Capital Celluloid

03/03/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to March 24th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the forthcoming screenings is a presentation of Douglas Sirk's most underrated film, THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW (1956), on 35mm at Barbican Centre on March 13th.

'There's Always Tomorrow' trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clgI3jvwZzw

Film blogpost link: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/02/capital-celluloid-2025-day-71-thu-mar-13.html

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Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett |When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by by his wife and children, he begins to reki...

18/02/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to March 11th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of next week's screenings is the superb gothic family horror drama CHESS OF THE WIND in the Iranian New Wave season at Barbican Centre on February 24th.

Chess of the Wind trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bI1t3RfdB8

Film blogpost: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/02/capital-celluloid-2025-day-54-mon-feb-24.html

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New 4K RestorationFriday, October 29 – Thursday, November 11 at Film Forumhttps://filmforum.org/film/chess-of-the-wind(1976) In an ornate, candlelit mansion ...

07/02/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to March 8th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of next week's screenings is the 35mm presentation of Chantal Akerman's NIGHT AND DAY (1991) in the director's season at BFI Southbank.

Film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xMJbQMHmgs

Event blogpost: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/01/capital-celluloid-2025-day-45-sat-feb-15.html

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EN CINEMATEK and the Fondation Chantal Akerman, an initiative launched by family members after her death in 2015, have completed work on a 2K restoration of...

22/01/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to February 12th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of next week's screenings is WAVELENGTH (1967), part of two days of presentations at ICA Cinema on February 1st-2nd devoted to a titan of experimental cinema, Michael Snow (1929-2023), who produced a body of work that established entirely new ways of seeing. 'Snow’s notorious experimental classic, consisting of a single, extended zoom (if anything moving at such a snaillike pace can properly be called a zoom) from one side of a loft space to the other'.

Wavelength trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ob2hcDpWmo

Screening blogpost: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/01/capital-celluloid-2025-day-32-sat-feb-1.html

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Arc 242 - Wavelength Trailer

13/01/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to February 3rd are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the coming week's screenings is the 35mm presentations of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE at The Prince Charles Cinema starting on Friday February 17th.

In The Mood for Love trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8GuedsQnWQ

Blogpost link: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/12/capital-celluloid-2025-day-17-fri-jan-17.html

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“In Love. The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai.” A special collection of seven films from one of the greatest filmmakers of our time: http://mubi.io/wkwWong Kar Wai's ...

07/01/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to January 28th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the coming week's screenings is the 35mm presentation of very rarely seen 1970s Visconti epic LUDWIG BFI Southbank as part of the director's season on Sunday January 12th (also showing on Tuesday January 21st).

Ludwig trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRMDfKJeu_A

Blog post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/12/capital-celluloid-2025-day-21-tue-jan-21.html

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Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider and Trevor Howard.Blu-ray (Amazon) https://amzn.to/3foFyJHBlu-ray (Arrow) https://www.arrowf...

30/12/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to January 20th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the coming week's screenings is Lost Reels' screening of THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO (35mm) ICA Cinema on January 4th with director Whit Stillman Q&A.

Film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klq5xq7pQuE&t=3s

Blogpost: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/12/capital-celluloid-2025-day-4-sat-jan-4.html

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Directed by Whit Stillman. With Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale and Chris Eigeman.The Last Days of Disco Blu-ray (Amazon) https://amzn.to/3rl2XC1The Last Days...

22/12/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to January 11th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The forthcoming week's highlight is the 35mm screening of David Cronenberg's NAKED LUNCH on December 28th at The Prince Charles Cinema as an alternative to watching the boring 'Q***r'!

Naked Lunch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj04OcONu2s

Screening blogpost: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/12/capital-celluloid-2024-day-354-sat-dec.html

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Order n 4K UHD: https://bit.ly/3JkRrgt Order on Blu-ray: https://bit.ly/3kLOThd Exterminate all rational thought!In a career dedicated to seeing the unseeabl...

16/12/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to January 7th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is the return of 35mm screenings at Regent Street Cinema ... THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL on December 21st and GREMLINS on the 22nd.

Gremlins trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBEVwaJEgaA

Blogpost link: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/11/capital-celluloid-2024-day-348-sun-dec.html

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Gremlins (Dante, 1984): Regent Street Cinema, 2.40pm This is a 35mm presentation. Chicago Reader review: E.T. with the lid off (1984). At ...

18/11/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to December 9th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is Oliver Stone's kinetic ANY GIVEN SUNDAY on November 24th at the Garden Cinema.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3nGztzo6Dk

Screening details : https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/11/capital-celluloid-2024-day-321-sun-nov.html

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Life is a contact sport and football is life when three-time academy award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and a dynamic acting ensemble explore the fortunes ...

09/09/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to October 20th, including all the choices for the London Film Festival, are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is a rare Terence Fisher double-bill in the Edgar Wright/Martin Scorsese 'Hidden Gems of British Cinema' season at BFI Southbank, featuring a 35mm screening of Hammer Film's noirish B-picture STOLEN FACE (1952).

Stolen Face extract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi1kVtG1v8o

Screening details: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/08/capital-celluloid-2024-day-253-sun-sep.html

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clip from the 1952 film

18/07/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to August 11th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com). The forthcoming highlight is the Brian de Palma Mystery Marathon at The Prince Charles Cinema on Saturday July 27th (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/07/capital-celluloid-2024-day-206-sat-jul.html)...

My personal choices (given, in most cases, their lack of cinema screenings) would be:

Hi, Mom! (1970)
Sisters (1972)
Obsession (1976)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Raising Cain (1992)
Femme Fatale (2002)

What's yours?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9IBdHgnI8E

Brian De Palma watches scenes from his films and talked frankly about them

24/06/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to July 16th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The best of the forthcoming selections this is week is a very rare screening (on 35mm no less) of the Terence Davies Trilogy at the Prince Charles Cinema on Tuesday (June 25th)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pbSDuLBLms

Web post: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/05/capital-celluloid-2024-day-173-tue-jun.html

17/04/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to May 8th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The best of the forthcoming selections is the 35mm screening of KES (along with star David Bradley) at the Cinema Museum on April 27th.

Pub scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoD6qTOa76o

Blog post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/04/capital-celluloid-2024-day-118-sat-apr.html

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In the evening, Jud and Billy’s mum unwind with a couple of drinks as a band plays Sixties favourites at Dard's, Pontefract Road at Sunningdale Drive in Cudw...

08/04/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to April 30th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The best of the forthcoming selections is the genuine Hollywood classic LAURA in the Gene Tierney season at BFI Southbank on Saturday April 13th.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYYLquxN2zQ

Blog post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/03/capital-celluloid-2024-day-104-sat-apr.html

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'I shall never forget the weekend Laura died...' So begins Otto Preminger's masterpiece about erotic obsession, jealousy, deceit and deadly betrayal, now new...

25/03/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to April 15th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The best of the forthcoming highlights is the start of the new Nickel Cinema 'Road Movie' season at the Cinema Museum on April 3rd featuring Sam Peckinpah's THE GETAWAY (https://www.facebook.com/events/409252864928780).

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A8UaQA7VZ8

Blog post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/03/capital-celluloid-2024-day-94-wed-apr-3.html

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Steve McQueen (The Great Escape) and Ali MacGraw (Love Story) are at their finest as husband and wife thieves on the run in this classic Sam Peckinpah (The W...

20/03/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to April 10th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The best of the forthcoming highlights is L’AMOUR FOU at ICA Cinema on March 23rd. A classic of the French New Wave and one of Rivette’s most radical works, L’amour fou was unavailable for years, with the original elements tragically burned in a fire. Now meticulously restored, the ICA, in partnership with Radiance Films, is presents the UK Premiere of this new restoration ahead of Radiance Films Blu-Ray release in April.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW2XWbzFCyw

Blog post: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/03/capital-celluloid-2024-day-83-sat-mar-23.html

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Tony Paley's daily guide to the best film screening in London today. Follow me on twitter at

01/03/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to March 23rd are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the forthcoming highlights is the fifth night in the exciting 'Last Movies' season at the ICA Cinema on March 12th ... with Suzanne Osten’s Swedish comedy THE MOZART BROTHERS (1986) at ICA Cinema. According to Erika Balsom, Last Movies ‘abandons all those calcified criteria most frequently used to organise cinema programmes ... period, nation, genre, director, star, theme: nothing internal to these films motivates their inclusion, their ‘quality’ least of all ... Last Movies embraces chance.’

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwM37HMmAP4

Blogpost: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/02/capital-celluloid-2024-day-72-tue-mar-12.html

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Tony Paley's daily guide to the best film screening in London today. Follow me on twitter at