{"title": "Strawman", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "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/comedy"], "description": "Strawman is a 1987 Taiwanese film screening at The Garden Cinema. Directed by Wang Toon, it opens his 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy' and is shot by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, winning six Golden Horse Awards including Best Feature Film. Set in 1940s Taiwan, it follows two impoverished tenant farmers who, finding an unexploded American bomb in their field, carry it to the Japanese authorities hoping for a reward, as their plan spirals into absurdity. The film stars Cho Sheng Li, Chang Po-Chou and Yang Kuei-Mei.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/strawman-39239/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/strawman/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/9388f1a7dd5ad17413873b4ed59e125974ccd9fb1b3f6b28a8690bb1a5e6fdda-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-25T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Banana Paradise", "start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00Z", "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/historical-drama"], "description": "Banana Paradise is a screening of Wang Toon's 1989 Taiwanese film, part of The Garden Cinema's Made in Taiwan season. It follows a naive young man who follows the Kuomintang forces from China to Taiwan in 1949, adopting false names as he adjusts to life amid turbulent socio-economic changes. The film, the second chapter in Wang's 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy', addresses the cruelties of martial law as a tragicomic melodrama, alongside rural-urban migration and the demands of modernisation. The screening on 8 November will be introduced by Tom Cunliffe (UCL) and shows a new restoration, with Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Chang Shih and Wen Ying in the cast.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/banana-paradise-39242/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/banana-paradise/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/02c5ee45227451c88fddecaad75485afdf9a927d15832ff668d82692aa9fe4dd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Made in Taiwan", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "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"], "description": "Made in Taiwan is a season of screenings dedicated to Taiwanese cinema, running from 24 October to 6 December 2026. It is presented by The Garden Cinema and supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, and is the fourth edition of the cinema's annual Taiwanese film season. At its heart is a focus on cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, who joins in London for seven films from his five-decade career, including his collaborations with Hou Hsiao-hsien. The programme also brings classic and contemporary Taiwanese works by filmmakers such as Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, King Hu, Wang Toon, Huang Ya-li, Chen Kuo-fu and Hsin Chi, alongside Q&As and introductions.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/made-in-taiwan-39287/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/f0514bb360a48417c6b3862d09a30e4add3aab83384fb4f6cc19302d1a6bbec9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "'Wicker Sour' cocktails, straw man making + Wicker", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "£18.50", "price_from": "18.50", "price_to": "18.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "A members' evening pairing a themed 'Wicker Sour' cocktail hour with straw man making and a screening of Wicker, followed by the film itself in the screen. The event comes from The Garden Cinema's own bar and members' programme, with the film made by co-directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson and starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård. It tells of a ridiculed fisherwoman in a village by the sea who commissions a husband made of wicker, a romance that sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos in her conservative town. Tickets include the cocktail, the straw man activity and an allocated seat, restricted to two per member.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/wicker-sour-cocktails-straw-man-making-wicker-39233/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/wicker-sour-cocktails-straw-man-making-wicker/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/3c70c7ef481d45e087b85e88c841df37f65c7653d8d216def99ebeb0105265bf-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Raise the Red Lantern", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00Z", "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"], "description": "Raise the Red Lantern is a film by Zhang Yimou from 1991, shown in a new digital restoration. It follows Songlian (Gong Li), an educated young woman sold into marriage with the rich tyrant Master Chen, who must navigate the maze of political and sexual challenges within the fortress-like Qiao Family Compound among his four competing wives. Winner of the Silver Lion at Venice in 1991, it is considered perhaps Zhang's most accomplished film and the culmination of his 'Red Trilogy'.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/raise-the-red-lantern-39238/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/e3974183ed0475c1eb1127e625652682f475e9408410ee23345ae168df356658-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Strawberries", "start": "2026-10-31T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "STRAWBERRIES is a film about two young women who leave Morocco to work a season picking strawberries in southern Spain. Promised fair pay, they dream of a better future for themselves and their families. Their bond with other female workers helps them endure harsh conditions, until abuse and harassment shatter their hopes. With the support of a Spanish lawyer, they must decide whether to speak out against a powerful system, risking everything to seek justice.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/strawberries-38172/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437.TcsProgramme_2949849", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/567dc26b5e41c66b2c5f213938c7015d76132fc79b0f4036c104e27903f8f7c3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Millennium Mambo", "start": "2026-10-30T18:15:00Z", "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"], "description": "A screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2001 film about an aimless bar hostess in Taipei, drifting from her blowhard boyfriend towards a suave, sensitive gangster. Structured as a flashback to the then-present from the then-future of 2011, it is a trance-like dive into the techno-scored neon nightlife of the city, drenched in club lights with a nagging undercurrent of ennui. Shu Qi stars alongside Jack Kao and Tuan Chun-hao. The film is presented in a new digital restoration as part of the cinema's focus on filmmaker Mark Lee Ping-bing.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/millennium-mambo-39218/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/millennium-mambo/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/dc4c82166411d2c14cd9a9003b4f167b7cd0ad05908733cd28a284fc772e0f67-1200.webp"}, {"title": "What Time Is It There?", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "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"], "description": "A film screening by Tsai Ming-liang, made in Taiwan and France in 2001, reuniting the director with Lee Kang-sheng alongside Chen Shiang-chyi and Lu Yi-ching. Hsiao-kang, a watch vendor in Taipei, sells a dual-time watch to Shiang-chyi before she leaves for Paris. As she wanders the unfamiliar city alone, Hsiao-kang becomes fixated on Paris, watching Truffaut's The 400 Blows and resetting clocks across Taipei to Paris time. Across the two cities, their solitary lives unfold in parallel, mirroring each other through absence, chance encounters and quiet gestures of connection.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/what-time-is-it-there-39230/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/what-time-is-it-there/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/0feca1acfc99153f95b2b17f6fb36c383d8e194b16e07eeb5f71da6db3fb45db-600.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": "Better Go Mad in the Wild", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "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": "An award-winning, playful documentary about identical twins František and Ondřej, who live on their own terms on a ramshackle farm deep in the Šumava Mountains, tending animals, swimming in forest lakes, writing poetry and bickering. It is made by Miro Remo, who blends semi-staged vignettes, striking visuals, a talking cow and anarchic humour to blur reality and fairy tale. The film follows František, who dreams of freedom and adventure, and Ondřej, who longs for the familiar, as their bond is put to the test. The screening is followed by a Q&A with the director.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/better-go-mad-in-the-wild-39234/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/better-go-mad-in-the-wild-qa/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5fc64233c4f7f1fb949bb66eed73fdb04e7c39e61a93394bebc0045d4bfc76fe-600.webp"}, {"title": "Double Vision", "start": "2026-10-31T20:30:00Z", "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/horror"], "description": "A screening of Double Vision, a 2002 film by Chen Kuo-fu made in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with Tony Leung Ka-fai, René Liu, Leon Dai and David Morse. In Taipei, disgraced detective Huang Huo-tu joins forces with FBI agent Kevin Richter to investigate a series of inexplicable deaths. As clues lead from a murder in a Christian church to hallucinogenic fungus and a mysterious Taoist cult, forensic reason collides with ancient beliefs and the boundary between serial murder and the supernatural dissolves. A landmark of Taiwanese horror and a major box-office success, it was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/double-vision-39223/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/double-vision/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/0eb112cd23cb1eb0f6b72a7a924470ba60ee0ec049f89a277ec32283a91742eb-600.webp"}, {"title": "After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "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/science-fiction"], "description": "After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film is a film programme inspired by the pioneering science fiction of the Strugatsky Brothers, who reigned over Soviet science fiction for more than three decades. Pushkin House and Klassiki present the series, running from 6 to 13 November with four screenings and a live discussion at Pushkin House. It explores how renowned Soviet and Russian filmmakers, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Sokurov, and Aleksei German, drew on the Strugatskys as they explored the slow collapse of twentieth-century utopia. The programme presents acclaimed screen adaptations including Stalker, Days of Eclipse, Dead Mountaineer's Hotel, and Hard to Be a God, with screenings split between the Garden Cinema and the ICA.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/after-utopia-the-strugatsky-brothers-on-film-39292/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/festival/after-utopia-the-strugatsky-brothers-on-film/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/8f7ca7fa4594a5eeb48e4d6790f4a2f1f96336e51e10b475fb4cd898380357f3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Bar Shorts with Darren Walsh & Russell McLean", "start": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "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/animation/stop-motion"], "description": "Bar Shorts with Darren Walsh & Russell McLean is a 90-minute screening event at The Garden Cinema, presented in partnership with Bar Shorts. British animator and director Darren Walsh and Emmy-winning producer Russell McLean have long collaborated in animation and advertising, on work including Angry Kid, stopframe scenes for Martin Scorsese's Hugo and Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Black Mirror's The Waldo Moment and the Compare The Meerkat campaigns, and recently developed the Gerry Anderson puppet project Hit Squad for Warner Bros Animation and Hanna-Barbera Europe. Walsh brings stop-motion and character direction expertise, McLean extensive live action and VFX production experience. The programme is to be announced soon, and the cinema does not show adverts, so arrive promptly.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/bar-shorts-with-darren-walsh-russell-mclean-39229/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/bar-shorts-with-darren-walsh-russell-mclean/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/f6677f2f86509da60560d729ecc04c3daece64de37d699ca5cfaa3df5b08c86e-600.webp"}]}