Pop-up cinema screenings curating music, short films, images, food and drink around a film in cinemas
13/07/2025
Last night by the lake
Marcello transporting the kit for a screening of cult and silence inducing film Deep End (we’ve never reduced a wrapt audience to absolute silence at the end of a film before!).
played a perfect set of psychedelic 70s tunes before on CDJs (using actual CDs!)…
Massive thanks to the staff for serving up Hot Dogs to mirror the scene in the film in Soho with John Moulder Brown and Burt Kwouck at the hot dog stand in Soho …
Great to have @6876 selling their East/West German protest inspired towels - still available on their site … get em before they’re gone…
We’re back at Woodberry on 26 July with Stand by Me…
Finally a massive thank you to everyone who came - good to see people who’d come to Dungeness, Westwell Wine Estates, the Rio and of course Woodberry - we really value your support and you make Rebel Reel the community it is…
22/06/2025
SCREENING AT WOODBERRY WETLANDS ON 26TH JULY! Outside the Coal House Café by the Wetlands Lake.
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?”
STAND BY ME starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell adapted from Stephen King’s Novella The Body.
This is a bitter sweet remembrance of a time past, set in 1959 in small town America, telling and moving, adapted and directed by the brilliant Rob Reiner about that moment before four friends grow up where life seems simpler (albeit with the annoyance of older siblings/ abrupt adults etc …).
There’s a sadness and poignancy as one of the characters looks back … imagine seeing it by the water at Woodberry Wetlands collectively – bring your kids (it is a certificate 15) – there’s something different about seeing films outside … oh, and that Soundtrack is just so so good …
“This is a really good time.”
We’ll have a DJ playing a suitable soundtrack before the film whilst you eat and drink.
This is an outdoor screening with food and drinks from the Coal House Café.Presented with thanks to Alfa Romeo who are sponsoring our transport in Summer 2025 - per amore del cinema
Stand By Me
Dir. Rob Reiner 1986
Length 1hr 25mins
21/06/2025
SCREENING AT WOODBERRY WETLANDS ON 12TH JULY! Outside the Coal House Café by the Wetlands Lake.
DEEP END (certificate 15) starring Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown and Diana Dors!
Another transgressive Psycho-Sexual 1970s film– following last year’s success of The Swimmer by the water we’re back with Deep End …
Set in a Swimming Pool (shot in Leyton) a floppy hair slightly limp (not for long!) 15 year old Mike (John Moulder-Brown) becomes dangerously infatuated with Susan (Jane Asher in a yellow mac which does for Deep End what the red mac did for Don’t Look Now …)…
David Lynch said he didn’t care much for colour films but loved Deep End…
A US/ German co-production written and directed by Polish born Skolimowski Deep End was made in 1970 as W***y Brandt’s party gained power in West Germany. At that time German students made a poster proclaiming “Some people talk about the weather … we don’t” featuring images of Lenin Marx and Engels … to tie in with the directors heritage we’ve got a limited edition luxury (this is proper towel luxury) from 6876 featuring the “some people …” imagery to buy (which includes your ticket to the film …) or just buy a ticket … obviously we’ll be reserving the best spots for those with towels …
Cat Stevens song But I Might Die Tonight features over the titles (what is it with Cat Stevens and cult 70s films – remember Harold and Maude?) and Can’s song Mother Sky plays over an extended hot dog eating scene in Soho (we’ll be serving hot dogs amongst other things!) as well as the usual great wine, beer and soft drinks offering at Woodberry’s Coal House Café
DJ Martin Green will be playing a suitable vinyl soundtrack on our friends decks before the film whilst you eat and drink.
This is an outdoor screening with food and drinks from the Coal House Café. Between Stoke Newington and Manor House (nearest tube Manor House)
Presented with thanks to Alfa Romeo who are sponsoring our transport in Summer 2025 - per amore del cinema
18/06/2025
Fig 1 - 2 .littleton
Fig 3 - 4 imariii
Graduate shows
Bravo
12/06/2025
Amazing event by @6876 last night …
Lovely mix of some design legends, members.
Special mention to .mcgill for his hard work…
Check out www.sixeightsevensix.com - especially loving the Some People Talk About The Weather towel coming soon…
03/06/2025
This is a rare screening of Hail The New Purtian by Charles Atlas which Sue Tilley and I will be introducing this Thursday in Soho.
DJing and works by
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
#1980 #1990
29/05/2025
PARTY PARTY PARTY - REBEL REEL PARTY
PARTY GIRL/ HAIL THE NEW PURITAN
co-introducing
Plus the work of
Come to PARTY @ All is Joy Soho in the heart of Soho on Dean Street.
6.00pm: DOORS - Martin Green DJing
6.45pm: Introduction by Sue Tilley (author of Leigh Bowery: The Life and Times of an Icon) and Chris McGill (Rebel Reel Cine Club)
7.05pm: Artist Pavel Anuska Film and images from her canon of work (also showing in studio by bar)
7.10pm: Hail The New Puritan (1hr 25mins)
8.35pm: Martin Green DJing
8.50pm: Party Girl (1hr 34mins)
10.25pm: Film Ends, Martin Green DJing until Midnight
Midnight: Carriages Await!
Hail The New Puritan
Dir. Charles Atlas
Hail the New Puritan is a 1986 British fictionalized documentary about the Scottish dancer and choreographer Michael Clark.
Party Girl
Dir: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
1995 starring Parker Posey
A 20-something, irresponsible party girl is bailed out of jail by her librarian godmother. To repay the loan, she starts working at the library and gradually turns her life around.
In partnership with A Rabbit’s Foot magazine (free copy with every ticket! our friends at A Rabbit’s Foot are kindly giving us copies of the Jeremy O Harris cover magazine - this is more of a book that a magazine and we love it!)
Hail The New Puritan - the spoof documentary made by Charles Atlas will be introduced by Sue Tilley (Author of the Leigh Bowery book that inspired the exhibition at Tate Modern) - you can buy the book and have it signed by Sue!
DJ Martin Green from 6.00pm and after the film until midnight
16/05/2025
Marcello got us here… thanks to for lending us him for the summer whilst Keef has a rest for longer journeys …
We’re at tonight … back again in August
14/05/2025
Bravo! …
Insightful and illuminating ANd fun evening talking about cinema and fashion…
11/05/2025
Huge thank you to everyone who came to Dungeness on Friday and Saturday!
I almost cried on Saturday during Badlands - the sound was amazing and Carl Orff’s music is possibly the best soundtrack in film… the colours actually matched the sky …
Oh, and the line in Nuts in May on Friday that Keith says …
“Shame about the Power Station in the background … Pity” (I feel a letterpress print coming on…)…
Next screening at Westwell Wines on Friday with Moonrise Kingdom between the vines …
Thanks to Dominic
07/05/2025
5th June
Party
Soho
05/05/2025
Dungeness Beach Screenings!
Friday 9 May - Mike Leigh truly British comedy of camping and self penned songs starring Alison Steadman and Roger Cloman - NUTS IN MAY
Saturday 10 May - BADLANDS - Terence Malick’s epic true crime story of stone cold killers played by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek… Karl Orff’s music wafting across the shingle will haunt you forever …
Two films of couples and music designed to be seen on the expansive flat lands of Dungeness
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The Hang Out is a monthly evening event that celebrates counterculture.
A collaboration between Rebel Reel Cine Club and Bolt Motorcycles, we attract a diverse audience, brought together by a curated collection of images, film, food, drink and music in an easy atmosphere of cultural inquiry and celebration of Rebellion and The Maverick. We strive to find interesting places to do this safely in these difficult times, offering a chance to escape.
The Hang Out started when I walked into Bolt’s motorcycle yard in Stoke Newington and met owner Andrew Almond. From our first conversation The Hang Out began to take shape.
I was looking for a partner who shared my love of counterculture and subcultures to create events. Bolt is London’s maverick (and best) motorcycle shop and garage, creating custom bikes and selling apparel inspired by the subcultures of motorcycling. It also houses Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace Library and Zippo Records.
The Hang Out is a space for people who ride bikes or drive classic cars, and people who don’t (!), to gather together for food, drink and curated content in a stunning setting. The Silver Building, our latest venue, is a former factory with seating under the concrete ramp of the DLR (there’s a sense of Brutalism mixed with a dystopian future as the lights of Canary Wharf and the City form a backdrop glimpsed between slabs of concrete).
With a love of film and years of reading, watching and talking to like-minded people, Rebel Reel Cine Club’s curation of The Hang Out is about more than just film. Our September Hang Out was inspired by the 70s road movie Vanishing Point, and included a short film by John Pearse (co-owner of legendary 60s boutique Granny Takes A Trip and still tailor to almost everyone involved in arts and culture in London), along with denim hunters and photographers Melody and Bryan Kahtava – whose extraordinary discoveries of vintage denim are showcased in Vanishing Dreams of The West. Bolt’s friends Youth Club Archive (see blog post 2) again made a bespoke film of images for the event while Zippo Records DJed.
As well as the cultural curation we secured Brewdog Beers to sponsor everyone’s first drinks (thank you Brewdog!) and Smoke and Bones – the only Halal Texas BBQ in London (anywhere?) – to provide us with their amazing slow-cooked meat (this doesn’t do justice to the taste…). The venue served us with cocktails as well as other drinks (whilst maintaining all anti-Covid safety measures!)
Our next Hang Out is on 29th October - click here and join us! We’d love to see you if you’re open, friendly and would like to celebrate the outsider.
