Cinema

The beloved adaptation of Daniel Clowes’ underground comic Ghost World is our White Wall Cinema Good Friday special. Directed by Terry Zwigoff (Crumb), the film perfectly captures the acerbic wit, deadpan humour, and teenage angst of its two lead characters, effortlessly portrayed by Thora Birch (American Beauty) and Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Under the […]

THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROOBANZAI & BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA Two cult classics, one night, zero sense of normalcy. If you love action, humour, and just a dash of absurdity, this Bank Holiday double bill is your destiny. Originally, Big Trouble in Little China was partly conceived as a sequel to The Adventures of Buckaroo […]

Topping numerous Film of the Year polls (BFI’s Sight & Sound, The New York Times, Film Comment, AP), All We Imagine as Light is a luminous, intricately woven portrait of the intersecting lives of three nurses living in Mumbai. Written and directed by Payal Kapadia in her fiction feature debut, the film was selected for […]

Hailed by Time Out as “nothing less than a modern masterpiece,” Cutter’s Way serves as the closing salvo in a lineage of taut, politically charged thrillers such as All the President’s Men, The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor, and The Conversation. Empire magazine called it “a classy monument to the paranoia of post-Watergate America.” The […]

The queen of TV comedy directing, Jamie Babbit, has helmed multiple episodes of Gilmore Girls, Malcolm in the Middle, Ugly Betty, The L Word, Gossip Girl, The Middle, Girls, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Russian Doll, and Only Murders in the Building. But it’s her legendary debut feature, But I’m a Cheerleader, a riotous lampoon […]

Anchored by a superb ensemble including Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade), Frances McDormand (Fargo, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Nomadland), Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Under the Skin), and James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), the film follows Ed Crane (Thornton), a taciturn, almost nihilistic barber drifting through life in a small California town. His quiet routine […]