Wimbledon Film Club
Wimbledon Film Club is a welcoming, award-winning local club, screening at the Curzon Wimbledon cinema, close to Wimbledon Station. You can watch films in a comfortable setting, discuss them with fellow club members in the Curzon bar afterwards, listen to and quiz the many guest speakers we arrange, and suggest and vote on films for our programme. If you are a fan of cinema and looking for a like-minded community in the area – we’re it.
Screenings are on selected Tuesday evenings from September to June or July. See our website for details on the current programme. Doors open at 8pm and films start at 8.30pm. We provide film notes on the night. Carers are eligible for free tickets if arranged in advance and the cinema can provide 2 wheelchair spaces on notice (contact info@wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk to arrange).
Non-members are always welcome, but if you become a member you will get a range of benefits as well as heavily discounted tickets. Membership purchases and individual ticket sales are handled via Eventbrite.
Wimbledon Film Club is a registered charity (ref: 1117750) run for the whole community by a committee of unpaid volunteers. We are an independent, inclusive and politically unaligned club. Our charitable objectives are to advance the education of the public in the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the arts, particularly the art of film and allied visual techniques. We are a member of Cinema for All.
For more information on our screenings, membership and ticket prices (members and non-members), please visit our website at wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk
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Screenings
Upcoming
Thelma
28-01-2025 at 20:30
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“The movie uplifted me in the ways only good cinema can.” John Thomason, Boca Magazine
In her first starring role at the age of 94, June Squibb plays a doting grandmother who is scammed out of $10,000. With the police offering no help, she decides to track down the scammers and recover her money.
“The journey, a Tom Cruise-inspired action arc if the obstacles were stairs and the gadgets hearing aids, is a delight to behold.” Adrian Horton, Guardian
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
Location
Wimbledon Film Club, Curzon Cinema, 23 The Broadway, London, SW19 1RE
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
11-02-2025 at 20:30
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“This is a gentle, sensual gem of a film.” Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
A drolly amusing Georgian comedy-drama that tackles the way life can take a sharp turn in middle-age. As the taciturn shopkeeper who rebels against her lot after a near-death experience, Eka Chavleishvili is both sympathetic and constantly surprising.
“A most unusual feminist heroine, one experiencing the mischievous, rarely seen triumph of a woman coming into bloom just as those around her are beginning to fade.” Jessica Kiang, Variety
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
Location
Wimbledon Film Club, Curzon Cinema, 23 The Broadway, London, SW19 1RE
Orlando
25-02-2025 at 20:30
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“This ravishing and witty spectacle invades the mind through eyes that are dazzled without ever being anesthetised.” Vincent Canby, New York Times
Sally Potter’s 1992 film, already regarded as a classic of British cinema, stars Tilda Swinton in a clever, visually-arresting adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel. Restored in 4K and re-released in 2022 to mark its 30th anniversary.
“Rarely have source material, director, and leading actress been more in alignment.” Matthew Connolly, Slant Magazine
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
Location
Wimbledon Film Club, Curzon Cinema, 23 The Broadway, London, SW19 1RE
Summer With Monika
11-03-2025 at 20:30
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“One of Bergman’s very best films and perhaps his most influential.” Richard Brody, New Yorker
A young couple flee Stockholm in a boat to spend an idyllic summer on an island. A key work by writer and director Ingmar Bergman, the film was initially notorious for a nude scene that helped establish Sweden’s reputation as sexually liberal.
“Like so many women or men her age, [Monika] hasn’t quite found her place in the world, or realized the long-term effects of her behavior.” Q.V. Hough, rogerebert.com
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
Location
Wimbledon Film Club, Curzon Cinema, 23 The Broadway, London, SW19 1RE
If Only I Could Hibernate
25-03-2025 at 20:30
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“The film shows the two conflicting forces: the escape impetus and the loyalty impetus.” Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
A Mongolian-set drama about a teenager who must balance the demands of his dysfunctional family and the possibilities opened up by academic success.
“[The film] brings an earthy, lived-in authenticity to a premise that, in other hands, could feel like a piece of ethnographic voyeurism.” Wendy Ide, Observer
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
Location
Wimbledon Film Club, Curzon Cinema, 23 The Broadway, London, SW19 1RE
Perfect Days
08-04-2025 at 20:30
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“Seeing life through Hirayama’s eyes you are reminded of how important it is to look around you and see the beauty in the everyday.” Dominic Hayes, Mancunion
Hirayama, played by Koji Yakusho, a middle-aged toilet cleaner in Tokyo, enjoys a rich interior life through reading, photography and classic rock cassette tapes. Wim Wenders’ film artfully mixes the simple enjoyment of the world with the tribulations of human engagement.
“It’s magnificent works like this that keep me so in love with cinema. Film, in and of itself, helps me cherish life.” Andreas Babiolakis, Films Fatale
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
Location
Wimbledon Film Club, Curzon Cinema, 23 The Broadway, London, SW19 1RE
The Damned Don't Cry
15-04-2025 at 20:30
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“[A] haunting, peculiar and often expressly queer story of social isolation and outsider survival.” Guy Lodge, Variety
A rootless mother and teenage son struggle to get by in an inhospitable society, drifting from one Moroccan town to another, bound by a shameful secret and forced by circumstance into selling themselves.
“The story fills with careens of fate and shifting personal dynamics. The title is borrowed from a 1950 Joan Crawford movie, but the film has the punch of an earlier Crawford landmark, Mildred Pierce.” Danny Leigh, Financial Times
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
Location
Wimbledon Film Club, Curzon Cinema, 23 The Broadway, London, SW19 1RE
Archive
The Taste of Things
17-09-2024 at 20:30
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“Sumptuous, sensual and impossibly handsome” Observer
Benoit Magimel and Juliette Binoche (formerly a couple in real life) star as a wealthy gourmet & his sous-chef, living and working together in late 19thC rural France. This lavish gastromance won the Cannes Best Director Award, and was France’s submission to the Oscars.
“If Tran Anh Hung’s luminous period romance had been released in 1985, it would have played for six months straight at your local arthouse cinema …blissfully restorative, a movie that gives you back something you didn’t realize you’d lost” Time Magazine.
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
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Io Capitano
01-10-2024 at 20:30
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“emotionally searing but ultimately uplifting epic” Hollywood Reporter
Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone’s gripping and visually extravagant epic follows two endearing Senegalese teenagers, undertaking a perilous journey across Africa to make a new life in Europe. Nominated for the Best International Film Oscar & Golden Globe.
“real-life testimonies dramatised with youthful verve and extravagant flights of fancy … a true adventure” Irish Times
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
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Five Easy Pieces
22-10-2024 at 20:30
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“one of Nicholson’s finest performances … a succession of dazzling scenes” Observer
Jack Nicholson announced himself as a leading man with his iconic portrayal of flawed American anti-hero Bobby Dupea: torn between his cultured upper-class background, and the blue-collar world he has adopted. Easy Rider producer Bob Rafelson’s influential and critically acclaimed drama is regarded as a touchstone movie of the ‘New Hollywood’ era of the early 1970s.
“It’s a movie made by a gang of film lovers … borne out of their collective love of the kinds of movies that it seemed no one in Hollywood wanted to make. Until they did.” Variety
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
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That They May Face The Rising Sun
29-10-2024 at 20:30
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“A quietly captivating experience” Sight & Sound.
Adaptation of John McGahern’s award-winning novel: an author and his wife relocate from 1980s England to the Irish village in which he grew up. This affecting and visually stunning chronicle of the beauty found in everyday life has been a hit in community cinemas across the UK.
“A profound experience, a wonderful film.… Beautiful, incredibly moving” Irish Times.
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
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Monster
12-11-2024 at 20:30
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“beautifully shot and superbly acted” London Evening Standard
An incident involving a troubled schoolboy has ramifications for the wider community. Shape-shifting mystery drama from distinguished Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters), featuring a score by the late great Ryuichi Sakamoto. Winner Cannes Best Screenplay Award.
“the narrative peels away the diversionary misapprehensions until it arrives at its emotional kernel of truth … a film created with a great moral intelligence and humanity.” Guardian
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
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The Holdovers
26-11-2024 at 20:30
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“Consistently hilarious” Empire
The star (Paul Giamatti) and director (Alexander Payne) of Sideways reunite, in this funny and bittersweet comedy-drama about staff and pupils of a New England boarding school ‘held over’ to reluctantly spend the holidays together. This Oscar and Golden Globe-winner has been acclaimed as an instant new Christmas classic.
“the most charming Yuletide movie for an age … a highly skilled, sharply intelligent comic drama “ Financial Times
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.
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All of Us Strangers
07-01-2025 at 20:30
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“A raw and potent piece of storytelling that grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go.” Wendy Ide, Observer
A moving meditation on love, loneliness and the nature of family starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell & Claire Foy. Winner of 7 British Independent Film Awards, including Best Film and Best Screenplay.
“A film so personal, emotional and resonant, yet also so satisfying within its place in a genre.” Edgar Wright, filmmaker.
Additional Info
For full details and to buy tickets, go to wimbledonfilmclub.co.uk. Tickets are priced at £8 for WFC members, £12 for member guests, £8 for under-30s & full-time students, and £15.87 (including online booking fee) for non-members.