A look at what's on the silver screen beyond your local Odeon. Thursday: We hadn't heard of Lupe Yoli, or "La Lupe", before, but if the above picture of the "Afro-Cuban bad girl of Latin music" doesn't grab your attention, then you might just be clinically dead. La Lupe Queen Of Latin Soul, a documentary on the life and times of the salsa pioneer and all round hell-raiser, is playing tonight at the Women's......

A pair of Antonioni pictures, a classic London whodunnit, a "mythbusting" doc on Iran and a sneak preview of the new film starring Ellen Page of Juno fame: it's a week of contrasts at London's rep cinemas. Thursday: Michaelangelo Antonioni's death last year, on the same day as Ingmar Bergman, served perhaps the final chapter on a particular kind of European arthouse cinema: the brooding, slow, existential and (to its detractors) pretentious style. Antonioni's......

A certified celluloid classic, a crowd-pleasing trilogy, and an original if less than definitive "history" of the cinema: there's something for everybody this week. Thursday: Citizen Kane is the Ulysses of film: hugely influential, yet more talked about than seen. But its ubiquitous position atop the American Film Institute's list of all-time great movies remains deserved - nobody developed the language of cinema, and invented so many of the techniques we now take for......

Lots to cover this week, so let's crack on with things. Friday: A solid double-bill here as part of the BFI Southbank's Time Machine season, which explores cinema as a "time-based and time-obsessed medium". Alain Resnais' Last Year in Marienbad unfolds like a perfect modernist dream. The repetition of conversations and half-remembered chance meetings at a society ball course the imprecise tracks of the moment before waking, like the mind clutching at a dream......

The Olympics have been put to bed and there's nothing but bilge on the box. Time to extract yourself from the sofa and skulk down the local uniplex to see what's shaking, where this week the delights include a pair of triple-bills - including probably the finest sequel in movie history - and some choice cuts at a free festival. Wednesday: Tonight, the Roxy continues its Beefeater London Movie Season. It's pretty simple: £3......

After a week off spent organising our copious Laserdisc collection, the Repertory Film Round-up is back to sift through the silver screen classics that London offers the discerning cineaste. Thursday: Hot-foot it to Highgate tonight for the You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat film quiz, which this time is themed around "Blockbusters" - a subject the Rep Film Round-up confesses to being less than au fait with. Entry is two quid, and it begins......

Difficult to avoid the Bat-hype machine this week, as the release of The Dark Knight has prompted calls for a posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger. Luckily, as always, London provides for those who don't necessarily want the latest marketing churn poured down their throat. For your consideration this week: Thursday: Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love is the next film at Rivington Place, in conjunction with their Oscar Munoz retrospective. After his......

Can't decide on whether to take an umbrella or a sombrero out in this ever-changeable climate? The answer's both, unfortunately, so we recommend that instead of facing the elements you bed down in a hushed auditorium, where this week's selection includes a season of films from an island where the sunshine is just that little bit more reliable. Thursday As part of their retrospective of Oscar Munoz, which we reviewed last month, Rivington Place......

While our Saturday Cinema Summary does an admirable job of rounding up the week's new releases, London's celluloid attractions run deeper than the local multiplex's offerings. From retrospectives of filmmaking greats, to cult classics introduced by obsessive cinephiles, each week we'll offer a preview of the forgotten films and rare screenings worthy of your attention. Wednesday: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, the stark Romanian film that snatched the Palme d'Or at Cannes last......