Novelist, LRB contributor and screenwriter Ronan Bennett (Top Boy, Public Enemies, The Day of the Jackal) joins Gareth Evans to discuss the golden-age British film noir Night and the City.
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 9th February 2025 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
Jia Zhangke Retrospective at The Garden Cinema 贾樟柯
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Irene González-López introduces The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On as part of our continuing season of films, 1980s: The Lost Decade of Japanese Cinema
Recorded on 5th February 2026 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street, London WC2B 5PQ
Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop curator Keith Lodwick discusses the multi-award winning Merchant Ivory classic with the Fashion Film Club founder Sarah Bailey.
This adaptation brings the novel by E.M. Forster to dazzling life in the Florentine countryside and in the well-appointed homes of the English Edwardian upper classes. A comedy of manners with a quick wit and impeccable comic timing, A Room With A View is also a portrait of the quiet solitude that lies beneath Forster’s characters, and of the need for human connection in a world of rigid convention.
The young Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch (played by Helena Bonham Carter), arrives in Florence on a Baedecker-style grand tour with her aunt Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith). Through a series of events involving English expatriates Miss Eleanor Lavish, an unflappable novelist (Judi Dench), and the Emersons, a free-thinking father and son (played by Denholm Elliot and Julian Sands), Lucy’s life is changed forever under a loggia in Florence and in the Tuscan countryside. (Merchant Ivory)
Curator of Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop at The Fashion and Textile Museum, London (until March 8th), Keith Lodwick is an expert on costume in Merchant Ivory films. A writer, curator and historian, Lodwick was formerly Curator of Theatre and Screen Arts at the V&A.
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:
Recorded on 24th January 2026 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
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…
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
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.