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Sun 24 March, 8pm: Two Years at Sea Introduced by Ben Rivers


Shot on black and white 16mm film hand-processed, Ben Rivers’ feature-length documentary debut follows Jake Williams, who lives a life of solitude in the forest of the Scottish Cairngorms after two years working as a merchant at sea.
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Tue 19 March, 8.15pm: The Man Who Envied Women

Tue 19 March, 8.15pm: The Man Who Envied Women

Around a familiar theme – the breakup of a marriage – Rainer constructs an honest, graceful and wickedly funny account of a self-satisfied womanizer, Jack Deller, the man “who almost knows too much about women.”
Thu 21 March, 8.15pm: Privilege

Thu 21 March, 8.15pm: Privilege

Yvonne Rainer's sixth feature is a genuinely subversive movie about menopause. Out of a subject that has been virtually invisible on film, Rainer has fashioned a witty, risky work about sexual identity and the unequal economies of race, gender, and class.
Fri 22 March, 8.15pm: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Fri 22 March, 8.15pm: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Continuing his miraculous invention of a dark pastoral, Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, melds the last dying encounters of a farmer, Boonmee, with a gorgeously rendered landscape enlivened by the presence of ghostly apparitions.
Sat 23 March, 8pm: Murder and Murder

Sat 23 March, 8pm: Murder and Murder

Murder and Murder is a middle-aged love story between Mildred, a life-long lesbian, and Doris, who is in love with a woman for the first time. An unflinching meditation on female aging, lesbian sexuality and breast cancer in a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance.
Sun 24 March, 5.30pm: Journeys from Berlin/1971

Sun 24 March, 5.30pm: Journeys from Berlin/1971

To explore the ramifications of terrorism, Rainer employs an extended therapy session – in which an American woman speaks to a series of psychiatrists – to evoke the daily experiences of power and repression.

In March

1 - 31 March 2024: Close-Up on Yvonne Rainer

1 - 31 March 2024: Close-Up on Yvonne Rainer

An American choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker, Yvonne Rainer is a pioneering figure of the American avant-garde movement with a career spanning over five decades across dance and film. Rainer’s artistic work has emphasized minimalism and experimentalism and has challenged conventional form to explore subversive political and social themes. She is widely regarded as one of the most influential performance artists of the twentieth century.
2 - 29 March 2024: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

2 - 29 March 2024: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Continuing his miraculous invention of a dark pastoral, Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, melds the last dying encounters of a farmer, Boonmee, with a gorgeously rendered landscape enlivened by the presence of ghostly apparitions.
28 March 2024: Last Movies introduced by Stanley Schtinter

28 March 2024: Last Movies introduced by Stanley Schtinter

Completing a five-month residency at the ICA in London, Close-Up presents what is probably the most innovative of Schtinter’s Last Movies programmes, and certainly the most cutting: the unfinished films, inasmuch as the viewer died during their presentation. The final “unfinished” film in the programme will be unannounced until the day itself – never before screened in the UK.
30 March 2024: Children of Paradise

30 March 2024: Children of Paradise

Poetic realism reached sublime heights with Children of Paradise, widely considered one of the greatest French films of all time. With sensitivity and dramatic élan, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert resurrect a world teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers.
31 March 2024: Llévame en tus brazos

31 March 2024: Llévame en tus brazos

After having been fired from a sugar mill, José can no longer marry Rita, the fisherman's daughter. When Rita agrees to marry the mill owner to save her father from ruin, violence looms large... Class conflicts and erotic torments – all in one visually stunning film!

Coming Soon

4 - 14 April 2024: Fallen Leaves

4 - 14 April 2024: Fallen Leaves

Moviegoing dreamers, there is hope for us still in this timeless, tender romance. Imbued with the Kaurismäki’s idiosyncratic playfulness and deadpan humour, this bittersweet comedy won the Jury Prize at Cannes.
5 - 12 April 2024: The Sweet East

5 - 12 April 2024: The Sweet East

We’re delighted to present Sean Price Williams directorial debut The Sweet East, a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States.
6 April 2024: Together: Overlapping Histories, Friendships & Dialogues

6 April 2024: Together: Overlapping Histories, Friendships & Dialogues

This latest programme of artists' films in an ongoing series curated by Peter Todd brings together makers with overlapping histories, friendships, and dialogues. Introduced by Peter Todd with Luke Fowler, Anthea Kennedy and Ian Wiblin in attendance.
6 - 20 April 2024: Samsara

6 - 20 April 2024: Samsara

In Buddhist philosophy, the word “samsara” refers to the nature of life as a cycle of deaths and rebirths. It is this process that Lois Patiño evokes to breath-taking effect in Samsara, a film with a triptych structure that follows a soul from the body of Mon (Simone Milavanh), an elderly woman in Laos, and later into the form of a baby goat in Zanzibar.
7 - 19 April 2024: Bacurau

7 - 19 April 2024: Bacurau

Set in the remote backcountry of Brazil, Bacurau follows a tight-knit village community’s bloody and brutal fight for its own survival. With unforgettable turns from Udo Kier and Sonia Braga, this is an audacious, original and violent blend of neo-Western and political allegory.
7 - 14 April 2024: Underground

7 - 14 April 2024: Underground

Set against the backdrop of 50 turbulent years of Yugoslavian history, this deeply moving and masterful tragic-farce from director Emir Kusturica earned him his second Palme d'Or.
13 - 21 April 2024: A Grin Without a Cat

13 - 21 April 2024: A Grin Without a Cat

At turns mordant and mournful, A Grin Without a Cat uses an extraordinary range of source material – newsreels, propaganda films and Marker’s own footage – to construct a polyphonic, immersive and critical history of political struggle.
13 April 2024: Side-Splitting Introduced by William English

13 April 2024: Side-Splitting Introduced by William English

Side-Splitting: ironic humour, sometimes wry, bordering on the sardonic, with distressed clowns, derelict funfairs and smoking promoted as pleasure with dire consequences. An off-piste revue curated by William English accompanied by a post-A.I. narcissistic clown/photographer.
18 April 2024: Strategies for Discovering Cinema: Helga Fanderl / Nicky Hamlyn

18 April 2024: Strategies for Discovering Cinema: Helga Fanderl / Nicky Hamlyn

A Contact programme presenting the films of Helga Fanderl and Nicky Hamlyn who will be in attendance to introduce and discuss their work.
21 April 2024: Misunderstood

21 April 2024: Misunderstood

Director Luigi Comenicini captures the innocence and carefree moments of youth alongside the agonising feelings of grief, creating one of the finest films about childhood, one which can stand alongside The 400 Blows, The Spirit of the Beehive and L'enfance nue.

Calendar

Tue 19 Mar 8:15pm
The Man Who Envied Women
Thu 21 Mar 8:15pm
Privilege
Sat 23 Mar 8:00pm
Murder and Murder
Sun 24 Mar 5:30pm
Journeys from Berlin
Thu 28 Mar 8:15pm
Last Movies
Sat 30 Mar 4:30pm
Children of Paradise
Sat 30 Mar 8:00pm
Privilege