Ritzy Cinema

📽✨ We're saving a seat for you tomorrow as we're celebrating National Cinema Day with £4 tickets all day long! Come along, discover a new fave film, and support your friendly neighbourhood cinema! We've got 19 (yes, 19!) films playing through the day:

⭐️ Sing Sing
✨ Inside Out 2
⭐️ Kneecap
✨ Cuckoo
⭐️ The Terminator (4K re-release)
✨ Paris, Texas (4K re-release)
⭐️ Blink Twice
✨ Only The River Flows
⭐️ Alien: Romulus
✨ Twisters
⭐️ Longlegs
✨ My Neighbour Totoro
⭐️ Despicable Me 4
✨ Kensuke's Kingdom
⭐️ Between The Temples
✨ Black Dog
⭐️ Mandoob
✨ Didi
⭐️ Deadpool & Wolverine

There's truly something for everyone! Grab yourself a ticket, and we'll see you at the movies 🍿👋

Brixton! ✨📣 We're bringing a special programme of short films by directors of Jamaican descent to The Ritzy this September, with Dead Lef: Visions of Contemporary Jamaica (Vol. 2), programmed by

🇯🇲 In Patois, Dead Lef refers to land and belongings inherited following the death of a relative. Through dancehall, familial craft, & ancestral spirituality, each film examines the notion of cultural inheritance via legacies that are left behind. Rebelling against traditional representations of Jamaica on film, each filmmaker forms their own sense of visual language in the process, as they bring the past and present boldly to the screen while exploring the inherited ties between the island and Britain.

📅 Tue 10 Sep
⏰ 7pm
🎟 Book tickets now via the Picturehouse Website, Mobile App, and at Box Office

Mark your diaries! ✨ This Saturday (31 Aug) we’re celebrating — come in and see a film with us for just £4 per ticket all day long!

All that’s left to do is decide what you’ll be seeing! See what’s on and book your tickets now via the Picturehouse Website 🎟

All the world's a cinema with our brand new reDiscover season: Six Degrees of Shakespeare! 🕯✨

See six diverse directorial takes on six Shakespearean texts in our ode to The Bard — faithful or fast and loose, tragic or comedic, these six films may be worlds apart, but each plays a part in bringing this literary legend to the big screen. See...

💸 The Bad Sleep Well
🚖 My Own Private Idaho
❤️‍🔥 Romeo + Juliet
🤖 Forbidden Planet
🎸 10 Things I Hate About You
👑 Chimes at Midnight

Screening from Sat 7 Sep at The Ritzy!

📜🪶 Want to find out more about the season? Read all about the films from season programmer (and Ritzy alum!) Johnathan Kirk at picturehouses.com/shakespeare

We look good in the sun! 🌞

Step out of the heat and come on down to The Ritzy for an ice cold drink on our balcony bar and a bite to eat from En Root, then see a movie in our air conditioned screens — you'll thank us later 🥵

Our eyes are glued to the big screen with all the cinematic treasures arriving at The Ritzy this 📽✨

From Wei Shujun's neo-noir detective thriller with a surrealist twist, to the Cailee Spaeny-starring seventh instalment in the Alien franchise, a fly-on-the-wall Taliban documentary and Tobey swinging back onto our screens in Spider-man 3, there's something for everyone this week!

🎟 See showtimes & book tickets over at the Picturehouse Website & Mobile App, or pop in and ask our staff at the Box Office about what's on this week at The Ritzy!

We've got three icons of the '80s (all alike in dignity!) gracing our screens this weekend — Maverick, Bueller & Divine! 🤩

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Don't miss out on seeing these stone-cold classics back on the big screen where they belong — which will you be joining us for this week? ✨

t's at the Ritzy and what a bumper week! 🕶

The MCU returns to the Big Screen with Deadpool & Wolverine clawing their way into Screen One.

We've also got Picturehouse Entertainment's phenomenal drama About Dry Grasses from legendary director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

And not to mention Jane Schoenbrun's long awaited sophomore feature I Saw The TV Glow which astonished audiences across the pond earlier this year.

Three films you simply have to see in the cinema, you're spoilt for choice!

Don't mind us... just admiring the gorgeous poster wall in Upstairs at the Ritzy 😍

One of these films (and dare I say, the best) will be screening at the Ritzy in August... can you guess what it is? 🤔

Hint: It's directed by one of at least three filmmakers displayed who have a new release expected this year! 👀

To commemorate the passing of Shelley Duvall, we’re screening Robert Altman’s 3 Women tomorrow. Featuring Duvall’s towering performance alongside Sissy Spacek, 3 Women is as uncategorisable today as it was nearly 50 years ago, a truly singular film.

Altman aptly described the film as “empty vessels in an empty landscape”, but the performances are anything but empty, particularly Duvall’s multi-layered Millie. Her work with Robert Altman (particularly in 3 Women, Popeye and Thieves Like Us) should be held in the highest regard of director-actor collaborations, we’re honoured to be screening the film in tribute to her.

📆 Wed 24 Jul
🕰 8.30pm
🎟 £8/£5 for Members
https://ticketing.picturehouses.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=004&txtSessionId=57505&visLang=1

Want to experience cinema's greatest decade on the big screen again... as you wish! This time next week the kicks off at the Ritzy! 💥 We’re starting with a bang with these three certified classics playing from next weekend, don’t miss your chance to see…

🤺 The Princess Bride (27th 14:00)
💸 American Gi**lo (28th 15:00, and only £1 for Members!)
🤖 Robocop (28th 17:45)

Oh , you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream, but you just got even prettier! You can now enjoy the film with a shot of Malibu plus your choice of mixer – and a popcorn for just £10! Movies... they'll fix you, they fix everything.

✨ Ceylan Corner ✨

To celebrate the release of Picturehouse Entertainment's new film About Dry Grasses, we've dedicated the wall space upstairs to the films of director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

The Turkish auteur has crafted a tapestry of uncomfortable truths and existential withdrawal over his near thirty year career. He has written and directed some of the most profound examination of the human condition and his latest may be his best one yet.

About Dry Grasses, co-written by Ebru Ceylan and Akin Ansu, releases in cinemas next Friday. You can catch a preview here on Monday at 7.30pm with tickets £8, and only £1 for Members!

🎟 https://ticketing.picturehouses.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=004&txtSessionId=57227&visLang=1

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We’re delighted to be playing host to a very special 35mm screening of Secretary (2002) here this Saturday in partnership with Lost Reels — helping to bring forgotten, lost, or unavailable films back to UK screens 🎞

Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader star in the first (and only?) S*M rom-com, one of the boldest and most original films to emerge from Sundance Film Festival. Lost Reels will be presenting Shainberg’s director’s cut from a beautiful print, so don’t miss your chance to see this funny, sexy, controversial & romantic film as it was intended to be seen! Tickets only £8!

📅 Sat 20 Jul
🎟 https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/004/HO00014864/lost-reels-presents-secretary-2002-in-35mm

Week Seven — Pam Grier in George Armitage's Hit Man.

The final week of our guide to the building's side concludes with, to our knowledge, the only photographed individual who has been inside the building: the indomitable Pam Grier!

In September 2022 we welcomed Pam to the building for a Q&A following a screening of Tarantino's Jackie Brown. Throughout the month we screened a retrospective of her most iconic roles: Coffy, Foxy Brown and two gorgeous 35mm prints of Sheba, Baby and the grossly underrated Friday Foster!

Pam Grier embodies everything that the Ritzy's identity encompasses, and welcoming her to this historic building is perhaps my personal favourite memory of my time here. Wham, Bam, Here Comes Pam again someday? We can only hope.

👀 Many of you may have come across don hertzfeldt's affecting and surrealist wonder It's Such a Beautiful Day over the years, but how many of you have been lucky enough to see it on the big screen?

🚨 Well now is your chance! We'll be screening it at the Ritzy tomorrow alongside Don's mysterious new short film: ME!

🎟️ https://ow.ly/Qf8R50Su0Q7

We were thrilled to have author Chibundu Onuzo at the Ritzy this time last week for a special schools' event celebrating her new book MAYOWA AND THE SEA OF WORDS. It was an amazing morning exploring storytelling, music and the joy of reading and writing!

Huge thanks to partners Dark Matter, Round Table Books and Bloomsbury Childrens Books

Did you know we offer schools' screenings throughout the year? Find out more about what is on offer at: www.picturehouses.com/education.

This Saturday is Windrush Day 2024, marking the 76th Anniversary of the Empire Windrush's arrival in Britain.

We'll be commemorating the occasion with a weekend of specialised programming:

Saturday - Five incredible screenings throughout the day presented by the Windrush Caribbean Film Festival
Sunday - Barrel Children: The Families Windrush Left Behind, back on the big screen + recorded Q&A with director Nadine White

🎟 https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/the-ritzy

👀 Look who has crash landed at the Ritzy 👀

Doctor Who returns to the big screen tomorrow night as we bring the two-part finale to our cinema. Join us for The Legend of Ruby Sunday, followed by the premiere of Empire of Death!

📆 Fri 21 Jun
🕰 11pm
🎟 https://ticketing.picturehouses.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=004&txtSessionId=56271&visLang=1

Doctor Who

Week Six — Sidney Poitier in Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night.

Poitier's passing in January 2022 was a greatly felt loss in cinema, the legacy of his performance as Virgil Tibbs is cemented in film history. As we said on our readograph at the time, a true super star and trailblazer!

Not long afterwards we screened some of his films in our 'To Mr Poitier, With Love' season: In the Heat of the Night and To Sir, With Love. In March 2023 we were grateful to show the restoration of Sidney's directorial debut: Buck and the Preacher in which he starred alongside Harry Belafonte who passed away last year.

Much of To Sir, With Love was filmed in the East End of London, particularly Wapping and Shadwell. If only the DLR had been invented by then, Sidney could have been kicking back in Greenwich Picturehouse in no time at all!

Week Five — Rudolph Valentino & Agnes Ayres in George Melford’s The Sheik.

The oldest film on the side of our building, this silent romance was a star-making vehicle for Valentino. It was the third highest grossing film of 1921 and spawned a 1926 sequel 'The Son of the Sheik' which would sadly be Valentino's final screen role.

The film was produced by a studio called 'Famous Players-Lasky corporation', the studio responsible for 1927's 'Wings': the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture! The studio is better known today as Paramount.

The 1965 Elvis Presley vehicle 'Harun Scarum' was loosely inspired by the film but a direct remake never came to fruition. Anthony Dexter was attached to star in a rumoured 1950s remake, having played Valentino in the 1951 biopic of the same name.

🚨 Due to popular demand, our Q&A with Viggo Mortensen & Solly McLeod has been moved up to our stunning Screen One!

🤠 This “ruminative state-of-the-nation western” (Sight and Sound) finds love and compassion amidst its brutal civil war era backdrop.

🎟️ Missed out on the first batch of tickets? Don’t make the same mistake again, book now!
https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/004/HO00014752/the-dead-don-t-hurt-viggo-mortensen-q-a

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📹 The story of Margaret Moth, the swashbuckling CNN combat camerawoman and trailblazing female icon, is brought to vivid light in this stunning documentary: NEVER LOOK AWAY.

🎤 We're delighted to welcome director Lucy Lawless for a live Q&A following this screening hosted by the Independent’s chief film critic, Clarisse Loughrey.

📅 Mon 10 Jun
⏰ 6.30pm
🎟️ https://ow.ly/QNFw50S4plX

☀️ The Summer Blockbuster season is right around the corner but we're still overflowing with cinematic goodness in June! Here are some highlights hitting the Ritzy this month:

💐 Rosalie - 7 Jun - Picturehouse Entertainment ✨

The quest for self-acceptance in the face of radical adversity is a tough one, but one fiercely realised by Nadia Tereszkiewicz in this romantic drama.

The Taste of Things' Benoît Magimel co-stars in his second 19th Century France set love story of 2024!

🇨🇻 Ama Gloria - 14 Jun - BFI ✨

The bond between a Nanny and a young child crosses borders in this heartfelt story of separation and letting go, from debut filmmaker Marie Amachoukeli.

Don't miss a Discover preview here on 4 Jun at 6.20pm, with tickets only £1 for Members!

🪶 Fancy Dance - 21 Jun - Apple TV/Altitude Films ✨

Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) returns with another striking performance in this urgent and tender tale of indigenous communities.

A rare chance to see the film on the big screen ahead of its streaming debut later in June!

💛❤️💙 Kinds of Kindness - 28 Jun - Searchlight Pictures ✨

Fresh from Jesse Plemons' Best Actor win in Cannes, Yorgos Lanthimos follows up Poor Things with another audacious dark comedy starring Emma Stone & Willem Dafoe.

The cinematic experience is vital for this self-described triptych fable!

🤔 Let us know which films are you most looking forward to this month!

Big news, Viggo fans! 🤠 To celebrate the release of his new film (written, directed, acted, produced AND composed by Mortensen!), we’re welcoming the man himself to The Ritzy for a special screening and post-film Q&A, plus co-star Solly McLeod, hosted by Anna Smith.

Don’t miss your chance to see this “handsomely crafted and beautifully shot” (Guardian culture) modern take on the Western that “John Ford and Howard Hawks would love” (Deadline Hollywood) in the presence of the man behind it all.

📅 Sat 8 Jun
⏰ 2pm
🎟️ https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/004/HO00014752/the-dead-don-t-hurt-viggo-mortensen-q-a

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