Casting directors Rebecca Wright (Chuck Chuck Baby, Call the Midwife) and Lucy Jordan (The Lesson, Poor Things) discuss their careers and approaches to casting.
Rebecca Wright CDG CSA has worked in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. Starting out as an Assistant Director in TV and Film, she moved into the wonderful world of casting in 1998. After gaining invaluable experience working alongside some of the most esteemed Casting Directors in the UK, she set up her own company, Rebecca Wright Casting, in 2011. She casts for TV and Film, and has cast many TV dramas including Call The Midwife, Sanditon, Britannia, Rillington Place and Thirteen. More recently she has cast independent feature films Chuck Chuck Baby and Madfabulous.
https://www.rebeccawrightcasting.com / @beccawrightcdg
Lucy Jordan is a casting director with over a decade in the industry. She has frequently collaborated with director Yorgos Lanthimos, including on the Academy Award-winning The Favourite and critically acclaimed Poor Things, as well as on Lanthimos’ newest feature Kinds of Kindness. Lucy was casting director for Alice Troughton’s The Lesson, and most recently on Meta’s first ever scripted VR series The Villa, for Eli Roth’s Crypt TV. In 2023 Lucy partnered up with fellow casting director Shenae Rae to form Jordan & Rae Casting, working in TV and film with some of the UK’s top production companies.
Industry panels followed by networking in our bar is one of the benefits of Garden Cinema membership. Find out more: https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/membership/
Recorded on 2nd October at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
Watch the trailer for Trailblazers, a season that continues to celebrate the work of women filmmakers in the US in the 1970s and 80s.
Lee Kang-sheng joins us for a Q&A as part of our season, Taiwanese Cinema: Now and Then.
Moderated by Tony Rayns, with translation by Millie Zhou. Presented in partnership with Queer East.
Recorded on 11th September 2024 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
Naqqash Khalid’s debut feature In Camera is an audacious hybrid of satire, mystery, and science fiction that defies easy categorisation. Our Q&A with Naqqash Khalid and the film’s lead actor Nabhaan Rizwan is hosted by screenwriter Fatima Serghini.
This Q&A is also available to listen to as a podcast:
Recorded on 19th September 2024 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
Lee Kang-sheng joins Victor Fan and the Screen 1 audience for a Q&A after a screening of Days, as part of Taiwanese Cinema: Now and Then at The Garden Cinema.
Among the most cathartic entries in Tsai’s filmography, Days is a work of longing, constructed with the director’s customary visual rigour and shot through with profound empathy.
Recorded on 9th September 2024 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
Throughout 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 we believe encapsulate Pacino’s intensity, range, and charisma.
See the full list and book tickets: https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/celebrating-al-pacino/
The screenings unfold broadly chronologically, commencing with the 1970s classics that showcase Pacino’s method acting style, and that played a crucial role in revitalising a flagging American film industry. The latter half of the season follows Pacino’s late 1980s hiatus from cinema. This mid-career work sees a mature Pacino exploring facets of powerful masculinity across a moral spectrum. Featuring enduring favourites, some lesser screened titles, and a few purely enjoyable treats, this is a cinematic offer that you would be wise not to refuse.
The Garden Cinema’s Zhang Yimou Retrospective ran through Summer 2024 and screened a rare selection of masterpieces from his early career. Audiences also got to watch this personal message that Zhang Yimou made exclusively for The Garden Cinema.
Find out more about the season: https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/zhang-yimou-a-retrospective/
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of The Third Man (1949), Natalie Lurie performs pieces from her favourite films from the 1940s-60s for our audience in Screen 1 at The Garden Cinema.
00:00 // Intro
00:20 // La Vie en Rose
03:35 // Moon River
06:00 // Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 (Harpo Marx version)
10:22// The Third Man Theme
Natalie Lurie is a classically-trained harpist, composer, arranger and session harpist based in London, UK, and most had a song featured on the season finale of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie.
https://www.natalielurie.com / @harpbreaker
Recorded on 8th September 2023 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ