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Inside the Electric today. The Electric reopened in its current form in 2001.

Cinefile: Electric Cinema’s Centenary

The Portobello landmark reaches the big 100 at the weekend, marked with special screenings.

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Shhhhhh! Preview: Secret Cinema 2011

We don’t know what films they’ll be screening or what inventive locations they’ll be leading you to but Secret Cinema is back between 11-27 February.

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Preview: The 4th Future Film Festival @ BFI Southbank, 12-13 Feb

Filmmaking workshops, industry Q&As, films by some of the UK’s hottest young filmmakers and cult movies you’ve never seen on the big screen before. And all for just £5-£10. What’s the catch? You have to be aged between 15 and 25.

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See All Three Twilight Films Or Three 80s Geek Films For A Fiver

Catch three films for just £5 at the Roxy, London Bridge: the three Twilight films on 23 January or three sci-fi masterpieces (sort of) from the 1980s a week later.

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Hackney To Get New Independent Cinema

A former nightclub in Hackney is to be turned into a new multi-screen cinema.

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Cutbacks Hit The British Film Institute

The British Film Institute is to make job cuts and close the art gallery at BFI Southbank in new cost-cutting plans.

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Ticket Giveaway: Special Screening Of Four Lions

Psst, want a free ticket to watch Four Lions, the controversial comedy from the pen of arch-satirist Chris Morris? We’ve got 50 to give away.

Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's Throne Of Blood.

Preview: Japanese Cinema @ The Barbican

Toshiro Mifune in Akira Kurosawa’s Throne Of Blood. Nipponophile cineastes will be delighted by a pair of director seasons at the Barbican, which draws one contemporary and one classic Japanese filmmaker together as part of Aspects of Japanese Cinema. On 14th – 15th November, the …

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London Film Festival Awards Announced

Manjinder Virk as Lorraine Dunbar It has been a good year for women film directors. First Katherine Bigelow trumped her ex James Cameron at the Oscars with her gritty war drama The Hurt Locker. Now the artist-filmmaker Clio Barnard has won two of the five …

When We Were Married, starring Lipman and Roy Hudd opens at the Garrick Theatre tomorrow

Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 26 October – 1 November

When We Were Married, starring Lipman and Roy Hudd opens at the Garrick Theatre tomorrow There’s lots of fantastic things to choose from on London’s art scene this week. And not a cheap zombie mask in sight. Be There First: London Shows Opening Glasgow-set drama …

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Last Minute Listing: The Creature From The Black Lagoon @ UCL

A quarter of a century before a Robert-Shaw-devouring shark had the final word in aquatic menace, there was the Creature From the Black Lagoon. Actually, this dude is even more menacing. He has legs, and can leave his watery environment in search of lady flesh. …