Close-Up Cinema
open now, until 23:30
Cinema Café
Close-Up is a 40-seat digital & 35mm equipped cinema + cosy cafe/bar within an extensive Library. Update description
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2015-01-08Wonderful new space! looks great with a cosy cafe as well. Lots of material to read and look at, with a huge selection of film from art house,...
2018-08-25Unique indie cinema experience, loved it :)
2017-11-08What a great venue & cinema. Here for a screening of Oggatonama/The Unnamed as part of The Hamlets Pop-Up Cinema. Will be back!
2017-06-16Excellent venue to watch your favourite films, including Bad Boys II and The Elf
2017-04-05One of the world's most important film centres, and Britain's most valuable film resource. No other cinema in Britain organizes programmes as rich as...
2016-12-29Thank you. I will definitely come back.
2016-12-01Great venue, perfect for private screenings, not so great wine and grumpy barman :)
2016-09-22It used to be my favourite place in London, since they move premises everything has changed.
2016-09-19THE most amazing film resource in London, great cafe/bar. A cultural haven in the bizarre mix of brick lane these days!
2016-09-13Fantastic place! ... That is all really
2016-08-02I host a monthly film club here [@BigPictureFilmClub], and it's absolutely fantastic. Great atmosphere, everyone that works there is friendly and...
2016-07-14one of my favourite coffee shops in London staff are always friendly and the coffee is great (I recommend a flat white)
2016-05-02Always a fabulous experience - thoroughly enjoyed the Iain Sinclair & John Rogers evening.
2016-01-26Good cinema, great vibe, important place. Recommend it!
2015-09-27Great place with friendly folks, cold beer, snacks and films. My wife and I love it.
2015-06-15On point. So glad we stumbled across this, great coffee, moist cakes, amazing selection of films and a welcoming atmosphere.
2015-01-05New location, nice space, coffee bar! Well stocked. xx
2014-11-24Amazing selection of quality titles, but also commercial movies...literally anything. Exceptional library of documentaries of all sorts. Friendly and...
2014-06-27Great one
2014-06-24Amazing place, brilliant selection, great staff!
Updates from Close-Up Cinema
2019-07-06
Showing Tonight, 6th June 6pm: A Brighter Summer Day “While Yi Yi brought Yang worldwide success, A Brighter Summer Day is more often pointed to as his great masterpiece, combining as it does the incisive eye and narrative complexity of Taipei Story and
Showing Tonight, 6th June 6pm: A Brighter Summer Day “While Yi Yi brought Yang worldwide success, A Brighter Summer Day is more often pointed to as his great masterpiece, combining as it does the incisive eye and narrative complexity of Taipei Story and
2019-07-05
Showing Tonight, 5th July 7.30pm: That Day on the Beach "Yang’s first theatrical feature film is an intriguing blend of melodrama and social critique that occasionally recalls Fassbinder’s cool theatricality. The contrasting stories told by two reunited
Showing Tonight, 5th July 7.30pm: That Day on the Beach "Yang’s first theatrical feature film is an intriguing blend of melodrama and social critique that occasionally recalls Fassbinder’s cool theatricality. The contrasting stories told by two reunited
2019-07-04
Showing Tonight, 4 July 8.30pm: Three Times "“If anything sums up both the Taiwanese Experience and Hou’s films, it is sudden, unexpected, and often irreversible changes,” writes film scholar James Udden, a characterization that might have provided the s
Showing Tonight, 4 July 8.30pm: Three Times "“If anything sums up both the Taiwanese Experience and Hou’s films, it is sudden, unexpected, and often irreversible changes,” writes film scholar James Udden, a characterization that might have provided the s
2019-07-03
Showing Tonight, 3 July 8.15pm: A City of Sadness ⠀ Screening on 35mm. "Hou’s epic film focuses on the complex history of 20th-century Taiwan during the turbulent period in Taiwanese history between the fall of the Japanese Empire in 1945 and the establis
Showing Tonight, 3 July 8.15pm: A City of Sadness ⠀ Screening on 35mm. "Hou’s epic film focuses on the complex history of 20th-century Taiwan during the turbulent period in Taiwanese history between the fall of the Japanese Empire in 1945 and the establis
2019-07-02
Showing Tonight, 2 July 8.15pm: Dust in the Wind⠀ ⠀ "A beloved favorite among Hou’s early films, Dust in the Wind is an affecting and poignantly fatalistic story of first love which follows a young couple finishing high school and leaving their remote min
Showing Tonight, 2 July 8.15pm: Dust in the Wind⠀ ⠀ "A beloved favorite among Hou’s early films, Dust in the Wind is an affecting and poignantly fatalistic story of first love which follows a young couple finishing high school and leaving their remote min
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