d. Valérie Lemercier, 2020 (09 MAR 20:25).

BIG SCREEN CLASSICS: PUTTING ON A SHOW at BFI Southbank

• Includes (check venue for full listings): NASHVILLE d. Robert Altman, 1975 (09 MAR 14:15); F FOR FAKE d. Orson Welles, 1973 + Intro by Programmer-at-large, Geoff Andrew (09 MAR 18:10).

BLACK & WHITE MOVIES at The Prince Charles

• Includes (check venue for full listings): THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH d. Joel Coen, 2021 (09 MAR 13:00); BELFAST d. Kenneth Branagh, 2021 (09 MAR 18:15).

OSCAR & BAFTA NOMINEES at The Prince Charles

• Includes (check venue for listings): LICORICE PIZZA 35mm d. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021 (until 19 MAR various); THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH d. Joel Coen, 2021 (09 MAR 13:00); BELFAST d. Kenneth Branagh, 2021 (09 MAR 18:15); TITANE d. Julia Ducournau, 2021 (09 MAR 20:45).

REWARDING DOCS at Bertha DocHouse

• Includes (check venue for full listings): ASCENSION d. Jessica Kingdon, 2020 (09 MAR 18:30); SUMMER OF SOUL d. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, 2021 (09 MAR 20:40).

STUDIO GHIBLI at Picturehouse Cinemas

• Includes (check venue for listings): POM POKO d. Isao Takahata, 1994 (from 05 MAR); TALES FROM EARTHSEA d. Gorô Miyazaki, 2006 (from 05 MAR).

• Cinema Made in Italy at Ciné Lumière (03 to 07 MAR).
• Glasgow Film Festival (02 to 13 MAR).
• Kinoteka Polish Film Festival (09 MAR to 03 APR).

• Also 04 to 10 MAR (various dates/times): A STARRY SKY ABOVE THE ROMAN GHETTO d. Giulio Base, 2020 at: JW3 // DREAMS aka Sueños d. Marcos Martínez, 2021 at: ICA // THE GODFATHER: PART II d. Francis Ford Coppola, 1974 at: Picturehouse Cinemas // THE SANCTITY OF SPACE d. Renan Ozturk & Freddie Wilkinson, 2022 at: Bertha DocHouse / Genesis Cinema / Rich Mix // THE WORLD WITHOUT YOU d. Damon Shalit, 2019 at: JW3 (from 10 MAR).

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