Due to the sudden & unexpected closure of The Star we are currently on (*another*) hiatus. Hopefully back with some good news soon... Wayne & Nigel

Next up: Robert Benton tribute screening of Nobody's Fool Tuesday 1 July @ The Star 8.00pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Tonight: Refugee Week screening of… Life is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza (Mohamed Jabaly, Norway/Palestine/Qatar, 2023) 8pm @ The Star www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Looking forward to Life Is Beautiful tonight @tpfilmclub.bsky.social These were the last two I saw there, and I’m probably risking a lifetime ban by saying I preferred Mustang, but I must speak my truth. Released in 2015, directed by Deniz Gamze Erguven, shot in the Black Sea port Inebolu.

Next up! Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda , Japan, 2015) Tues 10 June @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Next up: James Foley tribute screening of Glengarry Glen Ross Tues 3 June @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Very belated mention of this, shown @tpfilmclub.bsky.social a few weeks ago. Dennis Hopper’s first starring role, from 1960, directed by Curtis Harrington, and rescued from obscurity by Nicholas Winding Rhen. Shot in Venice Beach, it was marketed as a horror film, but it really isn’t #NightTide

Next up: Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, France/Germany/Turkey, 2015) Tues 27 May @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

With the protagonist staggering from one unsettling, sometimes bizarre, scene to the next, drawn into the violent extremes of Aussie 'mateship'. The highlight is Donald Pleasence's astonishing performance as a Ballardian renegade doctor, a channel for deviant energies... 2/2

Saw Wake In Fright (finally!) last night @tpfilmclub.bsky.social. A hellish account of one man's descent into lager-fuelled depravity in the outback, it's recently acquired a near legendary rep as a precursor of the Australian new wave. For all that, it's quite a strange film... 1/2

Next up: Ted Kotcheff tribute screening of his 1971 masterpiece, Wake in Fright. Tues 20 May @ The Star, 8pm. www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Next up! Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, USA, 1951) Tuesday 13 May @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Val Kilmer is undoubtedly impressive as the Lizard King, but Stone's idea of the hero's journey is to depict Morrison as a holy idiot, who basically goes on to become a total idiot. Still, great music, even if The Doors remain peculiarly maligned in the rock canon... 2/2

Saw Oliver Stone's, err, biopic of The Doors last night @tpfilmclub.bsky.social, first time since I originally saw it in 1991. There's some fantastic scenes ie. the recreations of the shows, and some fantastically ludicrous scenes ie. much of the rest of it. Oh, and not much plot 1/2

Have a look at the rest of our May highlights www.repcinema.com/so/a4PQ8SG62...

This month our featured venue is the @tpfilmclub.bsky.social - read all about them here and pay them a visit! www.repcinema.com/post/repcine...

Next up: Val Kilmer tribute screening of The Doors (Oliver Stone, USA, 1991) Tues 6 May @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Next up! Following on from Pool of London and the winner of the Hello, Sailor!-themed vote... Dennis Hopper in Night Tide (Curtis Harrington, USA, 1961) Tues 29 April @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Have written about Richard Thompson's GREAT 1985 album, Across a Crowded Room* for @thequietus.com * also: the arguably-even-GREATER live album, Across a Crowded Room Live at Barrymore's 1985. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Tonight!

Next up: David Johansen tribute screening of… New York Dolls: All Dolled Up (Bob Gruen, USA, 2005) Tues 22 April @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Published April 10 1925, Happy 100th B'day to The Great Gatsby: one of the most nearasdammit perfect novs ever written. Here's a v old piece I wrote about how from start to fin, Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's is pretty much a re-write of/homage to Gatsby: www.theguardian.com/books/booksb...

Re-watched The Conversation last night @tpfilmclub.bsky.social, the epitome of a '70s paranoid conspiracy thriller. It's a slow, almost dream-like film, but its twist ending is still terrific, and that final image of Gene Hackman playing sax in his wrecked apartment is one for the ages...

Next up! Pool of London (Basil Dearden, UK, 1951) Tues 15 April @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Natch #2 www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Natch #1 www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Next up: Gene Hackman tribute screening of The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1974) Tues 8 April @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Next up! The winner of our post-Quatermass & the Pit Hammer-themed vote: Hell is a City (Val Guest, UK, 1960) Tues 1 April @ The Star www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Next up: Tony Roberts tribute screening of Annie Hall (Woody Allen, USA, 1977) Tues 25 March @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Excellent night @tpfilmclub.bsky.social with a great introduction from Hammer expert @accordingtojond.bsky.social ahead of a screening of Quatermass And The Pit. Quintessential Nigel Kneale, with alarming ideas coming thick and fast - the last ten minutes are still nerve-janglingly intense...

Watched Quatermass and the Pit again last night, introduced by @accordingtojond.bsky.social, and was struck by the ending. Not only, as Jon pointed out, the occasionally shot-for-shot inspiration for the end of Raiders ("Don't look at it!") but, I wondered, maybe the first Blockbuster Movie Ending.

Thanks to @tpfilmclub.bsky.social for hosting the screening. Great fun.

Talking of Quatermass, I'm off to @tpfilmclub.bsky.social to watch this tonight, arguably ground zero for every folk horror/hauntological think piece to come...

Looking forward to tonight’s @tpfilmclub.bsky.social screening of Quatermass & the Pit - to be introduced by special guest @accordingtojond.bsky.social www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Looking forward to this - though is almost fully booked. DM to reserve a seat.

Next up! The winner of our They’re Here!-themed vote: Quatermass and the Pit (Roy Ward Baker, UK, 1967) Tuesday 18 March @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Have been working* on this project** for YEARS and finally completed it yesterday (annoyingly a day after #WorldBookDay, but (shrugs)) Pnin: a 🧵 * or “working” ** or “project”

Next up: Marianne Faithful tribute screening... Hamlet (Tony Richardson, UK, 1969) Tues 11 March @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Re-watched Under The Skin @tpfilmclub.bsky.social last night. Such a strange and confounding film, where you have to go with the (very chilly) flow and don't expect any answers. Maybe that's too much to ask of an audience, but it's a unique experience and Scarlett Johansson is mesmerising.

Natch. www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Next up! Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, UK, 2013) Tues 4 March @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Shown @tpfilmclub.bsky.social Robert Altman’s magnificent snowbound Western, a sad story of dreamers & losers trying to make their fortune in Presbyterian Church, Washington, coming up against powerful & ruthless forces who will stop at nothing to destroy them. Warren Beatty & Julie Christie star.

And coming soon... ... the winner of last night's post-McCabe & Miller vote (theme: I'm New Here) and beating Naked and Something Wicked This Way Comes: Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, UK, 2013) Tues 4 March @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Next up, Garth Hudson tribute screening: The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, USA, 1978) Tues 25 Feb @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Shown by @tpfilmclub.bsky.social in tribute to David Lynch, The Straight Story (1999) is in some ways an outlier in Lynch’s films, but full of charm and his trademark strangeness. A lawnmower road trip through the Midwest, it’s above all about the kindness of strangers #DavidLynch

Next up! McCabe & Mrs Miller (Robert Altman, USA, 1971) Tues 18 Feb @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

As part of #SaveThePCC, we are looking to cement our status as a culturally significant institution. We need examples as to why you love what we do & want to hear your most cherished memories of the cinema. So tell us: #ILovePCC because… Tell us here: princecharlescinema.typeform.com/ILovePCC

Also coming up... Following on from Shoot the Piano Player and the winner of our Lousy Luck & Fatal Flaws!-themed vote (beating Fargo & Uncut Gems): McCabe & Mrs Miller (Robert Altman, USA, 1971) Tues 18 Feb @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Next up: David Lynch tribute screening of The Straight Story. Tues 11 Feb @ The Star, 8pm. www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...

Prochain! Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut, France, 1960) Tues 4 February @ The Star, 8pm www.tufnellparkfilmclub.com/forthcominga...