Bar Shorts presents another programme of ground-breaking short films and animations. This evening is curated by Robert Bradbrook, Head of Animation at…
Various Directors, Various Countries, Various Years, 90m.
Teenager Riley's mind headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger,…
Teenager Riley's mind headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger,…
Video Bazaar presents a special anniversary screening of Threads, the harrowing 1984 made-for-TV drama that left audiences across the nation stunned into…
In collaboration with CinemaItaliaUK we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren's 90th birthday, with the screening of…
Uprooted from Los Angeles following her mother's cancer diagnosis, 13-year-old Fen struggles to adjust to life in Taipei. As she navigates her way through school and reconnects with her estranged father, her turbulent bond with her mother worsens. Set during the 2003… Read More
Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015, China, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Our screening on 21 September will be introduced by Victor Fan (KCL). In 8th century China, 10-year-old general's daughter Nie Yinniang is handed over to a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Elisabeth Lalouschek, who writes: 'This was such an influential film and I was hoping to see it again on a big screen.' Deckard (Harrison Ford) is forced by the police Boss (M. Emmet Walsh) to… Read More
With a recorded introduction from director Isao Fujisawa. Until the 2018 discovery of a film negative in a warehouse, Bye Bye Love was long considered lost: a new print gives audiences a rare chance to revisit this radical work from 1974. Following two… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Claire Galineau, who writes: 'I've never seen it in cinema but about 500 times on TV. Elio and Oliver deserve the big screen but in an intimate setting. Any other Peaches amongst us?!?' It's the… Read More
The first (official) screening of Divas Do Film kicks off with Robert Townsend’s musical-drama Carmen: A Hip Hopera, starring 19-year-old Beyoncé in her debut acting role. Based on the 1875 opera Carmen by George Bizet, but more closely resembling - though not in quality… Read More
New digital restoration. Francis Ford Coppola’s first film after The Godfather is a masterpiece of sustained suspense and paranoia, with Gene Hackman as surveillance expert Harry Caul, a recluse living alone in an empty San Francisco apartment who is hired by a mysterious… Read More
Our screening on 9 September will be followed by an in-person q&a with the iconic actor and filmmaker Lee Kang-sheng to mark the launch of the Blu-Ray edition of Days from Second Run DVD. Tickets for this screening will also include a complimentary… Read More
Featuring the voices of Taylor Swift and Zac Efron, 12-year-old Ted lives in Thneedville, where the trees are artificial and the residents buy oxygen by the bottle. Ted is desperate to impress his neighbour, Audrey, so when she reveals her wish to… Read More
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom. In his striking directorial debut,… Read More
Filmed over a decade, “the Fisherman and the Banker” is modern-day David and Goliath documentary that chronicles the struggle of a fishing community in India’s Gulf of Kutch who take on one of the world’s most powerful institutions, The World Bank Group,… Read More
Our first screening on Saturday 28 September will be followed by an online q&a with director Huang Hsin-yao. Provincial friends Pickle and Belly Button idle away their nights in the security booth of a Buddha statue factory, where Pickle works as a… Read More
Our screening on Saturday 17 August will be introduced by Maurizio Marinelli (UCL). A global sensation which made Zhang Yimou a household name in the West, Hero features a galaxy of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese star names (Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie… Read More
Unprecedented and audacious, Hollywoodgate is the riveting result of the year director Ibrahim Nash'at spent with the Taliban in the wake of the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Risking his life in the war-torn nation, Nash'at is on the ground with… Read More
With an introduction from Chris Berry (KCL). After 24 years of absence, director A-Liang Elvis Lu returns home to his family in a rural area of southwestern Taiwan. His elder brother is a psychic that communicates Taoist deities’ career advice to villagers… Read More
All screenings will feature a video introduction from Head of Programme at FIRST International Film Festival, Gu Pengyuan (aka Xiao Gu). Given the huge critical and commercial success of Hero (2002), it is unsurprising that Zhang Yimou continued with wuxia cinema. In their… Read More
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show - a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s… Read More
In Camera follows Aden (Nabhaan Rizwan), a young man who spends most of his time recording self-tapes for parts he never gets. After he receives multiple rejections for a series of nightmarish commercial auditions, he takes it upon himself to find a new… Read More
Teenager Riley's mind headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows… Read More
In this furiously fast-paced action-comedy, Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) is out of jail and on the make with an ingenious plan for the heist of the century. Aided and abetted by top criminal mastermind Mr. Bridger (Noël Coward), Charlie sets off with… Read More
Of the 80,000 native Irish speakers, 6,000 live in the North of Ireland and three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This is the real-life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights… Read More
A keen observer of America’s social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a… Read More
This is a tribute screening to one of the greatest american actors, Gena Rowlands, who sadly passed away in August. The electric filmmaking genius John Cassavetes and his brilliant wife and collaborator Gena Rowlands give luminous, fragile performances as two closely bound,… Read More
This 2005 film version of the classic 1960s children's television series sees the return of beloved animated characters Dougal the dog, Ermintrude the cow, Brian the snail, Dylan the rabbit, and of course, magician-on-a-spring, Zebedee. When Zebedee's evil brother ZeeBad tries to… Read More
Our screening on Thursday 5 September will be introduced by Tony Rayns. A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and… Read More
Our screening on 1 September is the latest in our discussion series, In the Works, hosted by Oscar nominated composer Gary Yershon. Gary's guest is the Academy Award winning sound editor, Nina Hartstone. Aside from Moonage Daydream, Nina's credits include Everest, Saltburn,… Read More
Pablo Navarrete's parents were forced to leave Chile after a military coup on 11 September 1973. They arrived in the UK as political refugees after spending time in the Pinochet dictatorship’s torture centres. They didn’t know it then, but Britain would be… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Jacquie Lee, who writes: 'Nashville is unique and considered one of the finest films from the 70s. The film portrays 24 characters who under Robert Altman’s direction satirise the absurdity of politics and the music industry.… Read More
Our screening on 10 August will be introduced by Tony Rayns and followed by a Zoom Q&A with lead actress Wei Minzhi. Inspired by the works of Abbas Kiarostami (in particular Where is the Friend’s House?) and Vittorio De Sica, Zhang returned… Read More
Dedicated police detective Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong) is assigned the case of a series of horrific murders in a rural Chinese town. As the investigation progresses, pressure from his superiors to find the suspected serial killer mounts, leading to a hasty arrest.… Read More
Rona, fresh out of rehab, returns to the wild Orkney Islands after more than a decade away. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her childhood merge with the more recent challenging events that have set… Read More
Mika Gustafson, 2023, Denmark, Italy, Finland, Sweden
In a working-class area of Sweden, sisters Laura (16), Mira (12) and Steffi (7), get by on their own, left to their own devices by their absent mother. With summer on the way and no parents around, life is wild and carefree,… Read More
This classic Disney comedy stars Hayley Mills in a dual role as teenage girls Susan and Sharon, who look identical, and meet each other at a summer camp. They are shocked to learn that they are twin sisters, who were separated as… Read More
A leading figure of the 1970s German New Wave, Wim Wenders’ films are infused with a love of American music and culture. Whilst shooting Hammett for Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios in the early 1980s, Wenders developed a project with Sam Shepherd, loosely based on the… Read More
Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) are hitmen with a penchant for philosophical discussions. In this ultra-hip, multi-strand crime movie, their storyline is interwoven with those of their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) ; his actress wife,… Read More
This is a tribute screening to one of the greatest European actors, Alain Delon, who sadly passed away in August. Purple Noon was previously requested by our members Narinder Gill and Jules Griffith, who writes: 'Because it’s the original, the decadent immorality, the… Read More
Our screening on 11 September will be followed by an in-person q&a with the iconic actor and filmmaker Lee Kang-sheng. In director Tsai Ming-Liang's shockingly subversive family drama, Hsiao-Kang gets roped into participating in a film shoot, in which he plays a… Read More
Our Screening on 14 August will be introduced by Tony Rayns. Made immediately after the shoot for Not One Less (1999) had wrapped, The Road Home begins with a man’s monochrome-shot return from the city to his childhood village where his father has recently… Read More
Adam works night shifts at a motorway service station and lives a small and lonely life. Upon hearing that his estranged father has died, he finds himself in search of answers. Piecing together a complicated image of a man he never knew,… Read More
With a recorded introduction from director Geng Zihan. Harbin, north-east China: after her mother goes abroad for work, 15-year-old Xian is forced to live with her father, a free-spirited photographer whom she has barely seen since her parents' divorce. He’s in a… Read More
1970s, rural Yorkshire. Richard and Juliette Willoughby’s seemingly idyllic family life is thrown into turmoil when their young son Owen starts acting out of character. A sudden, tragic event brings grief and drives a wedge between the once happy couple. At Starve… Read More
Directed by Carol Reed from an original script by acclaimed novelist Graham Greene, The Third Man won the Grand Prix at Cannes and the BAFTA for Best British film and is beloved by filmmakers the world over from Martin Scorsese to Ben Wheatley.… Read More
Hou Hsiao-hsien explores the ever-repeating pattern of love in this romantic trilogy. The three separate love stories are set in three different times: 1911, 1966 and 2005 - but feature the same two actors in the leading roles. In 'Episode 1 -… Read More
Widely regarded as the greatest martial arts epic of all time, A Touch of Zen won awards worldwide (including at Cannes), smashed box-office records and had an incalculable influence on the genre as a whole. An unambitious painter named Gu (Shih Jun) lives… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Nina Loncar, who writes: 'This was one of my favourite films of my 20s (I am 30) and I would love to be able to watch it in the cinema! The premise is so fun… Read More
This rare cinema screening of a 'Walker' film will be followed by a Zoom q&a with director Tsai Ming-liang. Since 2012, Tsai Ming-liang's 'Walker' series of films has followed the glacial perambulations of a monk (Lee Kang-sheng) around global cities such as… Read More
This film was requested by our members Felicity Taylor and Irina Boicu. Felicity writes: 'A total classic, impeccable casting (obviously Richard E Grant is fabulous but Richard Griffiths as Monty as well as Ralph Brown’s Danny steal every scene they’re in), painfully… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Greg Gordon, who writes: 'This was arguably Glenda Jackson’s finest performance. And a great Ken Russell film. Few members may have seen this on a big screen but it’s unforgettable!' Growing up in the sheltered… Read More
The Garden Cinema presents a rare selection of masterpieces from Fifth Generation filmmaker Zhang Yimou’s early career, many of which have long been unavailable to screen in Europe. The result of four years…
Inspired by your many suggestions on the Members’ Area and passionate campaigning for your favourite films, our Members’ Summer Selection returns once again. We’ve taken into account support and upvotes from the community, as…
Following our popular New Taiwanese Cinema season in Autumn 2023, we are delighted to launch a new strand, supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, to showcase the best of classic and contemporary…
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…
Bar Shorts presents another programme of ground-breaking short films and animations. This evening is curated by Robert Bradbrook, Head of Animation at…
Video Bazaar presents a special anniversary screening of Threads, the harrowing 1984 made-for-TV drama that left audiences across the nation stunned into…
In collaboration with CinemaItaliaUK we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren's 90th birthday, with the screening of…
