Your full January guide to all the films screening this month on the London repertory cinema scene.

#bestfilminlondontoday Jan 5 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Very rare (and 35mm) screening of Richard Linklater’s innovative SLACKER (1990) at BFI 'delightfully different and immensely enjoyable second feature' capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

JonathanRomney’s TV film picks in Observer - Mon: THE LADY EVE (1941) Film4 2.50pm; Wed: LOVE AND PAIN AND THE WHOLE DAMN THING (1973) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 10.10pm; Thu: TÁR (2022) BBCTwo Midnight; Sat: SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Sky Arts 1pm

#bestfilminlondontoday Jan 4 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. 1961 Rivette debut PARIS BELONGS TO US (35mm) in 'Filmmakers from Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague' season at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

One to take note of here … Cahiers du Cinema reporting on the fabulous work being done at ICA Cinema. Get yourself down there … www.instagram.com/p/DTDlohWDEM...

So farewell then, Christmas

#bestfilminlondontoday Jan 3 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. 35mm screening of Martin Scorsese’s sumptuous and very moving THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993) @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Fri Jan 2: The most underrated film in the Powell & Pressburger oeuvre … THE SMALL BACK ROOM (1949) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 1pm

#bestfilminlondontoday Jan 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. 'way above average for the genre' Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin on great form in 35mm screening of MIDNIGHT RUN (1988) @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

New year; new thread #bestfilminlondontoday Jan 1 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. "Arguably, cinema’s greatest ‘accidental masterpiece’, it still amounts to some hill of beans." CASABLANCA (35mm) @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Thu Jan 1: ‘ One of Ophuls's 4 Hollywood films, this masterpiece nearly defines the film melodrama' Extraordinary LETTER FROM AN UNKOWN WOMAN (1948) BBCTwo 8.50am … and of course now on BBCiPlayer

My regular follower will know of my 31st December tradition ... here's my top 10 ‘New Year’ films have watched on New Year’s Eve in recent years …

#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Wed Dec 31: Legendary cinematographer John Alton’s work on creepy noir THE SPIRITUALIST (1948) not to be missed @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 3.25am

… perfect really: @tomhuddleston.bsky.social is also introducing a screening of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY @riocinema.bsky.social tonight 6.45pm ‘Too often dismissed as the bland cutesy cakey-bakey face of modern romcom' Get along for more … !

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 31 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. 'Too often dismissed as the bland cutesy cakey-bakey face of modern romcom' @tomhuddleston.bsky.social on WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (35mm) @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

The @thenickelcinema.bsky.social line-up for January at the thenickel.co.uk. A marvellous selection …

It's so fucking cool In the Mood for Love has played every week at the PCC for two years

An updated entry for: #bestfilminlondontoday Jan 11 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. In 'Godard: Unmade and Abandoned' season at ICA Cinema ... Rivette's THE NUN (1966) + Godard's LA CHINOISE (1967) double-bill www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD5A... capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 30 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. 35mm screening of Arthur Penn's superb neo-noir NIGHT MOVES (1975) @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi... 'A smart-ass entertainment for eager trendies' Love those! #Halliwells

#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Tuesday Dec 30: Read @BradStevens22 … (www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...) at BFI on THE ENTITY (1981) ‘The nightmare to E.T.’s dream of a home-invading paranormal father figure, Sidney J. Furie's radical horror film’ Watch on Film4 1.15am

#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Mon Dec 29: ‘a late Howard Hawks masterpiece ... a very funny, very moving work, graced by the cinema's cleanest, most classical style’ EL DORADO (1967) on Great Action Movies 7.40pm. Capsule review @davekehr.bsky.social

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 29 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. 'one of the most enthralling and exhilarating American movies in ages' @geoff-andrew.bsky.social on MAGNOLIA (1999) in 35mm @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

JonathanRomney’s TV film picks in Observer - Sun: THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (2021) Film4 1.05am; Mon: GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002) Channel4 10.15pm; Tue: THE BATTLE OF THE RAILS (1946) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 9.15am; Thu: LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948) BBCTwo 8.50am

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 28 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. Ehsan Khoshbakht's superb Never on Sunday season at Close Up Cinema ... 16mm presentation of THE DEEP BLUE SEA (1955) 'a profound sadness to the sense of love ebbing away, scene after scene capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 27 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. 'If you don’t like this film, I hate you' John Waters. BOOM! (Losey, 1968) screens in 35mm in Richard Burton season at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday SATURDAY Dec 27: @rewindtv.bsky.social 10pm, CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (1973) 'Like watching a George Romero rip-off, directed by Ed Wood, with a script scribbled by Joe Orton while he was ripped to the tits on poppers’

#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Thu Dec 26: The great Peter Bogdanovich comedy WHAT’S UP, DOC? (1972) 10.40am BBCTwo ... I don’t normally “do trailers” but this is a brilliant one www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hejp...

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 26 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Christopher Nolan's INTERSTELLAR (2014) 'rife with brilliant imagery' on 35mm/70mm @princecharlescinema.com for an extended run. capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

‘For they said it was a shame to quarrel upon Christmas Day. And so it was! God love, so it was!’ Hoping for no discord in all your households. Enjoy a Dickens of a Christmas Day.

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 25 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Billy Wilder's 'searing, funny, morbid look at the real tinsel beneath the phony tinsel' SUNSET BOULEVARD @jw3london.bsky.social Cinema capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Wed Dec 25: best version of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' SCROOGE (1951) w/ Alastair Sim @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 4.30pm. This is my @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Intermission magazine feature on the fascinating background …

#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Wed Dec 24: ‘the best place I know of to start thinking about movies in general’ @davekehr.bsky.social. No1 Sight & Sound mag movie of all-time for 50 years … CITIZEN KANE (1941) 9am BBC2 & on BBC i-Player

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 24 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. 'The film Capra was born to make - the epiphany of movie sentiment & a transcendent experience' @davekehr.bsky.social IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (35mm) at Everyman Screen on the Green capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

Roll up and get your tickets now ... A STAR IS BORN (1954) @princecharlescinema.com Jan 6 princecharlescinema.com/film/2188305...

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 23 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. 'this film’s easily as good as the far better known Get Carter' @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social FIVE-STAR review (www.theguardian.com/film/2020/ma...) for Burton in VILLAIN (35mm) at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 23: ‘Capturing the essence of 1950s literature such as Sam Selvon's 'The Lonely Londoners' and the works of Colin MacInnes’ … one of Scorsese’s BFI hidden British gems … thriller SAPPHIRE (1959) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 10.25pm

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 22 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Dieterle's delirious, ethereal and underrated 1948 drama PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (35mm) at BFI Southbank. Luis Bunuel: "It opened a big window for me." capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Mon Dec 22: my personal highlight of 2025 festive TV … Sky Arts screening the most underrated movie in the Hitchcock filmography ... UNDER CAPRICORN (1949) 4pm (also Tue 11.10am). Capsule review @davekehr.bsky.social

JonathanRomney’s TV film picks in the Observer - Sun: OPPENHEIMER (2023) BBCTwo 9pm; Mon: THE FAVOURITE (2018) Film4 11.05pm; Tue: SEXY BEAST (2000) Film4 11.20pm; Sat: ELVIS (2022) BBCOne 7.45pm

#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sun Dec 21: Sky Arts have some great Christmas movies on again and it’s time to give WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT (1965) at 9.25pm another spin round the track.

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 21 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. You can argue about the happy ending or not? Must see for Christmas - 35mm screenings of Billy Wilder classic THE APARTMENT (1960) @curzon.com Curzon Soho capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

This should be amazing oñ the big screen.

#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sat Dec 20: Not on the telly for over a decade, Nick Cave-scripted savage 2005 western THE PROPOSITION @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 9pm. “the characters so pure of purpose they seem to have stepped out of a murder ballad” Capsule review, J R Jones Chicago Reader

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 20 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. 'The world's favourite war movie' www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/eagl...) "Broadsword calling Danny Boy" Crowd-pleaser WHERE EAGLES DARE (1968) 35mm Eastwood! Burton! at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

The MUBI UK January list is out, including the Safdies’ GOOD TIME; a rare sighting of Wilder’s IRMA LA DOUCE, #LFF hits THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT and TOM AT THE FARM plus Lynne Ramsay’s Mubi release DIE MY LOVE

Reminder that ALL the films selected for my daily film blog capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com from December 19th to January 10th will be screened from celluloid #Viva35mm or even 16mm or 70mm! Seek out cinemas screening film on film!

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 19 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. 'Boorman’s 1977 follow-up to William Friedkin’s shocker is a much more interesting film than the original' ... EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC (35mm) at BFI in Richard Burton season capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

Before venturing out to see Fellini's 8½ at Curzon Mayfair tonight think it's incumbent on me to watch Steptoe & Son venturing to the cinema to see said Italian masterpiece in Series 3 Episode 5, February 1964 ... 'Sunday for Seven Days' www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqFV...

#bestfilminlondontoday Dec 18 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. 'Fellini's last black-and-white picture & conceivably most gorgeous and inventive thing he ever did' J Rosenbaum. Masterpiece 8½ (1963) @curzon.com Curzon Mayfair capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/12/capi...

It's that time of year again. Here are my 10 fave first-time film watches of 2025.