Close-Up Cinema

Showing tonight, 8.15pm:
Punku
J.D. Fernández Molero, 2025, 132 min
Followed by Q&A with the filmmaker

Close-Up is delighted to welcome J.D. Fernández Molero to present is new feature film Punku. Tinged with autobiographical touches and shot on a mix of 16mm, Super 8, and digital formats, Molero unnervingly explores being young in contemporary Peru, with its jumble of late-stage capitalism, traditional culture, and strongly defined gender roles.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/punku/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/t-plmljkd

Showing tonight, 7.30pm:
Alarm Notes
Anthea Kennedy, Ian Wiblin, 2025, 123 min
Followed by Q&A with the Filmmakers

Kennedy and Wiblin’s radical, new artist documentary returns to locations associated with the 1933 Reichstag fire – which cemented N**i rule – and the experiences of German Jewish pioneer birdsong recordist Ludwig Koch (1881-1974), who escaped Berlin and latterly joined the BBC.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/anthea-kennedy-and-ian-wiblin-berlin-trilogy/alarm-notes/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-loeqro

Showing today, 5pm:
Salò, or the 120 Days of S***m
Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975, 116 min

Setting up equivalences between Sadean s*xual license, Italian fascism and consumerist alienation, Salò delivers a trenchant political allegory that tends to be overshadowed by its explicit nudity and images of s*xual sa**sm.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/sal-or-the-120-days-of-sodom/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-dljdbm

Showing today, 2.45pm:
The Caretaker
Clive Donner, 1963, 105 min

Featuring original production cast members Pleasance and Bates and sensitively directed by Clive Donner and shot by Nicolas Roeg, this study of shared illusion, tragic dispossession and the fraternal bond of unspoken love, combines mesmerising performances and the magic of Pinter's dialogue into a spellbinding film.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/the-caretaker/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-grljqd

Showing tonight, 8pm:
Kenneth Anger: Magick Lantern Cycle

Kenneth Anger’s work fundamentally shaped the aesthetics of 1960s and 1970s subcultures, the visual lexicon of pop and music videos and q***r iconography. These nine films form the basis of Anger’s reputation as one of the most influential pioneers of avant-garde film and video art.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/kenneth-anger-magick-lantern-cycle/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-

Showing tonight, 6.30pm
Pickpocket
Robert Bresson, 1959, 75 min

A cornerstone of the career of this most economical and profoundly spiritual of filmmakers, Bresson's Pickpocket is an elegantly crafted, tautly choreographed study of humanity in all its mischief and grace, the work of a director at the height of his powers.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/pickpocket/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-bgpyob

Showing today, 4.15pm:
Paris Belongs to Us
Jacques Rivette, 1961, 141 min

An underseen early French New Wave landmark, Jacques Rivette’s superb feature debut pulsates with the turmoil of an emerging cinematic revolution. Featuring cameos by fellow Cahiers du Cinéma critics Claude Chabrol and Jean-Luc Godard, it captures a real sense of the city during the rudderless Cold War era.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/paris-belongs-to-us/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-rbpqed

Showing tonight, 8.15pm:
Theorem
Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968, 98 min

Unfolding nearly wordlessly, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle – blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy – Theorem is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on s*x, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/theorem/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-vrgeox

Showing tonight, 6pm:
Fata Morgana
Werner Herzog, 1971, 79 min

Considered by many to be the quintessential masterpiece among Werner Herzog’s early works, Fata Morgana is an absorbing collection of images shot in an around the Sahara Desert combined with poetic voice-over and music by Leonard Cohen, all coming together to evoke an alien world that is actually our own.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/fata-morgana/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-emvppy

Showing tonight, 8.15pm:
Filmfarsi
Ehsan Khoshbakht, 2019, 83 min
Introduced by the filmmaker

Filmfarsi is Ehsan Khoshbakht’s journey through the history of Iranian popular cinema before the 1979 revolution. The term “filmfarsi” refers to the rowdy and melodramatic genre films made in Iran from the early 1950s to 1979. This documentary provides a fascinating archaeology of “the biggest secret in cinema history”
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/filmfarsi/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/t-aazqnqj