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Close-Up makes film culture and history accessible through its film programmes and mediatheque.
Located in the heart of Shoreditch, Close-Up is the ideal venue for all your screening needs, whether you wish to host a press screening, corporate event, presentation, conference, Christmas or birthday party. Our adjoined cafe and bar is fully licensed and offers a convivial atmosphere for drinks receptions, networking or informal post-screening discussion.
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Showing This Weekend
Saturday 20 July: Jacques Rivette: Out 1 (Episode 1 - 4)
Conceived as a television mini-series, Jacques Rivette's legendary thirteen-hour monolith consists of eight feature-length episodes revolving around two theatre troupes, blackmail and conspiracy. Multiple characters introduce multiple plotlines, weaving a rich tapestry across an epic runtime. Programmed in parallel to our season on Claire Denis, whom worked as Rivette's assistant.
Saturday 20 July: White Material
A towering masterpiece in modern cinema, the much-exalted White Material returned Denis to her conflicted West African roots to stage an incendiary study of postcolonial insurrection. Bruno Dumont DP Yves Cape, replacing an unavailable Agnès Godard, brilliantly exploits the blanching effects of an unsparing African sun. Huppert, in a tailor-made role, balances fury, fear, and aching sadness.
Sunday 21 July: Jacques Rivette: Out 1 (Episode 5 - 8)
Conceived as a television mini-series, Jacques Rivette's legendary thirteen-hour monolith consists of eight feature-length episodes revolving around two theatre troupes, blackmail and conspiracy. Multiple characters introduce multiple plotlines, weaving a rich tapestry across an epic runtime. Programmed in parallel to our season on Claire Denis, whom worked as Rivette's assistant.
Sunday 21 July: Wings of Desire
Angels perched atop the buildings of Berlin listen in on the innermost thoughts of mere mortals in Wim Wenders’s lovely, lyrical Wings of Desire, a soaring high-point of the director’s cinema and a moving, melancholic elegy to a Berlin still divided.
Showing Next Week
Monday 22 July: High Life
Claire Denis launches into the farthest reaches of outer space for her dazzling English language debut, a science-fiction head-exploder starring an international cast. Shocking, intense, and mysterious, High Life is one of Denis’ most mesmerizing variations yet on her recurring themes of desire, intrusion, and human connection.
Tuesday 23 July: Paris, Texas
Claire Denis worked as an assistant director on Wim Wenders’ Palme d’Or–winning study of masculinity, myth, and disconnection, which remains the director’s most moving and mysterious meditation on the physical and cultural landscape of America.
Wednesday 24 July: Wings of Desire
Angels perched atop the buildings of Berlin listen in on the innermost thoughts of mere mortals in Wim Wenders’s lovely, lyrical Wings of Desire, a soaring high-point of the director’s cinema and a moving, melancholic elegy to a Berlin still divided.
Thursday 25 July: Down by Law
Following her work on Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, Denis headed for Louisiana to assist Jim Jarmusch on his self-described “neo-Beat-noir-comedy” about a pimp (John Lurie), a radio DJ (Tom Waits), and a happy-go-lucky Italian immigrant (Roberto Benigni) who meet while sharing a cell in a New Orleans prison. Forming an unlikely friendship, the three misfits escape into the bayou and slog their way through the swamp towards uncertain futures.
Friday 25 July: Frans Zwartjes: Masterpiece
A launch event for the first catalogued record on the "anti-record label (anti-everything)" purge.xxx, by Frans Zwartjes & Lodewijk de Boer. René Coelho's rarely seen 1971 documentary Frans Zwartjes, Filmmaker will play alongside Portrait of Frans Zwartjes, by Zwartjes' collaborator Stanley Schtinter. This event will be introduced by Schtinter, with copies of the new record available on the night.
Friday 25 July: The Liberated Film Club VII with Anna Thew
"Because you're sick of knowing exactly what you're going to get and you're sick when you get it." We're thrilled to welcome Anna Thew as our special guest for the seventh instalment of The Liberated Film Club. Free to attend for Close-Up members, but booking is essential.
Saturday 26 July: No Fear, No Die
A precursor to Beau Travail's study of uneasy male camaraderie No Fear, No Die carefully observes the subtly shifting dynamic between the two men – wonderfully played by Denis’ favorite actors, Alex Descas and Isaach de Bankolé – and the rituals and cruelties that define their world.
Saturday 26 July: I Can't Sleep
Denis' mid-career masterpiece is based on the shocking true story of Thierry Paulin, a gay, black, HIV-positive drug dealer, transvestite and serial killer who preyed on elderly Parisian women during the mid-1980s. The mysterious, sensitive – but appropriately troubling – exploration of Paulin's crimes offered by I Can't Sleep is, however, worlds away from such a sensationalistic description of the facts.
Sunday 27 July: Paris, Texas
Claire Denis worked as an assistant director on Wim Wenders’ Palme d’Or–winning study of masculinity, myth, and disconnection, which remains the director’s most moving and mysterious meditation on the physical and cultural landscape of America.
Calendar
Sun 21 Jul 8:00pm
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire
Mon 22 Jul 8:15pm
High Life
High Life
Tue 23 Jul 8:15pm
Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas
Wed 24 Jul 8:15pm
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire
Thu 25 Jul 8:15pm
Down by Law
Down by Law
Fri 26 Jul 6:30pm
Frans Zwartjes: Masterpiece
Frans Zwartjes: Masterpiece
Fri 26 Jul 8:15pm
The Liberated Film Club VII with Anna Thew
The Liberated Film Club VII with Anna Thew
Sat 27 Jul 6:00pm
No Fear, No Die
No Fear, No Die
Sat 27 Jul 8:00pm
I Can't Sleep
I Can't Sleep
Sun 28 Jul 7:30pm
Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas
Mon 29 Jul 8:15pm
35 Shots of Rum
35 Shots of Rum
Tue 30 Jul 8:15pm
The Intruder
The Intruder
Wed 31 Jul 8:15pm
Beau travail
Beau travail
