all purpose London film snob thread

Dunno if this will be anyone besides me and xyzz but hey.

BFI Film On Film Festival starting soon. I'm seeing a bunch of things, including a nitrate print of Un Chien Andalou from the 1920's (!), which may catch fire so if the BFI burns down you'll know what's happened.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-film-film-festival-line-up-star-wars-twin-peaks

The Barbican queer 70's strand has some very interesting stuff, including India's first queer film and Isao Fujisawa's Godard influenced Bye Bye Love.

oops forgot the link for that one: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/series/queer-70s-lgbtq-cinema-in-the-decade-after-stonewall

Once saw a screening of Rivette's Paris Nous Appartient at the Barbican cinema, back when it was an extremely rare and hard to see film in the UK, and the print of that caught fire right at the end of the film. It was a real 'end of cinema' moment.

Anyway, as a regional cineaste I will follow this thread to see what scraps turn up at the GFT.

Can report I only watch Mission Impossible films now

new mini cinema heavily focused on fun grindhousey stuff opening very soon, fingers crossed its good: https://thenickel.co.uk/

Yeah the programming looks great, wanna see Truck Turner and Milano Calibro 9 on the big screen!

Can report I only watch Mission Impossible films now

Just in time for the consensus to turn against that franchise!

Do they actually have a programme for this or do you have to visit half a dozen web pages to find out what's on and when?

Yeah Nickel looks great (apart from the Polanski screening..)

chronological film listing is all on that link - one film/double bill per night, open wednesday through saturday from next month

Yeah, I was talking about the BFI thing.

Its a bit harder for BFI to do a straight chronological listing as they have about a dozen screenings every day across four screens, but I know what you mean..

There's a programme, just have to saunter to the Southbank to pick one up.

will be out of town for film on film, was looking forward to catching 'westward the women'. experimenta offerings this time round very disappointing. you'd think the nitrate of un chien andalou playing would stop them playing it a second time. thought there would have been some kind of le grice programme. more excitingly, there's a 16mm 'chelsea girls' screening in the bfs programme for late june that till hasn't been properly confirmed.

don't make it to the Southbank much anymore tbh as the ica has been so reliable.

would indeed be nice if BFI website did have an easily scrollable/page turnable digital copy of the paper programme.

https://www.ica.art/films/off-circuit-the-triptych-of-mondongo

My buddy bailed so if anyone wants to catch that Un Chien Andalou/Partie de Campagne double feature at 12:30 tomorrow I've a spare ticket.

Sounds great, can come tomorrow

Nice, see you there!

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