Director Sam Shahid talks about both the fun parts and difficulties of researching the story behind pioneering artist George Platt Lynes, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude in the interwar period. Sam talks about his attempt to save the photographer’s legacy in a discussion moderated by producer and programmer Rebecca del Tufo.
Recorded on 11th July 2025 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
Music supervisor Jen Moss, composer agent Gary Downing, and composer Harry Escott cover the ins and outs of music supervision and composing for film, moderated by Abla Kandalaft.
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Recorded on 5th July 2025 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
In partnership with Jargon Film Club, a discussion following American Pop with the award-winning music writer Daniel Rachel, author of the forthcoming book This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich. Hosted by M. Syd Rosen from Jargon Film Club.
This screening is part of ‘Beyond Jewish Cinema’, programmed by Jargon, a non-profit dedicated to exploring past, present, and future visions of Jewish diasporic culture.
Recorded on 25th June at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
This video contains subtitles for the translated English parts.
Adam Wong joins us for a Q&A about his film The Way We Talk, A soul-searching story about three friends, Wolf, Alan and Sophie, who have different conditions of deafness. When Sophie graduates from the university and starts a new job, she realises she has been struggling to be seen as normal. Tensions grow between the three friends as they find themselves conflicting over how best to communicate with the world while remaining true to themselves.
Recorded on 13th June at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
Posy Sterling joins us for a Q&A about the process of character development and working on the set of Lollipop, hosted by Joe Miller. Sterling gives an intense and very believable lead performance as a woman in the most desperate of circumstances. May-Hudson is careful to keep her sights fixed on the Kafkaesque care system itself, rather than the people working in it.
Recorded on 20 June at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
This August to September, the Garden Cinema welcomes you to revel in Divine Trash: The Films of John Waters. With a filmography spanning from the late 1960s to early 2000s, the films of John Waters are unapologetically queer, subversive and outrageous.
Friday 1st of August — Sunday 7th of September 2025.
London Review of Books returns to the Garden Cinema with a new series exploring visions of London created by non-British filmmakers. Acclaimed fashion photographer and artist Miles Aldridge discusses Blow-Up, Antonioni’s classic countercultural take on (mis)perception and (un)reality in the swinging 1960s, with regular host Gareth Evans. Born two years before the film’s release, Aldridge grew up in the heart of the cultural scene it portrays and has since created his own highly distinctive photographic signature.
Recorded on 19 May at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ