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Time Out London on Screen

A special season of London films hand-picked by the Time Out staff will be screening throughout September.

Jul 13 2006

Throughout September our London on Screen season will be celebrating filmmaking in the capital with cinemas across town showing a selection of titles, from Mike Leigh's dystopian vision 'Naked', to Patrick Keiller's docu-poem 'London'.

It's not unusual to see London's streets, buildings and monuments on the big screen, but it's rare for a film to fully embrace London as a subject – as a city ripe for serious investigation, not just a pretty skyline or convenient location.

Time Out's critics have picked a line-up that represents the very best of filmmaking in London from across the decades. There's John MacKenzie's zeitgeist-embracing crime thriller 'The Long Good Friday'. There's Derek Jarman's lyrical, terrifying vision of a society gone wrong, 'The Last of England'. And there's Humphrey Jennings' stirring wartime docudrama, 'Fires Were Started'.

The list of filmmakers on show is a roll call of exceptional talent: Horace Ové, Ken Loach, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell, Roman Polanski and more.

Each auteur offers a vision of London that is as unique as each experience of the city itself. The Time Out London on Screen season will run throughout September, and we'll have further details nearer the time.

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