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Published: 8 May 2008

Camden cinema | Pick of the Indies | Prince Charles cinema | 24-hour film weekend | European

OH la la!
This weekend you can go all Gallic as the Prince Charles Cinema celebrates something called European Day with a 24-hour film fest at London’s most affordable and fun cinemas.
Stand out films in the jam-packed programme include a midnight screening of one of the spookiest and unpleasant films I have ever seen.
Don’t Look Now, with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, tells the story of a couple who have lost a child in tragic circumstances, and try to escape their grief by throwing themselves into their work.
Sutherland is a religious architectural expert and they find themselves in Venice, where a series of mysterious events make their loss more acute.
Based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier, it is brilliant but horrible, and perfect for a late-night fright fest.
The cinema also hosts a Q and A with directors Szabolcs Hajdu – from Hungary – and Elijah Moshinsky to discuss exactly what European cinema represents and what the future holds for the non-English language picture industry.
After Hajdu has waxed lyrical, stick around for his superb film Tamara, which manages to find humour in a film about rural Hungary – a challenge he has risen to.
If you need some relief from heavy-weight European cinema, you could always skip down Shaftesbury Avenue to the Curzon Soho. At midnight, they are showing Skidoo, a classic piece of 1960s counter-culture-comedy which was Groucho Marx’s final role – as God, no less.
Meanwhile, it has come to my attention that the Screen on the Hill in Belsize Park is showing Blade Runner on Sunday.
Considering the quality of the general releases out there at the moment – with the exception of Iron Man, we are slopping about in a post-Oscar, pre-summer state of cinematic sloth – this feels like a marvellous piece of public service.
DAN CARRIER
• Prince Charles Cinema ticket line:
0870 811 2559

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