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Great films back on the big screen… 📽️ #CineRedis25 touring across the UK & Ireland brought to you by @wshed.bsky.social & friends since 2016 https://linktr.ee/cineredis

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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · Jul 31

🧵 Cinemas! Festivals! Pop-ups!

You can now book highlights fr/ #CineRedis25 which saw a 15% rise in ticket income + over 20 sold-out screenings incl. My Beautiful Laundrette (in cinemas fr/this Friday onwards c/o Park Circus), Amadeus (Curzon), Diva (STUDIOCANAL), Killer of Sheep + Badnam Basti

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 1h

My BFI Classic on The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night is available to preorder now. Here’s the story behind it. I love the cover - inspired by the film poster and a key theme in the book: the power of television in transmitting the Beatles to the world. samiraahmed.blog/why-i-wrote-...

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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 2d

Commissioned for C4, Menelik Shabazz’s Time & Judgement (1988)
uses theatre, verse & music to chronicle the struggles & triumphs of African diaspora communities globally feat. influential voices like Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan & Jesse Jackson.

See it @wshed.bsky.social Sun 12 Oct 14:00

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 2d

During #FilmNoirFest 2025 you can see some forgotten #BritNoir gems on the big screen thanks to our friends at @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, Renown_Pictures and @indicator.bsky.social

More info and festival passes available here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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WottonCinema @wottoncinema.bsky.social · 6d

Here's a blast from the past... Ahead of our screenings of Absolute Beginners (15) on Sunday 12 and Tuesday 14 October, a set report from Film '86. Patsy Kensit, James Fox, Eddie O'Connell and David Bowie are among the cast of Julien Temple's musical, part of our Cinema Rediscovered season.

Film 86 location report - Absolute Beginners

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WottonCinema @wottoncinema.bsky.social · 11d

The British cinema classic My Beautiful Laundrette (15) is 40 years old, and it's showing in Wotton-under-Edge on Sunday 5 October as part of our selection from this year's Cinema Rediscovered Festival. Here, writer Hanif Kureishi and director Stephen Frears look back.

‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40

We meet the director and writer of the classic gay romance for tea, cake and bubbles to talk about the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved

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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 12d

This Oct, explore the interplay of love, resistance, and Black identity, as seen through Menelik Shabazz’s visionary lens. First up this Sunday 5 Oct 2pm @wshed.bsky.social is his pioneering 1st feature Burning an Illusion (1981) shot around the communities of Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove.

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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 12d

In this special season – Menelik Shabazz: Rebel Generation - presented @wshed.bsky.social w/Hyde Park in Leeds, working w/Shabazz’s daughter, Khemi – we’ll be sharing some of his most iconic works, incl. the groundbreaking Burning an Illusion + his radical sci-fi doc, Time & Judgement.

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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 12d

This October, enter the world of Menelik Shabazz (1954-2021), a pioneer of Black British filmmaking. We had the privilege of welcoming him to @wshed.bsky.social in Bristol on several occasions so this strand is close to our hearts 💜

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Hugh Odling-Smee @smeeho7.bsky.social · 13d

Saw the brilliant 'Northern Lights' @queensfilmtheatre.bsky.social on Saturday as part of the @cineredis.bsky.social tour. A wonderful film, a sort of snowy 'Days Of Heaven', about the founding of the Nonpartisan League in 1916 North Dakota. Remembering is a radical act.

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 15d

Caught up with the Plaza Cinema team in Weston-super-Mare yesterday, in ref to #FilmNoirFest. Very excited to say that we have been upgraded!

This year the festival will take place in Cinema 4 (like last year) and (new for 2025) Cinema 1. #FilmNoir Passes available here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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Adam Murray @admagnetic77.bsky.social · 16d

@coreyatad.com there was a great screening of this at 2023’s excellent @cineredis.bsky.social Bristol, UK as part of their ‘Look Who’s Back: The Hollywood Renaissance and the Blacklist’ strand, totally agree it’s an absolute must watch, some incredible performances, emotional audience experience 📽️ 💯

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 16d

if you’re feeling high on One Battle After Another, i’d urge you to seek out Jules Dassin’s Uptight, an incendiary film from 1968, told from the perspective of the burgeoning Black power movement

directed by the Jewish, blacklisted Dassin, and co-written and produced by Ruby Dee

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Hugh Odling-Smee @smeeho7.bsky.social · 18d

I'm introducing Neil Jordan's classic 'Angel' on Friday @queensfilmtheatre.bsky.social as part of the @cineredis.bsky.social tour. So if you fancy hearing me bang on about Showbands, saxophones and political violence before watching the film, do come along.
queensfilmtheatre.com/Whats-On/Angel

Cinema Rediscovered: Angel showing at Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast.

With an unknown writer/director and set against the very real and contemporary backdrop of ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, Neil Jordan’s Angel was one of the first films commissioned by Channel 4.

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Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social · 22d

From @studiocanal.co.uk - a new beautiful 4K of Mike Nichols' still perfect The Graduate, with an essay from me and plenty of extras! hmv.com/store/film-t...

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 22d

So a few of us (as well as @swsilents.bsky.social ) will be heading to this year’s #SilentFilm festival Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto. It starts in under two weeks time.

So do let us know if you’re going and maybe we can have a drink or two in one of the fine bars in #Pordenone! #FilmNoir

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Forbidden Worlds Film Festival @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · 23d

Day 1 of @dirtinthegate.bsky.social’s #Grindfest - 35mm screenings of Dreamscape, The Howling (plus @thejoedante.bsky.social intro) and Xtro!

Plus the beers are great!

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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 23d

Heading to Sheffield. Delighted to be asked to speak at the Cinema For All 100 years celebration!
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Cinema For All - Supporting Community Cinemas

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Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 22d

We're speeding away here at the moment getting the last few drafts of our #FilmNoirFest Catalogue together.

We recently saw a preview of the layout as well; it is all very exciting! #FilmNoir

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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · 24d

Every Sun in Sept, @wshed.bsky.social celebrates the upcoming 30th edition of @encounters.film (24 - 28 Sept) w/1st features fr/a few notable alumni.

Next up is animation Mary & Max (2009) by Adam Elliot whose shorts played at Encounters over the years incl. his Oscar® winning Harvie Krumpet.

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Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social · 27d

Very much looking forward to chatting all things SOFIA COPPOLA, my new book on the filmmaker out in Nov, on panel 'The Director's Chair' at London Film Festival! Sun 12 October:

whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/d...

Film in Print | BFI London Film Festival 2025

A weekend chock-full of author talks, book signings and panel discussions, celebrating the art of writing about film.

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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · Aug 14

We saw the restored version of Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep -- third time, there is so much in each viewing! I had not realised it was conceived as part of a trilogy -- the second part being Stan's vacation, the third his return to work. Interview with #CharlesBurnett from 2002 here.

Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · Jul 22

This week, a new restoration of Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep will play at Cinema Rediscovered

In our July 2002 issue, Burnett recalled his discouraging school years, his experience at an anarchic UCLA, and the eventual release of his thesis film, Killer of Sheep

www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Charles Burnett on Killer of Sheep

We heard from Burnett about his upbringing, his experience at an anarchic UCLA, and the eventual release of his thesis film, Killer of Sheep. From our July 2002 issue.

www.bfi.org.uk

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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · Sep 12

‘Hollywood has everything to do w/the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine – & toothache - Ryan Gilbey in @theguardian.com

Have you booked for Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind w/Kaufman & Gondry @bristolbeacon.bsky.social part of @encounters.film ?

‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine and toothache

As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to th...

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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Going to the pictures is nothing to be ashamed of.”

A first for me – I have presented a Radio 4 documentary on the pioneering curator and critic Iris Barry, founder of the world’s first film archive.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Cinema Rediscovered @cineredis.bsky.social · Sep 6

Against the Grain continues at the fab @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social w/ Defence of the Realm on #35mm w/producer Lynda Myles & @markcosgrove.bsky.social ; one of relatively few 80s films to engage w/ contemporary political realities in Britain starring Gabriel Byrne

Tue 9 Sept 6pm

#CineRedis25

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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social · Sep 6

If ever you thought, “Why don’t I book myself a weekend away by the sea, watch lots of Ida Lupino and Stanley Kubrick thrillers and learn how to plan the perfect heist?” Film Noir Fest is for you.

Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hey #FilmNoir fans! Want to know what we're screening at this year's #FilmNoirFest in #Weston?! (31/10/2025 - 02/11/2025)!

Well... here you are! Please, do spread the word.

We recommend buying our festival pass early to avoid disappointment. More info: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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Brian Cutts @briancutts.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Amy Kitchingman from Leeds’ DIY film club, The Green Carnation, has selected and will be introducing Rita, Sue and Bob Too as part of our Cinema Rediscovered season. She’s written a fascinating piece on why this controversial film is worth your time." hpph.co.uk/journal/in-d...

In defence of Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Amy Kitchingman from Leeds’ DIY film club, The Green Carnation, has selected and will be introducing Rita, Sue and Bob Too as part of our Cinema Rediscovered season. She’s written a fascinating piece ...

hpph.co.uk

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