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!

By the riverfront

Mondongo was amazing, attended the last screening of it yesterday. Never saw La Flor..

Was hoping to catch something at the BFI tomorrow but the website says it's closed for a "private event". Naturally, the website doesn't say what the event is. Just out of curiosity, is there any way of finding out what's going on there tomorrow, short of actually going there?

Third parties can hire the BFI as a venue, so I'm guessing the answer is no. You might very well not find out even if you went there.

https://www.ica.art/films/celluloid-sunday-festival

What a great selection..

Un Chien Andalou/Partie de Campagne double feature

might've jetted across the pond for this

It was v good, particularly the latter.

I own the DVD but have never seen it on screen.

Seen about half of these films here and its a big yes to seeing many of the rest

https://www.ica.art/films/serge-daney

And Daniel, this is the De Oliveira I was telling you about:

https://www.ica.art/films/daney-doomed-love

Wang Bing's Youth screening week after next but I am not about :-(

That was my least favourite book to study in high school - thought it was just overcooked sentimental tripe at the time - but would be interesting to see what Oliveira does with it.

Btw J Rosenbaum writes about it in the current Sight & Sound as part of their third "best films you've never heard of" special.

Yeah it's really to do with what he is doing with the material. De Oliveira should get some sort of retro over here some day.

Fighting Spirit festival in Stratford again this weekend. I'm catching Super Courier, a tribute to Hong Kong action from Kazakhstan.

LFF programme out, not too much that's exciting me but would like to flag up a restoration of Mortu Nega, the first film produced by Guinea Bissau, detailing the independence movement.

I have never been to LFF (me and booking things is lol). That looks good.

As for the Daney week @ ICA I saw Pialat's film on Van Gogh. There was a talk given by an academic, which is probably necessary and yet it was the usual fairly boring affair.