Berlin is in Germany
Martin wird nach langer Haft, die noch zu DDR-Zeiten begonnen hatte, jetzt in das neue vereinte Berlin entlassen. Er trifft alte Kumpel und seine Frau wieder, die jetzt mit seinem Sohn, den er noch nie gesehen hatte, und ihrem neuen Freund zusammenlebt. Zu Unrecht gerät er in Konflikt mit der Polizei, aber durch die Hilfe seiner Frau kommt er wiede ...
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Goethe-Institut London
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Night and the City
Shot on location in London, a film noir weaving the tale of an ambitious but unfortunate hustler. ...
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Museum of London
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Seven Days, Seven Nights
Brook was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival where Jeanne Moreau won Best Actress for this drama based on the novel Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras.
Moreau plays Anne, a wealthy and bored housewife who while waiting for her son to finish his weekly piano lesson, hears a scream from a nearby café as a woman is ...
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Barbican Centre
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Elizabeth at The National Gallery
Kapur’s historical account of the troubled early reign of Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) plays like a thriller. However, the focus is the emotional drama: the queen’s relationship with childhood love Lord Robert Dudley (Joseph Fiennes) and her indefatigable willpower.
Blanchett commands throughout, delivering an electrifying speech to Parliament i ...
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The National Gallery
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THis is not here
Part one of a series of artists films screened over two days, selected by Kate Davis as part of her residency. ...
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Camden Arts Centre
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Le Gai Savior at Camden Arts Centre
How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Pariss student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their ...
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Camden Arts Centre
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The Beggars Opera
Brook’s authentic version of the first ever English “opera” presents the dirt and grime of 18th century London in thrilling Technicolor.
The story of Captain MacHeath, a notorious womanising highwayman whose many lovers betray and free him until he is finally arrested and condemned to death is accompanied by popular folk tunes arranged for the ...
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Barbican Centre
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Hollywood Chinese
A captivating revelation on a little-known chapter of cinema: the Chinese in American films. ...
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Museum of London
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The great voyages of Zheng He
Enjoy this documentary about Chinas great navigator. ...
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Museum of London
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Marat, Sade
Following success with his stage production Peter Brook re-created for the screen Peter Weiss’ extraordinary play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.
Infamous sexual explorer the Marquis de Sade is incarcerated in Paris’ notoriou ...
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Barbican Centre
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Short films by Andrew Jackson
In addition to his highly accomplished photography, Andrew Jackson has recently begun to produce short lyrical films which, much like his photography, attempt to explore different aspects of contemporary Britains identity through the lives and experiences of particular individuals. The film Fire (24 min., 2009) was produced as part of Jacksons The ...
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Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
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Movie - The Rebirth Of Buddha - Showing in February
The movie The Rebirth of Buddha has been released late 2009 and is now available to watch in London!
This movie is an exciting and enlightening experience, full of Truth and guides for life.
The movie showing is scheduled:
February 7th (Sunday) 4pm
February 21st (Sunday) 4pm
Please bring your friends and families! Dont miss this ex ...
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Happy Science Europe
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Tell Me Lies - A Film About London
Based on Denis Cannan’s 1966 protest play on the Vietnam war ‘US’ which Brook directed for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the film adaptation is a fascinating insight into how Vietnam was lived in London at that time.
As a young couple search for the truth about the conflict , we are shown a mixture of opinion from a number of artistic and inte ...
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Barbican Centre
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
Peter Brook introduces his 1979 film which explores the early life of G.I. Gurdjieff who discovered new levels of understanding in his travels though Central Asia.
Terence Stamp plays the Russian Prince Lubovedsky whose passionate interest in the unknown leads Gurdjieff (Dragan Maksimovic) and a group of seekers to discover the way to the Sarmo ...
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Barbican Centre
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Film: Martinu and America
Martinu came to America at age 51, preceded by his reputation as a prominent European composer whose oeuvre, however, was only partially known in America--the famous performances by Sergey Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra took place in the late 1920s; Martinu won the prestigious Elisabeth Sprague-Coolidge Competition in 1932. Some of ...
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Cadogan Hall
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Wings of Desire
Wenders takes us on a tour of his home city, in a dream-like mood, as two angels wander around Berlin searching for earthly meaning.
Written with Peter Handke, Wenders’ nostalgic ‘pre-unification’ film captures Berlin as it was before the fall of the Wall and its transformation by modern development. The film is a love letter to a city: people, ...
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Barbican Centre
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Public Housing
Frequently referred to as ‘a genre unto himself’ and ‘one of the greatest nonfiction filmmakers who ever lived’, Wiseman’s novelistic take on the documentary form sees him capture hundreds of hours of footage using only a tiny crew, before editing a fraction of these candid observations into feature films with structure and rhythm, that tell storie ...
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Barbican Centre
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DocSpot: Colours at the End of the World
In association with the London International Documentary Festival
In 2006, Benetton celebrated 40 years in business and 40 years of high-profile commitment to social issues and racial equality, but at the same time as promoting its “united colours” the company was allegedly evicting an indigenous Mapuche couple who had settled on Benetton land ...
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Barbican Centre
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Evangelion: 1 0 You Are Not Alone
This epic tale of alien invasion sees the earth under attack from Angels, giant creatures who seek the destruction of the human race. After the second impact, all that remains of Japan is Tokyo-3, and Earths last defence is the NERV organization’s and their Evas, giant mechas driven by bio-fused children.
Can reluctant rookie pilot Shinji Ikari ...
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Barbican Centre
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Paris, Texas
Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell and Harry Dean Stanton star in Wenders most widely seen film, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1984.
It tells the haunting story of a man who wanders out of the desert, having lost his memory, and his struggle to rebuild his shattered life. With a _ by Sam Shepard, stunning unforgettable images of the Texas ...
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Barbican Centre
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