{"title": "The Colour of Pomegranates", "start": "2026-11-17T11:50:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Sergei Parajanov's celebrated masterpiece paints an astonishing portrait of the 18th century Armenian poet Sayat Nova, the 'King of Song'. Parajanov's aim was not a conventional biography but a cinematic expression of his work, resulting in an extraordinary visual poem. Key moments in his subject's life are illustrated through a series of exquisitely orchestrated tableaux filled with rich colour and stunning iconography, each scene a celluloid painting alive with stylised movement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-colour-of-pomegranates-64083/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/6773592/the-colour-of-pomegranates-sayat-nova", "image": "https://noky.io/images/04e195b9694f5a0d30c5b5b4c0b5e7e15dd9596d7b46d392564b6efed50a0c0e-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T11:50:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2027-01-02T15:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Cinema Paradiso", "start": "2026-11-14T20:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Cinema Paradiso [Nuovo Cinema Paradiso] is a drama screened at the Prince Charles Cinema in central London. Giuseppe Tornatore directed the 1988 film, which stars Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale and Antonella Attili. It follows Salvatore, a successful film director who returns home for the funeral of Alfredo, the projectionist at his childhood cinema, and recalls his first love affair with Elena and the memories that shaped his life. The film won awards worldwide, including the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, five BAFTA Awards and the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cinema-paradiso-64071/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/2409654/cinema-paradiso-nuovo-cinema-paradiso", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4e932a569a4ab93d2874ca3dc9b196e2b2326f25307ac3d556bf36087c677a1a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Music Video Preservation Society with special guest Tim Pope", "start": "2026-11-18T18:20:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/film", "music"], "description": "An evening of the Music Video Preservation Society at the Prince Charles Cinema, celebrating the art of the music video. It features director Tim Pope, a pioneer of the form known for his videos for The Cure, David Bowie, Soft Cell and many others, in conversation with MVPS host David Knight. He will tell stories from his memoir 'I Shoot Rock Stars' and present a selection of his greatest music videos, remastered to their original glory, on the big screen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/music-video-preservation-society-with-special-guest-tim-pope-64091/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617017/music-video-preservation-society-with-special-guest-tim-pope", "image": "https://noky.io/images/449e27c5361dd8f77a7e6eb3ca6f131f8c5f42969bb29c4524afe7259fda9d25-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Women and the World: DOVZHENKO. FIRST LOOK", "start": "2026-11-08T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/biographical-drama"], "description": "A special screening of the film DOVZHENKO. FIRST LOOK, followed by nothing stated beyond the film itself. The film follows young artist Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who arrives in Odesa in 1926 to make his first film as Ukrainian cinema begins to find its voice. Dreaming of cinema as an art form rather than a tool of propaganda, he comes into conflict with a system determined to control artistic expression. Based on the early career of one of Ukraine's most influential filmmakers, it tells of a young artist's struggle for creative freedom against the growing pressure of the Soviet regime.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/women-and-the-world-dovzhenko-first-look-103987/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437.TcsProgramme_3060694", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d98fadb447720689a18eb2dc2d1ccb18b2379979aa9dae23e45138f97e2b7d3b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Barry Lyndon", "start": "2026-11-16T19:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Barry Lyndon is a 1975 historical drama adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. Stanley Kubrick directed this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, chronicling the adventures of an incorrigible trickster, played by Ryan O'Neal, whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlours of high society. With Patrick Magee and Marisa Berenson among the cast, Kubrick evoked the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting through pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish design, work that earned Academy Awards. The result is a sardonic, devastating masterpiece whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/barry-lyndon-64082/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/1865452/barry-lyndon", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74a5f1eb4038dcf8cd975c119c68bc7485e4acedc8134ab8d7f9377a376255db-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Persepolis", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation", "history"], "description": "A screening of Persepolis, an animated film directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud from 2007. It was programmed by artist Autumn Knight to accompany her exhibition I Can't Complain, as one of three films in her selection, which she says explore complaint masked by humour and the dignity of labour and craft. Based on Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, the film follows her childhood transformed by the Iranian Revolution, her teenage exile in Europe and her return to Iran. The ticket includes free entry to the exhibition on the same day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/persepolis-74143/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/artists-film-picks-persepolis", "image": "https://noky.io/images/99a89f34ae06ec11c617d98f46787eb33f56d60e0cca14cfa088709cb4af57f4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "In the Realm of the Senses", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/psychological-drama"], "description": "A screening of the controversial 1976 Japanese psychological drama 'In the Realm of the Senses'. It is directed by Nagisa Oshima and stars Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji, Aoi Nakajima and Taiji Tonoyama. Set in 1936 and based on a true incident, it depicts a man and a woman consumed by a transcendent, destructive love amid escalating imperialism and governmental control. Still censored in its own country, it is described as less a work of pornography than of politics, a brave, taboo-breaking milestone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-the-realm-of-the-senses-64014/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/25079278/in-the-realm-of-the-senses", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db6031f5b00f3e199a2e979c15c0fbef37cf73960dc89d1e46dda1a72f68566c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Piano", "start": "2026-11-19T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "The film 'The Piano' is a romance and drama about a mute woman in the mid-19th century who is sent to New Zealand with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker. Directed by Jane Campion, it stars Holly Hunter, Sam Neill, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker and Genevieve Lemon.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-piano-64093/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/26595713/the-piano", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5815d4cf94712d7deb588093bc0fd8da1fb90dce0109e2b5e04cc4a4fa674115-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dead Souls", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/western"], "description": "A screening of the film Dead Souls, followed by a live question-and-answer session with its director Alex Cox. Cox, director of Repo Man and Straight to Hell, stars as the drifter Strindler, who wanders the West offering to pay for the names of dead Mexican labourers, in a loose adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's novel. A meditative Western mixing picaresque humour and dark satire, with cowherds, outlaws and pistol duels, made with co-writer and Spaghetti Western legend Gianni Garko.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dead-souls-64045/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617548/dead-souls-alex-cox-qa", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4cbc2cee6e86b67f5fcad20ce5c75642ae4888fbf7313e0ba9b0bc3ba2d351cc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Adventures of Prince Achmed", "start": "2026-11-11T12:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation", "literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "The Adventures of Prince Achmed is Lotte Reiniger's 1926 animation, an enchanting amalgamation of stories from the Arabian Nights animated in cut paper silhouettes and an exquisite artefact of Weimar Cinema. Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one another in a series of wondrous adventures. The film melds international folk art traditions with the technical possibilities of a new medium.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-adventures-of-prince-achmed-64054/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617529/the-adventures-of-prince-achmed", "image": "https://noky.io/images/22b9c7f1dbd1d1d6b54e4b4a7985622813a2fd14a45c8c004c4f892fe31d5df4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Russia's 20th Century in Songs: A Conversation with Filmmaker Sergey Kuznetsov", "start": "2026-11-17T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/russia"], "description": "An in-person talk at Pushkin House, a cultural venue in Bloomsbury. It is a conversation with filmmaker Sergey Kuznetsov titled \"Russia’s 20th Century in Songs\". The discussion takes Russia’s twentieth century as its subject, explored through its songs. The event is part of Pushkin House’s programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/russias-20th-century-in-songs-a-conversation-with-filmmaker-106419/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1b30f9acc390978ad8b6a73e2d0eee23fa39bab670689470ac01b9c35447e6d6-2000.webp"}, {"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"}]}