Capital Celluloid

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

Website link: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/

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

30/01/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to February 20th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the forthcoming highlights is the rare 35mm screening of Richard Lester's PETULIA (1968) in the great John Barry season at BFI Southbank on February 15th.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqNNEBK41mU

Blogpost: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2024/01/capital-celluloid-2024-day-46-thu-feb-15.html

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Available from www.digitalclassics.co.uk and all major retailers. Set during the swinging sixties in San Francisco, Richard Lesters landmark romantic drama t...

04/01/2024

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to January 25th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the forthcoming highlights is an ultra-rare screening of LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR (35mm) in the Scala Cinema season at BFI Southbank.

Opening credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNvjeawfi0g

Link to post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/12/capital-celluloid-2024-day-13-sat-jan-13.html

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70s Sound on Film: "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" (1977) Opening title sequence for the film featuring clips from "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Thelma Houston, "Tr...

21/12/2023

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 pick of the forthcoming highlights over the holiday period is part of the Woman with a Movie Camera strand at BFI Southbank. It's Kathryn Bigelow's kinetic tech-noir STRANGE DAYS (1995) on December 30th, which begins on ... well, December 30th ... 1999.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_CRzVM1GuM

Preview link: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/12/capital-celluloid-2023-day-363-sat-dec.html

Website link: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/

Lenny Nero sells dreams and hustles nightmares, dealing in real-life experiences through a new technology that makes every sensation immediate. But on the ev...

13/12/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to December 31st are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is the Cash on Demand (Lawrence, 1961) & The Silent Partner (Duke, 1978) Christmas double-bill from Lost Reels at the Cinema Museum at 6pm on Sunday December 17th.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHck4aO33IE

Blog post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/11/capital-celluloid-2023-day-350-sun-dec.html

Website link: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/

The original trailer of The Silent Partner directed by Daryl Duke and starring Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Céline Lomez and Michael Ki...

06/12/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to December 27th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This next week's highlight is the second night in the exciting 'Last Movies' season at ICA (on December 12th) ... when Stanley Schtinter is joined in conversation by filmmaker and novelist Chris Petit to discuss the themes of liberty and decline, following a double-bill screening of the pre-Code Hollywood films, 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING and MANHATTAN MELODRAMA.

Trailer ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2f9JNfq1V4

Blog post ... http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/11/capital-celluloid-2023-day-345-tue-dec.html

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Lewis E. Lawes' hard-hitting, best-seller book "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing" gets the Hollywood fluff treatment. Lewis E. Lawes was the Warden of Sing...

14/11/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to December 4th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The next week's highlight is the launch of the Last Movies season at the ICA on Wednesday November 22nd. Erika Balsom will be in conversation with Stanley Schtinter to launch the season followed by a screening of the James Bond classic FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.

Film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9AeIdMQqR8

Blog post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/10/capital-celluloid-2023-day-325-wed-nov.html

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31/10/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to the end of November are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is the Collective 35mm screening of PRINCE OF THE CITY at the ICA Cinema on November 5th.

Prince of the City trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4qEy-shFqo

Blogpost: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/10/capital-celluloid-2023-day-308-sun-nov-5.html

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Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach and Richard Foronjy.Blu-ray (Amazon) https://amzn.to/3X3bQeNRent : https://amzn.to/3p4qeHdAKA...

22/10/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to November 15th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is the screening of Don Siegel's superb reworking of noir in blazing daylight, THE KILLERS (1964), at BFI Southbank in NFT1 on Saturday (October 28th). Ronald Reagan is loathsome, Lee Marvin is cool personified and the ending is brilliantly bleak. The film is part of the excellent Joanna Hogg 'Influences' season at the cinema. Check it out (https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=internalreflectionsjoannahogg)

The Killers trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qom2VsQfPOM

Capital Celluloid post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/10/capital-celluloid-2023-day-300-sat-oct.html

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Theatrical trailer of "The Killers" by Don Siegel. Starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins, Norman Fell, Ronald Reag...

13/10/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to November 3rd are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is the screening of Todd Haynes' chilling SAFE at ICA Cinema on Tuesday October 17th.

Trailer for SAFE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP3kLKLaiTw

Blogpost: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/10/capital-celluloid-2023-day-289-tue-oct.html

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Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Dean Norris and Julie Burgess.Blu-ray (Amazon) https://amzn.to/3CMA1FhBlu-ray (Criterion) ...

26/09/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to October 15th, 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 ultra-rare screening of renowned sexploitation auteur Doris Wishman's LET ME DIE A WOMAN (1978) on Tuesday October 3rd at the Prince Charles Cinema.

Trailer for Let Me Die A Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2flTCHU10ao

Blogpost for screening: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/09/capital-celluloid-2023-day-275-tue-oct-3.html

From the sex-change documentary "Let Me Die A Woman"

18/09/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to October 15th, 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 next Monday's screening at Barbican Cinema. In partnership with Fitzcarraldo Editions, to coincide with the release of Ian Penman's latest book Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, the cinema is screening THE THIRD GENERATION, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's chaotic interrogation of terrorism, capitalist greed, and human desires in post-war Germany. Penman, writer and music journalist (The Guardian, Sight & Sound) will join Gareth Evans, writer, producer and curator, for a Q&A after the film.

Trailer for The Third Generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N524hezgWg

Capital Celluloid post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/08/capital-celluloid-2023-day-267-mon-sep.html

1979 The Third Generation Category: Crime, DramaProduction: Tango FilmDirector: Rainer Werner FassbinderCast:Eddie Constantine ... P. J. LurzHanna Schygull...

01/09/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to October 3rd are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is the 35mm nitrate screening of MILDRED PIERCE at BFI Southbank on Friday September 8th, which had to be postponed at the Film on Film weekend at the venue in June.

Blogpost: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/08/capital-celluloid-2023-day-250-fri-sep-8.html

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Mildred Pierce trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoOr_OoHbv4&t=1s

OSCAR WINNER:Best Actress - Joan CrawfordWhat Veda wants, her mother Mildred Pierce provides. Even if Mildred must end her middle-class marriage, climb atop ...

27/08/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to September 17th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is the Lost Reels screening at ICA Cinema of Donald Cammell's final film, the edgy unpredictable pulp noir WILD SIDE (1995), screening on 35mm after two prints of this director’s cut were recently uncovered.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2zZc3y4208&t=6s

Blog post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/07/capital-celluloid-2023-day-242-thu-aug.html

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New Trailer for "Donald Cammell's Wild Side" (2000) - the UK Director's cut produced by Hamish McAlpine and Nick Jones, and edited by Frank Mazzola. Directed...

21/08/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to September 10th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is the 'Movies are Dead' screening of Brian de Palma's cruelly underrated and rarely screened BLOW OUT at Rio Cinema on Saturday August 26th at 11.30pm.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ8f_8ZvkPs

Blog post: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/07/capital-celluloid-2023-day-237-sat-aug.html

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Trance or Body Double?Διαβάστε το άρθρο του Θανάση Αγγελόπουλου εδώ:http://www.themachine.gr/cinema/item/196-trance-or-body-double.html

10/08/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings for the whole of August are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The next week's highlight is the 35mm screening of Peter Bogdanovich's debut feature TARGETS (1967) at the Prince Charles Cinema on Friday August 17th.

Targets trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSc3xAXX5g

Targets blog post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/07/capital-celluloid-2023-day-229-fri-aug.html

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TARGETS are people...and you could be one of them! Elderly horror-film star who, while making a personal appearance at a drive-in theater, confronts a psycho...

04/08/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings for the whole of August are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is the screening at BFI Southbank on Wednesday August 9th of Ida Lupino's melodrama THE BIGAMIST (1953) in which Edmond O'Brien's travelling salesman finds himself in love with two women - Joan Fontaine as the outgoing career-woman who can't have children, Lupino as the quiet home-lover who has borne him a child.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCCZcVp76N4

Blogpost: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/07/capital-celluloid-2023-day-220-wed-aug-9.html

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Here are 4 16mm spots for the 1953 film "The Bigamist". The film stars Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn, Edmond O'Brian, Kenneth Tobey, Jane Darwell,...

17/07/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings for the whole of July and into early August are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's undoubted highlight is the 35mm screening of Fritz Lang's BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT at the Cinema Museum this Wednesday (July 19th) at 7.30pm.

Trailer: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/

Full details of event: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/06/capital-celluloid-2023-day-199-wed-jul.html

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After director Fritz Lang vaulted to prominence with such masterpieces of German cinema as Metropolis and M, he brought his art to Hollywood films, including...

04/07/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings for the whole of July are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is the 35mm presentation of MYSTERIOUS SKIN (2004), featuring a Q&A with director Gregg Araki as part of the Picturehouse Central's Sundance Film Festival Weekend. It's on ay 6pm this Saturday (July 7th).

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lp5v4oQZRw

Blog post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/06/capital-celluloid-2023-day-188-sat-jul-8.html

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Available on DVD at www.strandreleasing.comDirector Gregg Arakis MYSTERIOUS SKIN, adapted from Scott Heims acclaimed novel, is an intensely powerful chronicl...

26/06/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to July 16th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This weeks's highlight is the 35mm presentation of BIRTH (on Saturday July 1st) as part of the Jonathan Glazer season at The Prince Charles Cinema.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxfev3lZTZo

Blog post: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/06/capital-celluloid-2023-day-181-sat-jul-1.html

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

01/06/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to June 22nd are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The highlight in the next week is undoubtedly the 'Film on Film' festival at BFI Southbank from June 8th to 11th (https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=foff23&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=). Four days of movies from 16mm and 35mm at the cinema with plenty sold out but one that isn't is THE SWIMMER (35mm) on Saturday 10th in NFT1 at 11.10am!

The trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws75zerRos8

The full details: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/05/capital-celluloid-2023-day-161-sat-june.html

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Ned Merrill has been away for most of the summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire val...

04/05/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to May 25th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is Nina Menkes' lost underground classic QUEEN OF DIAMONDS (1991) at BFI Southbank in the director's season on Tuesday May 9th.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qTuZlAo2Ks

Blogpost: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/04/capital-celluloid-2023-day-129-tue-may-9.html

Blog: http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/

Critically acclaimed for her radical feminist body of work, Nina Menkes’ Queen of Diamonds (Sundance ’91) is the second title in a quartet of films (alongsid...

11/04/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to May 2 are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is a masterpiece from the late Kathleen Collins, a rare example of an Black independent film depicting the ennui of a Black middle class ... LOSING GROUND (1982) on 35mm at the Barbican Cinema on April 17th.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cKLqLuZJzs

Event details: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/03/capital-celluloid-2023-day-107-mon-apr.html

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

28/03/2023

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to April 18th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). This week's highlight is a rare screening of THE GETAWAY in the Sam Peckinpah season at the Prince Charles Cinema on Monday April 3rd. (http://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2023/03/capital-celluloid-2023-day-93-mon-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...