Close-Up Cinema

Close-Up Cinema Close-Up is a 40-seat digital & 35mm equipped cinema + cosy cafe/bar within an extensive Library.
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Cinema
Close-Up's film programmes present a series of films that shaped the art of cinema and its history. The programmes also include regular special events with filmmakers present to discuss their work. Close-Up is committed to supporting and developing the exhibition of independent and experimental cinema, focusing on the cross over between the arts and film culture. Library
The Library’s colle

ction of over 26,000 titles specialises in early cinema, classics, world cinema, documentaries, experimental films and video art. It includes rare films exclusive to Close-Up and by independent filmmakers not represented by distributors. Vertigo Magazine
Founded in 1993, Vertigo has established itself as a reference for the discussion of film culture and history. Vertigo offers a diverse range of critical views, committed to inspire and engage with audiences, academics and practitioners alike.

Showing tonight, 8pm:Casa de lavaPedro Costa, 1994, 105 minCape Verde’s colonial histories and displaced emigrants have ...
14/06/2026

Showing tonight, 8pm:
Casa de lava
Pedro Costa, 1994, 105 min

Cape Verde’s colonial histories and displaced emigrants have been central to many of Costa’s films, but his rarely seen second feature is the only one thus far to have been shot on the archipelago. Inspired by Jacques Tourneur’s I Walked with a Zombie, this is one of Costa’s most direct reckonings with Portugal’s colonial legacy
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/casa-de-lava/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-bpqkyk

Showing today, 4.30pm: Andrei RublevAndrei Tarkovsky, 1966, 183 minWith his second feature, a towering epic that took h...
14/06/2026

Showing today, 4.30pm:
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966, 183 min

With his second feature, a towering epic that took him years to complete, Andrei Tarkovsky waded deep into the past and emerged with a visionary masterwork. Appearing here in his preferred 183-minute cut, Andrei Rublev is an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance, and a powerful reflection on expressive constraints in the director’s own time.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/andrei-rublev/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-mvldaq

Showing today, 3pm:Pictures of the Old WorldDušan Hanák, 1972, 64 minInspired by the photographs of Slovak artist Martin...
14/06/2026

Showing today, 3pm:
Pictures of the Old World
Dušan Hanák, 1972, 64 min

Inspired by the photographs of Slovak artist Martin Martinček whose pictures distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images, Hanák created his own distinctive impressions of the artist's work in reflecting a myriad of human stories.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/pictures-of-the-old-world/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-jpjdmy

Showing today, 2.30pm:Pompei: Below the CloudsGianfranco Rosi, 2025, 114 minFrom award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi...
13/06/2026

Showing today, 2.30pm:
Pompei: Below the Clouds
Gianfranco Rosi, 2025, 114 min

From award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi comes Pompei: Below the Clouds, a striking portrait of life in Naples, a city living in the shadow of Vesuvius. The result is a portrait at once local and universal: a reflection on humanity’s capacity to live, love, and rebuild in the shadow of the unimaginable.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/pompei-below-the-clouds/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-ljzdmb

Showing tonight, 8pm:Goodbye, Dragon InnTsai Ming-liang, 2003, 81 minIn Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is a...
12/06/2026

Showing tonight, 8pm:
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Tsai Ming-liang, 2003, 81 min

In Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. An exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of movie-going, Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is one of the most beguiling and beloved dramas of modern times and is now widely regarded as a classic.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/goodbye-dragon-inn/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-rpoaop

Showing tonight, 8.15pm:Wendy and LucyKelly Reichardt, 2009, 80 minLucy is the dog. Wendy is her owner, a 20-something u...
10/06/2026

Showing tonight, 8.15pm:
Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt, 2009, 80 min

Lucy is the dog. Wendy is her owner, a 20-something urchin chasing dreams of economic stability in Alaska and trying to cross the country in a shaky car and a precariously small amount of cash in a money belt. A high point of Reichardt’s career, Wendy and Lucy stands as a defining work of the neo-realist filmmaking that transformed American independent cinema in the early 2000s.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/wendy-and-lucy/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-yrpvmr

Showing tonight, 8.15pm:DaisiesVěra Chytilová, 1966, 73 minVěra Chytilová unleashes an optical storm of fluctuating film...
09/06/2026

Showing tonight, 8.15pm:
Daisies
Věra Chytilová, 1966, 73 min

Věra Chytilová unleashes an optical storm of fluctuating film stocks, kaleidoscopic montages, cartoonish stop-motion cutouts, and surreal costumes. The result is Daisies, the most defiant provocation of the Czechoslovak New Wave, an exuberant call to rebellion aimed squarely at those who uphold authoritarian oppression in any form.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/daisies/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-xmxedv

Showing tonight, 8.15pm:StroszekWerner Herzog, 1976, 103 minOne of Herzog's most accessible films, Stroszek is a lyrical...
08/06/2026

Showing tonight, 8.15pm:
Stroszek
Werner Herzog, 1976, 103 min

One of Herzog's most accessible films, Stroszek is a lyrical, melancholy, bitterly funny tale of three oddly-assorted Berlin misfits who follow the American Dream to Wisconsin and find a bleak El Dorado of television, football, CB radio, truck stops, and mobile homesteading.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/stroszek/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-qrvaqd

Showing tonight, 6.30pm:Goodbye, Dragon InnTsai Ming-liang, 2003, 81 minIn Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace i...
08/06/2026

Showing tonight, 6.30pm:
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Tsai Ming-liang, 2003, 81 min

In Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. An exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of movie-going, Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is one of the most beguiling and beloved dramas of modern times and is now widely regarded as a classic.
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/histoires-du-cinema/goodbye-dragon-inn/
Box Office: https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/e-rpoaop

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