Merchant Ivory is the first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of…
Merchant Ivory is the first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of…
Merchant Ivory is the first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of…
Merchant Ivory is the first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of…
Merchant Ivory is the first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of…
A thematic counterpart to acclaimed writer-director Shao Yihui's 2021 hit B for Busy, Her Story continues her thought-provoking style, offering a fresh…
A thematic counterpart to acclaimed writer-director Shao Yihui's 2021 hit B for Busy, Her Story continues her thought-provoking style, offering a fresh…
A thematic counterpart to acclaimed writer-director Shao Yihui's 2021 hit B for Busy, Her Story continues her thought-provoking style, offering a fresh…
A thematic counterpart to acclaimed writer-director Shao Yihui's 2021 hit B for Busy, Her Story continues her thought-provoking style, offering a fresh…
Caramel is a Middle Eastern rom-com that challenges binding cultural traditions whilst celebrating female friendship. In Beirut, five women meet up at…
Caramel is a Middle Eastern rom-com that challenges binding cultural traditions whilst celebrating female friendship. In Beirut, five women meet up at…
The screening on 7 February will be introduced by UAL Stanley Kubrick Archivist Georgina Orgill. Stanley Kubrick's controversial film triggered copycat violence…
Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Jemima Puddle-duck, Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland – indeed all the delightful and famous Beatrix Potter characters…
Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Jemima Puddle-duck, Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland – indeed all the delightful and famous Beatrix Potter characters…
The screening on 7 February will be introduced by UAL Stanley Kubrick Archivist Georgina Orgill. Stanley Kubrick's controversial film triggered copycat violence…
Our screening on 16 January will be introduced by writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell, and will be followed by a post-film discussion in the cinema bar. Based on Ronald Blythe’s much-loved oral history book, Akenfield traces three generations of one Suffolk family and… 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
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
Our screening on 20 February will be introduced by novelist and publisher Nicholas Royle, and will be followed by a post-film discussion in the cinema bar. Bad Timing bookended a decade of extraordinary creativity for Nicolas Roeg that includes Performance, Walkabout, Don’t Look… 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
Please note, screenings of The Bibi Files will be preceded by Solly & Salim, a short film written, directed, and produced by Garden Cinema owner Michael Chambers. The film is 29 minutes long, and will replace our usual 10 minute trailer package. The… Read More
Caramel is a Middle Eastern rom-com that challenges binding cultural traditions whilst celebrating female friendship. In Beirut, five women meet up at a beauty salon, a highly colourful and sensual microcosm. Layale loves Rabih, but he is married man. Nisrine is a Muslim… Read More
The screening on 7 February will be introduced by UAL Stanley Kubrick Archivist Georgina Orgill. Stanley Kubrick's controversial film triggered copycat violence on its initial release and as a result the director withdrew the film from circulation in Britain, keeping it suppressed right… Read More
Jessica Hausner, 2024, Austria, UK, Germany, France, Denmark
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.' Her impressionable teenage students each have their own reasons for joining the class - to improve fitness,… 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
Our screening on 9 January is introduced by BFI artist's moving image Curator William Fowler and followed by a post-film discussion group in the cinema bar. In seventeenth century France, Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), uses his powers to protect the city… Read More
Radu Jude, 2023, Romania, Croatia, France, Luxembourg
From Golden Bear winner Radu Jude, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World takes a fierce and darkly comic swipe at modern day life. Overworked and underpaid production assistant Angela (Ilinca Manolache) is assigned to film a workplace safety… Read More
Don't Look Now screens in our British Cinema, 1971-1980 season as it was originally exhibited in 1973, as part of a double bill with The Wicker Man. With an introduction from Iain Smith (KCL). Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerise as a British… Read More
Cinema Mentiré present a selection of shorts from the BOMBA Animada Collective in Bolivia. The shorts are in Spanish with English subtitles. A collection of shorts by BOMBA Animada, a Bolivian animation studio showcasing female animators’ work. Created in 2023 to make… 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
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. When the residents are informed of a development plan to erect a glamping… 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
A thematic counterpart to acclaimed writer-director Shao Yihui's 2021 hit B for Busy, Her Story continues her thought-provoking style, offering a fresh lens on modern womanhood through the intertwined lives of three characters: two adult women and a precocious schoolgirl. Single mother Wang… 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
A local blockbuster, Thailand's Oscar submission set attendance records across Southeast Asia and claimed the audience award at New York’s Asian Film Festival. ‘M’, driven by the desire for a multimillion-dollar inheritance, puts aside his dreams as a gamer to care for… 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
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
Our screening on 13 February is introduced by BFI artist's moving image Curator William Fowler, and will be followed by a post-film discussion group in the cinema bar. When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the… Read More
Set in the 1980s, in the former Etruscian landscape of rural Italy, the film follows a vagabond-type character called Arthur (Josh O’Connor); an Englishman who embodies the spirit of the Romantics, he is searching for something he can’t quite grasp. As an… Read More
Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, The Land Before Time, follows an orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot. After a devastating earthquake Littlefoot teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in The Great Valley. The screening… Read More
One of the John Boorman's least known and rarely screened works - and yet the title that secured him the Best Director Prize at Cannes in 1970 - Leo the Last is a cult film in waiting, a genuinely radical, anti-authoritarian counter-cultural satire… Read More
Merchant Ivory is the first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and their primary associates, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins. Footage from more… 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
Nickel Boys is based on the historic reform school in 1960s Florida called the Dozier School for Boys, which was notorious for abusive treatment of students. It explores the story of Elwood Curtis, a young African-American boy who is sent to the Nickel… Read More
This screening will be introduced by John Wischmeyer (City Lit). Nothing and nobody is spared from Lindsay Anderson and writer David Sherwin’s caustic gaze in their inexhaustibly inventive and sometimes horrifying satire, the second in their ‘state of the nation’ trilogy. Sparked… Read More
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 sisterhood. Driving home from a party one night, Shula seems unfazed by the sight of her uncle's… 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
This screening will be introduced by interdisciplinary artist, writer, and academic Evie Salmon, and is followed by a post-film discussion group in the cinema bar. Screening 50 years after its pioneering first broadcast as part of BBC TV's hugely influential stand-alone drama… 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 30 January will be introduced by writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell, and will be followed by a post-film discussion in the cinema bar. Directed by John Mackenzie (The Long Good Friday), this acclaimed and long-unseen BBC TV Play… 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
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
Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Jemima Puddle-duck, Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland – indeed all the delightful and famous Beatrix Potter characters – come to life in this colourful and imaginative musical interpretation of her tales, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, composted and… 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
As part of the landmark season at the Garden Cinema, Visions in Ruins: British Cinema 1970-1980, Video Bazaar is proud to present Jerzy Skolimowski’s legendary and mystifying piece of Folkloric esoterica, The Shout, starring John Hurt and Alan Bates. This screening will… Read More
Viridiana (Silvia Pinal) is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit to her aging uncle, Don Jaime (Fernando Rey). He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridinia resembles… Read More
An iconic film that seamlessly blends romance, comedy, and political themes of Black queer oppression. The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye gave cinema something bracingly new and groundbreaking: a vibrant representation of Black lesbian identity by a Black lesbian filmmaker.… Read More
The Wicker Man screens in our British Cinema, 1971-1980 season as it was originally exhibited in 1973, as part of a double bill with Don't Look Now. With an introduction from filmmaker and actor Tim Plester. They do things differently on Summerisle.… Read More
From the co-director of How to Train Your Dragon comes an incredible journey of survival, love and selflessness, featuring gorgeous animation and stunning voice performances Sentient robot Roz is marooned on an island and must learn from its animal inhabitants how to survive.… 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
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…
A shadow electoral college; a voting process shrouded in secrecy and subject to clandestine and Machiavellian bargains. That’s right – we can now reveal the results of our annual staff picks poll, with…
This season examines bold, often strange, and deeply personal filmmaking from 1970 onwards, set against a backdrop of a collapsing British film industry. These stylistically innovative, and sometimes challenging and transgressive films reflect…
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…
The Chinese Cinema Project is an exhibition initiative presented by The Garden Cinema. It showcases works from emerging and under-represented Chinese filmmakers via regular screenings, exploring auteurship and cinematic beauty in its various…
