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Published: 26 November 2009

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EDDIE Izzard live is always worth a look. Now the Prince Charles cinema is screening his movie Believe, which charts his life as a stand-up. Forget the slightly odd performances in films like Oceans 12 and 13, this movie has Eddie as himself – not an English-accented baddie.
It includes loads of previously unseen footage, which normally is an excuse for not having enough archive stuff to use. In this case, it’s because it is all good fun. Underneath all this is the fact that cross-dressing Eddie has not had it easy.
And I see that the Prince Charles cinema, the West End’s only truly independent stand-alone picturehouse, is screening a Christmas double bill of Gremlins and Die Hard, on Sunday December 22. Readers will know I regularly take my hat off to the programmers – they constantly come up with crackers.
Meanwhile, a month-long celebration of the Royal Institute of British Architects is heading to an end – but you still have time to get down to the British Film Insitute this week and check out a series of films exploring how our lives are shaped by architects.
Called “Of Dreams and Cities – Architecture in Film”, it features documentaries, features and silent classics. It includes Terence Davies’ Of Time and City, an amazing film on the changes his home town Liverpool has seen. See www.bfi.org.uk

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