In partnership with Film Africa, and King’s College London and Screen Worlds, featuring expert introductions and post film discussion groups, this major new season at The Garden Cinema invites audiences to experience nine masterpieces arising from postcolonial and contemporary Francophone West Africa.
Tickets are now available to Garden Cinema members with General sales open on Saturday 11 February at 18:00.
Curator, artist and Brighton-resident John Marchant joined us here at the Garden Cinema for a discussion following our screening of Laura Poitras’s All The Beauty And The Bloodshed. The film tells the story of photographer Nan Goldin’s tireless campaign to expose the crimes of the Sackler family and the part they played in the opioid crisis in the US and to kick the Sacklers out of the art spaces they gave money to to whitewash their actions.
John tells us about her artistic process, her resilience, their work together and what the campaigning achieved.
We gathered here at the cinema after our screening of The Shining, as part of our Jack Nicholson season, with Professor Roger Luckhurst who wrote The Shining: BFI Film Classics. Roger shares with us gossip and tales from behind the scenes, tells us about the film’s negative reception at the time and the differences with the novel and gives us some context to understand its place as part of the horror repertoire.
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Watch Mike Leigh discuss his debut feature Bleak Moments in the first Q&A session from our Mike Leigh in Conversation season earlier this year
We are joined by writer/director/actress Nana Mensah. Mensah’s first feature film, the award-winning Queen Of Glory, will be screening at the Garden Cinema on 26 November.
The film follows the trials and tribulations of Sarah Obeng, the brilliant child of Ghanaian immigrants, who is quitting her Ivy League PhD program to follow her married lover to Ohio. When her mother dies suddenly, she bequeaths her daughter a Christian bookstore in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx where Sarah was raised.
We were also joined by Lily Parrott, co-director of the Migration Film Festival. We chatted about Nana’s forays into filmmaking, her start as an actress, and its selection as part of the festival.
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Watch our resident Film Curator Dr. George Crosthwait’s introduction to our final repertory season of 2022: Hollywood on Hollywood.
Our selection of Hollywood’s most bitingly satirical, truly interesting, or blissfully entertaining examples from the industry’s undying focus on itself are now showing until the end of the year.
Mike Leigh at the Garden Cinema discussing the open-ended nature of his films and the reception to his award-winning film Naked (1993) at the New York Film Festival.
Recorded at The Garden Cinema, London on 19 September 2022 as part of Mike Leigh in Conversation: a series of retrospective screenings of Leigh’s films, each followed by a discussion and Q&A with Mike Leigh and Gary Yershon. 8th September – 30th October, 2022
“Over 12 half-hour episodes, we’re seeing a man have a nervous breakdown”.
This week, we talk to journalist Darren Richman about some of his favourite genres and filmmakers.
We discuss the pessimism of Film Noir and the optimism of Mike Leigh, the nature of comedy from Faulty Towers to the Coen Brothers and debate whether or not there is such a thing as “dark comedy” and the depiction of love and compassion in Hollywood films.
You can follow Darren on Twitter @darrenrichman.
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