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 at Selfridges 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: HOT MILK PREVIEW SCREENING AT THE CINEMA AT SELFRIDGES ON MONDAY 30TH JUNE AT 6.15PM BOOK HERE. All ticket holders are also invited to join our launch party for the podcast series.
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 FILM CLUB 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 at Selfridges 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 FILM CLUB podcast series.
Season 1 of THE SCREEN PLAYERS FILM CLUB podcast will be released in June 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 30 JUNE
REBECCA LENKIEWICZ
HOT MILK
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
We are thrilled to be hosting an exclusive preview screening of Hot Milk, the directorial debut from Oscar winning screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
Hot Milk dreamily unfolds over a long, languid Spanish Summer, as a young woman discovers that her ailing Mother and her mysterious lover may not be exactly who she thought they were. It’s a film that simmers with unspoken resentments, and pulsates with streamy eroticism. Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw and Vicky Krieps give astonishingly brilliant performances, immersing us completely in this sultry exploration of liberation and longing. We can’t wait for you to see it.
After the screening, Rebecca will be in conversation with Charlotte Bogard Macleod - sharing never-before-told stories of bringing Deborah Levy’s best selling novel to the big screen.
Then stay on to join us for the Screen Players Film Club podcast launch party. All the Film Clubs you’ve missed will be available to listen to very soon.
Monday 30th June 6.15pm
The Cinema in Selfridges
40 Duke Street
London W1U 1AT
Limited tickets. Book here now!