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cinema : reviews
Coming up...
To Wed 23 Aug
Portobello Film Festival
Three weeks packed full of independent short film screenings at Westbourne
Studios and Inn on the Green. Plus music, art, comedy and other shenanigans.
Visit: www.portobellofilmfestival.com
for a full programme.
To Sun 6 Aug @ midday
BFI Classic Cartoons / Curzon Soho, Shaftesbury Avenue,
W1 / Leicester Square tube
An unusual programme for you; a raft of classic cartoons from Bugs
Bunny to a screwball take on Cecil B DeMille.
Sun 6 Aug
Ealing Double / Riverside Studios Cinema, Crisp Road,
Hammersmith, W6 / Hammersmith tube
An Ealing Comedy double bill with Whisky Galore and Kind
Hearts and Coronets. There is also a Jean Renoir double in the evening
(6pm) with The Rules of the Game and La Grande Illusion.
Thu 10 Aug @ 6.30pm
Tideland Q&A / Curzon Soho, Shaftesbury Avenue, W1
/ Leicester Square tube
A Q&A with Terry Gilliam follows this exclusive preview of his latest
film. A great opportunity to hear from a legendary director.
Thu 10 to Sat 19 Aug @ 9pm (doors 6.30pm)
Film4 Summer Screen / Somerset House, Strand, WC2 / Charing
Cross tube / From £12.50
Nine nights in August, one posh building, one big open air cinema screen.
The ticket price might be a little pricey, but you do get live music and
lovely surroundings, and a programme that includes North by Northwest,
Night of the Hunter and Howls Moving Castle. Visit:
www.somersethousesummer.org.uk
for details.
Sun 13 Aug @ 8pm
Buster Keaton / Riverside Studios Cinema, Crisp Road,
Hammersmith, W6 / Hammersmith tube
An evening of silent short classics from the king of silent comedy.
Tue 15 Aug @ 6.15pm
Birds Eye View Summer Tour / Rio Dalston, 107 Kingsland
High Street, E8 / Dalston Kingsland train station
Six diverse and innovative short films, and a Q&A with director Laurence
Coriat.
Fri 18 Aug
Daleks / Walthamstow Town Square and Gardens, E17 / Walthamstow
Central tube / Free
Open air screening of 1960s cult classic Daleks: Invasion Earth
starring Peter Cushing, organised by McGuffin Film Society as part of
the Walthamstow Arts Festival. Free Daleks, food, drink and live music.
Brilliant!
At the NFT in August….
Michael Mann season, with all the thrills, car chases
and spills from the master of high concept. Screenings include Manhunter,
Heat and Collateral.
Anime season, showing the best in recent anime, from
Spirited Away to more adult films.
A tribute to leading classic British director Carol Reed,
best known for The Third Man.
A retrospective of actress Carmen Maura and director
Pedro Almodovar, one of the best loved screen collaborations
in European cinema, now reunited in the upcoming Volver.
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