Expat Cinema: Saint Omer

We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Alice Diop’s unnerving fiction feature is based on the true case of a Senegalese immigrant accused in the French court of murdering her 15-month-old daughter.

Expat Cinema: Inu-Oh

We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Masaaki Yuasa’s showstopping animation reframes the classical performance style as a world of rock gods and cavorting dancers.

Fundraiser Turkey & Syria: The Wild Pear Tree

Following the devastating impact of the earthquakes across Turkey and northern Syria, we will be screening the beautiful Turkish film The Wild Pear Tree by acclaimed director Nuri Bilge Ceylan to raise funds for those affected in the area. All proceeds of this screening will be donated to a to-be-determined grassroots aid organization; please consider an extra donation when purchasing your ticket.

The Dude Day: The Big Lebowski

The Day of the Dude is celebrated on March 6 every year to commemorate the North American release of the movie The Big Lebowski in 1998. It’s been a while since we’ve last mellowed out with his Dudeness or El Duderino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing, so it’s time to put on a bathrobe, pour yourself a White Russian (or order one at our bar) and join us to celebrate this iconic Coen Bros. classic.

Expat Cinema: EO

We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Life is seen through the eyes of a put-upon beast of burden in this beautifully photographed homage to Au Hasard Balthazar by the veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski.

Spring Speeddates

After our successful Queer Speeddates during Pride last summer, we have decided to host another round of wholesome get-togethers in our cozy venue on March 19th at 4pm in our Kapel. So if you have been feeling lonely this Valentine’s, don’t miss your chance to create meaningful new connections and just have a fun time on this special day to celebrate love!

LAB Classics: Aliens

With his sweeping epic Titanic back in cinemas (sadly only in 3D IMAX) and the sequel to sci-fi adventure Avatar still dominating the box office, we’ve decided to give you the chance to revisit two of James Cameron’s bonafide action classics: 1986 ‘best sequel ever made’ Aliens and his gritty science fiction breakthrough The Terminator.

LAB Classics: The Terminator

With his sweeping epic Titanic back in cinemas (sadly only in 3D IMAX) and the sequel to sci-fi adventure Avatar still dominating the box office, we’ve decided to give you the chance to revisit two of James Cameron’s bonafide action classics: 1986 ‘best sequel ever made’ Aliens and his gritty science fiction breakthrough The Terminator.

Valentine’s Day: The Before Trilogy

One of the most requested and suggested film cycles of the past decade is Richard Linklater’s wonderful three-part romance The Before Trilogy. To celebrate this Valentine’s Day we’ll give you plenty of opportunities to see all three Before films in the days leading up to February 14th. On Valentin’s Day itself, you can book tickets for the films in chronological order with plenty of time to share a pizza with a loved one between Sunrise and Sunset.

Docu Special: Meet Me In The Bathroom

Inspired by Lizzy Goodman’s bestselling book, Meet Me In The Bathroom is an immersive archival journey through the explosive New York music scene of the early 2000s. Set against the backdrop of 9/11, this acclaimed documentary tells the story of the last great romantic age of rock ‘n’ roll through the prism of a handful of era-defining bands, including The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, TV on the Radio, and The Moldy Peaches.

The Alchemy Of Alejandro Jodorowsky

Celebrating the 50th-anniversary re-release of his mystical magnum opus The Holy Mountain, the three-part retrospective The Alchemy Of Alejandro Jodorowsky presents brand-new, stunning 4K restorations of a trio of the most influential classics by one of world cinema’s most fabled iconoclasts.

Strictly Strickland: The Films Of Peter Strickland

What happens when you combine a distinct love for 70’s Italian ‘giallo’ and erotic films – and their unique soundtracks – with ASMR, possessed dresses and butterflies? Well, you get the cinema of one of Brittain’s most unique, up-and-coming filmmakers, Peter Strickland. Coinciding with the release of his latest film Flux Gourmet we’ll give you the chance to jump into his thought-provoking niche with screenings of his quirky, culty films The Duke Of Burgundy and In Fabric.

Expat Cinema: Broker

We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, Academy award nominated filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Broker, starring Cannes Best actor winner Song Kang Ho (Parasite).

Holiday Classics

The holiday season is upon us and so we traditionally serve up a plethora of holiday classics and this year you’ll have a fine batch to pick from: guilty pleasure Love Actually, alt-Christmas classic Die Hard, the sensual Carol, Billy Wilder’s The Apartment, beloved The Muppets Christmas Carol and evergreen It’s A Wonderful Life.

LAB Suggestions: La Grande Bellezza

Our Suggestions Board gives you the chance to tell us all about the films you’d love to see on our screens. Every month we try to pick from these suggestions and bring them back to our cinema. This November it’s time to travel back to the glittering nightlife of Rome of Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza.

Expat Cinema: Holy Spider

We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Twenty years after a serial killer murdered 16 sex workers in Mashad, Ali Abbasi (Gräns) has made a fictionalised account of his capture and trial.

Expat Cinema: Vortex

We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. The provocateur has shocked us with a change of pace: an extraordinary midnight movie that follows an elderly couple’s pained last steps in their Paris apartment.

Imagine Halloween Party

This Saturday we cordially invite you to our Halloween Party in collaboration with Imagine Fantastic Film Festival. Will you dress up as Freddy or Jason? Will you be a blood-splattered Carrie or a puke-splattered Regan from The Exorcist? In our bar the Strangelove DJ team will provide the tunes and in our Kapel room it’s time for karaoke! Party starts at 11pm but you are welcome to join us for bloody cocktails earlier.

LAB Suggestions: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Our Suggestions Board gives you the chance to tell us all about the films you’d love to see on our screens. Every month we try to pick from these suggestions and bring them back to our cinema. After the news broke that director Martin McDonagh will be making another film (The Banshees Of Inisherin) with the duo of Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrel who starred in his loud-mouthed classic In Bruges, we got many requests to screen both In Bruges and his Academy Award-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

LAB Suggestions: In Bruges

Our Suggestions Board gives you the chance to tell us all about the films you’d love to see on our screens. Every month we try to pick from these suggestions and bring them back to our cinema. After the news broke that director Martin McDonagh will be making another film (The Banshees Of Inisherin) with the duo of Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrel who starred in his loud-mouthed classic In Bruges, we got many requests to screen both In Bruges and his Academy Award-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Tales From Nightmare Alley

Often described as the grimmest of all Hollywood film noirs, Nightmare Alley’s reputation as a cult classic reached near-mythical status due to a decades-long dispute between the film’s producer and studio Fox, which prevented it from being screened anywhere. With the conflict resolved, Nightmare Alley can finally be re-discovered in a stunning 4K restoration celebrating its 75th anniversary as one of the most darkly sophisticated noirs of the period. Alongside it, we’ll screen a selection of more than 15 (!) film-noir classics this Noirvember!

ENTER NOÉ

Widely regarded as the bald bad boy of contemporary French cinema, Gaspar Noé has been disrupting movies and polarising opinions for the past twenty years with his visceral blend of provocative films. Coinciding with the release of his new film Vortex, starting legendary ‘giallo’ director Dario Argento, we will screen a selection of his films, some of Argento’s classics and Noé’s favorite film…

Second Chance Cinema: Shoplifters

‘Life moves pretty fast’ and the same can be said about the time a new movie will play in cinemas. Therefore we’ve come up with our Second Chance Cinema program with which we give you another chance to (re)visit some of the best films of the past year(s). This Palme d’Or-winning drama about a Japanese family of crooks who lift a lost little girl from the streets is a satisfying and devastating gem.

Second Chance Cinema: Druk

‘Life moves pretty fast’ and the same can be said about the time a new movie will play in cinemas. Therefore we’ve come up with our Second Chance Cinema program with which we give you another chance to (re)visit some of the best films of the past year(s). Mikkelsen excels in Thomas Vinterberg’s profound yet playful midlife crisis tale about four high-school teachers seeking a better life on the lash.

LAB Suggestions: Marie Antoinette

Our Suggestions Board gives you the chance to tell us all about the films you’d love to see on our screens. Every month we try to pick from these suggestions and bring them back to our cinema. Coinciding with the release of the Vicky Krieps starring costume drama Corsage we’ve picked Sofia Coppola’s playful Marie Antoinette for this September.

LAB Suggestions: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Our Suggestions Board gives you the chance to tell us all about the films you’d love to see on our screens. Every month we try to pick from these suggestions and bring them back to our cinema. This September you’ll get a chance to revisit both David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and travel to 60’s France with Francois Truffaut’s Jules Et Jim.

LAB Suggestions: Jules Et Jim

Our Suggestions Board gives you the chance to tell us all about the films you’d love to see on our screens. Every month we try to pick from these suggestions and bring them back to our cinema. This September you’ll get a chance to revisit both David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and travel to 60’s France with Francois Truffaut’s Jules Et Jim.