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Monday 27 October 2014 in London

By | Published on Tuesday 21 October 2014

Rosie Holt

And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…

COMEDY: Fall Girl | Canal Cafe Theatre | 27-29 Oct (pictured)
Written by comedian Rosie Holt, aka the ‘love child of Satan and Miranda Hart’ (says playwright Mark Ravenhill), ‘Fall Girl’ features original songs and lyrics by Tim Newns, Daniele Finley and Holt herself. What’s more, Holt scores the theatrical hat-trick by starring as naive main character Hayley, who’s forever getting tricked and lied to by those more ‘streetwise’ than she is. Details and tickets here.

FILM: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Season | BFI | 27 Oct – 27 Nov
The BFI’s timely new strand is dedicated to Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or for ‘Winter Sleep’, who’s hailed by BFI curator Geoff Andre as “one of the most incisive observers of the male psyche working in film today”. This season feting Ceylan’s ten year career begins with a split-bill comprised of early short ‘Cocoon’, which stars his real-life parents, and 1997’s ‘The Small Town’, a four-part tale told from the POV of a group of children, and based on his and his sister Emine’s first introduction to the adult world. Details and tickets here.

FESTIVAL: Illuminations | various locations | 27 Oct – 7 Nov
Cosmic rap pack Shabazz Palaces, Franco-pop-o-naut Sébastien Tellier and Melt Yourself Down (featuring a rare PA by guest James Chance) are all listed to play live headline sets at this year’s Illuminations festival, live promoter Rockfeedback’s London-based series of one-off shows and music-themed film events. Taking place in various spaces all over London from 27 Oct – 7 Nov, the Illuminations 2014 programme starts off with a screening of ‘Wild Combination’, a film portrait of late alt-disco infiltrator Arthur Russell, and later plays host to Fugazi doc ‘Instrument’; a Channel 4 ‘Random Acts’-curated night of short films featuring the likes of Savages and Jacques Greene; a ‘from the vault’-style parade of ‘shocking and sensational’ music videos from MTV’s ‘120 Minutes’; and on 31 Oct, a Halloween screening of ‘Godfather Of Gore’ Lucio Fulci’s horror movies with live rendition of their Fabio Frizzi-written scores. Details and tickets here.



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