Quadrophenia
Director Franc Roddam will be guest of honour at this special screening of his cult 1979 portrait of youth culture. The event is raising funds for one of the film’s key locations – Cooke’s Traditional Pie & Mash shop in Shepherd’s Bush – which is fighting a compulsory purchase order from the local council to bulldoze it so developers can build flats. Support a good cause as you step back in time to 1965 when the simmering feud between rival Mods and Rockers boils over in Brighton. Quadrophenia is a seminal moment in British filmmaking with fresh-faced performances from Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Sting, Ray Winstone, Philip Davis, Toyah Willcox and Timothy Spall.
July 28, 8pm, suggested voluntary donation £4, Portobello Pop-Up Digital Microplex Cinema, (under the elevated Westway motorway), W10 5TY Nearest Tube: Ladbroke Grove
North By Northwest
North By Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock’s nail-biting 1959 thriller, which reaches an unforgettable climax on the faces of Mount Rushmore, provides a rousing opening to the Midsummer Night Flicks series of outdoor screenings organised by Picturehouse Cinemas and The Greenwich Summer Festival. Cary Grant is suitably suave as advertising guru Roger Thornhill, who is the victim of mistaken identity perpetrated by the US Secret Service to protect one of their undercover operatives. Consequently, debonair ladies man Roger is framed for a crime he did not commit and runs for his life from menacing foreign spy, Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). En route, Grant hooks up with the alluring Eva Marie Saint. DS
July 29, 8pm, £10, Picturehouse mems £8, Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, Greenwich, SE10 9NN Nearest DLR: Cutty Sark
Swede Dreams
Swede Dreams
Inspired by the Jack Black comedy Be Kind Rewind (pictured), in which an enterprising Brooklyn video store clerk creates homemade versions of Hollywood blockbusters and passes them off as Swedish imports, this two-day mini-festival venerates imitation as the sincerest form of cinematic flattery. Highlights include a no-budget shot-by-shot remake of George Lucas’s sci-fi opus, Star Wars Uncut; a visually-stunning homage to George A Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead: Reanimated; and Zachary Oberzan’s one-man recreation of Rambo’s first mission Flooding With Love For The Kid, made for $100 in his Manhattan studio apartment. DS
July 28, 4pm-9pm, Jul 29, 3pm-10pm, day ticket £7, mems £3.50, two-day ticket £12, mems £6, Roxy Bar & Screen, 128-132 Borough High Street, SE1 1LB Nearest Tube: Borough
Working Girl
Working Girl
One of London’s most vibrant art galleries seems an unlikely setting for a lazy Sunday afternoon in the company of Mike Nichols’ 1988 reworking of the Cinderella fairytale. Thankfully, Brooklyn-based painter and sculptor Julia Dault, who is currently exhibiting in the North Gallery, selected Working Girl for the Film On Sunday: Artist’s Choice strand. Melanie Griffith gives a career-best performance as plucky secretary Tess McGill, who is stabbed in the back by her boss (Sigourney Weaver) so turns the tables and wins the heart of a handsome investment broker (Harrison Ford) into the bargain. The cast’s hair is as big as some of the laughs, underscored by the soaring voices of Carly Simon’s Oscar-winning song, Let The River Run. DS
July 29, 2pm, free, White Cube Bermondsey, 144-152 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3TQ Nearest Tube: London Bridge/Borough
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