Lost Reels presents Lianna (1983) from 35mm + online Q&A with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi.

Written, directed and edited by John Sayles, Lianna concerns the unhappily married Lianna (Linda Griffiths) who, after developing a crush on her female teacher Ruth (Jane Hallaren), embarks on an affair causing her to reassess her sexuality. This is complicated by her pompous unfaithful college professor husband Dick (Jon DeVries), Ruth’s uncertainty about the durability of their relationship, the rejection of her best friend Sandy (Jo Henderson), and the stress placed on her relationships with her children.

The screenplay by Sayles is smart, illuminating and true. Lianna enjoys the liberation of her new life but also experiences a lack of confidence and fear of rejection. The less progressive attitudes to same-sex relationships in the 1980s are explored through her experiences of lesbian bars, hook-ups, and the changing dynamics with her friends. Lianna broke new ground with its realistic depiction of an ordinary woman in mid-life discovering her sexuality and making the necessary, often painful changes. 

Both a queer classic and a deeply felt chronicle of a woman’s personal journey, Lianna has been virtually unseen in the UK since its limited release in 1984 and is currently unavailable on any domestic home media or streaming platform. Lost Reels is proud to bring this pioneering film back to UK audiences from an original 35mm print together with an online Q&A discussion with filmmaking legend John Sayles and his producer and partner Maggie Renzi.

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When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Soon, disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw him into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.

Featuring Writers and Directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani live and in person with Post-Film Q&A, hosted by Peter Strickland

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.

Featuring Post-Film Q&A with Walter Murch and Director Howard Berry

Invented in 1922, the Moviola remained for a long time the dominant machine for editing film in English-language cinema. Mastering it allowed an editor, in tandem with the director and producer, to create a language and rhythm within a film. Her Name Was Moviola sees Academy Award®-winning sound and film editor Walter Murch working with a team to rebuild a Moviola editing suite to take us through the process of how a film was pieced together. Using two scenes from Mike Leigh’s 2014 drama Mr. Turner – reverse-engineered from digital to 35mm prints – Murch and his collaborators take us through the way the Moviola was employed to bring a multitude on individual shots together into one cohesive narrative. It’s a riveting deep-dive into a process that is key to every form of filmmaking.

Featuring Writer & Director Ben Wheatley live and in person with Post-Film Q&A

When an over zealous scientist pushes his experiments with string theory too far, his brane explodes. That's "brane", not "brain", meaning someone has to sort out the mess he has created. Corey Harlan is sent in – kicking and screaming – to find the heart of the brane and its creator.

4K Restoration Premiere with Intro and Q&A with director Robert Bierman

Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage, Wild at Heart) is a self-centred literary agent living a shallow existence in the money-obsessed Manhattan of the 1980s. His life is nothing but days at the office, one-night stands and unsatisfying therapy sessions, until one night he brings home a mysterious woman (Jennifer Beals, Devil in a Blue Dress) from a club and his life begins to take a bizarre turn.

After their violent encounter, Loew starts to believe she has turned him into a vampire, and he descends into apparent lunacy as his baffled associates and co-workers look on in horror. Let loose on the streets and clubs of late 1980s NYC, Loew’s behaviour becomes increasingly unhinged, as fantasy and reality begin to bleed into one another with terrible consequences…

Directed by Robert Bierman (Keep the Apidistra Flying) from a hilarious and disquieting script from Joseph Minion (After Hours), Vampire’s Kiss is a unique yuppie-comedy-horror that predates American Psycho by many years and continues to live on in internet memes and compilations, thanks to one of the most notoriously outrageous screen performances of all time from Nicolas Cage. Coming to UHD from Transmission on 22nd July, this is the world premiere of the new 4K restoration of the film, with an Intro and Q+A from director Robert Bierman.

For Pride Month, Funeral Parade is proud to present The Angelic Conversation, Derek Jarman’s sensuous cinematic love poem.
 
Made in the tradition of Jean Cocteau and Kenneth Anger, this Super 8mm daydream is by turns erotic, nightmarish, and ethereally beautiful. Made between arthouse classics The Tempest (1979) and Caravaggio (1986), this film grew out of a series of home movie improvisations and experiments which Jarman subsequently woven into a haunting tapestry of images and textures – he would later say that it was his personal favourite of his own film work. Featuring the music of Coil and Shakespearean sonnets read by Judi Dench, The Angelic Conversation remains a powerful and stirring meditation on the nature of desire and romantic love.
 
With an introduction from film curator Sarah Cleary.

Another big screen celebration of the artform and cultural phenomenon of Music Video is coming to the Prince Charles Cinema on Thursday, June 11th.

Music Video Preservation Society is an event that highlights the astonishing creativity and cultural influence of music videos through the decades, with an eclectic programme featuring some of the most iconic and visually inventive pop promos ever made, spanning from the 1970s to the 2020s.

MVPS host David Knight, the country’s foremost music video commentator, provides the background and context to another curated selection of fantastic pop promos - and welcomes guests who have made some unforgettable contributions to the medium.

This latest meeting of Music Video Preservation Society follows previous memorable shows at The PCC where guest directors from across the span of music video history have discussed and introduced their work - including Julien Temple, Luna Carmoon and members of directing collective Hammer & Tongs. 

And this promises to be another great night watching brilliant music videos as they deserve to be seen and heard - on the beautiful big screen at the Prince Charles Cinema.

BLEAK WEEK - TWO BOXES: LA CABINA and EL TELEVISOR Double Feature w/ Reece Shearsmith intro

Spain in the early 1970s was a country in transition, with increasing economic prosperity and the expectations of a growing middle class put in direct conflict with the dying dictatorship regime of Franco, where state surveillance, media censorship and social control was still the norm. Inspired by mystery-horror anthology series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, this unique period in history is depicted with terrifying clarity and dark humour in these two infamous television films: La cabina and El televisor.

In Antonio Mercero’s La cabina, a group of officials install a telephone box outside a block of flats. After a man enters to make a phone call, he finds himself unable to leave, attracting the attention of fascinated locals as he grows increasingly desperate to escape. A sensation upon release and a cultural touchstone in Spain to this day, La cabina also developed a huge cult following in the UK after regular screenings on late-night TV.

In El televisor, a man living a dreary suburban life has a simple dream: to possess his own television. When he finally gets his wish, the dream soon becomes a dangerous, all-consuming obsession. Originally a special episode of the hugely popular series Tales to Keep You Awake, written and directed by Narcisco Ibanez Serrandor (Who Can Kill A Child), El televisor’s escalating dread and shocking conclusion still retains its power to shock over 50 years later.

Released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK by Transmission on 22nd July, this double bill will be released into UK cinemas on June 19th to coincide with Bleak Week, and will receive its premiere screening at the Prince Charles Cinema with an intro from Reece Shearsmith (Inside No 9, The League of Gentlemen). 

Animus Magazine presents “Bad Timing” w/ Jeremy Thomas intro (schedule permitting)

When a young American woman (Theresa Russell) ends up in a Vienna hospital after a suicide attempt, a local police inspector (Harvey Keitel) seeks answers from her lover, an American psychoanalyst (Art Garfunkel), and begins to piece together the story of their stormy affair.

“A sick film made by sick people for sick people". Thus was Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing described upon its original release in 1980 by UK distributor the Rank Organisation, whose executives were so shocked that they removed the company’s logo from the film’s opening credits. Nearly a decade after appearing in Mike Nichols’ Carnal Knowledge (1971) – screened by Animus Magazine at the PCC in 2024 – singer-songwriter Art Garfunkel returned in front of the camera for another nightmarish deconstruction of toxic relationship dynamics. Nicolas Roeg’s jagged, non-linear storytelling captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of an obsessive romance already blown to pieces at the start of the film. As we gather the shards through heartbreaking flashbacks, it is impossible not to cut ourselves on the sharp edges of a love that may have been doomed from the start. 

Legendary film producer Jeremy Thomas (Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast among others) will introduce this 35mm screening of Bad Timing, his first of three collaborations with Nicolas Roeg.

PLEASE NOTE - TOMMY WISEAU WILL BE TAKING TO THE STAGE AT THE FILMS ADVERTISED TIME!

Please arrive 30 mins early to collect your ticket, take your seat, grab merch and meet Tommy before the film starts! Yes we know the shows are allocated seating, but if you all arrive at the advertised time we end up with a very busy foyer / bar & you won't get to your seat when the q&a starts!

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Tommy Wiseau returns to The Prince Charles Cinema, live and in person, in Septmeber 2026 to once again answer your questions, pose for photos*, sign autographs** and introduce a host of screenings of the 2003 "masterpiece", THE ROOM!

So what are you waiting for? Get your handful of PLASTIC spoons***, your tuxedos at the ready and prepare to take part in the most "unique" cinematic experience on the planet... Tommy Wiseau's, THE ROOM!

* - Tommy requests that you purchase some of his merchandise before posing for photographs [he'll have the usual DVDs, BluRays, Posters, Pants, Belts, Dogs... you name it, he's selling it!]

** - Same applies for photo opps as it does for signatures, pick up some merch to put a smile on Tommy's face for your photo together.

*** - No Metal Spoons, No Inflatables, No American Footballs!!! If found throwing any of these, they will be confiscated and you will be asked to leave with no refund. Please consider the environment and don't go overboard with plastic spoons. A handful is all you need to get you through the screening. If any customers are found bringing in an overabundance of plastic spoons, we will confiscate them and give you what we deem to be an appropriate amount for the evening.

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About THE ROOM

Johnny is a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored of him and decides to seduce Johnny's best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again.

www.TheRoomMovie.com

"If a lot of people love each other the world will be a better place to live." - Tommy Wiseau

THE NEW MOVIE BY TOMMY WISEAU!

PLEASE NOTE - TOMMY WISEAU WILL BE TAKING TO THE STAGE AT THE FILMS ADVERTISED TIME!

Please arrive 30 mins early to collect your ticket, take your seat, grab merch and meet Tommy before the film starts! Yes we know the shows are allocated seating, but if you all arrive at the advertised time we end up with a very busy foyer / bar & you won't get to your seat when the Q&A starts!

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From the creator of THE ROOM, join us for the return of Tommy Wiseau's BIG SHARK with TOMMY WISEAU LIVE AND IN PERSON from 3rd SEPTEMBER 2026!

Three firefighters, George, Patrick & Tim, must save New Orleans from a gigantic shark. Can New Orleans survive?

Please Note: This film contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.