London film festivals, movies and cinemas
Laura Palmer. Tickets for Battersea Arts Centre’s Twin Peaks Weekender sold out in a matter of hours, but there’s another Peaks event coming up later in the autumn. Riverside Studios Hammersmith will host a day-long Twin Peaks Festival on Saturday, November 27th. They’re promising live …
Rummage in your archives for all that forgotten standard 8mm, Super 8, 9.5mm and 16mm film because Home Movie Day returns to the Cinema Museum this Saturday 16 October. As well as a free drop in film clinic to help save your ancient footage, enjoy …
Just Do It is a new documentary by Age Of Stupid executive producer Emily James (pictured) tracking UK environmental activists as they take on the police and the establishment. In 2005, she documented the plight of a Hackney cafe due for demolition in The Battle …
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. …
Towering talent of UK stage and screen, Sir Tom Stoppard is in conversation about his life and work at Cineworld Haymarket on Tuesday (6.30pm, £12.50 / £8). The writer of The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead has turned his talents …
Here’s your guide to what’s new and exciting this week Be There First: London Shows Opening Starting with two art blockbusters: this week belongs to Anish Kapoor’s large-scale mirrors, Turning the World Upside Down in Kensington Gardens from today, and Gauguin’s major retrospective at Tate …
With its emphasis on extremes – extreme storytelling, extreme topics and extreme film-making techniques, the indie film festival Raindance once again elevates the capital’s cinema-going opportunities to gigantic proportions, with a programme that boasts 250 shorts and documentaries, five of which are banned in other …
Hitchcock bust at Gainsborough Studios by Antony Donaldson. Photo / Ray Grasso It’s all go in the ‘Stow right now: as well as getting a new Speakers’ Corner, a statue* of Alfred Hitchcock is to be unveiled this Saturday, during an event held by the …
The line-up for the London Film Festival was released earlier today. You can’t buy tickets just yet — priority booking for BFI members opens on Monday 20th September, while the rest of us can get our hands on the scraps by Monday 27th September, but …
Rare colour film of London at the height of the Blitz has been uncovered. The amateur footage, shot by the Mayor of Marylebone, A.E. Reneson Coucher OBE, shows the remnants of landmarks such as the John Lewis on Oxford Street and the Baker Street Bazaar. …
Yesterday we asked you to nominate the best place in London to screen a film, and the movie that should be shown there. We had plenty of entries through the twitter hashtag #sccomp and the comments thread. But our choice for the winning suggestion is …
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