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Published: 16 October 2008

Pick of the Indies

THE London Film Festival has a bumper package of great films, including free screenings next week in Trafalgar Square.
High Treason (1929) is the maverick right-wing MP Noel Pemberton’s nightmare vision of London in the future (well, 1950). He was heavily into aircraft and founded the Supermarine aviation company. Unsurprisingly enough, it features some rather wonderful gadgets – the sort the original Flash Gordon would have been proud to use. Thursday, October 23 at 6.30pm.
The following day at 6.30pm is a series of films about the city. London Loves... is chocka with archive footage, and includes a documentary that followed London’s last horse-drawn bus driver on his route. Superb.
Meanwhile, two of POTI’s fave screen haunts are hosting festival screenings – The Tricycle in Kilburn shows the marvellous Citizen Havel on Sunday, October 26 at 2pm, followed by Kisses at 4.30pm.
Over at the Phoenix in East Finchley the incredible animated tale about the fallout of conscription in the Israeli Defence Force is featured in Waltz with Bashir. It is beautifully made and covers a tricky subject, focusing on the experience of director Ari Folman during the Lebanon war of the early 1980s. Themes of lost innocence, the power of the memory to black out vile experiences and the futility and surrealism of being at war abound. Powerful stuff. It’s on at 6.30pm on Monday, October 27. On the same night, the Phoenix is screening Sallie Aprahamian’s Broken Lines.

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