Slade in Flame is FINALLY coming back to British cinemas – here's where you can see it

24 April 2025, 14:05 | Updated: 24 April 2025, 14:30

You can finally watch Slade in Flame – "The Citizen Kane of British Pop movies" – on the big screen again.

We're in the age of the pop biopic, but there are more interesting things that you can do with a rock band and the medium of cinema.

As well as The Beatles' story films A Hard Day's Night and Help! there was the Bee Gees-led Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and in 1975, Slade in Flame.

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The venerable Mark Kermode has called Richard Loncraine's film "the Citizen Kane of British Pop movies" and we're not going to argue with him.

It's been a long, long time since the film was on the big screen, and it's not always been that easy to watch it at home either.

But both those things will change next month, with a remastered version not just coming to DVD and Blu-ray on May 19, but also getting a full cinema release.

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"Slade in Flame both confounded and delighted audiences when it was released in 1975, at the height of the legendary glam-rock band’s success, starring the band themselves, this was a music film like no other," reads the blurb from the BFI.

"Charting the rise and fall of a pop group at the end of the 1960s, this darkly cynical, warts-and-all portrait of a band in freefall amidst the music-industry suits who want a piece of the pie was not what anybody was expecting."

A special preview screening will be held at BFI Southbank, featuring a Q&A hosted by Kermode with not just director Richard Loncraine and actor Tom Conti but Noddy Holder himself.

The full list of cinemas that will be showing the movie is as follows. Links to buy tickets are available via the BFI website.

• BFI Southbank (Special preview screening with Q&A)
• Abbeygate Cinema, Bury St Edmunds
• The Atrium Cinema, East Grinstead
• BEAM Hertford
• Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Brighton
• Ritzy Picturehouse, London
• Broadway Letchworth
• Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
• Picturehouse Central
• Chester Picturehouse
• Clapham Picturehouse, London
• Corn Exhange Newbury
• Crouch End Picturehouse, London
• Ealing Picturehouse, London
• East Dulwich Picturehouse, London
• The Cameo, Edinburgh
• Epsom Picturehouse
• Exeter Picturehouse
• Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool
• Finsbury Park Picturehouse, London
• Forum Cinema, Hexham
• Gala Theatre, Durham
• Greenwich Picturehouse
• Hackney Picturehouse, London
• Regal Picturehouse, Henley-on-Thames
• Little Theatre Cinema, Bath
• Cinema City, Norwich (Picturehouse)
• Olympic Studios, Barnes
• Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford
• Phoenix Cinema East Finchley, London
• The Picture House Cinema, Uckfield
• Savoy Cinema, Grantham
• Showcase Dudley
• Harbour Lights, Southampton
• The Station Cinema, Richmond
• City Screen, York
• ActOne Cinema, London
• Kings Cinema Newmarket
• Warwick Arts Centre
• Derby Quad
• Montrose Playhouse
• Penistone Paramont
• Light Cinema Addlestone
• Light Cinema Banbury
• Light Cinema Bolton
• Light Cinema Bradford
• Light Cinema Cambridge
• Light Cinema Huddersfield
• Light Cinema New Brighton
• Light Cinema Redhill
• Light Cinema Sheffield
• Light Cinema Sittingbourne
• Light Cinema Stockport
• Light Cinema Thetford
• Light Cinema Walsall
• Light Cinema Wisbech
• Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
• Triskel Arts Centre
• Glasgow Film Theatre
• Pictureville Cinema (National Science and Media Museum), Bradford
• Sherborne Cinema, Gloucester
• Lumiere Romford
• Ilkley Cinema
• Wetherby Cinema
• Brewery Arts Centre Kendal
• The Riverside, Woodbridge
• Connaught Cinema, Worthing
• The Dukes, Lancaster
• DCA Dundee
• An Lanntair, Stornoway
• HOME, Manchester
• MAC Birmingham
• Gloucester Guildhall
• Storyhouse Chester
• Electric Palace, Harwich
• New Park Chichester
• Number 8 Pershore