In this existential drama – which has the feeling of a waking dream rather than a conventional war film – four soldiers return to their senses after crash-landing in a forest behind enemy lines. Seven decades after its release, audiences can finally see Fear and Desire as it was first released and witness the first awkward blossoming of a 23-year old Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic genius.

To mark the 20th anniversary of Close-Up, Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne invited 50 filmmakers who have previously shown work at the venue to create a short film about Close-Up.

In celebration of our 20th anniversary we present the film after which our cinema and film library was named

Curated by Max Hattler, Relentless Melt No. 38 presents a selection of new abstract and experimental animation films from Hong Kong. Founded in 2017, Relentless Melt is a Hong Kong-based society for abstract and experimental moving image and has since presented screenings at festivals and events around the world.

Marking the twentieth anniversary of Close-Up, we are delighted to announce the return of Stanley Schtinter’s legendary Liberated Film Club. "Because you’re sick of knowing exactly what you’re going to get, and you’re sick when you get it…"

One of the key films of the American seventies cinema renaissance, The Last Picture Show is set in the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen. Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal work in the career of Peter Bogdanovich.

A profound masterpiece, Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind.

The Movie Orgy is a legendary five-hour triumph from Joe Dante – one of genre cinema's most significant masterminds. Comprised of commercials, news reels, clips from feature films, TV bloopers, and much more, The Movie Orgy is both a fascinating cultural artifact and a wild vortex of mashed-up magnificence.