leytonstone pop-up cinema

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following screening:

Biutiful (15)
Dir: Alejandro González Iñárritu. (2010) Mexico, Spain; 141 min.

Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominated film at this year’s Oscars and Golden Globe winner, this is a true masterpiece from the director that also brought you ‘Amores Perros’, ‘Babel’ and ’21 Grams’, and with a stelar performance from Javier Bardem in a role that also earned him a Best Actor Oscar Award nomination and the Cannes Palme D’Or award on the same category.

“Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.” (Imdb.com)

Screening on 7th December 2011, Wednesday
Starting time 7:45pm at Leytonstone Library
Church Lane, E11 1HG, London. See map
Entrance £5 (£4 all concessions)
* Check disabled access options availabe here.

You can watch a clip of the film here.

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following screening:

I’m a Cyborg, But That’s Ok (15)
Dir: Chan-wook Park. (2006) South Korea; 105 min.

Another great film from the Korean master Chan-wook Park, director of cult classics like “Old Boy” and “Lady Vengeance“.

“A girl who thinks she is a combat cyborg checks into a mental hospital, where she encounters other psychotics. Eventually, she falls for a man who thinks he can steal people’s souls.” - imdb.com

“This film is an alternative romantic comedy about the love between two psychiatric patients in a mental hospital. [...] It does not strive to have perfect characters with the perfect life. It is down to earth and realistic. Viewing the world through a psychotic lens is definitely interesting.“ – by ‘Gordon-11′ (imdb.com)

Screening on 2nd November 2011, Wednesday
Starting time 7:45pm at Leytonstone Library
Church Lane, E11 1HG, London. See map
Entrance £5 (£4 all concessions)
* Check disabled access options availabe here.

You can watch a clip of the film here.

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following screening:

We Are East
Dir: Various Artists; 100 min.

Dekko Productions presents ‘We Are East’. A screening of independent short films and video, showcasing quirky documentaries, great drama and some tantalisingly experimental films with an East London flavour.

Programme includes:

• Lisa Muten, ‘EAST‘
• John Smith, ‘BLIGHT‘
• Monro and Menon, ‘NO WAY THROUGH‘
• Bamforth & Nadeem – Dekko Productions, ‘A13:ROAD MOVIE‘
• Gareth Polmeer, ‘MID-TERRACE‘
• James Norton, ‘BORDERLANDS‘
• Lucia Ashmore, ‘ERIC’S SECRETS‘
• Rayna Nadeem, ‘DEADLIFE‘

Running time: 1:40h approx.

Screening on 5th October 2011, Wednesday
Starting time 7.45pm at Leytonstone Library
Entrance £5 (£4 concessions)
* Check disabled access options availabe here.

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following screening:

The Time That Remains (15)
Dir: Elia Suleiman. (2009) UK, Italy, France, Belgium; 105 min.

“The Time That Remains is a semi-autobiographical film, in four episodes, about a family, my family, from 1948 until recent times. The film is inspired by my father’s private diaries, starting from when he was a resistance fighter in 1948, and by my mother’s letters to family members who were forced to leave the country. Combined with my intimate memories of them and with them, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained and were labelled “Israeli-Arabs”, living as a minority in their own homeland.” – Elia Suleiman.

Screening on 7th September 2011, Wednesday
Starting time 7.45pm at Leytonstone Library
Entrance £5 (£4 concessions)
* Check disabled access options availabe here.

You can watch a clip of the film here.

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema is proud to present the following programme of Summer screenings as part of the Leytonstone Festival 2011:

Another Year (12)
Dir: Mike Leigh. UK, 2010; 129 min.

‘Another Year’ is a 2010 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Lesley Manville, Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen.

Mike Leigh brings his usual sure touch to a story that juxtaposes warmth and laughter with a chilly solitude. One of Mike Leigh’s greatest subjects has always been family — the ties that bind, the ones that can strangle. But what of life’s loose ends, the unwed and unloved?

Pitting the cosy, deep-rooted contentment of a long-married pair against the loneliness of an over-the-hill single friend, Another Year is a film of cruel and poignant contrasts, juxtaposing its warmth and laughter with the chill wind of disappointed solitude.

Another point of interest of this film for our local community is that it was largely filmed in the vicinity of Wanstead, which we hope some of our audience may identify throughout the course of the film.

Screening on 20th July 2011, Wednesday
Starting time 7.45pm at Leytonstone Library
Entrance £5 (£4 concessions)
* Check disabled access options availabe here.

You can watch a clip of the film here.

Also, this year we have the additional programme:

‘Offbeat London’ double-bill screenings are on 21st July 2011, Thursday
Time: 7.30 – 10.00 pm
Venue: The Luna Lounge, 7 Church Lane, Leytonstone. E11 (next to the Leytonstone Library)
Entrance £4 (concessions £3).
* This venue does not have disabled access available. For more information please contact the venue here.

Both events are part of Leytonstone Festival 2011.

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema Presents:

Annie Hall (15)
Dir: Woody Allen. US, 1977; 93 min.

A wonderful, semi-autobiographical take on modern-day relationships, the price of fame and why New York will always be better than Los Angeles.

Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) is a neurotic comedian, attempting to maintain a relationship with the seemingly ditzy but exuberant Annie (Diane Keaton). The film chronicles their relationship over several years, intercut with various imaginary trips into each other’s history.

After many arguments and reconciliations, the two realize they are fundamentally different and split up. Annie moves in with Tony Lacey (Paul Simon). Annie likes California, but Alvy hates it. Alvy soon realizes he still loves her and tries to persuade her to return with him to New York. He fails and, resignedly, returns home to write a play about their relationship, recycling the conversation they had exchanged in California, but ending with him winning Annie back.

Love stories are rarely this honest, amusing, uplifting/depressing and easy to identify with. It’s a testament to Woody Allen’s skills as a writer, director and actor that Annie Hall is such a witty and penetrating film on the topics which are close to Allen’s heart (romance, New York and death). Diane Keaton is equally convincing as a mixed-up young lady, making the transition to success and stability convincingly. Technically there are some great moments which seamlessly integrate with the movie, such as when the adult Alvy and Annie move, like ghosts, through their past. Occasionally Alvy speaks directly to the camera, mostly to poke fun at his situation by taking a step away from it.

Annie Hall is not a pure comedy, which works to its advantage, but a human drama with plenty of comical moments and a wealth of real emotion. Fragile, beautiful and painfully funny.

Screening on 1st June 2011, Wednesday
Starting time 7.45pm at Leytonstone Library
Entrance £5 (£4 concessions)

* Entrance fee includes a free drink at the Star of India after the show

You can watch a clip of the film here.

Leytonstone Pop-Up Cinema Presents:

Ramchand Pakistani (15)
Dir: Mehreen Jabbar. Pakistan, 2008; 104 min.

He crossed a line and three lives changed forever.

“Based on a actual events, the story is about a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India from their village in Pakistan at a time of extreme war like tension between the 2 countries and end up spending 5 years in an Indian prison while the mother left behind wonders what has happened to them.” (Mehreen Jabbar.)

Screening on 4th May 2011, Wednesday
Starting time 7.45pm at Leytonstone Library
Entrance £5 (£4 concessions)

* Entrance fee includes a free drink at the Star of India after the show

You can watch a clip of the film here.