The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
Henry Selick delivers a delightful stop-motion vision of Tim Burton’s Halloween-meets-Christmas tale. Enter an extraordinary world filled with magic and wonder,…
Henry Selick delivers a delightful stop-motion vision of Tim Burton’s Halloween-meets-Christmas tale. Enter an extraordinary world filled with magic and wonder,…
This film was proposed by our member Stephen Cahill, who writes: 'Another film that came and went in the blink of an eye… and I missed it! Another one of Andersson’s takes on life..' About Endlessness is a reflection on human life in… Read More
In the city, thoughtful Nurse Prabha’s routine is upset when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger, flightier and rebellious roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her secret… Read More
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened when Vanya's parents send their henchmen to annul… Read More
Four years ago, Tony D'Amato's (Al Pacino) Miami Sharks were at the top. Now, his team is struggling with three consecutive losses, sliding attendance, and aging heroes, particularly 39-year-old quarterback Jack 'Cap' Rooney (Dennis Quaid). Off the field, D'Amato is struggling with… Read More
Following the popular and critical success of his gender-bending farce Some Like It Hot (1959), Wilder reteamed with screenwriter I. A. L. Diamond for this darker comedy set in the world of nine-to-five corporate New York. Jack Lemmon was again on hand, this… Read More
Join brave, independent Belle on the adventure of a lifetime as she sets out to rescue her father---and discovers the enchanted castle of a mysterious beast. Enjoy this timeless tale overflowing with unforgettable characters and music you'll never forget, universally acclaimed as… Read More
The Bibi Files is an urgent journalistic exposé based on unseen leaked footage of police interrogations of the politician as well as his wife Sara and son Yair. The film explores the corruption cases that resulted in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's indictment… Read More
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalised life in the fringes of contemporary society. 12-year-old Bailey (astounding newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her devoted but chaotic single… Read More
Steve McQueen's Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mother and… Read More
Al Pacino reunites with his Scarface director Brian De Palma for this tough-minded thriller about a gangster looking for salvation down the mean streets of 1970s New York City. Carlito Brigante (Pacino) gets released early from prison thanks to the work of his… Read More
Based on the first of the classic series of novels by CS Lewis, this fantasy adventure film follows four siblings: Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. Evacuated to the countryside during World War Two, the children find a way into another world -… Read More
Jessica Hausner, 2024, Austria, UK, Germany, France, Denmark
On Tuesday 26 November, we will hold a preview screening featuring a Q&A with director Jessica Hausner. At an international boarding school, the unassuming, yet rigorous, Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) joins the teaching staff to instruct a new class on 'conscious eating.'… Read More
Conclave follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events - selecting the new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have… Read More
This film was suggested by our member Raphael Pour-Hashemi, who writes: 'I’ve been fortunate to see both Zardoz and Excalibur at the cinema recently but would love to see Boorman’s classic Deliverance on the big screen!' Four city-dwelling friends (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty,… Read More
Proudly screening as part of our Trailblazers season. About the film: A landmark of queer and independent filmmaking, Desert Hearts blazed a trail for lesbian representation on screen. Arriving in the Reno desert to finalise her divorce, uptight New York academic Vivian’s… Read More
One Christmas Eve a long time ago, a baby crawled into Santa's bag of toys... Raised as an elf, Buddy (Will Ferrell) grows into an adult three times larger than the biggest elf--and realizes that he will never truly fit in at… Read More
Now digitally restored, Charles Vidor's Gilda features a sultry Hayworth in her most iconic role, as the much-lusted-after wife of a criminal kingpin (George Macready), as well as the former flame of his bitter henchman (Glenn Ford), and she drives them both mad… Read More
Adapted for the screen by David Mamet from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the compelling, witty, and endlessly quotable script is delivered with razor-sharp precision by an ensemble cast at the height of their powers. A group of Chicago real-estate salesmen-cum-con artists live… Read More
A special event to mark the re-publication by leading London independent press Prototype of a facsimile edition of Derek Jarman’s early, extremely rare and only poetry book A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, originally published in 1972. Joining publisher Jess Chandler and editor… Read More
The screening on 14 December will be introduced by film historian and Coppola expert Jon Lewis, author of the BFI Film Classics on The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II. Sequels had not yet become the Hollywood norm when Francis Ford Coppola signed… Read More
Our screening on Monday 9 December will be followed by a q&a with producer Julia Ton and actor Mark Oosterveen. January 2021. The UK is in its 3rd lockdown and all entertainment venues remain closed. For theatre actors Sam and Mark, the… Read More
This preview screening of Hard Truths is the final instalment in our discussion series, In the Works, hosted by Oscar nominated composer Gary Yershon. It's also a return to our 2022 series, Mike Leigh in Conversation. As such, Gary's guest is his long… Read More
Michael Mann's classic crime thriller Heat was released in 1995 and stars Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro as two men on opposite sides of the law whose live become tangled and destabilised in an intense game of cat-and-mouse. When one heist led by… Read More
When the winter break arrives in December 1970, Paul Hunham, a teacher at a prestigious New England boarding school, is forced to remain on campus to babysit a ragtag group of students who have nowhere else to go. Twenty years after Sideways,… Read More
This film was proposed by two cinema members. Joel writes: 'If it’s not too early (for the festive spirit), I’d love to feel good about being bad this Christmas', while Ela suggested the film 'because it depicts, rather than tells, remorse, hope,… Read More
After seeking the expertise of former Big Tobacco executive Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), seasoned TV producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) suspects a story lies behind Wigand's reluctance to speak. As Bergman persuades Wigand to share his knowledge of industry secrets, the two… Read More
Our screening on Thursday 5 December will be introduced by Mark Searby, the author of Al Pacino: The Movies Behind The Man. From acclaimed director Chris Nolan comes the story of a veteran police detective (Al Pacino) who is sent to a… Read More
Tickets to our fundraiser screening on 21 December are available here. Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey (James Stewart) finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. Seeing no way out, George considers suicide from the… Read More
Gillian Armstrong's heartfelt adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about love, family and the female spirit, stars Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, and Susan Sarandon. With her husband off at war, Marmee (Sarandon) is left alone to raise… Read More
The Muppets perform the classic Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine). Other Muppets -- Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear and Sam the Eagle -- weave in and out of… Read More
Henry Selick delivers a delightful stop-motion vision of Tim Burton’s Halloween-meets-Christmas tale. Enter an extraordinary world filled with magic and wonder, where every holiday has its own special land. This is the heartfelt tale of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween… Read More
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families - the largest single act… Read More
Our screening on Saturday 7 December will be followed by a Q&A with lead actor Susan Chardy. The new film from acclaimed, BAFTA-winning director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch), On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a compelling drama about community and… Read More
Paddington in Peru brings Paddington's story to Peru as he returns to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected… Read More
Roy Andersson, 2014, Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, Denmark
The final film in his' Living trilogy', preceded by Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living, Swedish master Roy Andersson’s defiantly weird vision of humanity – surrealist, absurdist and supremely bleak in equal measure – continues to mark him out as… Read More
Point Break stars Keanu Reeves as FBI agent Johnny Utah, who goes undercover with a gang of surfers, led by Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi, who are suspects in a series of bank robberies. Rarely seen on big screens in the UK in recent… Read More
All Aboard! To celebrate it's 20th anniversay, join us for a festive screening of The Polar Express. Late on Christmas Eve, a boy sits in bed doubting the existence of Santa Claus and waiting to hear the sound of sleigh bells. Instead,… Read More
1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows… Read More
Our screening on Thursday 21 November will be introduced by Mark Searby, the author of Al Pacino: The Movies Behind The Man. Frank (Al Pacino in an Oscar winning performance) is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the US army. He's blind and… Read More
Miles Cullen, an eccentric bank teller played by Elliott Gould, notices something strange about a man dressed as Santa in the building where he works. Correctly predicting he is planning a robbery, Miles devises a scheme to keep part of the loot… Read More
The screening on Sunday 8 December will be introduced by writer, editor and founder of Girlhood Studies Claire Marie Healy, who will also join us for an informal post-film discussion in The Garden Cinema Bar. This digital restoration of Joyce Chopra’s Sundance Grand… Read More
Tibetan auteur Pema Tseden’s final completed feature, Snow Leopard, is set amongst vast and stunning Tibetan terrain, and uses the fabled creature to pose and probe the universal question of tradition versus modernity. An unexpected incident causes a snow leopard to break into… Read More
One evening, somewhere in our hemisphere, a strange series of illogical events take place: a clerk is made redundant in a degrading manner; a lost immigrant is violently attacked in a busy street; a magician makes an error in his act. In… Read More
Set on the eve of a new millennium, Kathryn Bigelow’s cyberpunk sci-fi imagines a near-future Los Angeles equally marked by the 1992 Rodney King riots and its history as point of origin for the noir genre. The film follows Lenny Nero (Ralph… Read More
This film was suggested by our member Ryan Gilbey, who will also introduce 'Christmas in bright, discombobulating LA sunshine' on Wednesday 18 December. Sean Baker’s (Anora) critically acclaimed Sundance smash hit Tangerine charts a Christmas Eve in the life of Sin-Dee and her… Read More
In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people's lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the mystery of… Read More
The screening on Sunday 1 December will be followed by a panel discussion with writer and programmer Rōgan Graham, Yaya Azariah Clarke and film scholar Giulia Rho, which will be chaired by writer and editor Laura Staab. A revolutionary film movement that… Read More
Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Roald Dahl’s 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. From Paul King, writer/director of… Read More
Roy Andersson, 2007, Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman (Jessica Lundberg) remembers… Read More
Following the success of its first incarnation, Trailblazers returns to celebrate the work of women filmmakers in the US in the 1970s and 80s. Trailblazers (Part 1) shone a light on the female directors that…
Throughout the Autumn, our spotlight shines on an icon of New Hollywood and beyond, the living legend that is Al Pacino. Guided by suggestions from Garden Cinema members, we’ve selected 18 titles that…
I try to capture the absurdity and humour of everyday existence. There’s a melancholy and loneliness to my work, but also a sense of connection and shared experience – Roy Andersson As the anticyclonic gloom gradually…
As the Garden Cinema audience has been especially nice this year, we’re stuffing your stockings with celebratory celluloid treats to get you in the festive mood. We’ve gone through your letters to Santa…
Events for members only, including free bi-weekly screenings for Garden Cinema Members with films chosen for members, by members. Selected films are added regularly, so keep an eye on this page for updates.…
Join us every Saturday & Sunday morning and on weekdays during the school holidays for some of our favourite family classics. For cinema lovers of all ages. On Sundays the films are followed…
Let down your hair and tap your toes to the rhythm of our regular Friday evening revue of musical extravaganzas from around the world, classic concert films, and the best of the West…
