Oscar-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy makes an exclusive plea for a return to watching movies together in cinemas.
Screen Players Film Club is our brand new screening and podcast series.
We are thrilled to have teamed up with Soho Square Studios and The Cinema in The Power Station for a series of exclusive interviews and live on-stage events. Screen Players Film Club is your ticket to the personal stories behind some of the most iconic movies of all time and the best new releases.
NEXT EVENT: TWO STRANGERS TRYING NOT TO KILL EACH OTHER AT THE CINEMA AT SELFRIDGES ON MONDAY 19TH MAY AT 6.00PM BOOK HERE
Hosted by Charlotte Bogard Macleod each Screen Players episode invites you into intimate conversations with the film’s writer, director, actor or producer.
Our Screen Players’ guests will open up about their creative processes, sharing never-before-told anecdotes from behind the scenes.
We’ll be asking guests to reveal insights into what initially drew them to the project, the personal passions behind the vision, and the creative challenges they had to overcome.
What inspired those key, memorable scenes? How, as a producer, do you approach a screenplay and forge a working relationship with writers and directors? What, as an actor, will convince you to take on a role, and how do you work with the text as you inhabit that role?
From intoxicating indies to ground-breaking documentaries, from heart stopping dramas to terrifying horror movies, thrilling blockbusters and beyond – SCREEN PLAYERS promises unique insights into the creative journey behind some true cinema greats.
And because film is meant to be seen on the big screen, we are thrilled that The Cinema In The Power Station have come onboard as partners. You are invited to join us for special screenings followed by an on-stage conversation with the film-makers which will be recorded as part of the SCREEN PLAYERS podcast series.
We plan to release the podcast in early 2025. In the meantime, please do join us for the exclusive events detailed below and sign up to our newsletter to be the first to know who we’ll be talking to next!
MONDAY 20 JANUARY
SAM TAYLOR JOHNSON NOWHERE BOY
Please join us for an incredibly special screening of Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other followed by discussion with directors Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet, and their fascinating subjects Maggie Barrett and Joel Meyerowitz.
Life, death and making meaning are at the heart of this beautiful and often very funny film about artist Maggie Barrett (75) and her husband Joel Meyerowitz (84) a world-famous photographer.
This is a unique documentary - unlike anything you’ve seen before. The film’s two directors, themselves a couple, moved in to film an older couple’s life over the course of a year, allowing them to capture extraordinarily intimate, raw and honest conversations about mortality and the complexities of aging together.
Films strive so hard to capture what it means to be human - but Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other manages a rare insight into just that. A breathtaking film. Unmissable.
Monday 19th May 6.30pm
The Cinema in Selfridges
40 Duke Street
London W1U 1AT
Tickets available here: BOOK NOW
We’re insanely excited to kick off 2025 with filmmaker and artist Sam Taylor Johnson, revisiting her debut feature Nowhere Boy.
Nowhere Boy is a coming of age story about rebellious teenager, John Lennon, as he navigates life with his disciplinarian Aunt Mimi and charismatic but elusive mother. Set in working class Liverpool, it stars Aaron Taylor Johnson in his breakout role as the future Beatle. It is a film charged with the excruciating pain of abandonment and suffused with the redemptive power of Lennon’s music.
Whether you’ve never seen Nowhere Boy before, or fancy seeing it again on the big screen and hearing Sam share never-before-told anecdotes of what went on behind the scenes - this Screen Players Film Club is for you.
Monday 20th January 6.30pm
The Cinema in Selfridges
40 Duke Street
London W1U 1AT
THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT