Capital Celluloid

24/06/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to JULY 31st are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The forthcoming highlight on the repertory cinema scene is the Moviedrome season (https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=moviedrome) at BFI which includes a screening of the cult road film TWO-LANE BLACKTOP on July 9th (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/06/capital-celluloid-2025-day-189-wed-jul-9.html).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPbqV9CgV9s&t=1s

Story of two men drag racing across the USA in a primer grey 55 Chevy. Dennis Wilson is the mechanic, James Taylor is the driver.

04/06/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to June 26th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the forthcoming screenings is the whole ‘Film on Film’ season at BFI Southbank on 12th to 15th June where every film, without exception, is projected from a print. You can find details of the the full season here … https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=foff25

The pick of the weekend for me is the screening of Allan Dwan’s colour noir SLIGHTLY SCARLET (1956) on June 14th in NFT3. Queue up an hour before on the day for tickets and try and get into this sell-out screening. Here’s my preview …
https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/05/capital-celluloid-2025-day-164-sat-jun.html

Slightly Scarlet (Dwan, 1956): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 3.30pm This 35mm presentation is part of the Film on Film festival at BFI. Full details...

14/05/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to June 4th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the forthcoming screenings is the 35mm screening of WANDA (1970) part of the Wanda and Beyond season at BFI Southbank. I wrote about this extraordinary movie for the Guardian here https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/oct/17/london-film-festival-wanda-loden when it was screened at the London Film Festival in 2011.

Blog post for Wanda: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/05/capital-celluloid-2025-day-153-tue-jun-3.html

Trailer for Wanda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl0PETEBBhY&t=1s

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Tony Paley: Barbara Loden's 1970 road movie about a housewife who goes on the run has been saved from the scrapheap and restored

17/04/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to May 11th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the forthcoming screenings is the re-release of SLADE IN FLAME from the BFI which opens on May 1st at the cinema. 'The Citizen Kane of British pop movies' Mark Kermode. 'A witty, sublimely cynical and warts-and-all inside-view of the music industry circa 1970' James Bell. Plus gangsters ... and it's very funny.

'Slade in Flame' trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqJv_DDOKe0&t=1s

'Slade in Flame' blogpost link: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/04/capital-celluloid-2025-day-120-thu-may-1.html

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Acclaimed as 'the Citizen Kane of British Pop Movies' by critic Mark Kermode, this surprisingly gritty feature follows the rise and fall of the fictional ban...

08/04/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to May 1st are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the forthcoming screenings are any you can catch in Karina Longworth's You Must Remember This Presents... “The Old Man Is Still Alive” auteurs season at BFI. There are a whole host of great, rarely seen movies to see but my pick is Howard Hawks' stock car racing drama RED LINE 7000 which was described as "the most underestimated film of the 60s” by Robin Wood. Longworth introduces the film at BFI on Monday April 14th (6.10pm).

Red Line 7000 opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szZG4C4tX3A

Blog post on Red Line 7000: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/03/capital-celluloid-2025-day-103-mon-apr.html

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Red Line 7000 - Opening (1965)Red Line 7000 é um filme de esportes de ação americano de 1965 lançado pela Paramount Pictures. Foi dirigido por Howard Hawks, ...

21/03/2025

Welcome to the latest Capital Celluloid film screening, another important landmark in the history of the blog at which I hope to see as many of you as possible. We are returning to Close-Up Cinema in Shoreditch again after the presentations of selections from my Sight and Sound 2022 poll top ten list. My recommendation is to read as little as possible before experiencing this recent 1961 rediscovery. This film was one of the revelations at the Bologna Cinema Ritrovarto festival in 2023 and has had only two screenings in London since. Don't miss the chance to see what I've seen best described as "a nightmarish, hyper-edited, avant-garde freak-out of a film as atomic angst and racial woes wend their way toward Shakespearean tragedy".
TIME OF THE HEATHEN (KASS, 1961), April 6, 8pm

https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2025/histoires-du-cinema/time-of-the-heathen/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5n3jigsTf0

Peter Kass's Time of the Heathen opens at Film at Lincoln Center on May 10. Get tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/films/time-of-the-heathen/For his first and...

17/03/2025

The daily pick of London's repertory film screenings up to April 7th are now available at the Capital Celluloid website (https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/). The pick of the forthcoming screenings is Jacques Demy's dazzling and evocative drama THE BAY OF ANGELS, with a ravishing Jeanne Moreau, at the Garden Cinema on March 25th (details here: https://capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/03/capital-celluloid-2025-day-83-tue-mar-25.html). This film was one of my ten picks for the latest Sight and Sound Greatest films of all-time poll in 2022. I made two rules for my selections. All ten (reproduced below) would deserve to be part of the Sight & Sound Greatest poll conversation and all the choices would not have received a single vote in the previous 2012 poll. I hope you can get along to the fifth screening of the movies from my list.

Here are the opening credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41CH8c3yq1Q)

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 ...