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The Garden Cinema
United Kingdom
Приєднався 21 чер 2019
Opened in March of 2022, The Garden Cinema screens repertory seasons and new releases from around the world.
Being truly independent, we choose films that are worth seeing, films you’d be happy to see more than once. Films of all genres that are true to life, well made, that left us feeling better or wiser for having seen them.
With two screens and a spacious bar area for discussions and events, we’re a destination for everyone interested in film.
Visit our website for more information and to book tickets: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/
Being truly independent, we choose films that are worth seeing, films you’d be happy to see more than once. Films of all genres that are true to life, well made, that left us feeling better or wiser for having seen them.
With two screens and a spacious bar area for discussions and events, we’re a destination for everyone interested in film.
Visit our website for more information and to book tickets: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/
Taiwanese Cinema: Now and Then
Thu 05 Sep - Thu 03 Oct 2024
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 filmmaking from the region. Join us throughout September for a celebration of two legendary director-actor collaborations, a martial arts classic, and some incredible recent debut feature films.
Thu 05 Sep - Thu 03 Oct 2024
More info and to book tickets:
www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/taiwanese-cinema-now-and-then/
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 filmmaking from the region. Join us throughout September for a celebration of two legendary director-actor collaborations, a martial arts classic, and some incredible recent debut feature films.
The iconic actor and filmmaker Lee Kang-sheng will be at the cinema in person for two Q&As exploring his career-long creative partnership with director Tsai Ming-liang. Lee will be discussing their most recent narrative feature Days (2020), as well as their 1997 masterpiece, The River. Additionally, King’s College London will welcome Lee for a free masterclass session examining his unique approach to filmmaking and performance on 10 September. Meanwhile, director Tsai himself will join us via Zoom for a post-screening Q&A for Where, the 2022 entry into his ongoing artist moving image series, ‘The Walker’.
Our spotlight also highlights the great Hou Hsiao-hsien, and his 21st Century collaborations with the luminous actress Shu Qi. The recent restoration of Millennium Mambo (2001) screens alongside the triptych love story Three Times (2005), as well as Hou’s last film, the beautiful wuxia, The Assassin (2015).
King Hu’s masterly A Touch of Zen (1970) represents the classic era of kung-fu cinema within the season. A sweeping epic of stunning mountains and forests, graceful fight choreography, and Buddhist inflections, A Touch of Zen‘s enduring legacy inspires martial arts filmmakers to this day. We approach the present with some of the best work created by Taiwanese directors in recent years. Huang Hsin-yao’s extremely funny satire The Great Buddha+ (2017) is now rightly considered a modern classic, and plays in a double bill with Huang’s ‘prelude’ short film, The Great Buddha (2014). Huang will also discuss the films in an online Q&A following the initial screening on 28 September. This exposé of the cynical exploitation of religion resonates strongly with Elvis Lu’s study of his own family’s reliance on divine guidance and rituals, in his documentary, A Holy Family (2022). Fiona Roan’s moving coming-of-age story American Girl (2021) depicts Taiwan through the eyes of a US teenager returning to her ancestral home, and is juxtaposed with another recent diasporic tale: the Sundance prize-winning Dìdi (2024). Sean Wang’s autobiographic debut recreates his experience as a second generation Asian-American, and received critical acclaim upon its recent release.
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 filmmaking from the region. Join us throughout September for a celebration of two legendary director-actor collaborations, a martial arts classic, and some incredible recent debut feature films.
Thu 05 Sep - Thu 03 Oct 2024
More info and to book tickets:
www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/taiwanese-cinema-now-and-then/
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 filmmaking from the region. Join us throughout September for a celebration of two legendary director-actor collaborations, a martial arts classic, and some incredible recent debut feature films.
The iconic actor and filmmaker Lee Kang-sheng will be at the cinema in person for two Q&As exploring his career-long creative partnership with director Tsai Ming-liang. Lee will be discussing their most recent narrative feature Days (2020), as well as their 1997 masterpiece, The River. Additionally, King’s College London will welcome Lee for a free masterclass session examining his unique approach to filmmaking and performance on 10 September. Meanwhile, director Tsai himself will join us via Zoom for a post-screening Q&A for Where, the 2022 entry into his ongoing artist moving image series, ‘The Walker’.
Our spotlight also highlights the great Hou Hsiao-hsien, and his 21st Century collaborations with the luminous actress Shu Qi. The recent restoration of Millennium Mambo (2001) screens alongside the triptych love story Three Times (2005), as well as Hou’s last film, the beautiful wuxia, The Assassin (2015).
King Hu’s masterly A Touch of Zen (1970) represents the classic era of kung-fu cinema within the season. A sweeping epic of stunning mountains and forests, graceful fight choreography, and Buddhist inflections, A Touch of Zen‘s enduring legacy inspires martial arts filmmakers to this day. We approach the present with some of the best work created by Taiwanese directors in recent years. Huang Hsin-yao’s extremely funny satire The Great Buddha+ (2017) is now rightly considered a modern classic, and plays in a double bill with Huang’s ‘prelude’ short film, The Great Buddha (2014). Huang will also discuss the films in an online Q&A following the initial screening on 28 September. This exposé of the cynical exploitation of religion resonates strongly with Elvis Lu’s study of his own family’s reliance on divine guidance and rituals, in his documentary, A Holy Family (2022). Fiona Roan’s moving coming-of-age story American Girl (2021) depicts Taiwan through the eyes of a US teenager returning to her ancestral home, and is juxtaposed with another recent diasporic tale: the Sundance prize-winning Dìdi (2024). Sean Wang’s autobiographic debut recreates his experience as a second generation Asian-American, and received critical acclaim upon its recent release.
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Shiraz introduced by Anupma Shanker
Переглядів 2912 годин тому
This film was selected for our programme and introduced by Anupma Shanker. Anupma is a British-Indian film curator and archives researcher, with a deep and evolving interest in colonial & post-colonial screen narratives. A silent spectacle featuring an all-Indian cast of thousands, lavish costumes and gorgeous settings, Shiraz: A Romance of India is based on the true story -or a romanticized ve...
The Salt in Our Waters introduced by Momtaz Begum-Hossain | South Asian Heritage Month 2024
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Debut director Rezwan Sumit was awarded the Spike Lee Fellowship to produce this exquisite drama set in the Ganges Delta in Bangladesh. Momtaz Begum-Hossain is an award-winning journalist and podcaster who has reported from festivals including BFI London and Cannes. She has delivered workshops for Film London and hosted Q&As with Film Directors at venues including the BFI Southbank, Rich Mix, P...
Original Copy introduced by Dr Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram | South Asian Heritage Month 2024
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Original Copy is an essential documentary for cinephiles. A ravishing declaration of love to the cinema and its heroes both on and behind the big screen. Dr Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram is a lecturer in World Cinema at Queen Mary University of London. See more films and events happening as part of South Asian Heritage Month at The Garden Cinema: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/south-asian-heri...
Queen of My Dreams introduced by Dr Kulraj Phullar | South Asian Heritage Month 2024
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Queen of My Dreams opened our South Asian Heritage Month season and was introduced by Dr Kulraj Phullar, a London-based Film Studies teacher and researcher. Dr Kulraj Phullar is a London-based Film Studies teacher and researcher. His interests include classic Hollywood cinema, British colonial and diasporic cinemas, and popular Indian cinemas. He currently teaches at MetFilm School and the Nati...
Polite Society Q&A with actress Priya Kansara
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Q&A with lead actor Priya Kansara, hosted by Dr Kulraj Phullar. See more films and events happening as part of South Asian Heritage Month at The Garden Cinema: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/south-asian-heritage-month-2024/ Dr Kulraj Phullar is a London-based Film Studies teacher and researcher. His interests include classic Hollywood cinema, British colonial and diasporic cinemas, and popula...
Jennifer Lim, Hester Yang, and Cici Peng on The Farewell
Переглядів 42Місяць тому
Jennifer Lim is an actor, theatre and filmmaker who also writes, directs and produces. Her acting work encompasses film, theatre, television, radio and audio work. Hester Yang, a London-based Chinese filmmaker and film programmer, focuses on alternative documentary storytelling. Cici Peng is a film journalist and film programmer based in London. She has written for British GQ, LWLies, Dazed & C...
Members' Summer Selection Trailer
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Inspired by your suggestions on The Garden Cinema 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 well as particularly persuasive rationales, and can now reveal our class of 2024. For more info and to book tickets: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/members-sum...
Appropriate Behaviour Q&A with Desiree Akhavan | Women Aren't Funny Season
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In partnership with TAPE Collective, a Q&A with filmmaker Desiree Akhavan about the making of Appropriate Behaviour, hosted by Isra Al Kassi, as part of The Garden Cinema's Women Aren't Funny Season. Find out more about the season and book tickets: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/women-arent-funny/ Check out the TAPE Collective at tapecollective.co.uk
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Q&A with production designer Tim Yip
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In the Works is our regular series of screenings and informal conversations with guests from all areas of the industry, hosted by Oscar nominated composer Gary Yershon. Gary's guest is the artist and academy award winning costume and production designer Tim Yip. Tim has worked with the likes of John Woo, Tsui Hark, Tsai Ming liang, and of course Ang Lee. For Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, he w...
Omar Rios Performance before La hija de todas las rabias
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Before our screening of La hija de todas las rabias (Daughter of Rage) our audience enjoyed a guitar set by Nicaraguan musician Omar Rios. Part of our New Central American season at The Garden Cinema. See our upcoming seasons: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/#by-season Camera: Maar Dinu
Caramel discussion with Abla Kandalaft and Laila Alj
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Caramel (Nadine Labaki, 2007) is a Middle Eastern romcom that challenges binding cultural traditions whilst celebrating female friendship. Showing at The Garden Cinema as part of our Women Aren't Funny season: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/women-arent-funny/ Our very own Abla Kandalaft is joined by Laila Alj, an actor and theatre producer, to discuss and contextualise the film. In their post...
Buitumelo Kotekwa introduces The Watermelon Woman and reads Zoe Leonard's poem 'I Want A President'
Переглядів 54Місяць тому
Buitumelo Kotekwa is an artist, poet, and lesbian africanfuturist and their practice across mediums focuses on the unravelling and reconstruction of worlds centring the global majority and the echoes of Black peoples through time. They're a part of black fly, a sexual health zine and art collective. Currently they're working on their debut poetry collection. Buitumelo reads Zoe Leonard's 'I Wan...
Birgit Bebe Dierken, Nanu Segal and Evelin van Rei on Cinematography | Garden Cinema Industry Panel
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Our latest industry panel discusses all things cinematography. Three different cinematographers offer three different perspectives on the industry as well as their top tips on how to prepare, lenses and apps, collaboration, and styles of shooting. Dutch autistic cinematographer & artist Evelin van Rei NSC received the Angénieux Special Encouragement Award at Cannes Film Festival in 2022, which ...
The Heartbreak Kid Q&A with Dr Devorah Baum and Journalist Darren Richman
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The Heartbreak Kid is Elaine May's second film as a director, a melancholic tale that turns the rom-com genre on its head. Our guests Darren Richman and Devorah Baum, and a Garden Cinema audience, break down the themes and psychology of its characters in this post-film discussion. Explore the Women Aren't Funny season and book tickets: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/women-arent-funny/ Devorah...
South Asian Heritage Month 2024: Free To Be Me
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South Asian Heritage Month 2024: Free To Be Me
The Passionate Stranger Q&A with Prof Melanie Williams and Dr Lawrence Napper
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The Passionate Stranger Q&A with Prof Melanie Williams and Dr Lawrence Napper
Dance, Girl, Dance discussion with Melanie Iredale, Caroline Cassin, and Mary O'Connell
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Dance, Girl, Dance discussion with Melanie Iredale, Caroline Cassin, and Mary O'Connell
Gravity Q&A with sound production mixer Chris Munro
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Gravity Q&A with sound production mixer Chris Munro
Slow Q&A with director Marija Kavtaradze
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Slow Q&A with director Marija Kavtaradze
Our Mothers Q&A with director with César Díaz
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Our Mothers Q&A with director with César Díaz
Mapantsula Q&A with director Oliver Schmitz
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Mapantsula Q&A with director Oliver Schmitz
The Teachers' Lounge Q&A with actress Leonie Benesch
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The Teachers' Lounge Q&A with actress Leonie Benesch
Opponent Q&A with director Milad Alami
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Opponent Q&A with director Milad Alami
Io Capitano discussion with Naomi Frerotte (SOS Mediterranee) and Frey Lindsay.
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Io Capitano discussion with Naomi Frerotte (SOS Mediterranee) and Frey Lindsay.
Joanna Johnston and Charlotte Finlay on Costume in Film | Garden Cinema Industry Panel
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Joanna Johnston and Charlotte Finlay on Costume in Film | Garden Cinema Industry Panel
Penda's Fen discussion with Gareth Evans, James Machin and William Fowler
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Penda's Fen discussion with Gareth Evans, James Machin and William Fowler
to sort things out
strife, btw what your bastard need
Feel sorry for the student who mentioned naturalism. Zola would be turning right now. Mike Leigh really knows his beans. Great interview. The host is so gracious and lovely. Anyone wanting another interview with Mike Leigh - the Jarvis Cocker one is excellent also.
Arguably the finest drama ever to be broadcast on British television. Exploring themes of sexuality, nationalism, cold war paranoia, landscape, climate, art, mysticism, Paganism and radical interpretations of Christianity, Penda's Fen is the kind of avant-garde film-making that will likely never be seen on British television again. Endlessly rewatchable and eternally complex, it remains an all to rare testament to the transformative potential of visual media.
Rich criticism of 'professional actors' whose abilty to inhabit the roles which are th least endearing ? 😊
Amazing interview with Desiree, Cant wait to see her new work :} I loved seeing an insight into her work and writing
I watched the trailer, that's some orwellian level of propaganda
Congratulations Sir 🎉 Can't imagine the edit efforts
Hopelessly misses the central point. Who would know there was anything visionary or mystical about Penda's Fen from listening to this political irrelevancy. Awful.
He just created a MASTERPIECE and he seems so DOWN TO EARTH ! he inspires me so much in my film making career! ❤
My Summer Of Love, obviously 😊
Career Girls is one of his best! ”Ricky” (Mark Benton) is one of my all time favorite roles.
Great discussion! Desperate to see this film now!
What name film movie?
For some reason I'm distracted by the fact that if Leonie, in that outfit, veered into view on a laptop camera she would be easily recognisable.
An absolute master!
Delcious Snack? 😂😂
yeasss!
This is one of my favorite films by Mike. It’s severely underrated.
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Just joined on the recommendation of a fellow film nerd and looking forward to my first film tomorrow!
he'd make a great James Bond...Viva Ken Loach one of a very few directors who re-presents the working class with their dignity and humanity without patronizing them with 'comic bits' or reducing them to isolated psychological phenomena. Taking them from the margins to the centre. What Shakespeare is to King n Queens Loach is to those that do the work and produce the wealth.
What an amazing movie!
Is there anywhere this can be watched?
On UA-cam at the time of posting this comment (while using a VPN set to the USA)
@@truecrimeboozer actually truecrimeboozer- I’d never do anything like that 😉 but I tip my hat to your good taste and kind suggestion! Oh my England!
It is a tricky one to find , being shown. All of the play for today’s , I’d like to know. . Our monthly licences bought them. Where are they all? We have to pay again ? That seems unfair .
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Very little that shows where t o watch . I have tried . So far failed . Where it’s meant to be available it isn’t . I shall persist . Which brought me here .
Brilliant interview, really enjoyed it
Besotted by this film❤
Thank you, that was so interesting!
#TheGardenCinema a movie by Mike Leigh is always a spark in the dark. A reminiscence of our vulnerable humanity in the darkness and the wilderness
The first Mike Leigh film I really got into. So incredibly real and the most brilliant character acting & dialogue. When I was at school me and my best mate knew virtually the whole script, seen it that many times 😂
Andrew Haigh is a tremendously intelligent man. I've seen 4 of his films. I've loved them all. Each one is special, one of a kind, a unique vision of the human condition which can never be set apart from pain and loss and love. Thank you Mr. Haigh without your films life would be even more lonely.
My colleague and I are doing a presentation at Bewdley Festival in October entitled 'Mired in Penda's Fen' ... please contact us if you can beforehand ... we were only 12 when we first saw it. You are our hero!
A great writer. I watched the first broadcast of PENDA'S FEN, when I was a student. Once seen, never forgotten
27:45. Beautiful
Did anyone else have a negative reaction to the ending? I loved the movie up til the last 5 minutes, which made it seem like it had all happened in the main character's head, "Mulholland Dr." style. That would mean not only did the parents not really exist as souls, but the really beautiful relationship that he built with his man didn't actually happen at all. I would prefer to think that they were all ghosts in purgatory, where those relationships would've at least have been real. Would love to be persuaded that I'm wrong, misunderstood the ending, something smart in response...Thanks!
Spoilers ahead obviously. I think the answer you're looking for was given by the mother in one of the scenes of the movie, when Adam asks if all he's experiencing is real. His mother asks if it feels real, Adam responds with yes, and she says "well there you go then". Yes, the conversations with his parents are just in his head, and so are all of the interactions with Harry after the initial rejection at Adam's door. But the important part is that to Adam, those *are* real. Do you know those moments when you wake up after a really intense dream, and feel shaken to the core? What happens in your head *is* really important, and has a real impact on you. In the movie, he's likely experiencing all of this in the context of a script he's writing (he is a screenwriter after all). He's writing the script of how if it was possible he would want these things to go, because it's what he feels he needs to resolve this knot in his chest. After the diner, where there's catharsis and his parents say goodbye for real, Adam is ready to make decisions, to open up and to move forward with life. This is why he goes to Harry's apartment. He probably knows that what he had with Harry before was also just in his head, but he's ready to let Harry in this time. Unfortunately in this case it ended up in another trauma, and he has to go into his head to process it again. The moment he has with Harry then are how he deals with the grief of losing this idea of loving someone he only met once. But now he's able to deal with it. Harry's fears mirror his own, but Adam is OK with confronting them, and knows it will be OK. He's learned how to move forward. The actual screenplay for the movie ends with these lines, which I think capture the essence of the ending well: As the song builds, Adam holds Harry tighter, comforted at last, cared for at last, no longer strangers. Harry’s breathing slows. “Love is the light, scaring darkness away”. As the music soars, we pull away from them. It seems like they are almost dancing, swaying together, for how long we won’t ever know. Further and further we come. Out of the room. Spiralling. Into the night. Adam and Harry fall away as we rise into the stars. Finally, as the music crescendos, Adam and Harry are no more than a glint in the dark sky. A guide not a warning. “Make love your goal”.
*PURE AND LATENT LONELINESS!!!* - It's this gay being from the 80s, loaded with all forms of prejudice in the family, at school, etc., that permeated the time. This revisiting "his parents" was the catharsis that the character found (writing the script) to say who he became. Sad and lonely for years, without even being able to have a relationship with another man. Setback, the personification of Love appears in front of him, and wrapped in fears, traumas, and without realizing the speed of time, he gradually allows himself to be enchanted by the possibility of loving and letting himself be loved, of filling the void that the Human Being has as his greatest tragedy! But temporal cruelty, in the most vile and real way, because Death is the "game over", only glimpses the pleasure of having someone as the Central Character... The end, in the Darkness of Time, in a plane that opens up , we have maintained there in infinity, the multiplicity of finiteness, the plurality of All of us! It's to cry, yes..... 😥😥😥😥
And, YOU are one handsome man.
8:50 Everything was perfect, my god 😭
One of my Faves of Mike's Films.
Ola Alfares releases scandal sex video with royal family members of Qatar and dubai exchanging sexual favors for money.
Women make shit directors, and how in hell they thought to give this book to her is one of the biggest fuck ups you could devise.
Sri M to transmits knowledge to those who understand & shared wisdom to humanity om namah shivaya
Sri M to transmits knowledge who understands & imparts wisdom hari om
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Wonderful interview! Many thanks!
This is probably the best movie I've seen. It is amazing! I love everything, but most especially how it's written. Such a brilliant mind to create this movie. Brought me into a world of different emotions.
My name is Jonathan Trauner. I will be 30 this May 15th 2024 in Jerusalem. I work at Mobileye in Jerusalem. I have Autism. I am a poet artist and performing artist and I love Gal Gadot and Taylor Swift. On June 18th 2023, I got hit by a huge tour bus and I only broke my left collarbone and did not die. I finished recovering end of August 2023 and my bone returned back to normal and to a completely unbroken unified state beginning of December 2023. My greatest dream come true is to become the first openly autistic poet performing artist and artist with Autism to win my Emmy Grammy Oscar and Tony film and acting awards in Los Angeles California in 2025, or in 2028 at the 100th Academy Awards. #NEVERGIVEUP
Really enjoyed this interview, both A Haigh and the interviewer. I feel like I learnt not just about the film but about filmmaking and cinema at large