Cinema Rediscovered

Will be writing more at the end of the year, but if the astounding new 4K restoration of Fall of Otrar comes to your city, see it. A film too massive for words to describe:

The Fall of Otrar - Coming soon to @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social

Sun 17 Aug
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Coming up at GFT in August ☀️

🎬 Two seasons from Cinema Rediscovered:

• Against the Grain: 80s British cinema (My Beautiful Laundrette, Ping Pong, Defence of the Realm, In Fading Light)

• Restored & Rediscovered (Diva, Chameleon Street, The Fall of Otrar, Killer of Sheep)

Grateful for this review by @christinalefou.bsky.social & to all our co-curators & partners 🙏

Look out for “jewel in the crown” The Fall of Otrar Sun 17 Aug @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social 💘 +“minor-key, jazzy 1964 docu-fiction” Belarmino now available to book 👇

We had the pleasure of showing a pair of newly-restored Anglo/German silents starring Anna May Wong: Song (1928) & Pavement Butterfly (1929) presented by @pamhutch.bsky.social

Here’s a chance to catch them again at #BFISouthbank in London + a whole selection of other titles & talks…

Going to watch this on Wednesday at Chester PictureHouse.

Cinema Rediscovered on tour, UK and Ireland 2025 Cinema Rediscovered launches a UK and Ireland tour of highlights celebrating the return of the big screen experience.

Cinemas! Festivals! Community cinemas…

You can now book some of the amazing new restorations & rediscoveries presented at @wshed.bsky.social ‘s Cinema Rediscovered at reasonable rates + there is support available towards local marketing/events.

Get in touch: www.watershed.co.uk/cinema-redis...

Find a screening near you…

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The classic 1985 movie “My Beautiful Laundrette” is back in selected cinemas, including IFI, to mark its 40th anniversary 🎥

Recommended 👇🫧

In November we have our WW1 double bill with #SilentFilm Battle of the Somme (1916) with live music by Stephen Horne; thanks to the Imperial War Muesum.

+ Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Paths of Glory (1957). All on the massive screen in @bristolaquarium.bsky.social: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

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Watched a Curzon screening of ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ (1985) and never felt more in 2025. Thatcher’s Britain as portrayed in the film feels very present. Watch it or rewatch.

Travel with Mosa Mpetha through her experiences at this year's Cinema Rediscovered where she contributed and listened to our Reframing Film Sessions as well as discovering cinema that she recommends you catch at Hyde Park Picturehouse’s very own Cinema Rediscovered remix…
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My Beautiful Laundrette A swooning interracial romance unfolds amid the turbulence of life in Thatcher’s Britain.

Delighted to learn that My Beautiful Laundrette – a landmark of British LGBT cinema and one of my favourite films – will be receiving no fewer than *six* screenings to mark its 40th anniversary at the Hyde Park Picture House next week!
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Stephen Frears, Gordon Warnecke and Mark Cosgrove on stage, with Gordon looking up at Hanif Kureishi on the big screen via zoom

It was incredible to have them in conversation with writer Hanif Kureishi and previous Film 4 commissioning editor Karin Bamborough hosted by festival founder @markcosgrove.bsky.social, in front of a very appreciative sold-out crowd.

Link in bio to find your nearest screening.

Sir Stephen Frears and Gordon Warnecke in conversation on stage

Behind the scenes of Stephen Frears and Gordon Warnecke pre recorded intro

Throwback to last week’s UK Premiere 40th Anniversary restoration of My Beautiful Laundrette w/ dir. Sir Stephen Frears and actor Gordon Warnecke joined us at @wshed.bsky.social as part of Cinema Rediscovered!

My Beautiful Laundrette returns to cinemas across the UK and Ireland TODAY (1 Aug).

My Beautiful Laundrette

'Landmark critique of Thatcher’s Britain' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - The Guardian

Catch My Beautiful Laundrette this weekend and bag some free bubbles (while stocks last!) 🫧

Part of our Cinema Rediscovered: Against The Grain season, screening all this month at GFT ✨

Rinse and repeat: "My Beautiful Laundrette" at 40 Forty years ago, My Beautiful Laundrette  would have been the jewel in the crown (or, as one character in the film puts it, "the jewel in th...

On Stephen Frears' MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, back on UK screens from today to mark its 40th anniversary: tinyurl.com/5fkvtsek

A ★★★★½ review of Absolute Beginners (1986) Starting this year’s Cinema Rediscovered with a real treat. A panned on release but now ready for reevaluation musical about the emergence of youth culture and its co-option by consumerism set during ...

My first film of #CineRedis25 is the absolutely delightful Absolute Beginners, an ambitious and stuffed full of talent musical about the birth of modern Britain is 1958. It's also got David Bowie power walking up a giant typewriter.

#Letterboxd #Filmsky

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Absolutely cannot wait for this from @ashcclark.bsky.social 💯 📖 📕 💫

‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40 We meet the director and writer of the classic gay romance for tea, cake and bubbles to talk about the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved

I loooove this film and I loooove Hanif and I love Stephen and everyone who loves My Beautiful Laundrette should watch their other collaboration, a film called Sammy and Rosie Get Laid <3 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40 We meet the director and writer of the classic gay romance for tea, cake and bubbles to talk about the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved

Forty years of My Beautiful Laundrette, 'the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved'.

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Congratulations 🥳

I love this film - need to watch it again

The #CineRedis25 UK & Ireland wide tour is available Aug 2025 – Jan 2026 supported by BFI awarding funds from #NationalLottery

More info on all the films touring & those being released by partner distributors + support available can be found here: www.watershed.co.uk/cinema-redis...

🧵 Cinemas! Festivals! Pop-ups!

You can now book highlights fr/ #CineRedis25 which saw a 15% rise in ticket income + over 20 sold-out screenings incl. My Beautiful Laundrette (in cinemas fr/this Friday onwards c/o Park Circus), Amadeus (Curzon), Diva (STUDIOCANAL), Killer of Sheep + Badnam Basti

Love this! My Beautiful Laundrette on #16mm plus filming location tour 💕👇

THINKING ALOUD ABOUT CINEMA: CINEMA REDISCOVERED 2025 WRAP-UP If a week ago we podcast on what we were looking forward to at the CINEMA REDISCOVERED festival, this is the bookend reflecting on what we actually saw. We are once again full of praise for the org…

If a week ago we podcast on what we were looking forward to at the CINEMA REDISCOVERED festival, this is the bookend reflecting on what we actually saw: notesonfilm1.com/2025/07/30/t...

Sorcerer (1977): The Criterion Collection Many aspects of the silent era (as well as film noir) can be found throughout the history of cinema, even up to now. Co-director of South West Silents and Film Noir UK James Harrison discusses a film ...

Our competition to win a copy of #NeoNoir Sorcerer (1977) has been extended until the beginning of October due to the delayed release.

So if you haven’t already, check out our review and put your name down to win a Criterion copy: www.southwestsilents.com/post/sorcere...

My Beautiful Laundrette review – landmark critique of Thatcher’s Britain with a larky Ealing air Rerelease of funny-sad tale of a laundry madeover by a young south Asian man and his love interest (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a unique subversion of 1980s UK politics

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ My Beautiful Laundrette review by Peter Bradshaw via @theguardian.com – landmark critique of Thatcher’s Britain w/a larky Ealing air.

See it back in cinemas from Fri 1st Aug

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