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London's cinemas worth crossing town for: the repertory and arthouse houses, the picture palaces kept going, the one IMAX, and the rooms above pubs and behind bars where the programme is somebody's taste. What is showing is listed under each cinema, and in What's On.
What is showing this week is in What's On: Film
Four screens run by the people who keep the national film archive, and two free rooms beside them.
Repertory & seasons
This is the British Film Institute's own cinema, and the programming follows from what the BFI is: seasons built out of an archive rather than out of what distributors are pushing, restorations, and long retrospectives given to a director or a country. The London Film Festival is centred here each October.
Two things next to the screens cost nothing at all. The Mediatheque is a room of terminals where anyone can sit and watch from the BFI's collection - the largest film and television archive in the world - without booking or paying. The Reuben Library, also free, holds books, journals and digitised papers on film and television. Membership from £44 buys priority booking, which matters when a festival goes on sale.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.