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Tue 22 July, 8.15pm: Mirror
While Mirror, like all Tarkovsky’s films, pays homage to painting, music, and poetry, it also makes plain that the Russian director understood Mnemosyne to be the mother of the muses. Being a poet, he sought not only to retrieve the past but to reveal its essence – and in so doing to redeem an inherently flawed present.
Thu 24 July, 8.15pm: The Liberated Film Club: Erika Balsom
Marking the twentieth anniversary of Close-Up, we are delighted to announce the return of Stanley Schtinter’s legendary Liberated Film Club. For the second edition in this yearlong series of events, we welcome Erika Balsom to select and present her ‘liberated film’ choice.
Fri 25 July, 8pm: Pierrot le Fou
Jean-Luc Godard’s tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash-up of consumerist satire, politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, “the last romantic couple.”
Sat 26 July, 5.30pm: Hidden
Georges, a television presenter, begins to receive mysterious and alarming packages containing covertly filmed videos of himself and his family. In Hidden, Haneke probes the pride, class-consciousness, and racial enmity of a man whose happy, comfortable, middle class family life is turned upside down by a series of intrusive and upsetting events that undermine his life.
Sat 26 July, 8pm: Close-Up Year 20
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.
Sun 27 July, 3.30pm: The Movie Orgy
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.
Sun 27 July, 8pm: Close-Up
In celebration of our 20th anniversary we present the film after which our cinema and film library was named
Calendar
Tue 22 Jul 8:15pm
Mirror
Mirror
Thu 24 Jul 8:15pm
Liberated Film Club: Erika Balsom
Liberated Film Club: Erika Balsom
Fri 25 Jul 8:00pm
Pierrot Le Fou
Pierrot Le Fou
Sat 26 Jul 5:30pm
Hidden
Hidden
Sat 26 Jul 8:00pm
Close-Up Year 20
Close-Up Year 20
Sun 27 Jul 3:30pm
The Movie Orgy
The Movie Orgy
Sun 27 Jul 8:00pm
Close-Up
Close-Up
