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Guardian staffer; author of Capital Celluloid daily blog guide to London repertory film scene (http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/?m=1); book, vinyl and DVD/Blu hoarder and proud of it.

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Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 90: Tue Mar 31 Platform (Zhangke, 2000): Garden Cinema, 8pm The Garden Cinema presents the UK’s first-ever comprehensive retrospective dedicated to one o...

#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 31 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. 'one of the greatest of all Chinese films' J Rosenbaum. Jia Zhang-ke’s second feature PLATFORM (2002)
at the Garden Cinema capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/03/apit...

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Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 89: Mon Mar 30 Mulholland Dr (Lynch, 2001): Prince Charles Cinema, 2.30pm Mulholland Drive is the cinematic re-release of the decade so far. There was a t...

#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 30 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. The greatest film of the 2000s so far? David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DR (2001) - 35mm screenings
@princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/03/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 88: Sun Mar 29 sex, lies and videotape (Soderbergh, 1989): ICA Cinema, 8.15pm This screening is showing from a 35mm print. ICA introduction:  A Palme d’Or...

#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 29 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. Soderbergh's still brilliant SEX, LIES & VIDEOTAPE (35mm) at ICA Cinema capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/03/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 87: Sat Mar 28 Lenny (Fosse, 1974): Prince Charles Cinema, 3pm This is a 35mm presentation and part of Bob Fosse day at the Prince Charles Cinema. You can...

#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 28 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. Bob Fosse directed biopic of controversial comedian Lenny Bruce, LENNY (35mm), on director's day @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/03/capi...

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#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 11 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. Five-star @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social
review... www.theguardian.com/film/2024/ap... for Wajda’s THE PROMISED LAND (1975) at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/02/capi...

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#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 10 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. 35mm YOUNG SOUL REBELS (1991) from Funeral Parade @princecharlescinema.com ‘ vibrant celebration of music and youth culture, as well as a vital comment on the UK’s deep-seated divisions’ capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/02/capi...

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Obsession + Intro with Norma Herrmann - London Soundtrack Festival

You wait 40 years for a cinema screening of a film … and then two turn up at once … h/t (London Soundtrack Festival) for @barbican.bsky.social screening of De Palma’s OBSESSION londonsoundtrack.com/event/obsess...

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Rosamund Urwin reports: Insiders fear the BBC is treating the BBC Radio 4 flagship Today programme as anything but — and it’s struggling to find a new editor

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Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 86: Fri Mar 27 The Liberated Film Club: Sophie Sleigh-Johnson : Close-Up Cinema, 8.15pm The Liberated Film Club is running twice monthly from July 2025 to ...

#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 27 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. Associate Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies, and author of cult work 'Code Damp' introduces a Surprise Film in Close-Up Cinema's Liberated Film Club capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/03/capi...

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#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 9 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. Beloved by Ingmar Bergman, THE CONDUCTOR (1980) in the Andrzej Wajda season at BFI comments on the moral decay and stagnation of a society. capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/02/capi...

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.@JonathanRomney’s TV film picks in Observer - Sun: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943) BBCTwo (now on BBCiPlayer); Mon: NO OTHER LAND (2024) Channel4 2.10am; Tue: THE ROCK (1996) ComedyCentralUK 9pm; Sat: NEW YORK, NEW YORK (1977) BBCTwo 12.55am

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#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 7 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. LES FLOCONS D'OR (1976), an experimental melodrama by Werner Schroeter and the final part of his trilogy on love, suffering, and death at ICA Cinema capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/02/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 85: Thu Mar 26 Yanks (Schlesinger, 1979): Cinema Museum, 7.30pm This rare screening of Yanks – presented from a 35mm print held in the Cinema Museum’s ow...

#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 26 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. The Consummate Professional: John Schlesinger at 100 season (schlesinger-100.webflow.io) has 35mm screening of wartime drama YANKS (1979) at Cinema Museum capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/03/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 84: Wed Mar 25 M Butterfly (Cronenberg, 1993): ICA Cinema, 8.40pm This screening is showing from a 35mm print. ICA introduction: A provocative, lesser-kno...

#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 25 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. V rare (35mm) screening of Cronenberg's provocative, lesser-known gem M BUTTERFLY (1993) in Bed trick (ica.art/talks/%3Ehtt...) season at ICA Cinema capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/03/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 83: Tue Mar 24 The Last Supper (Alea, 1976): ICA Cinema, 6.30pm This film is part of a Cuban cinema season at the ICA. Full details here .  ICA introducti...

#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 24 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. “A masterpiece from the first image to the last” ICA Cinema presents Godardian parable THE LAST SUPPER (1976) in Cuban film season. capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/03/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 82: Mon Mar 23 A Very Private Affair (Malle, 1962): Cine Lumiere, 6.30pm This screening will be preceded by a talk by Professor Ginette Vincendeau (King’s...

#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 23 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. Bardot season at Cine Lumiere! Louis Malle's A VERY PRIVATE AFFAIR (1962) was invisible for almost thirty years and restored in 2023 capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/02/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 81: Sun Mar 22 Lucia (Solas, 1968): ICA Cinema, 2pm This film is part of a min-season of Cuban cinema at the ICA. Details here .  New York Times revi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 22 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. 'considered by many as Cuban cinema’s peak accomplishment, Humberto Solás’s LUCIA (1968) - a landmark film - screens at ICA Cinema in Cuban film season capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/02/capi...

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Capital Celluloid 2027 — Day 80: Sat Mar 21 House for Swap (Tabio, 1983): Garden Cinema, 4.20pm This film is part of the Cuban film season at the Garden Cinema. Full details here . Th...

#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 21 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. Q&A with special guests from Cuba, distinguished cinema actors Mirtha Ibarra and Eslinda Núñez follows 1970's HOUSE FOR SWAP in Cuban film season @thegardencinema.bsky.social
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#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 6 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. 'It’s the best war movie since Full Metal Jacket.' 35mm screening of Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar winner THE HURT LOCKER (2008) at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/02/capi...

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So utterly don’t-ever-want-to-watch for me.

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Share some of Jo Ellison’s frustrations in @financialtimes.com on the Today programme. Want features items on show but now too repetitive (fixation with children’s books) or too cringe. And not at all interested in presenters’ fave teams or their families. (Wish programme well - also wired into me)

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#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 5 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. 'A deeply personal film for Wajda, presenting an account of the 1940 Katyn massacre and its aftermath.' KATYN (2007) in director's season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/02/capi...

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#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 4 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. Kelly Reichardt's masterful and heartbreaking low-budget drama WENDY AND LUCY (2008) at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/02/capi...

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Not at all. But who is? ;)

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Sound of Falling In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent SOUND OF FALLING, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory. Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film ...

The best film at #LFF 2025 is released by MUBI on Friday. Go! Mubi Go? Just go! mubi.com/en/soundoffa...

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I cannot wait for this on 35mm @princecharlescinema.com princecharlescinema.com/film/2666403...

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Your full guide to the London repertory film scene in March (h/t
@repcinema.bsky.social)

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#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 3 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. "haunting mood-piece" Tony Rayns Time Out Film ... Erice's remarkable one-off THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (1973) @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/02/capi...

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#bestfilminlondontoday Mar 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London rep cinema scene. 'one of the most original American independents in years' Bigelow's THE LOVELESS (1981) in director's season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/02/capi...

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I know. I wish I’d had a cigarette (though I don’t smoke tbf).

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