{"title": "John Berger at 100 | Film: \"Once Upon a Time\" & \"A Telling Eye\" | Mike Dibb", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T21:00:00Z", "place": "Newington Green Unitarian Church", "address": "Newington Green 39A, N16 9PR London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "literature/biography"], "description": "A very rare screening of two documentaries about the writer John Berger, followed by a conversation between filmmaker Mike Dibb and writer and producer Gareth Evans. \"Once Upon a Time\" (52 mins) is a meditation on our experience of time, filmed in and around Berger's house in France, with time-centred stories read by Berger himself. \"A Telling Eye\" (60 mins) is a survey television overview of Berger's work across all media, featuring interviews with Berger, collaborators and commentators. The evening is part of the John Berger at 100 film and event series, marking the centenary of the author of more than 60 books.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/john-berger-at-100-film-once-upon-a-time-a-telling-eye-mike-63625/", "official_url": "https://www.new-unity.org/whatson/2026/11/18/jb-100-dibb", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7e1f6cca91bbc14fa36213113844309d00014076bb601327bb5aa27051c9dd2c-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T21:00:00Z", "place": "Newington Green Unitarian Church", "address": "Newington Green 39A, N16 9PR London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "“Estate. A Reverie” Film Screenings & Talkaoke – part of Estate Talks", "start": "2026-11-14T15:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T18:30:00Z", "place": "Outside Haggerston Community Centre", "address": "8 Lovelace Street, London, E8 4FF", "price": "Free - Booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/housing"], "description": "The final event of the Estate Talks series brings film screenings and Talkaoke, a pop-up talk show by The People Speak, together at Haggerston Community Centre. It features the award-winning film 'Estate. A Reverie' (2015, 83 mins) by resident filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman, made with residents over seven years, interweaving intimate portraits, residents' historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes to ask how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography. Also screened is 'Taking over King's Land' (2014, 23 mins) by Gillian McIver, following Nazir Tanbouli as he battles weather, vandalism and lack of funds to create a massive mural installation across a condemned housing estate in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics. The evening includes a free-flowing conversation around the Talkaoke table, with refreshments provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/estate-a-reverie-film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-tal-39535/", "official_url": "https://thepeoplespeak.org.uk/event/film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-talks/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ed5d15bcca3ae42ca1b5995bfc0f6e8dfd00147cc3502068b60943d1b51d117-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Watch Party Vol. 1: Cinema Realité", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T21:00:00Z", "place": "Love Affair Basement", "address": "324 - 326 Hackney Road, E2 7AX, London, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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://noky.io/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://noky.io/images/b86e967200f6b2ed2e47b20561df9740cdc0a819c4a8dd25878c053476d8dbc1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Edward Said: Between Worlds", "start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/politics"], "description": "Edward Said: Between Worlds is a documentary film about the Palestinian-American scholar, intellectual, musician and activist Edward Said, followed by a Q&A with director Maiken Baird. Made with full access to the Said family and estate, it draws on unseen family archives, home movies, recordings, interviews, lectures and rare television appearances. Spanning seven decades from his childhood in Jerusalem through exile and his final years in New York, it traces his political awakening, personal struggles and lifelong search for home and belonging. Through his own voice and rare archives, it asks who has the right to tell their own story.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/edward-said-between-worlds-90539/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/edward-said-between-worlds/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82b4b3b2d9b344880fbe44322e818f4f53cecb0bd8f48f6aab4b7dc3a3164721-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Chris Lewis presents: Jerry Lewis's Home Movies, plus Q&A", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "place": "The Cinema Museum", "address": "Dugard Way 2, SE11 4TH London", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of Jerry Lewis's 16mm home movie productions, followed by a question-and-answer session. It is presented by Chris Lewis, Jerry Lewis's son and president of the American Wheelchair Mission, and organised and moderated by Charlotte Ross, curator of I'll Say She Is. The programme offers highlights of the home movies Lewis wrote and directed with his close friends more than a decade before his directorial debut The Bellboy (1960), including the full films An Eye For An Eye and Come Back Little Shiksa and excerpts from parties and premieres at his Pacific Palisades home. Before the screening, Chris Lewis signs copies of his book Jerry Lewis on Being a Person, with proceeds going to the Cinema Museum's fundraiser.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/chris-lewis-presents-jerry-lewiss-home-movies-plus-qa-39083/", "official_url": "https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/chris-lewis-presents-jerry-lewiss-home-movies-plus-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4813424b8ce0fc441451d95ca80beb2bbc003f0ecb063c251a4374b48424b35a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "A Hard Days Night", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T21:30:00Z", "place": "Walthamstow Trades Hall", "address": "61-63 Tower Hamlets Road, E17 4RQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy/musical-comedy", "literature"], "description": "A screening of the Beatles classic A Hard Days Night, followed by a talk with writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed. The evening marks the publication of her new book on the film, part of the BFI Classics series, and is held with Stow Film Lounge. The audience can ask questions, and the book will be on sale that night.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-hard-days-night-104199/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8439a3b1aaa33155000594a3a18fa86534341973a6dc69b1bcae2e1c4190ddca-2000.webp"}]}