Posted 28 Jan 2026 by Joe Bond (GC Video team) in

Academy Award-nominated composer John Cameron joins fellow Oscar-nominee Gary Yershon to discuss his score for Peter Medak’s satirical epic, The Ruling Class.

Part of Composing Cinema: a strand celebrating the musical contributions made by composers to the world of film.

John Cameron’s new musical ‘Ruth’ is on at Wilton’s Music Hall in March 2026:

Ruth

Recorded on 24th January 2026 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ

Posted 13 Jan 2026 by Joe Bond (GC Video team) in

The 1980s were the zenith of Japan’s bubble economy, an era which saw the accumulation of vast wealth, alongside rapid technological and commercial growth. City centres sprouted neon-emblazoned shrines to multinational capitalism, built upon the most expensive real estate in the world. But whilst Sony and Nintendo came to dominate the home entertainment market domestically and in the West, Japanese cinema from this decade tells a different story…

Book tickets

Posted 13 Jan 2026 by Joe Bond (GC Video team) in

Here for Life is the Artangel-commissioned and produced feature from artist-filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson, founder of Cardboard Citizens theatre company. Hosted by Gareth Evans.

LRB Screen is the long-running film series from the London Review of Books, Europe’s leading literary journal of culture and ideas, hosted by the Garden Cinema since 2023.

Recorded on 8th December 2025

Posted 12 Jan 2026 by Abla Kan in

14-year-old Zeina and her family are the last to have stayed in their besieged hometown of Damascus in Syria. A missile rips a giant hole in their home, exposing them to the outside world. When a rope is mysteriously lowered into the hole, Zeina gets her first taste of freedom, and an unimaginable world of possibility opens up for her…

Sarah Agha discusses casting, magic realism, filmmaking in the Arab world, and how the film resonates a few years down the line.

Posted 08 Jan 2026 by Joe Bond (GC Video team) in

Lucile Hadžihalilović’s uncompromising cinematic visions are surreal, unsettling, and chilly. Here she talks about the themes and inspiration behind her work, and the ingredients, such as sound and costume design, that make it stand out. Hosted by Fatima Serghini.

Recorded on 26th November 2025 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street, London WC2B 5PQ

Posted 19 Dec 2025 by Abla Kan in

This is also available as a podcast, if you prefer to listen on the go:

Posted 04 Dec 2025 by Abla Kan in

Film writer Savina Petkova discusses Fiume o morte! (Fiume or death!) with its director, Igor Bezinović. In defiance of the Paris Peace Conference Italian poet and military officer Gabriele D’Annunzio led a rogue, short-lived, and ultranationalist occupation of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) in 1919. Over a century later, filmmaker Igor Bezinović revisits this strange historical episode, blending archive, reenactment and interviews with residents in the present, interrogating how a city remembers and forgets, and the enduring presence of European fascism.

A stark and peculiar lesson in the history that is not past, Fiume o morte! won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025 and is Croatia’s submission for the Oscars.

Posted 27 Nov 2025 by Abla Kan in

Ken Loach’s longtime collaborator Rebecca O’Brien joins Gareth Evans for a discussion following Sweet Sixteen, showing as part of Ken Loach: A Retrospective at the Garden Cinema.

This is also available as a podcast, if you prefer to listen on the go:

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