{"title": "À propos de Nice", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "£20/£12", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.royalacademy.org.uk/53167/53168", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/20th-century"], "description": "This is a film screening of À propos de Nice, followed by a talk about 20th-century life in the French Riviera. The film was directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman, and is a 1930 documentary offering a provocative portrait of Nice, capturing both the luxury of the carnival on the promenade and the poverty of the working-class neighbourhoods. After the screening, historian Richard Vinen, who has taught at King's College London since 1991 and specialises in modern France and Europe, will discuss the Riviera's two competing realities: the sun-soaked playground of artists and aristocrats and the poverty of everyday life in the shadow of war and the Great Depression.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/a-propos-de-nice-38267/", "official_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/a-propos-de-nice", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/a3006449cabd31b550b19bf14afa16b30e5a9eef05e4564eacbbca5927618af3-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Painting the French Riviera at the Royal Academy", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy", "address": "Burlington Gardens 6, W1S 3ET London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/books/bookshop/exhibition-catalogues/painting-the-french-riviera-exhibition-catalogue", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modern-art"], "description": "The exhibition \"Painting the French Riviera\" shows how the French Riviera inspired and supported the rise of modern art, with more than 160 works including paintings, sculpture, books, travel posters and film, from the 1870s to the 1960s. It is held by the Royal Academy, which selected 15 original vintage travel posters from AntikBar for the show, displayed in Gallery 9. The paintings include works by Cezanne, Monet, Picasso, Bonnard, Signac, Matisse and Klein among others, plus a video of Le Train Bleu produced by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The exhibition is on in the Main Galleries at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, from 2 October 2026 to 31 January 2027, open Tue-Thu and Sun 10am-6pm, Fri and Sat 10am-9pm.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/painting-the-french-riviera-at-the-royal-academy-40956/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/d58d3e524301624dc10977659e6e91e6936d452da4e4d6cf04267ad6146ae315-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Painting the French Riviera", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "£24–£26 (£26.50–£28.60 with donation)", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "26.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.royalacademy.org.uk/events/ex-painting-the-french-riviera", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modernism"], "description": "\"Painting the French Riviera\" is an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Main Galleries at Burlington House, running from 2 October 2026 to 31 January 2027. It is organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition tells the story of how the Côte d'Azur dazzled modern art's great innovators, showing how its radiance roused painters such as Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne, Renoir and Klein, as well as giants of literature, cinema and fashion. It brings this to life through more than 160 works, including paintings, sculpture, travel posters and film, from the 1870s to the 1960s.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/painting-the-french-riviera-38251/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/c0b576fb358580072257c9aa9dc3f50bca487966f691271b1834a7e363828fc1-600.webp"}, {"title": "90th Anniversary Film Screening", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Dorich House Museum", "address": "Kingston Vale 67, SW15 3RN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-screening-dora-gordine-ars-gratia-artis-tickets-2003071405495?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*12zmk2e*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTU5Mzg3Nzk3OC4xNzkxNDYwODI3*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3OTE0NjA4MjckbzEkZzEkdDE3OTE0NjA4MzkkajQ4JGwwJGgw", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of the film Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis, marking 90 years since Dora Gordine and Richard Hare married and settled at Dorich House. Made over eight years by filmmaker Annaleena Piel Linnå, the first-ever feature-length film about Gordine traces her life and career from Latvia and Estonia to Paris, Singapore and her London studio home, and features rare recordings of her. Doors open beforehand with a chance to look around the museum, enjoy refreshments and live 1930s-inspired music, and after the screening the filmmaker discusses her research with the museum's curator, Fiona Fisher.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/90th-anniversary-film-screening-35609/", "official_url": "https://www.dorichhousemuseum.org.uk/2026/10/08/90th-anniversary-film-screening-friday-6-november/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/da8dd3d4be6147dc267367cc68e9333a2cb494a711925785d0e21ac2c332b8fa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Making Marie Antoinette", "start": "2026-10-31T15:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Making Marie Antoinette is a documentary built from eighty hours of footage shot in 2005 by Eleanor Coppola while she watched her daughter Sofia direct Marie Antoinette at the Palace of Versailles, the first production ever granted access there. Eleanor Coppola filmed the landmark production, Milena Canonero's costume work, and what it took for Sofia to direct at 34 under her mother's gaze. The footage went unseen for two decades, until, in fulfillment of her mother's wish, it became a film of its own, released as a tribute from Sofia and Roman Coppola. It works both as a behind-the-scenes look at an ambitious take on 18th-century French history and as a touching mother's observation of her daughter at work.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/making-marie-antoinette-39220/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/making-marie-antoinette/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/9d7921a01335dc041edfa908aed9d16b22ac11c98e49c9e6c001d2d9426adeaa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lift + Calais The Last Border", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/t-dklaqqm", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "An evening of two documentaries by Marc Isaacs, Lift and Calais: The Last Border, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker moderated by Gareth Evans. In Lift, made in 2001, Isaacs sets himself up with his camera in the lift of a London tower block, waiting for the right moment to ask residents questions, capturing the whole of British society in a humorous and moving microcosm. Calais: The Last Border, from 2003, weaves together character-driven stories of refugees, migrants and English expatriates in the French port town that is, for hundreds of migrants, the final barrier in the search for a new life in England. Together the films build a picture of transient places and inhabitants who dream of somewhere better.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/lift-calais-the-last-border-35342/", "official_url": "https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/planned-spontaneity-the-films-of-marc-isaacs/lift-calais-the-last-border", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/f670b40d71c7c8fc3cfad2a4973659abe56ccb3931620e8c724520b57adeb8af-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000", "start": "2026-11-02T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "literature"], "description": "A 50th-anniversary screening of Alain Tanner's 1976 Swiss film, shown as part of centenary celebrations for the writer John Berger. Co-written by Berger with the late Swiss director Tanner, it follows a disparate group of nonconformists and radicals from Geneva who gather at a rural retreat to reflect on the aftermath of May 1968 and what the future might hold. It stars Roger Jendly, Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau and Miou-Miou, and is introduced by Gareth Evans. The screening is part of nationwide celebrations marking what would have been Berger's 100th birthday.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/jonah-who-will-be-25-in-the-year-2000-39228/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/john-berger-at-100-jonah-who-will-be-25-in-the-year-2000/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/9309e77e5f43ad8bde09d589ee37235b3330b0ad3c503402d168b211c5a6710c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "In Provence and Southern France", "start": "2026-09-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/all-artworks", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "A free selling display of prints and paintings shown in the Belle Shenkman Room in the Keeper's House of the Royal Academy of Arts, with all works available for sale. It features works by Dame Barbara Rae DBE RA, made after visits to Ménerbes, Maubec, Vaucluse, Campagnac and Alayrax in Provence and southern France. The artist, who has travelled widely for inspiration, explored the culture and history of the landscape, from its towns and vineyards to its sunflower fields. The display runs from 29 September 2026 to 28 February 2027, and visitors who are not members can enquire at the membership desk to view it.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/in-provence-and-southern-france-38255/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7ee24d195441fbf6f15e09319aa2c294e380865054be4fcfc8ea9ffc80e1054c-600.webp"}, {"title": "All About the Money", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A screening of the film \"All About the Money\" followed by a question-and-answer session. Director Sinéad O'Shea will join for the Q&A. The film follows Fergie Chambers, who rebels against everything his family represents by funding an anarchic, anti-capitalist collective in rural Massachusetts, yet it is the privilege of his background that lets him escape when the group gets into trouble. O'Shea explores the contradictions of life among the 1% and questions whether one can ever really escape such wealth and power.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/all-about-the-money-39232/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/all-about-the-money-qa/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/37a31299ee687b3ac01654605725afd1cbb8bdc63b356fdb40ddc6f17aa3f865-600.webp"}, {"title": "Watch Party Vol 1: Cinema Realité", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Love Affair Basement", "address": "324 - 326 Hackney Road, E2 7AX, London, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/watch-party/watch-party-episode-1-debra-in4k/2026-11-08/18:00/t-ejqorka", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Watch Party: Vol. 1 Cinema Realité is an evening of screenings with film-themed talks, set design, free popcorn and a raffle for a Criterion Collection DVD. The series is hosted by Debrain4k and celebrates cinema at the level of experience. It presents two short documentaries by Les Blank, Gap-Toothed Women (1980) and Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), described as 'cinema realité', a style combining improvisation, close observation and almost no voice-over. The screenings are followed by three short talks from guest speakers and a social.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/watch-party-vol-1-cinema-realite-63579/", "official_url": "https://www.loveaffairbasement.co.uk/events/watch-party-vol-1-cinema-realit", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/b86e967200f6b2ed2e47b20561df9740cdc0a819c4a8dd25878c053476d8dbc1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Caméra arabe", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7092060.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Caméra arabe is a documentary tracing the emergence of a new Arab cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, when filmmakers began using cinema to confront the political, social and cultural transformations of the Arab world. Directed by Férid Boughedir, it features interviews with leading directors including Youssef Chahine, Jocelyne Saab, Nouri Bouzid, Merzak Allouache and Michel Khleifi, alongside vivid extracts from their films. From the aftermath of the Six-Day War to the Lebanese Civil War, it shows how major historical events shaped filmmakers determined to challenge conventional representations. At once a cinematic history and a passionate defence of politically engaged filmmaking, it remains an essential document of the emergence of modern Arab cinema.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/camera-arabe-36646/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/camera-arabe/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/071aeebb8210ffc28a25100021f119d716b13644b373e4e0ec9e30a3abd4e107-2000.webp"}]}