Events (W.C. 24 March)

1. Little English + Cast and Crew Q&A

Riverside Studios; Fri 31 Mar, 6:00pm

A laugh-out-loud story of a dysfunctional Punjabi family in the pressure cooker life of a terraced suburban home in Slough. Newly arrived from India, naive Simmy has come to marry the family’s eldest son Raj, who shockingly does a runner, leaving Simmy locked in the house by her domineering mother-in-law. However, Simmy is smarter than she appears, and soon enlists the support of the family’s disgruntled in-laws, including a sugar crazed, diabetic grandpa and dangerous, but hot, brother in law, fresh out of jail.

Together they plan Simmy’s big escape.

Price: £13.00; Age Guidance: 12A; Running Time: 98 mins

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2. Late Spring + Garden Cinema’s 1st Birthday

Garden Cinema; Sat 25 Mar, 5:45pm

Japan, 1949, Yasujiro Ozu, 108m.

Yasijiro Ozu’s hugely influential award-winning masterpiece, Late Spring is a tender meditation on family politics, sacrifice and the status quo. Noiko (Setsuko Hara), and her father, Professor Somiya (Chishu Ryu), live together in perfect harmony but old certainties are put at risk when an interfering aunt raises the question of marriage. Introducing Ozu’s popular Noriko character, Late Spring poignantly examines the gradual compromise between modernity and tradition.

Please note: Garden Cinemas does not show adverts. There will be 10 mins or so of trailers before the main feature.

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3. Austrian Film Festival

Ciné Lumière; Thu 23 – Sun 26 Mar

The Austrian Cultural Forum London in cooperation with the Austrian Film Institute and Austrian Films presents the second edition of watchAUT, a dedicated film festival featuring the best new and recent films to emerge from Austria. Running at Ciné Lumière, it provides a glimpse of the world as perceived by the current generation of Austrian filmmakers. The festival is both a timely snapshot and an intriguing reflection of the current status quo.

Find the program HERE

4. Essay Film Festival

ICA and Birkbeck Cinema; Sat 25 – Fri 31 Mar

The Essay Film Festival returns to the ICA with a selection of ambitious and politically engaged films of past and present. Experimental and political, the essay film calls into question the language of representation and operates at the forefront of cinema’s critical engagement with the world. Highlights of the festival include Med Hondo’s essay on the lives of immigrant workers in France and Assia Djebar’s poetic reworking of archive images shot in the Maghreb.

Find the program HERE

5. Serpentine Cinema: Menelaos Karamaghiolis

Various London Venues; Mon 27 – Thu 30 Mar

Serpentine Cinema presents four days of unmissable film screenings celebrating the award-winning Greek filmmaker Menelaos Karamaghiolis. Spanning four decades of Karamaghiolis’ work, this season offers a rare opportunity to explore his documentaries, fiction, artist film, activism and short film.

Featuring works from the 1980s to today, Life Cinematic is an immersive film lecture by Karamaghiolis that traces extraordinary stories and the lives of unsung heroes, as well as the thresholds between documentary and fiction, and between real life and cinema.

Followed by a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine. 

Bio : Menelaos Karamaghiolis is a filmmaker who works in Athens, producing feature films, documentaries, artist films, installations and radio-movies which star real-life neglected heroes and transcend frontiers and stereotypes to serve as an essential tool for dialogue and social change. His films have been screened globally and won many awards internationally: Karamaghiolis’ feature documentary ROM (1989) was called “a turning point for Greek documentary films” and “a masterpiece that must become a classic of the history of cinema.” His fiction film BLACK OUT (p.s. RED OUT) (1998) was hailed as “the first post-modern Greek film” while J.A.C.E. – Just Another Confused Elephant (2012) was included in 52 international festivals and received eleven awards.  

Find more about the screenings HERE

6. From Europe With Love 2023

Bromley Central Library; Sat 25 Mar, 10:30am

FROM EUROPE WITH LOVE is back on Saturday 25th of March celebrating children’s stories and films by our friends and neighbours from across the Channel with a special focus on Ukraine. 

The programme includes a screening of short animations, creative activities and our famous European cake sale. 

This is a fundraising event and your donations will be used to support our Family Film Club in the year ahead. Book your tickets now before they all get snapped up!

Find out more about the programme HERE

7. 8½ ; Federico Fellini, 1963, 138 min

3 – 24 March 2023; Close-Up Cinemas

One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ marks the moment when the director’s always-personal approach to filmmaking fully embraced self-reflexivity, pioneering a stream-of-consciousness style that darts exuberantly among flashbacks, dream sequences, and carnivalesque reality, and turning one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life, as he struggles against creative block and helplessly juggles the women in his life – including Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, and Claudia Cardinale. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.

Screening as part of our Essential Cinema series at Close-Up Cinemas

Find out more about it HERE

8. BFI Flare Film Festival

The springtime celebration of queer cinema is back, at BFI Southbank and on BFI Player – 15 to 26 March 2023. Tickets are still available for the last few screenings.

Find out more about it HERE

9. Jerzy Skolimowski in Conversation

Tuesday 28 March 2023 18:30; BFI Southbank – NFT1

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker looks back over his six-decade career as part of the BFI retrospective of his work.

Total running time 90min

Defying neat categorisation, Jerzy Skolimowski has created a dynamic, provocative and acclaimed body of work. As writer, actor, director and sometimes producer, he not only engages us with stories but also challenges us to understand other worlds, often through a variety of unique perspectives. In this conversation with season curator Michael Brooke, Skolimowski will talk about what drives his creative passion and the working process that has resulted in his international success.

Tickets £17, concessions £14 (non-Members pay £2 more). Joint ticket available with The Shout on Tuesday 28 March £24, concessions £19 (non-Members pay £2 more). Book in person at the box office or by phone on 020 7928 3232.

See the Jerzy Skolimowski season.

10. God’s Creatures + Q&A with actors Emily Watson, Aisling Franciosi and Toni O’Rourke

Friday 31 March 2023 18:10; BFI Southbank – NFT1

• DirectorSaela Davis, Anna Rose Holmer
• WithEmily Watson, Paul Mescal, Aisling Franciosi
• Ireland-UK-USA 2022. 100min
• Digital
• Certificate15
• A BFI Release

This gripping and atmospheric Irish psychological drama asks how far you might go to protect someone you love, even if they were accused of something unforgiveable. In a windswept fishing town on the Irish coast, factory worker Aileen’s days are brightened when, out of the blue, her prodigal son Brian returns home, after seven long years living abroad. However, her joy is cut short when one of her co-workers accuses Brian of sexual assault, creating divisions in the town’s close-knit community and within Aileen herself. Emily Watson, Paul Mescal and Aisling Franciosi, who each garnered British Independent Film Award nominations, deliver devastating performances. Saela Davis and Anna Rose’s gripping, beautifully shot and richly scored film is wracked with tension and dread.

BFI is delighted to announce that actors Emily Watson and Toni O’Rourke will take part in a Q&A after this screening.

Kimberley Sheehan, Events Programmer

This screening will have audio description available.

Tickets on sale to BFI Patrons and Champions Monday 6 March from 11:30, to BFI Members Tuesday 7 March from 11:30 and on general sale Thursday 9 March from 11:30.

Find more about the screening HERE

11. London Film Fair – 26th March 2023

This event is the continuation of a legacy that started back in the early seventies, and over the years have seen different names and organizers but its roots originate from the original Collector’s Film Convention’s that were organized by Ed Mason.  Now under new management, the future of the event is secured.

The conventions presents dealers from all over the UK, Europe, US, Canada, Australia and South America that specializes in vintage and modern film memorabilia.  Items cover the history of cinema from the silents to the present day blockbusters.

The London Film Fair will appeal to avid film buffs, collectors, archivists researchers, and students.

A must for anyone with an interest in cinema and cult television!

STILLS – VINTAGE POSTERS – MODERN POSTERS – PROGRAMMES – MAGAZINES – BOOKS – DVDS – SOUNDTRACKS – LOBBY CARDS – TOYS – AUTOGRAPHS – VIDEOS – POSTCARDS – ACTORS & DIRECTORS SIGNINGS.

www.londonfilmconvention.co.uk/

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