Film

London film festivals, movies and cinemas

The famous neon sign.  Photo by psyxjaw from the Londonist Flickr pool.

Cinefile: The Ritzy Cinema’s Centenary

A Brixton institution celebrates 100 years this week.

The From the Artangel Collection, Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis, "Battle of Orgreave", 2001

Newly Launched Artangel Collection to Bring Arty Film and Video to the Masses

No, that’s not a photo from Londonist’s last pub crawl. It’s a scene from Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis’s “Battle of Orgreave”, just one of several film and video works commissioned and produced by Artangel over the past two decades set to be added to …

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Preview: Experimental Arab Cinema @ Tate Modern

Catch a quality film from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine or Syria.

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A SXSW For London?

Fed up you’re not off to Austin? Stop sulking and read this.

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Preview: Bird’s Eye View Film Festival 2011

Celebrating a century of female film makers, BEV 2011 opens today on International Women’s Day.

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Preview: Pan-Asia Film Festival

“…leaves much Western film-making looking old-fashioned.”

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Preview: ArtWank @ The Horse Hospital

Is it time for porn to be rehabilitated? Cabaret star Ophelia Bitz certainly thinks so.

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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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Photo of the Day: Skating at Battersea Park, c.1958

Attend a Reel London Film Screening of “Southern Comforts – South London in archive film” on Friday 18 February between 1-4pm; a free drop in event at the London Metropolitan Archives.

BFI Southbank. Photo by Matt Antrobus

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.