Lexi Cinema London

The Lexi’s big sister comes home in September, with 3 screenings on the doorstep.  Tickets available through Nomad; click here.

NAPOLEON DYNAMITE

Queens Park, Sat 3 Sept.  Entertainment from 6:30, film at 8:00

 Tater-tot munching, liger-drawing, tetherball-champion Napoleon Dynamite – what a wonderful and funny guy. Husband and wife co-writers and co-producers Jared and Jerusha Hess created a cinema icon with Jon Heder’s inspirational ubernerd in this triumphant 2004 comedy.  As we all know, there’s a thin line between really really really really believing in yourself – and massive self-delusion. Napoleon surely falls into the former category, but only just. The Hesses have created an immortal, weirded-out little universe that would be depressingly bleak if it wasn’t just so incredibly funny, and, like we said, strangely, truly inspirational.

BACK TO THE FUTURE PART 1

Roundwood Park, Sun 4 Sept.  Entertainment from 6:30, film at 8:00

“Roads? Where we’re going….we don’t need roads.” One of the most perfectly crowd-pleasing films of all time, Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future is an expertly-crafted series of thrilling set pieces and sparkling performances, which spawned a wildly successful trilogy and a long list of lines and phrases which have since entered everyday parlance.  The film was 25 years old last year (we know – how can that be?) but feels fresh, funny, genuinely exciting and absolutely loveable. We won’t be bringing our flux capacitor or weapons-grade plutonium, but we guarantee you surprises are in store on the night. Keep your eyes peeled…

THE THIRD MAN

Queens Park, Sat 17 Sept.  Entertainment from 6:00, film at 7:30

The greatest British film of all time?  Graham Greene wrote the source novella and screenplay about an exhausted and cynical postwar Vienna, providing the atmospheric backdrop for a tale of troubled personal histories, friendship and betrayal. Shot on location in 1949, Austria’s capital, ruined, dark and seedy, is the real star of the show – that is, until Orson Welles emerges out of the darkness to reveal Harry Lime. Oh, yes, and the distorted expressionistic cinematography of Robert Krasker. And the bizarrely chart-topping zither theme by Anton Karas. The film went on to win the Grand Prix at Cannes that year, also picking up British and American Academy Awards. One to enjoy again, under the stars, or to introduce friends and family to  for the first time – they’ll owe you one…