London film festivals, movies and cinemas
This year’s West End Christmas lights will be themed around Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. For the first time ever, the illuminations on Oxford Street, Regent Street and in the City will all be switched on simultaneously and carry Scroogesome designs. The Dickensian profusion coincides with …
Seems that the Barbican’s Directorspective season on Werner Herzog is only the outlying tree in a verdant forest of films by the German director coming to London screens over the next few weeks. For starters, on Friday the 11th September, V22 are presenting a screening …
This morning saw the launch of The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival. One packed Leicester Square Odeon cinema screen; more than 800 members of the press and film industries; two fantastic female speakers and more tempting shots of George Clooney than we think was …
Last Friday, Cinéphilia West in Notting Hill, opened to the public. A “home for all lovers of cinema” that, as the name suggests, is inspired by a love of and reverence for the moving image, Cinéphilia West is spread out over two floors of a …
A free film screening at one of Islington’s nicest pubs — what more could you ask for of a Monday night? Cigarette Burns Cinema has been showing lesser-known cult classics at the Mucky Pub for about six months now, Tonight’s offering is the Japanese fantasy …
Our weekly round-up of film reviews Going into (500) Days of Summer, the Telegraph figured “any film starring hipster princess Zooey Deschanel is likely to have the words fey, quirky and insouciant written all over it in swirling pastels” (3 stars) and they’re not wrong. …
Penelope Cruz in Broken Embraces / image copyright Emilio Pereda / Paola Ardizzoni Our weekly round-up of film reviews Pedro Almodovar’s latest, Broken Embraces, reunites him with Penelope Cruz, back in Spain and clutching her Oscar. “The plot is merely an excuse for Almodovar to …
Got some old home movie reels stored in your attic? Put 17 October in your diary. A free event at the Cinema Museum, Kennington will offer advice on preservation, storage and restoration, and how to transfer that precious footage of long-gone relatives and forgotten friends …
courtesy I Will Tell Film Festival September is just around the corner, and as usual we can expect the weather to suddenly become even worse than it’s been over ‘summer’. It therefore seems like a good time to turn back to the silver screen as …
Melanie Laurent in Inglourious Basterds / image courtesy of Universal Studios Our weekly round-up of film reviews For the benefit of anyone who entered a deep coma just before the Cannes film festival, and is waking up around now, the plot of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious …
Watson, may I introduce to you the Director’s ex-wife. It was reported in yesterday’s Mirror that noted vaudeville performer Mr Bradley Pitt will play the part of Professor Moriarty in a moving image light show version of the Sherlock Holmes stories. But, in a twist …
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