Scalarama 2016 Newspaper

A celebration of cinema

1–30 September 2016

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A DIY CELEBRATION OF CINEMA For Everyone, By Everyone, Everywhere 1-30 September 2016 Founded and produced by Cinema Nation CIC CINEMA NATION CO-DIRECTORS Philip Foxwood (London), Michael Pierce (Liverpool) SCALARAMA PATRON Andrea Novarin SCALARAMA COORDINATORS Michael McDermott (Brighton), Sophie Brown, Maria Cabrera (London), Sean Welsh (Glasgow), Andy Howlett (Birmingham), Tara Judah (Bristol), Greg Walker (Manchester), Laura Ager, Alice Miller (Leeds), Monika Rodriguez (Liverpool) PRESS Elizabeth Benjamin CONTACT The Ranch, 57-59 Victoria Street, Liverpool, L1 6DE hello@scalarama.com www.scalarama.com scalarama.screeningfilm.com @Scalarama SCALARAMA 2016 NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER COORDINATOR Michael Pierce DESIGN Chris Jackson – chris@csjackson.co.uk Jonathan Spencer – jon@jonathanspencer.co.uk SCALARAMA LOGO DESIGN 2D Design CONTRIBUTORS James Arden, Grace Barber-Plentie, Anna Bogutskaya, Anselm Burke, Maria Cabrera, Jaq Chell, Tim Concannon, Amparo Fortuny, María González, Lydia Heathcote, Olivia Howe, Sandi Hughes, Tara Judah, Gregory Maule, Michael McDermott, Barbara Ann O’Leary. Into Film Young Reporters: Amanda, Gabriel, Ogo. NEWSPAPER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Big thanks to Julia Marchese; Rewind Fast Forward: Tim Brunsden; Into Film: Flora Menzies, Charlie-May Bingham, Ben Welling; Arrow Films: Louise Buckler, BFI: Phil Roberts, Jill Reading.

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Welcome to Scalarama, the annual celebration that sees September transformed into a month of amazing films, screened in unusual locations and filling the land with cinemas.

Scalarama is by everyone, for everyone, everywhere, with DIY in its veins! With loads of support out there, it has never been a better time to get screening. Find tips on how to start at scalarama.com or find a local event at scalarama.screeningfilm.com and start dreaming what you would show! For more information on Scalarama or to find local support, email hello@scalarama.com.

September – a very exciting month for film lovers!

I first became involved with Scalarama last year when I screened both F.W.Murnau’s Nosferatu and Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre on consecutive Tuesday nights and called them Nosferatuesdays (ha!). I recall that my enthusiasm for films prior to these screenings had dwindled somewhat, and I wasn’t really invested in cinema like I used to be. There just seemed to be nothing playing that I particularly wanted to go and see, as every week it seemed there was another 'new' sequel or another remake nobody asked for - If Hollywood hadn’t run out of ideas before 2015, it certainly had now. Plus, I was still reeling from the fact that a film as god awful as Jurassic World could inconceivably make a billion and a half dollars at the box office, while my favourite film of last year A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night hardly gets a notice, and leaves cinemas within a week.

Luckily, I was one of the few in Brighton who did manage to catch this effortlessly cool ‘Iranian Vampire-Western’ and it really inspired me in ways that not many films have managed in recent years. Plus, it made me think of other classic and alternative vampire films that could be shown on big screens to combat the terrible Twilight era of vampire films that have done this genre a disservice, and so Nosferatuesdays arose from the coffin!

Scalarama for me was a way of film redemption, a way to restore my faith in cinema once more, and to show the films I felt deserved the big screen treatment the most. This is why A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is among the many exceptional films to be included in Brighton’s programme, which is to

be shown at The Old Market as the first in a series of high-quality film screenings curated by myself and Steve McNicholas (STOMP) to bring overlooked and classic films to a wider audience.

Michael McDermott is the Scalarama Brighton co-ordinator @ScalaramaBtn

I think Scalarama is such a great incentive and it’s a wonderful thing to be a part. It’s really beautiful to be able to organise these guerrilla-style film showings and transform Brighton’s landscape into DIY cinemas, and I would recommend anyone giving it a go, especially if you’re of the persuasion that they just don’t make ‘em like they used to, film-wise.

Other titles playing in Brighton this year include the alternative musical and cult favourite Forbidden Zone as the launch night at Fabrica, followed by after party DJs; An immersive live score by Animat to the existential French film Un Homme Qui Dort; Another electronic live score by The Begotten for E. Elias Merhige’s underground classic Begotten on 16mm; A Duke of York’s 106th birthday screening of Wim Wenders’ wonderwork Wings of Desire on 35mm, and ending with the classic musical Cabaret at the Marlborough Theatre, coming full circle with our launch night of Forbidden Zone. All this plus French and British animations, music and aquatic documentaries, a monochrome madness season at Bom-Bane’s, a Hammer Horror season at Junkyard Dogs, a Q&A with Helen Walsh - director of The Violators, and so much more besides. September is going to be a very exciting month for film lovers in Brighton, and hopefully encourages more people to come together to share the cinema experience with others.

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I am Sandi Hughes When I was 10 in the mid-’50s, I was living in Bristol, and every Saturday morning I would go to the local cinema. There would be ‘Roy Rogers and Tonto’, ‘cowboys and indians’, the Pathe News, and then a cartoon or a short. It was great fun being in the cinema, because there would be about 50 kids, constantly changing seats and throwing sweets and missiles at each other. Half way through the films would be an interval and an usherette would stand with a tray of ice creams and lolly ices. But the best thing about the cinema for me was the darkness. I was fascinated with the light from the screen beaming out and lighting up our faces, and I would be looking to the back where there was another beaming light, coming from the projector which made a constant clicking noise. I would hold my hands up in the light and make silhouettes of animals and shapes, until the usher would come and threaten to throw me out.

Cinemas, Films & Audiences Sandi Hughes rewindfastforward.net

I moved to Liverpool in 1970, and I became very aware of how the cinemas looked - inside and out, because they were so ‘grand’ and ‘stylish’ - like palaces and temple... mind you, they were clean and new then. The ‘look’ of the films was very sophisticated and a lot of the stories were based on real-life events and ordinary people’s lives. I started noticing the names of the directors who were making the films, and I became aware that there had been women filmmakers and directors who were overlooked, and were very much the participants in the history of filmmaking production. Women had been tackling controversial subject matters, and inventing many of the techniques and themes associated with film noir, and despite women’s contributions to the development of the art form and many of its pivotal movements (from Surrealism to New Wave to documentary and the personal film), women filmmakers continue to be marginalised in dominant discourse.

There were many women directors of colour who worked outside the studio system. African American women directors told stories about the African American community, and it was clear that society didn’t approve of women working in such high-profile jobs that indicated power in the public sphere. The sexism of the industry forced us to look at ourselves as women, and as members of society, in a series of entirely new and enlightening ways, and there has been an international rise in the number of women filmmakers, both independent and studio directors.

In the late ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, I was very aware of the lack of representation of myself - being a black, gay, elder woman. I didn’t notice any written or visual social history and I started taking photographs and videoing my mates, where we went and what we done. As a freelance filmmaker and photographer, I got projects to film Liverpool’s marginalised people - local LGBT and BAME. I obtained stories which expressed and defined people’s Cultural Identity, and I also turned the camera on myself, and continued conversations about my own perceptions of race, gender, and thoughtless ‘isms’. I felt the need to define what we have to give to one another, will inform us, and can be passed on to those who come after us. I realised the importance of securing my films and photographs, because I didn’t notice anyone else doing what I was doing back then, and

for me, it was an ‘alternative education’ and a ‘basic need’, and this kind of history can be the same for other people. Back in the day, you lived close to your family and as a community, and you got to know each other, and pass on local information to each other. There was power in being a ‘community’ with people coming together with an old African saying... it takes a whole village to raise a child.

When I was documenting Liverpool’s diverse communities, all the footage was on tapes, and after 2000 they changed to mini Digital Video cassettes.

My spare room became the home for it all - some in boxes, some on shelves. I had been copying them over to DVD for people who asked for them and who were in the videos, and I would create a mix of images and add tunes to create ‘music videos’. After the ’00s, filming went digital with ‘SD cards’.

Things are very different today because you can film things and do ‘selfies’ on your mobile phone and transfer it to a small hard-drive, which can keep hundreds of hours of photographs and film footage, and you can upload them to Facebook and other social medias, where anyone and everyone can see them, which is great because we can all see ourselves and our mates on a ’Silver Screen’ of sorts.

In the year of 2015, with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and Re-Dock, my original photographs were digitised and labelled by professional archivist Becki Evans, and are now in Liverpool’s Central Library, in a refrigerated space that will keep them in a safe condition for years, and to view them - all you need is a library card. My original video collection is being digitised with the ‘Rewind Fast Forward’ project, but the Library doesn’t have the facilities or the equipment for the public to view them. I would like to see a ‘new’ kind of cinematic experience (and ‘new’ doesn’t mean ‘perfect’, because of the notion of ‘perfection’ being a concept, inherited from colonising cultures that are determined in the interests of a ‘political ideal’). I would like to see new styles of storytelling about social and cultural activities, as a means of entertainment, education and cultural preservation, which will establish a new role for moral values, and will require different kinds of ‘cinemas’ that are adequate for new messages.

The next generation of the ‘cinema’ needs to be designed and styled for the participants to feel the union of community, which can bring about the qualities of personal history and wisdom, because today, the cinema needs very different reasons for people to go there. I would like to see the ‘movie theatre’ specialise in films that are artistic or experimental, rather than just entertaining, so they can promote and support stimulating stories of those who are largely marginalised by mainstream media, because History belongs to everyone, and Cinemas should be available to everyone. I would like to see the next generation of films aiming to engage and entertain audiences with an account of past events in someone’s life or in the evolution of something that offers a fresh perspective and a truer image, and the films to take risks and challenges with possibilities to ‘move Culture forward and break glass ceilings’.

I AM SANDI HUGHES.

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Reel Good Film Club Reel Good is a film club dedicated to celebrating the contribution of people of colour in all aspects of cinema through affordable and non-profit screenings and events. It is co-run

by Maria Cabrera, Lydia Heathcote and Grace Barber-Plentie and many generous individuals who help us out.

Two years ago we saw the trailer of Charles Lane's Sidewalk Stories and were so excited to see an independent silent film made by a black director and starring two amazing performance by two black women (Lane's daughter, Nicole Lane, steals the show in a similar way that Angela Burnett does in Killer of Sheep) that we saw the need to screen it ourselves in order for us to see it. After the screening’s success, feeling disheartened by our film courses and the lack of representation on the screen and in the film industry we decided to keep going and create a film club that celebrates the contribution of people of colour in cinema and moving image.

@gottobereel Our ethos and direction have changed and become clearer the more screenings we do but overall our main idea is that cinema should be open to everyone because it has the power to show different points of view. This is why our screenings are always nonprofit or free or at the lowest cost possible and why we tend to use community spaces as an attempt to ensure that audiences are comfortable in the space.

Emotional reactions are as important as intellectual ones and we hope in our screenings people feel able to talk about film in whatever way they choose to.

Screening films is what we love doing, but often people will then leave the screen without ever thinking further about what the film is saying/doing and any discussion that could happen is lost. It’s talking about the films with others in a safe space that allows progressive thinking, for some to learn and others to have their views listened to.

Some of our most popular events have been our music video nights. The format has always been a

place that which people of colour have been at the forefront of and particular female-identifying and queer people of colour have created truly diverse representations. Our music video nights also link into the way that we prioritise emotional responses in our screenings - the varied responses that we’ve had to these nights have been amazing! Some people chose to sit in the cinema screen and act as though they were watching a film, some watched the videos in the bar whilst chatting and drinking, and others got up and danced in the aisles.

We’re excited to be pairing with Scalarama for the third year in the row because Scalarama represents so many of the things that we love about cinema.

For example, making it accessible to everyone, no matter how much experience they have. When we first started the film club, we were apprehensive as we felt we didn’t have enough “experience” to run an event, yet thanks to Scalarama we realised that anyone can put on an event.

We’ll be combining all that we’ve learnt about film programming over the last two years into our two events this year - a birthday party to celebrate our second birthday at Buster Mantis, with speakers and DJs, as well as a screening of Kathleen Collins’ Losing Ground at Genesis with a panel. Once again, we want to pair with Scalarama to show the breadth and diversity of film programming, not just in terms of what is being screened, but the way that it’s being shown.

We’re always looking for people to join - if you wanna screen a film or have idea for an event or generally wanna help out lets collab!

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#DirectedbyWomen: A Culture of Appreciation

We’re building a deep culture of appreciation within the global film community, and you’re invited to be an active part of the process. It’s fun. It’s amazing fun, so we really hope you’ll join us.

This is the second year that the #DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing

Party has interwoven our celebration of women film directors with Scalarama’s

delicious cinema & community building extravaganza. It’s such a great alliance.

Scalarama and #DirectedbyWomen are both D-I-Y, grassroots initiatives,

grounded in a true love of cinema and eager to empower film lovers to explore and share films in community. We acknowledge abundance and put attention on programming work inclusive of a wide variety of films and filmmakers.

The #DirectedbyWomen initiative, which invites film lovers everywhere

to notice, explore, relish, and share the work of women film directors, arose

a few years ago out of my own personal practice of balancing my film viewing equally between films directed by women and men. To facilitate that process I began compiling a list of women directors, which quickly grew into the

thousands. At the moment there are 9258 directors on the list and it’s growing

Barbara Ann O’Leary Catalyst of #DirectedbyWomen

Add or discover events featuring work by women directors on our Global Calendar: directedbywomen.com/events

all the time. As the list expanded, I realized I’d never be able to explore their work on my own. That’s when the idea of a global party to celebrate and

embrace films #DirectedbyWomen came into being. If we could supersaturate the world with Film Viewing Parties in a concentrated period of time, the film community would have a chance to awaken to the richness of what women film directors have been bringing into the world from the earliest days of

cinema to the present. It seemed like fun, so I thought I’d put out an invitation and see what happened.

Using Twitter and Facebook I started sharing, “We’re throwing a

#DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing Party… and you’re invited!”

And the world responded. At that time Scalarama was looking to bring more

conscious awareness to including work by women in their programming, heard

about the #DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing Party, and reached out.

Synchronistically both our celebrations were planned for September! It was a sign that we were meant to join our celebrations.

Although our events arise in various places around the world, we’re able

to share our celebrations through the use of the #DirectedbyWomen and #Scalarama2016 hashtags. There are so many wonderful women film

directors to celebrate and during the month of September we’re doing our

best to bring their work forward. I’ve loved watching the way the Scalarama community has embraced the #DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing

Party and created remarkable screenings, Q&As, and other events. I can’t wait to celebrate with film lovers everywhere. Join us!

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Directed by Women BCN·MAD: The Women Film Festival has come!

The annual worldwide celebration of films directed by women comes back this September!

Directed by Women is an international movement that celebrates films directed by women claiming their presence in the film industry. The celebration gathers screenings and debates all over the world with one unique goal: to create a common space for the Cinema of Women.

María González is a cultural manager and co-director of Directed by Women BCN · MAD living in Madrid whose passions are cinema, film, dance, celebrating spring, and screaming underwater.

The full programme of this second edition can be found on the website: DirectedbyWomenSpain.com

Following last year’s success, Spain joins the party launching the second edition of Directed by Women BCN · MAD: Barcelona and Madrid repeat as the headquarters of the Spanish celebration with a programme that includes new venues and new sections. In this edition, Directed by Women BCN · MAD collaborates with Scalarama bound by the common desire to bring cinema to the widest audience in all its forms of expression. This collaboration creates new speakers, reaches a wider public and opens a new debate on the role of women in the film industry.

Directed by Women BCN · MAD supports female directors in order to promote equity in the industry and promote their presence on the theatre marquees, breaking taboos and prejudices. The goal is to stop designating female cinema as a genre issue, to prove that women have as many diverse topics of interest and ways of expression, and to fight for an equal representation in the seventh art and its industry.

This second edition of Directed by Women BCN · MAD comes with a special programme designed to underline the essential presence of women in the film industry: OFFICIAL SELECTION of pieces of all genres in long and short format.

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UNRELEASED MADRID SHORT: a special selection of short films showcased for the first time in Madrid.

DES-PIEZA E+D - EXPERIMENTAL AND DANCE: a selection of experimental audiovisual works focused on dance and contemporary motion.

RETROSPECTIVE: a portrait of a filmmaker through her films, which this year falls on the figure of Isabel Coixet.

The celebration also includes the presence of filmmakers presenting their work, debates, discussions and meetings with the public.

The countdown has already begun! Do not stay without tickets!

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Our Bloody Prom Party The Final Girls (Olivia Howe & Anna Bogutskaya) @TheFinalGirlsUK Screening: Carrie + panel discussion Saturday, 24th September 16:10 ICA London

The story of how The Final Girls came together couldn’t be less glamorous if we tried making it up. At 8.30am one morning, Olivia and I were WhatsApping each other (as per usual, about a film we’d seen). We’d bonded over years of marathoning really weird horror films and being really frustrated with some of the horror-themed events going on in London. We had both been watching genre films our entire lives. Yet it felt like we weren’t “the right audience” for these events, or like we were imposters for liking films that were not traditionally associated with a female audience.

Both of us were keen to do something around horror films for a while, but couldn’t quite crack the right angle. That morning, we came up with the name, the vision and the first screening, all over a few text messages - it seemed to just come together organically all of a sudden. What was an early morning, pre-coffee WhatsApp conversation then became a sold out 35mm screening of Claire Denis’ cannibal love story Trouble Every Day at the Prince Charles Cinema. A film we both adored and one rarely screened to an audience. The experience of seeing a full house be alarmed and disgusted by a film we both adored was unbeatable.

Both of us are obsessed and fascinated by the darker side of cinema. This had always taken a lot of people by surprise because we are not, at first glance, what you would deem the “classic horror geeks”. Which is a big part of why we wanted to start The Final Girls.

Not only to recognise and contextualise the often overlooked work that women have done in genre cinema both behind and in front of the camera, but also to create a welcoming space for horror film fans of all genders, shapes and hair colours.

We had been working in film full-time for a while, mostly in exhibition, but we had never initiated a project from scratch. The reaction to our first event has been incredibly supportive, and the interest generated just goes to show that this has been on people’s minds for a while. Starting a side project like The Final Girls has been incredibly rewarding creatively, since we can conceive and control every detail of all of our events. Our fangirl side can sometimes come out (don’t think we’d be able to do custom facemasks of Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh otherwise) and we have heaps of fun creating experiences inspired by the films we screen.

For us, it’s all about creating a welcome atmosphere for audiences to discover and enjoy films. It just never gets better (or scarier) than watching a horror film with a crowd.

obsessed and fascinated by the darker side of cinema

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Anselm from InterTitle I was lucky enough to catch The Spirit of the Beehive on television when I was fairly young and it somehow took on a significance that never faded.

When I think of my fondest memories of cinema, I remember images from that film more than any other. I watched it on my own one night in the living room while the adults were in the other room. I remember worrying that a grown-up would come in and interrupt this strangely hypnotic experience.

Being little more than a child myself I was unaware of the political or historical context in which the characters existed, but it didn’t matter. As an adult I think the civil war pervades the atmosphere that runs through the film; the gap between the innocence of youth and the daunting world of grownups is a perfect place to set a story to evoke that melancholic tone and I think part of the reason that the film left such an impression on me.

The film focuses on two sisters living in a small Castillian town in 1940, not long after the end of the Spanish Civil War, which broke out 80 years ago in 1936. The film was made while Franco was still in power and would have been open to censorship if it had made any explicit and critical references to events of that time, so scenes that present potentially controversial action are fairly brief and infrequent. Erice’s camera instead remains mainly with Ana, the younger of the two sisters who is played by the brilliant Ana Torrent, and concentrates on the telling of her story.

Other films that Beehive calls to mind because they have achieved something similar in their dealings with childhood and the concerns of the adult world include Whistle Down the Wind (Forbes, 1961) and the American gothic masterpiece The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955). It was interesting to see that Guillermo Del Toro, in his Top 10 film selection for Criterion, chose The Spirit of the Beehive and Night of the Hunter in joint tenth place, calling them “the two supreme works of childhood/horror”.

I remember being absorbed by the film’s look, certain shots, like the children gazing up at the screen when the travelling cinema comes to town at the beginning, or the slow track of the little girl running through the house, pushing open door after door. There was something also in the relationship of the two sisters that reminded me of my own: I understood what it was like to have an older sibling who I would mine for information and reassurance about things in the world that I couldn’t understand.

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I was born one year after the release of The Spirit of the Beehive in 1973. Although the last years of Franco’s regime seem to me a distant past, I vividly remember the black and white deformed image of Carlos Arias Navarro, Franco’s elected Prime Minister, and his tearful speech announcing the death of Franco in 1975. His death initiated a period of so called democratic transition when the promised freedom would arrive in Spain but his ghost still haunts the Spanish psyche and the shadow of his regime besets politics.

In the dying days of General Franco’s forty-year dictatorship most of the remarkable cinema produced at the time was made by filmmakers that either combined a realistic aesthetic with the use of irony and satire to describe the miseries of ordinary people under Franco’s rule; Luis Garcia Berlanga (Miracles on Thurdays, 1957, The Executioner 1953), Juan Antonio Bardem (Death Of a Cyclist , 1955), Jose Antonio Nieves Conde (Furrows, 1951) or those who used the surreal and anguished memories to create an allegorical chronicle of the immanent repression of the Franco-era; Carlos Saura (Peppermint Frappé 1967, Cria Cuervos, 1976). Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive belongs to this later/second strand of filmmaking in which poetry, allegory and fantasy mixed to create an atmospheric exploration of childhood after the Spanish Civil War. The film also shares a common battle against an imposed censorship on Spanish cinema during the Franco era. While satire became the ideal instrument for Berlanga or Bardem to make more daring projects and outwit an utterly repressive censorship during the 50’s, The Spirit of the Beehive is a subtle and moving take on a period of great suffering and the use of allegory as an indirect critique avoided any unwanted censorship. Nonetheless, being made during the last years of Franco’s regime, Erice’s film benefits from a slight permissiveness thanks to the movie being internationally critically acclaimed and the need to change the negative perception of Franco’s regime abroad.

The Spirit of the Beehive Screening: Thursday, 29 September Liverpool Small Cinema An InterTitle Event

The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)

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Gregory Maule is a Writer, Filmmaker and Artist based in East London. He has previously written for Little White Lies, The Playground and Run Riot. @psychenosebleed psychicnosebleed.blogspot. com Psychomania screens at Duke’s @ Komedia, Brighton (10th Sept), Bristol Bad Film Club, Bristol Bierkeller (15th Sept) and Genesis Cinema, London (25th Sept).

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With its bizarre, provocative title and outstandingly weird premise it’s a wonder that Psychomania has lingered in obscurity for so many years. The film, one of the highlights of this year’s Scalarama, has been newly remastered and is released for the first time ever on Blu-Ray and DVD courtesy of the BFI Flipside on the 6th of September. Flipside Curator Vic Pratt describes the movie as "The greatest, weirdest, postpsychedelic, undead-biker zombie-horror movie ever made and the only one to star Witchfinder General’s Nicky Henson accompanied by screen legends George Sanders, Beryl Reid and Bill Pertwee (aka Warden Hodges from Dad’s Army). It says a lot about British filmmaking in the early seventies. The way that producers were mixing up genres in order to lure teenagers back into cinemas."

From the gloomy opening titles (a gang of bikers riding around mist shrouded standing stones to a prog rock-tinged soundtrack) it’s clear that we’re on a journey to the darker side of seventies cinema.

The plot centres on Tom Latham (Nicky Henson) leader of The Living Dead motorcycle gang who, when he’s not out causing trouble with his mob on their bikes, is on the lookout for new kicks.

One night, on arriving back to his family home, Tom, with the aid of his mother (Beryl Reid) and her creepy butler (George Sanders), discovers a strange rite handed down to him by his dead father (incorporating his pet toad and a pair of NHS specs) which grants him immortality. Having passed on to the other side and been buried still astride his bike, Tom then returns from the dead to share this newfound secret of eternal life with his leather clad disciples. After having the knowledge bestowed upon them the gang are soon off, each committing elaborate suicides in order to become an unstoppable force of chaos on the open roads of the Home Counties.

Directed by Hammer horror veteran Don Sharp, the film fuses the youth-cult folk horror aspect of Blood on Satan’s Claw with the small town teen rebel idiom of The Wild One into an almost farcical black comedy.

Often cited as a zombie-biker movie, fans of the more traditional Romero style zombie flick may be slightly disappointed by the lack of gore. However there is more than enough on offer here to satisfy fans of horror and biker films alike.

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The combination of the two genres may seem quite unique for British cinema of the era; however at the time the blending of genres by producers was slowly becoming de-rigeur and similarly themed movies were being made elsewhere in sync. You’d need only look towards 1971’s Werewolves on Wheels or the later Aussie biker epic Stone for examples of the marriage of monster, magick and machine that was prevalent in exploitation films of the seventies. Psychomania though stands head and shoulders above both of the aforementioned as it is a far more understated and enjoyable caper.

This is mainly due to a curious strand of English eccentricity that runs through it which, when mixed in with kitschy settings, black magic, gallows humour and high octane motorcycle chases, makes for a compulsive romp.

The film’s legacy is something of a curious one.

Despite being screened late night on TV many times during the eighties (including an appearance on Alex Cox’s Moviedrome in 1994) it has for the last 40 odd years remained largely unseen and has garnered that ever prized status of Cult Movie. One contributing factor to the making of this moniker is that, like fellow Brit-horror stalwart The Wicker Man, the film’s soundtrack has become something of a prized item over time with pressings of the original vinyl, by John Cameron and the band Frog, becoming a holy grail for collectors. The enduring demand meaning that interest in the film has reemerged in its own right.

Last year Psychomania played in Nottingham as part of the Mayhem festival in a double bill with its Ozploitation cousin Stone. Festival organizer Chris Cooke says of the screening “The brilliant blend of black comedy, stunts, seventies Brit exploitation and Beryl Reid had the bar united in boozy laughter.”

Having been relegated to the annals of horror obscurity for many years Psychomania’s endearing status as cult movie is something that can only grow with exposure to 21st century audiences.

Questionable acting, a hammy script and stunts straight out of a Russ Meyer movie are all part of its distinctive charm and it remains an ever appetising slice of British B-movie heaven.

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Radical Home Cinema – Theatre in your Living Room Radical Home Cinema was born as a section of Radical Film Network Festival. I thought that home screenings hosted by city personalities, people who represent the film industry or who could throw a view of what was going on in the Radical Culture of Glasgow or people who could be willing to share their own space with strangers while watching a film of their choice, could be a good idea.

Do it yourself!

The first reactions of the festival’s organisation group were diverse; "Is that legal?", "This project is cute but not radical", "It breaks the boundaries between public and private spaces, I like it", "Would you be able to seduce the people into organising public screenings at home just for fun?", "What about the screenings fees?".

Eventually Fran Higson, programming coordinator of the festival, really encouraged us and gave the decisive "let´s do it". Together with David Archibald, director of the festival, both have been actively working to make it possible. At this point, Cinema Up Collective, with my colleague María Suarez on board, took over the project looking for the proper hosts, and managing the marketing, production and licenses. We embraced it knowing that similar projects had been going on before and realizing that you are not alone on this, made it much easier. The cinema will open its way.

Glasgow experience We were invited to see a work in progress production in a Barras Market’s antiques shop. There, Mr Glasgow has built up a cult following with his YouTube broadcasts documenting the activities of characters from the neighbourhood and gentrification. A wellknown artist from Glasgow School of Art organised a screening in her living room of the documentary This Changes Everything inspired by Naomi Klein’s book, and also a performance with the remote control of the projector. A women-centered living space formed by female members of the city’s LBGTQ community screened Cloudburst, described as "the best geriatric lesbian road movie you’ve ever seen". John Cavanagh, electronic musician, record producer and performer along with his friend Marzanna Antoniak organized the screening of Blue Eyed regarding unconscious racism. And so on, up to nine screenings. The hosts were eager to repeat the experience and new and fantastic film lovers showed up and asked us to participate. As a result, Radical Home Cinema will be provoking new cinematic experiences in September as part of Scalarama.

DIY, Do it! Do it yourself!

You don’t need to be cult, underground, or committed, you can organise home screenings for fun, as an excuse to get to know your hot neighbour or just to celebrate the cinema together. Cinema Up Collective gives you some ideas to bear in mind: You can get the licenses for a reasonable price but

some can be expensive. We ask permission directly to the producer of the film or the director explaining the project and many of them are very happy to contribute without fee. We enjoyed great surprises by contacting them this way. For example, we were honoured in the Radical Film Network edition with the presence of the filmmaker Jone Karres who came from the Basque Country to the screening and Q&A of the artist Nerea Sagarzazu in her living room.

Also, in the Scalarama edition the Iranian filmmaker based in Dubai, Mohammad Ghorbankarim will be travelling to Scotland for the screening of his film in dancer Anna Tabe’s home.

Home Screenings will potentially activate their own audiences and at the same time will bring new curious people to the event. Proper communication will be vital with the aim of reaching the audience that could be interested. Highlight the strong points: film, subject, venue, free activity or host profile. On the other hand, people need to know where the area of the venue-home is in order to decide whether they can attend and also it is important to make clear if you allow dudes to bring their own booze or if you are offering some kind of hospitality. Be aware about the capacity of the space and let the people know if it's first come first served (at a meeting point) or if they should book the tickets in advance.

Why organise a home screening?

'After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the things we need the most in the world' Philip Pullman said, and we say: what if we joined all four: bites, home, good company and films? We did, and decided to call it Radical Home Cinema.

When you organise new amazing plans, something new and amazing is bound to happen. There are as many motivations as home screenings organisers.

María Velez-Serna, academic in Stirling University wrote in the article Cinema as Occupation "One of the challenges of inventing new spaces, especially liberated spaces or spaces for liberation, is that of finding ways to be together that are not mediated by institutional law and policing." She reflects the intention of the pop-up screenings regarding the space, contrasting the cinema as occupation or film exhibition as a radical tactic and not oppositional in itself; "it is allowed by the usual controllers of the space, often invited, in celebration rather than protest."

If you just happen to have a big living room and you are a film lover, if you want to contribute to a cause or to your community, to know people with similar interests practicing "pop-up" cinema, experiment with something new, to have fun, to be a programmer just for one day or to start your own revolution, stop hesitating and create your Home Screening with Scalarama.

Amparo Fortuny @CinemaUpCollect See p.26 for Radical Home Cinema screenings.

Home Cinema Day is on Sunday 25th September @HomeCinemaDay #HCD16

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Tara Judah is a critic, programmer, broadcaster and Co-Director at 20th Century Flicks video shop in Bristol. @midnightmovies Out of Date premieres in the UK on 35mm at Prince Charles Cinema, London on 1st September then at Genesis Cinema, London (6th Sept) then tours across the country to Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Brighton (10th Sept), CCA, Glasgow (14th Sept) and Curzon Clevedon (18th Sept).

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It was 2012 when the Kickstarter campaign began.

Hundreds of cinemas were still showing 35mm film prints regularly and not everyone had signed up to VPF – VPF is the virtual print fee scheme where distributors (largely those that also run major studios and who have a vested interest in control over content access and its implications for online piracy) subsidise the costs for cinemas in installing digital technologies to replace analogue machinery. But, and this very much depends on who you ask, the VPF also requires the cinema to make a commitment to show distributor content that restricts the cinema’s freedom of programming. The fight for 35mm film projectors, and the photochemical film prints they need to justify their existence, was getting fiery. And emotional.

The issue has never really been about obsolescence or transition. Sure it’s easy to say with hindsight, but had we been able to move away from the either/or scenario we may actually have gotten somewhere with convincing global distribution companies that the slightly scratched or verging on pink prints that we enjoyed showing our audiences had a value that extended far beyond the content of the films.

That particular conversation would have been about the sorts of paradoxes that only an intangible experience garnered from a tangible art form can create, and the most important question of all when it comes to talking about rep: audience experience.

Groups like FATF (Film Advocacy Task Force) were popping up, producing short videos of well-known types such as Leonard Maltin who would speak out on the virtues of film prints and film projection.

Rep houses (or repertory cinemas) all over the world were up in arms, but while the die-hards for photochemical formats did their bit to prevent the obsolescence of 35mm, industry bigwigs were already underway with their operation to gain a tighter stranglehold on exhibition.

So while Julia Marchese was fighting for 35mm at the New Bev in L.A., I was fighting for it (and 70mm) at the Astor Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. At that same time, Paul Vickery was doing it for the Prince Charles Cinema in London and none of us were doing it just for the craic. We did it precisely because we knew then what we still know now: our audiences are specialised – they consider cinema a cultural temple, view film as an art, love the craft and skill of real projectionists and find the pink tinge on a Russ Meyer print adds and doesn’t subtract from the experience.

That’s not to say that the virtues of digital technologies should be ignored; the entire point of what exhibitors do is offer access and engagement.

And while the introduction of digital projection assisted some cinemas with access to wider content, the conversation that needed to take place wasn’t happening.

Aided by a host of hugely important A-List names; Joe Dante, Seth Green, Kevin Smith, Edgar Wright, John Landis, Lloyd Kaufman and Patton Oswalt to name but a few, Marchese raised 75,000 USD and made a love-letter to cinema-going, rep houses, rep programming and the physical art of photochemical film prints, on 35mm, and she called it Out of Print.

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The film was made with the intention of going on tour but didn’t quite get its chance immediately after it was made. But now, now that the either/or conversation has come close to obsolescence itself, it is time to restart the conversation about the value of photochemical film prints and projection.

It’s also time to bring this story to cinemas and audiences in the UK. Coming from an Australia cinema background I’ve been shocked at how scarce theatrical exhibition of rep is here in Britain. But there’s an enthusiastic handful of programmers spread across this island who want to facilitate the rediscovery of rep on the big screen. And what better way for us to begin than with a documentary made by film lovers, about film lovers, for film lovers? Time to spark up those xenon lamps, set the house lights low, thread up, focus, and get ready for the love-in.

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Hello! We’re Cinema For All and we’re here to support, develop and champion film societies, clubs and community cinemas. 2016 marks our 70th year of representing the amazing volunteers who bring film to their community and the inspirational film events they create. We’re celebrating by encouraging the good people of the UK to get involved and find their nearest community cinema.

We understand that on a cold, rainy, November night after a long day at work, the temptation to fall asleep in front of Netflix is a strong one - but heading to your community cinema can offer you more than just a great film. On average, a ticket will only set you back between £4-6, leaving you plenty of change from a tenner to treat yourself to a slice of cake (community cinema volunteers are particularly excellent cake bakers). You’re very likely to see a great foreign language film, an inspirational

documentary or a long forgotten cult classic - handpicked with love by a group of committed film fans dedicated to bringing you something you never even knew you’d enjoy.

If you’re looking to find a warm, welcoming place to see a film but don’t how to find it, head to our online map of community cinemas - there’s over 1000 to choose from!

Finally, you can be sure to encounter a group of friendly, passionate and enthusiastic organisers who will welcome you with open arms and a cushion to counter what might be a slightly uncomfortable seat.

There’s a good chance they might be in fancy dress (sorry about that).

Alternatively, if you’re inspired by Scalarama but don’t have community screenings near you, why not set up your own film night? Cinema For All has masses of clear information, advice, resources and discounts to help get you started and support you along every step of your journey.

We believe that volunteer-led cinema offers some of the most innovative, exciting and comforting places to watch a film. The past 70 years has shown us it can also have a deeply important social impact on a community. We believe that film, when shared with other people, has the potential to change lives and re-invigorate hometowns.

Come See a Film With Us!

Jaq Chell is the Operations and Development Manager at Cinema For All (previously known as the British Federation of Film Societies).

Her film heroes are Jacques Demy, Isabella Rossellini, Vivien Leigh and John Waters. She is community cinema’s biggest fan. @cinemaforall cinemaforall.org.uk

BOOK, BUY, WATCH WITH

All lms.

All above board. now includes TV

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Into Film Into Film

Into Film?

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Amanda

Ogo

Gabriel

Monday (9th November 2015) brought with it an unusually calm and enjoyable morning for me, in stark contrast to the miserable weather, all because I had the opportunity to miss some of school to go to a film screening. A brilliant idea if there ever was one, it’s like someone read my mind. What would you most like to do on a dark, dreary Monday morning Amanda? Watch a film? Of course, is there anything better to do? So yes on that particular day I was allowed to forget my studies and escape into someone else’s world, to be involved only with their story between the glorious hours of 10.30 and 12 at the Glasgow Film Theatre.

A film I have recently seen at the cinema is Star Trek Beyond. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The special effects, graphics, and sound effects were ever so extraordinary, they were honestly on a different level compared to any sci-fi film I’ve ever seen, it was so awesome. It’s often said that watching a film at home isn’t the same as watching it in the cinema. This I can certainly vouch for. Watching sci-fi blockbusters at home doesn’t give off the same visual / cinematic experience, that one would get if they had gone to watch it in the cinema. That notion of one being submersed within the universe of the movie and literally escaping into reality and being transported into a different world just isn’t present.

While there is an inescapable cosiness in watching a DVD at home and no guilt trip in having brought in your own snacks, should we really abandon the cinema? Certain films need the impeccable quality and stunning sound provided in the cinema, and all films are worth seeing on the big screen. For example, I recently saw Now You See Me 2, and some of the spectacles provided in this (also spectacular) film, such as Jesse Eisenberg’s scene in which he controls rain, need to be seen in a cinema to be experienced to their full potential. I am an avid film watcher, and always love going to the cinema - I’d go every week if I could- but does this mean it should escalate from this? No.

The visual experience of it all isn’t the only reason why I think going to the cinema is important to me, it brings inspiration and sparks within me a sense of creativity. Indeed for one, viewing the endless list of trailers before the film starts, brings sense of excitement and anticipation for the upcoming year and secondly, watching a story come to life on a big screen to me, an individual who wants to work in the entertainment industry, inspires me in a sense of "imagine if that could be me on screen one day, or imagine if this could be my film I wrote?’". Thus cinema-going for me births inspiration. As time goes on, I think the specialty of cinema going is only likely to multiply and grow, given the pace at which technology is growing and the upcoming generation of film-makers This means that there’ll be innovation in story telling but also films are going to look better and sound better also through the next generation of film makers and actors, thus leading to more inspiration in the future.

While you can get extreme viewings of films, with 4-D screenings sneakily working their way into the limelight, these will never overtake what we have now. I once saw a sign in Turkey that said 7-D, and it got me thinking about where we as film lovers will stop. After 4-D I don’t believe we will reach anywhere else with films. Sure, with amazing advances in technology we seem closer and closer to flying cars, hover boards and holograms of everything (basically all my childhood wishes of watching Back To The Future 2 and its idea of 2015), but we would only ever implement these into our beloved 2-D films. Something logical in me says we will never have a real person crashing through the cinema screen, wearing the One Ring, driving a Delorean and yelling "This is Sparta!". That would make for a very interesting horror movie.

I had never been to the Glasgow Film Theatre before, but oh I hope I go back soon. After looking at the films coming out I am surprised I hadn’t ventured there sooner. Films that had been on my “to watch” list for weeks, films that I had never heard of, films of genres that don’t normally peek my interestsclearly this was a place for any film lover. This particular film I had the pleasure of seeing is called ‘Hector’, I thoroughly enjoyed it. At the moment I’m very into dramas and this one was different to others I had seen previous simply because of how authentic it felt, it didn’t over-dramatise its subject or create conflict for the sake of manipulating your emotions, it was realistic. Realistic in its subtlety and the fact that you could imagine countless others being faced with a similar reality. So to sum up I’m extremely glad I got to see a film I had would not have heard of or seen if it were not for the perks of being a young reporter for Into Film. Being a young reporter has proved to be a completely unique experience so far: being exposed to new and exciting films, going to places you might not have had the chance to and meeting people you would never have ever had the good fortune to meet.

Review of Hector Subtle yet touching, low key yet heart-warming: photographer turned writer-director Jake Gavin’s debut film ‘Hector’ is the story of a homeless man (skilfully portrayed by Peter Mullan) on his annual trip from Glasgow to a shelter in London for Christmas.

Although homeless due to his troubled past, Hector finds a sense of normality and joy with his, fellow homeless, friends Hazel (Natalie Gavin) and Dougie (Laurie Ventry). And on his journey to London Hector experiences both kindness and prejudice from strangers and eventually has to deal with the demons of his past when attempting to get back in touch with his family. This film is quietly affecting in its exploration of the harsh circumstances of homeless life. ‘Hector’ gives an insight into the realities of homeless life, and in doing this, portrays the often forgotten plight of society’s most vulnerable in an authentic, sensitive way without succumbing to the often grim tone of British dramas.

This film lacks only in its effort to delve into the supporting characters, which can be somewhat frustrating as they are so engaging and interesting.

However ‘Hector’ is still a moving film that is superbly shot and well performed, a tremendous first effort from Jake Gavin that is worth the watch.

Being part of Into Film has allowed me to do things, that I never thought I'd be doing for a very long time!

My goal in life, is to pursue acting / presenting and being an Into Film reporter has brought me closer to that dream. In terms of presenting, it has allowed me to give it a shot on camera and has given me a platform and in terms of acting, attending junkets and attending award ceremonies has given me an small insight in to the life of an actor and a snippet into the lifestyle as a presenter! Aside from allowing me to put my foot in the door of my future career, its enabled me to also grow in confidence in myself and enabled me to meet tons of people my age and below who too have a passion for film and TV, which is great as often not everyone within your school/college shares the same passion / interests as you. Over the past 9 months, my experience with Into Film has been ever so exciting, from the thrill of getting an assignment, getting excited with family and friends when the final edit comes out on YouTube and also right down to the moment when the camera’s on you!

Being on the Into Film scheme has allowed me to look at a wider variation of films, and opened my mind to the true factor of varied skill that goes into making a film, ranging from directing, to makeup (I look at fellow Into Film reporter Alfie). The opportunities it has given me are amazing too, from interviewing two time Oscar nominated actress Saoirse Ronan and director John Crowley in regards to film Brooklyn; and also now allowing me to call myself a one time BAFTA award holder, as I took part in a video where I got to do just that. Being on the scheme has been incredible for me, and I constantly look forward to the next thing I can do.

Film will never escape the cinema, and that’s a great thing. It’s like taking the sun out of the sky- it just wouldn’t work. I love film, and to see it ripped from its big screen, popcorn encrusted environment would be a great shame.

Into Film gives young people aged 5 – 19 the chance to watch, make and learn about film, both in and outside of the classroom. From after school film clubs, filmmaking competitions and the world’s biggest film festival for young people, to the annual Into Film awards and the chance to interview actors, directors, writers and more through the Young Reporter Programme, it’s all waiting to be discovered at intofilm.org.

We asked three Young Reporters for their recent encounters with cinema.

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Under London’s Night Streets

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On one of his occasional sojourns in London, the American author Stephen King expounded the view that the city’s place names, like 'Crouch End', are "infinitely sinister". "What is crouching?" The horror maestro was heard to ask aloud. "And why does it end?"

'Artists have made profound use of real and imaginary subterranean worlds that promised places of mystery and a search for truth and power,' the cultural critic Peter Stanfield observed in the 2011 academic compendium of studies of film-going 'Explorations in New Cinema History'. 'This quest was mirrored in the excavations carried out by geologists, palaeontologists, anthropologists and archaeologists who sought, through their tunnelling, mining and drilling to unravel the 'Mystery of lost time'. The excavations uncovered a truth about the world’s development; its strata and fossils exposed to the light a time before man, as archaeological digs exposed a hitherto unknown history of man’.

The London Underground is over one hundred and fifty years old, cinema technology is a century old.

As the 2016 Scalarama begins, the London Underground is born anew with the advent of the Night Tube. The name itself conjures up the image of a vast pipe emerging from the shadowlands inside the Earth, from the darkness which we usually only glimpse in the cracks between paving slabs; glimpses of the places where woolly bears dwell and do whatever it is woolly bears get up to.

Is the night tube bringing London’s Id, its dreaming, to the surface? Or is it swallowing everyone’s hopes, aspirations, anxieties, nausea, alienation into the submerged maze of tunnels and ducts; Londonder’s whims, caprices, their erotic confusion, their peacock displays of intoxicated abandon, siphoned into one consensual, hypnopompic, hallucinatory miasma between midnight and dawn?

From Friday August 19th, the Central and Victoria lines will run all night and all morning. Services on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines follow in autumn. While post-Brexit fear and loathing are erupting on the pavements above, beneath the tarmacadam are the tracings of London’s collective dreamtime beginning a century and a half ago (at least). These unconscious patterns are made visible by Harry Beck’s simple, beautiful Art Deco masterpiece, the London Tube map.

What will Londonders find to do in the expanded Spacetime, which until recently was the preserve of urban foxes and shift workers in hi-vis vests? Will the capital see a new generation of cinemas and viewing parlours for moving images, channeling the spirit of the Scala cinema? (Which, before it landed up at Kings Cross, started its life in the basement of the old Channel Four building on Charlotte Street; the footprint of what was once the Scala theatre, which you can see The Beatles performing in at the end of Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night; hence on our Scala map - swapping tube stations on Beck’s wonderful map for movies filmed near them or associated with them - The Fabs are at Goodge Street).

Resonance FM – London’s art radio station – and programme makers The BeeKeepers have created the Scala map and will be broadcasting during the Scalarama season, inviting the public to join us as flâneurs, exploring the links between London films and London locations.

Some of the revelations may be unsettling, like the discovery about humanity’s roots made in the film

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of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass and the Pit, when archaeologists unearth a crashed Martian spaceship at 'Hobbs End', an imaginary Tube station in W10 somewhere between White City and East Acton.

Hobbs End, if it existed, would have been built at some point from 1938 when the Central Line track was converted to the four-rail electrification system to take 8 car trains, and Wood Lane station was abandoned as too small for West London commuters' needs.

Other discoveries are glorious. Neglected gems like Julien Temple’s love letter to lost Soho and White City Absolute Beginners. Julian Henriques’s celebration of Harlseden’s raggamuffin and Dancehall culture Babymother. Frankie Dymon’s Death May Be Your Santa Claus, arguably the only British black power film, featuring the prog rock band The Second Hand, and Dymon’s striking imagery that bears comparison with Sun Ra’s Space Is The Place, the films of Ken Russell, Jodorowsky, Kubrick or Zeffirelli.

Now that we’ve made our mandala of subliminal and hidden London in the Scala map, with the occasional cooings and cat calls of the Scalarama organisers encouraging us along the way, cinemas and film spaces across London are responding to the succubitic siren songs of the Scala’s many spirits.

On Sunday 4th September from 3pm, The Genesis Cinema in Whitechapel is showing a double bill of Jack the Ripper films, close to where the savage and still-unsolved killings of London sex workers occurred in grim reality. (£9.50 / £7 concessions).

Murder By Decree, in which Christopher Plummer’s Sherlock Holmes cracks the case with shocking consequences for the British Establishment; and the Hammer classic Hands of the Ripper in which Eric Porter’s Freudian psychoanalyst attempts to cure the daughter of the serial killer, even as she replicates her dad’s murderous spree in a somnambulistic state.

There’ll be a Q&A with fantasy author, poet, critic and Resonance FM broadcaster Roz Kaveney, whose ‘Reading the Vampire Slayer’ is a formative text on Buffy, who’s joined by Kim Newman: film critic, historian of cult film and TV, and author of books including ‘Anno Dracula’, imagining a London inhabited by the openly vampiric, and who in Whitechapel are hunted at night by ‘Silver Knife’.

Roz and Kim are back at Genesis Cinema on 11th September from 7pm to discuss 1970’s Nightbirds and the East London films on the Scala map. (£9.50 / £7 concessions). Dink (Berwick Kaler) and Dee (Julie Shaw) fall into bed (and sort of in love too), living perpetually near to homelessness on Whitechapel’s streets. One of the many overlooked films rediscovered and championed as part of the British Film Institute’s Flipside series, Nightbirds depicts an East London of peeling paint, still falling apart after the Blitz, seen from rooftops and doorways.

When the Phoenix Cinema in Finchley shows Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire on Friday 16th September at 9pm (£11), based on Anne Rice’s cult novel and starring Tom Cruise, you can watch the sequence filmed inside the Phoenix Cinema inside the cinema itself! Bonus points if you’re also a real vampire.

On Thurs 15th September, 7:30pm to 11pm Roz Kaveney and friends are back, this time at South London’s beautiful Cinema Museum, Oval. Join us for a recorded live DVD commentary - for later airing on Resonance FM - of The Magic Christian

(£5 / £4 concessions), a film depicting the other side of the swinging Sixties, not the love and peace version but the one where people all wanted to get filthy rich and screw the other fellow, damnit.

The film was partly scripted by Terry Easy Rider Southern from his comic novel, with Pythons Graham Chapman and John Cleese also having a hand in the screenplay (Cleese makes a cameo as a snidely smooth auctioneer). In the cleared site that became the National Theatre afterwards (hence, on the Scala map, its at Southwark, not that far from Oval) Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr in lab coats and gas masks stand by a large barrel filled with piss, blood and animal shit, to which they have added thousands of bank notes. Announcing "Free money!", they entice City workers from Waterloo Bridge to leap into the septic tank in order to recover the cash. The commuters sink below the surface of the effluent to "Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman.

The Sixties was the era of the British satire boom, after all.

To round our wanderings off, we return to the source of London’s cinema: starting at the Cinema Museum, Oval from 9:45pm on Saturday 24th September we’ll retrace the steps of local boy Charles Chaplin, ending up at his boyhood home in Kennington. Chaplin grew up in poverty. At seven, he was placed in a workhouse, the Cuckoo Schools, which is now Hanwell Community Centre, Westcott Crescent, Hanwell. One of Chaplin’s childhood homes is at 39 Methley Street. The Order of Water Rats put a commemorative plaque there. He went on to become the first international film star. When Chaplin was expelled from the United States in 1952 for his supposed Communist beliefs, his tramp character kicking an immigration officer up the arse in The Immigrant was cited as evidence of his antiAmericanism. We’ll project it near his plaque, with some appropriate live music. Join us to discover where Chaplin came from and where London’s going almost a century later. We’ll also be recording people’s thoughts about the film and about South London for broadcast on Resonance FM’s ‘Music for Films’. The film and the walk are both free. Charlie Chaplin moved freely, and so should we.

Imagining London as a film programme made up of the kinds of weird films they used to show at the Scala, but all visualised on the London Tube map, is a never ending game, an endless process of remembering and rethinking the city. We invite everyone to join us in these derives, in thought or in person, and beyond this year. We’d love it if film clubs want to show some of the films on the map near to their respective Underground stations, and to this end we’ll be teaming up with Cinema For All – the nationwide society of film societies – especially on Sunday 25th September, Home Cinema Day. Resonance FM (probably just me, actually, but as bloke-from-Resonance FM, I) will be happy to come along and interview film fans, film nuts and assorted obsessives in clubs and societies, and in their natural settings, leading the cheer for London on film.

Tim Concannon thebeekeepers.com/ scalaunderground/ @the_beekeepers

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James Arden is a writer and filmmaker based in London.

He has previously worked with organisations including Raindance and BAFTA, and written for publications including The Guardian and One&Other Magazine @jnarden jamesarden.co.uk

When it comes to visiting a modern mainstream cinema, compiling a list of grievances doesn’t take much effort: it’s too expensive; people text during screenings; selections at chain cinemas leave a lot to be desired. For older cinephiles, such lamentations are often coupled with a deep nostalgia for the cinemas of days gone by; a golden era of thriving, cheaper independent picturehouses showing repertory cinema on 35mm. This very newspaper is named after one.

But for the younger film-lovers amongst us, we never knew such a world. Our knowledge of those days is limited to stories from older friends and parents, or reading interviews with filmmakers fondly recalling a screening of [insert seminal film] at their local cinema one evening and sparking a life-long obsession there and then. Instead, a modern-day screening of a classic is often tied up in a financially-crippling outing that, as fun as it is sitting in a hot tub or being surrounded by large-scale cinematic-inspired theatrics, seldom focuses much on the actual experience of watching the film.

So, for those of us who can’t get their film fix unless we’re sitting in a dark room surrounded by strangers, what’s next? Traditional film distribution is dying, and we’re on the cusp of huge changes to the ways in which we watch films. Our appetite for the moving

image is larger than ever before but, as convenient is it is to watch a film on a tablet, the physical environment in which a film is screened “cannot be divorced from the experience”, as filmmaker Peter Strickland noted in this newspaper one year ago.

The answer is simple - Scalarama is next. Events that do not reminisce, but instead shape the cinema on the horizon. Venues and film clubs that are influenced and inspired by the eclectic repertory screenings of the past, but with all the modern benefits of social media, technology, aesthetics and comfort that can enhance the experience not only of film-viewing but the sense of community and passion surrounding it.

Soulless multiplexes aren’t going anywhere, but even the average filmgoer is starting to question what’s on offer for something so dear. Curated online streaming services are a welcome recent addition, and a particularly great way to seek out obscure films, but there is a still a demand for another, ultimately more fulfilling way to see a film.

Scalarama celebrates and unites film and filmlovers not through a series of romantic throwback events to the cinemas of an imagined golden era, but by its ubiquitous promotion of ‘social cinema’: widespread, unique, temporary and permanent alike, and above all communal. Films are meant to be felt, and the audience gives it its power: infectious

laughter; the nearby sound of sobbing in the dark; the immeasurable sense of apprehension encompassing you and everyone around you during a tense moment in the world thrust upon the white canvas in front of your eyes. Feeling those around you being inspired, as you are, is what truly brings a film to life. No doubt those going to screenings this September will understand the importance of that collective cinematic zeitgeist. We’re already seeing more and more modern venues popping up - Close-Up in London and HOME in Manchester are both excellent (and very different) venues to live, breathe and discuss cinema run by passionate film-lovers - the best days of cinema are not behind us, they are only just beginning.

Stop longing for the grimy picturehouses of the twentieth century.

This September, unite, celebrate, and embrace the chance to shape the future of cinema.

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Glasgow

Leeds

Manchester Liverpool Nottingham

Birmingham

London

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NORTH: Liverpool + Wigan + Manchester

LIVERPOOL For more info and latest event updates visit:

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Thu 15 Sep 18:30 FACT Liverpool The Man Who Saved The World (Turkish Star Wars) (18) £10.50 / FACT Member £8.50 / Student,Retired £9.50 (£7.50 for Members) FACT

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Thu 1 Sep 20:30 FACT Liverpool Paris is Burning (15) £10.50 / FACT Member £8.50 / Student, Retired £9.50 (£7.50 for Members) FACT

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Fri 2 Sep 18:30 Metal Film Station Fire At Sea (12) Tickets £3 (FREE for L7/L8/L15 postcodes and no one turned away due to lack of funds).

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Sun 4 Sep 16:00 Liverpool Small Cinema Big (12A) £4 / £3 Liverpool Small Cinema

Thu 8 Sep 18:30 FACT Liverpool Dust Group Screening £10.50 / FACT Member £8.50 / Student, Retired £9.50 (£7.50 for Members) FACT

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Thu 8 Sep 19:00 Think Cinema The Headless Woman (12) £4 Liverpool Small Cinema Thu 8 Sep 19:30 Liverpool Silent Films A Dog’s Life + One Week Price tbc The Black Lodge

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Sun 11 Sep 14:00 Liverpool Smalll Cinema An Angel at My Table £4 / £3 Liverpool Small Cinema Sun 11 Sep 18:00 Merseyside Polonia The Double Life of Veronique (15) £4 / £3 Liverpool Small Cinema

Thu 15 Sep 19:00 Think Cinema One.two.one & Shorts (PG) £4 Liverpool Small Cinema Fri 16 Sep 18:30 Metal Film Station Decasia and Different Trains: Bill Morrison Double Bill (U) £3 (FREE for L7/L8/L15 postcodes and no one turned away due to lack of funds) Metal at Edge Hill Station

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Mon 5 Sep 18:30 Liverpool Pride@thePictures Femme Brutal (18) £7, FACT members £5 FACT Wed 7 Sep 19:30 InterTitle Film Diner (plus after party) (15) £5 / £4 Baltic Social

Wed 14 Sep 19:30 The Skinny The Loveless (15) £4 / £3 Liverpool Small Cinema

Sun 18 Sep 17:30 Elsewhere Cinema Losing Ground + Panel discussion with Sophie Mayer £5 Liverpool Small Cinema Wed 21 Sep 19:00 Eye Candy Miracle Mile (15) £4 / £3 Liverpool Small Cinema

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Thu 22 Sep 19:00 Elsewhere Cinema Mustang (15) £5 Liverpool Small Cinema Thu 22 Sep 18:30 FACT Liverpool Circuit Breaker (cert TBC) £10.50 / FACT Member £8.50 / Student, Retired £9.50 (£7.50 for Members) FACT Fri 23 - Sat 24 Sep Food for Real Film Festival Autumn: Film Screenings, Fruit Hunt, Fruit Auction and more...

Free Liverpool Small Cinema, Princes Park, John Archer Hall, Grapes Community Garden Sun 25 Sep 17:00 Liverpool Radical Film Festival Princess Mononoke The Bandstand Sun 25 Sep 18:00 Eye Candy Stonewall (15) £4 / £3 Liverpool Small Cinema Tue 27 Sep 19:30 17 Love Lane Natural Resistance (12) Love Lane Wines

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Wed 28 Sep 19:30 The Skinny Trouble Every Day (18) £4 / £3 Liverpool Small Cinema

Sat 10 Sep 16:40 HOME Films as Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16 (18) £9 / £7 HOME

Thu 29 Sep 19:00 InterTitle Film The Spirit of the Beehive (PG) £5 / £4 Liverpool Small Cinema

The Bandstand, Newsham Park, Liverpool, Merseyside L6

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FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ Grapes Community Garden, Windsor Street, Liverpool, L8 1XE

Liverpool Small Cinema, 57-59 Victoria Street, Liverpool, L1 6DE

Hold Fast Bar, 50 Newton St, Manchester M1 2EA HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place Manchester M15 4FN Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD Rogue Arts Studio, Screening Space, 72 Chapeltown St, Manchester M1 2WH

Sun 11 Sep 19:00 Film Vault Scalarama: Directed by women (18 - pub venue) £5 Gullivers

Fri 16 Sep 19:45 Jane Giles Thundercrack / Hold Me While I'm Naked £9 / £7 HOME

Love Lane Wines, 17 Love Lane Liverpool L3 7DD Metal at Edge Hill Station, Platform three, Tunnel Road, Liverpool, L76ND Princes Park, Liverpool, L8

Sat 17 Sep 19:00 UK Horror Scene A Nightmare on Elm Street & Invasion of The Body Snatchers (35mm) £4 per film AMC Cinema

WIGAN Fri 16 Sep 19:00 Wigan STEAM The Martian £3.50 The Machine Hall, Trencherfield Mill, Heritage Way, Wigan, Wn3 4DU

Tue 20 Sep 19:30 Certificate X Cult Film Screenings Magdalena Possessed by the Devil + Satanic Cults & Ritual Crime (18) Free Hold Fast Bar

MANCHESTER Fri 2 Sep 20:40 HOME Blue Sunshine £9 / £7 HOME

Thu 8 Sep 19:30 Not Of This World Film Night Banjo + shorts (18) £2 Rogue Arts Studio, Screening Space

Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

Tue 13 Sep Grimm Up North The Silence of The Lambs 25th Anniversary Screening Manchester Central Library

John Archer Hall, Upper Hill Street, Liverpool, L8 1YR

Tue 6 Sep 19:30 Certificate X Cult Film Screenings Insane Mexican double-bill: Rider of the Skulls + The Champions of Justice (18) Free Hold Fast Bar

Gorilla, 54-56 Whitworth St W, Manchester, M1 5WW

Sun 11 Sep 12:00 R.A.D Screenings Cagefest Vol.II (18) £10 Gorilla

Baltic Social, 27 Parliament Street, Liverpool, L8 5RN

Sat 3 Sep 19:00 UK Horror Scene The Crow (35mm) & The Lost Boys £4 per film AMC Cinema

AMC Cinema, The Great Northern, 235 Deansgate, Manchester M3 4EN

Sat 10 Sep 19:00 UK Horror Scene Pan's Labyrinth & Deep Red £4 per film AMC Cinema

LIVERPOOL VENUES

Black Lodge, 4 Kitchen St, Liverpool L1 0AN

MANCHESTER VENUES

Sat 24 Sep 19:00 UK Horror Scene Zombieland & Attack the Block £4 per film AMC Cinema

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Tue 27 Sep Manchester Film Co-op/One.Two.One Cinema Daises Manchester Central Library Wed 28 Sep That Awfully Good Movie Night Roland Klick Double Bill 19:00 Deadlock (15) 20:30 Supermarkt (18) Free Hold Fast Bar

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LEEDS

Tue 13 Sep 20:00 Films at Heart Taxi Tehran (12) £6 Standard, £5 Concessions, £4 Members - available on the door HEART Centre, Headingley

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Thu 1 Sep 19:00 Lucky Mask Productions Hull’s Angel A Film By Sean McAllister (15) Pay As You Feel Oblong Cinema

Thu 15 Sep 20:00 Yorkshire Silents 16mm screening - title tbc Pay What You Decide Slung Low’s HUB

Sat 3 Sep 12:00 The Hyde Park Picture House Fantastic Mr. Fox (PG) £1.50 Kids / £5 Adults The Hyde Park Picture House

Fri 16 Sep 20:00 Film Fringe Pecker at The Little Reliance Cinema (15) £5 adv from Biletto.co.uk (or ask at bar) The Reliance

Sat 3 Sep 18:00 The Hyde Park Picture House Sid & Nancy (18) £5 - £7.50 unless otherwise stated The Hyde Park Picture House Tue 6 Sep 18:30 The Hyde Park Picture House Paul Sharits (E) £5 - £7.50 unless otherwise stated The Hyde Park Picture House

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Tue 6 Sep 19:00 Lucky Mask Productions Bingo Trip (12A) Pay As You Feel West Riding Pub

Sun 18 Sep 18:00 Hyde Park Book Club Revenge of the Mekons (NR) Hyde Park Book Club Sun 18 Sep 17:00 Outlaws Yacht Club 12 O’clock Boys & All This Mayhem (double screening) Outlaws Yacht Club

Tue 6 Sep 19:00 Lucky Mask Productions Joyce’s Story (15) Pay As You Feel West Riding Pub

Sun 18 Sep 13:00 The Hyde Park Picture House Enough Rope (Le meurtrier) £5 - £7.50 unless otherwise stated The Hyde Park Picture House

Thu 8 Sep 21:00 The Hyde Park Picture House Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling (18) £7 - £9.50 The Hyde Park Picture House

Tue 20 Sep 18:40 She’s A Rebel Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divů) (15) £5 - £7.50 unless otherwise stated The Hyde Park Picture House

Sat 10 Sep 18:00 Hyde Park Book Club Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (PG) Pay as you feel Hyde Park Book Club Sat 10 Sep 16:30 Film Fringe Bill Cunningham: New York (12A) £5 admission / £4 concession (over 60 / student / unwaged) The Arch Café

Sat 17 Sep 16:30 Film Fringe Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (15) £5 admission / £4 concession (over 60 / student / unwaged) The Arch Café

Fri 23 Sep 19:30 Film Fringe Absolute Beginners (12) £5/£4 concession Headingley Heart

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Fri 23 Sep 19:45 Veg Out Fresh! The Movie (PG) Free, donations welcome Sheaf Street Cafeteria

Thu 8 Sep 21:00 Hebden Bridge Picture House Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: One More Time With Feeling (18) £10/£11/£12 Hebden Bridge Picture House, New Road, Hebden Bridge, HX7 8AD ILKLEY

Thu 29 Sep 20:00 Film Fringe Wings of Desire (12) £5 / £4 unwaged, student, over 60 tickets available on the door Left Bank Leeds

Wed 14 Sep 19:30 Scour Films Giuseppe Makes A Movie + Garbanzo Gas (15) £4 Wharf Chambers

Fri 2 Sep 19:30 Film Fringe 20,000 Days on Earth (15) £5 / £4 concession Headingley Heart

HEBDEN BRIDGE

Sat 24 Sep 15:30 The Hyde Park Picture House Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Nebesnye zheny lugovykh mari) (18) £5 - £7.50 unless otherwise stated The Hyde Park Picture House

Tue 13 Sep 18:30 The Hyde Park Picture House Gary Numan: Android in La La Land with Director Q&A (15) £5 - £7.50 unless otherwise stated The Hyde Park Picture House

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Sat 24 Sep 16:30 Film Fringe Advanced Style (PG) The Arch Café

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Thu 29 Sep 20:00 Ilkley Cinema Best in Show (12) £9 Ilkley Cinema, 46a Leeds Road, Ilkley West Yorkshire, LS29 8DP

Fri 30 Sep 18:00 Film Fringe Surreal Women double-bill £5/£4 concession Leeds College of Art

WHITLEY BAY

LEEDS VENUES The Arch Café, Mark Lane, Leeds, LS2 8JA Headingley Heart, Bennett Road, Headingley, Leeds LS6 3HN Hyde Park Book Club, 27 Headingley Lane, Leeds, LS6 1BL The Hyde Park Picture House, 73 Brudenell Road Hyde Park, Leeds LS6 1JD Leeds College of Art, Blenheim Walk, Leeds LS2 9AQ Left Bank Leeds, Cardigan Rd, Leeds, LS6 1LJ Oblong Cinema, 197 Woodhouse St, Woodhouse Leeds LS6 2NY Outlaws Yacht Club, 38 New York Street, Leeds, LS2 7DY The Reliance, 76-78 North St, Leeds, LS2 7PN Sheaf Street Cafeteria, 3 Sheaf Street, Leeds, LS10 1HD Slung Low’s HUB, 67-71 Bath Road Leeds LS11 9UA West Riding Pub, 38 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 2DE Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds, LS2 7EQ BRADFORD Scalarama Bradford needs you! A group of film fans want to make sure this UNESCO City of Film is well represented in Scalarama! Get in touch via @ScalaramaBFD to help support Sat 24 Sep 22:00 Trap Door Banjo (West Yorkshire Premiere) (18) £5 / £4 NUS The University of Bradford, Student Central, Longside Lane, Bradford, BD7 1DP

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Jam Jar Cinema presents Thu 15 Sep 20:30 The Spirit of ‘45 (U) Fri 16 Sep 20:00 Edge (15) Thu 29 Sep 20:30 Sound It Out (12A) Tickets: £5 Jam Jar Cinema, 18-24 Park Avenue, Whitley Bay, NE26 1QP BERWICK 21st to 25th September Berwick Film & Media Art Festival (BFMAF) returns for its 12th edition!

From 21st to 25th September, the award-winning Festival will span more than a dozen locations in North East England’s walled border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, with all films and artist moving image installations responding to the theme of ‘X’.

‘X’ offers a myriad of possibilities for exploration and promises tight focus around key issues of our time.

‘X’ will embrace hidden histories and zones of exclusion whilst celebrating the power of film to spark imaginations and transform lives.

Visit berwickfilm-artsfest.com for the full programme, tickets and festival passes.

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SOUTH EAST: Brighton + Chatham

SOUTH WEST: Bristol + Torrington

BRISTOL For more info and latest event updates visit: Scalarama.screeningfilm.com/ locations/bristol Follow @ScalaBristol on Twitter Facebook.com/ScalaramaBristol Thu 1 Sep 20:00 Cube Cinema Repulsion (18) £5 full / £4 conc.

Cube Microplex Fri 2 Sep 20:00 Bristol Sunset Cinema The Goonies (12A) £12.50 / £8 Ashton Court Mansion Sat 3 Sep 21:30 Hello Thor Girl Walk // All Day (UC - contains swearing on the soundtrack) £6 (£5 concessions) Wardrobe Theatre Sun 4 Sep 20:00 Bristol Sunset Cinema Close Encounters of the Third Kind (PG) £12.50 / £8 Ashton Court Mansion Tue 6 Sep 20:00 SeventySeven Film Club Dogra Magra (Toshio Matsumoto 1988) (18) £3 The Arts House Wed 7 Sep 19:00 South West Silents Celebrating British Film Pioneer William Friese-Greene: Special Beer Launch (18) Free Admission The Portcullis Pub Fri 9 Sep 19:00 Bristol Sunset Cinema Star Trek II – Wrath Of Khan + Cosmic Shed Podcast Live (12A) £14.50 / £10 Bristol Planetarium Sat 10 Sep 19:00 Cube Cinema South East Asian Cult Cinema Double Bill: Lady Terminator & The Killing of Satan (18) £7 full / £6 conc Cube Microplex

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Sun 11 Sep 20:00 Cube Cinema The Watermelon Woman (15) £5 full / £4 conc Cube Microplex Tue 13 Sep 20:00 SeventySeven Film Club Mystics in Bali (H. Tjut Djalil 1981) (18) £3 The Arts House

Thu 15 Sep 20:00 Bristol Bad Film Club Psychomania (1972) (18) £5 Bristol Bierkeller

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Cube Cinema, Dove Street South, Lower Kingsdown, Bristol, BS2 8JD The Portcullis Pub, 3 Wellington Terrace, Bristol BS8 4LE

CLEVEDON Curzon Cinema and Arts presents Sat 10 Sep 12:00 - 17:00 Curzon Tours with Heritage Open Days Free 13:30 High Treason (35mm) with live pianist Andy Quin (PG) £10 / £8 19:30 The 400 Blows (U) £6.90 / £5.50

Thu 22 Sep 20:00 Cube Cinema Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn, plus Short & Performance TBA (18) £5 full / £4 conc Cube Microplex

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Sat 17 Sep 13:30 Curzon Kids and Scratch n Sniff Cinema Matilda (U) £6/£5 Curzon Cinema and Arts, 45 Old Church Rd, Clevedon, BS21 6NN

Fri 23 Sep 20:00 Bristol Sunset Cinema The Lego Movie (PG) £12.50 / £8 Ashton Court Mansion

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Sun 25 Sep 20:00 Cube Cinema Mulholland Drive (15) £5 full / £4 conc Cube Microplex

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The Plough Arts Centre presents Fri 2 Sep 20:00 Star Trek Beyond (12A) Sun 4 Sep 16:00 Thelma & Louise (15) Wed 7 Sep 20:00 Summertime (15) Fri 9 Sep 20:00 David Bowie is (PG) Sun 11 Sep 15:00 Barry Lyndon (12A) Wed 14 Sep 20:00 Cosmos (15) Wed 21 Sep 20:00 Up for Love (Un homme à la hauteur) (12A) £6 / £5.50 / £5 The Plough Arts Centre, 9 - 11 Fore Street, Torrington, Devon, EX38 8HQ

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Wed 14 Sep 20:00 Lost Property Arts Collective Taking the Dog For a Walk (U) £5 The Verdict

Wed 7 Sep 19:00 The Luxbry at Bom-Bane’s The Spiral Staircase (1945) (PG) £5.55 (advance booking essential) Bom-Bane’s

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Fri 16 Sep: Junkyard Dogs 18:30 The Vampire Lovers (15) 20:00 Lust for a Vampire (18) 21:30 Twins of Evil (18) FREE Junkyard Dogs

Wed 7 Sep 19:00 Fabrica and Scalarama Brighton The Violators + Director Q&A with Helen Walsh (15) Adult £6, Concession £5 Fabrica

Sun 18 Sep 16:00 Diva’s Piccol-Odeon Belleville Rendez-vous (12) Adult - £7, child under 14 - £5 Diva’s Piccol-Odeon

Wed 7 Sep 19:00 Legacy Film and Eyes Wide Open Born in Flames (1983) & Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification (1979) (15) £5 The Brunswick Thu 8 Sep 20:00 Fabrica and High & Over Begotten with Live Score TBC £10 / £8 Fabrica Fri 9 Sep 10:00 Brighton & Hove Open Door The Duke of York’s Cinema Tour FREE (advance booking essential) Duke of York’s Picturehouse

Mon 12 Sep 18:30 Fabrica Film Forum: Face to Face (UC) Standard £5, Concession £3 Fabrica Wed 14 Sep 19:00 The Luxbry at Bom-Bane’s Les Diaboliques (1955) (12) £5.55 (advance booking essential) Bom-Bane’s

Tue 6 Sep 19:00 Fabrica and Filmspot Rubber (15) £6, £5 Concessions Fabrica

Sun 18 Sep 16:30 Cinema Rediscovered Out of Print (35mm) £6 / £5

TORRINGTON

Sun 11 Sep 18:00 Scalarama Brighton Un Homme Qui Dort + Live Rescore Performed by Animat (PG) Adult £10.50, Concession £9.50, Member £8.50, Conc. Member £7.50, Balcony £15, Balcony Member £13 Duke of York’s Picture House

Sun 4 Sep Junkyard Dogs 13:00 Dracula (12) 14:30 Curse of Frankenstein (12) 16:00 The Devil Rides Out (15) FREE Junkyard Dogs Mon 5 Sep 19:00 Fabrica and Filmspot Animal Farm plus Vivien Halas and Jez Stewart in conversation (U) £6, £5 Concessions Fabrica

Sat 10 Sep 15:30 Scalarama Brighton Out of Print (35mm) (Unrated, 18+) Adult £10.50, Concession £9.50, Member £8.50, Conc. Member £7.50, Balcony £15, Balcony Member £13 Duke of York’s Picture House Sat 10 Sep 21:00 Scalarama Brighton Psychomania (Restored) (15) Adult £9.50, Concession £8.50, Member £7.50, Conc. Member £6.50 Dukes @ Komedia

Fri 2 Sep 19:30 Ocean Film Fest UK Ocean Film Festival World Tour (12A) £15.00, £13 Concessions £13 for groups of 6 or more Brighton Dome Corn Exchange

Wardrobe Theatre, 25 West St, Bristol, BS2 0DF

Tue 20 Sep 20:00 SeventySeven Film Club La Rabbia (Pier Paolo Pasolini & Giovannino Guareschi 1963) (18) £3 The Arts House

Fri 9 Sep 18:00 Brighton & Hove Open Door ‘Nice Girls Didn’t Go To The Academy!’ Cinemas of Brighton Tour FREE Duke of York’s Picturehouse

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Bristol Planetarium, At-Bristol, Anchor Rd, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5DB

Tue 20 - Sun 25 Sep Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival Watershed and other venues TBC

Fri 30 Sep 20:00 Hellfire Video Club The Human Tornado (18) £5 full / £4 conc Cube Microplex

The Arts House, 108A Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3RU

Bristol Bierkeller, All Saints’ Street, Bristol BS1 2NA

Fri 16 Sep 19:00 Bristol Sunset Cinema and the Cosmic Shed Podcast Star Trek: First Contact (12) £14.50 / £10 Bristol Planetarium

Tue 27 Sep 20:00 SeventySeven Film Club The Fifth Seal (Zoltán Fábri 1976) (18) £3 The Arts House

BRIGHTON

Ashton Court Mansion, Ashton Court Estate, Long Ashton, Bristol BS41 9JN

Thu 15 Sep 20:00 20th Century Flicks In the Mouth of Madness (18) £5 full / £4 conc Cube Microplex

Sun 25 Sep 20:00 Bristol Sunset Cinema Starship Troopers (18) £12.50 Ashton Court Mansion

BRISTOL VENUES

Mon 19 Sep 21:00 Scalarama Brighton The Survivalist (18) £7 Dukes @ Komedia

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Tue 20 Sep 20:00 Nosferatuesdays Near Dark (18) FREE The Bee’s Mouth Wed 21 Sep 19:00 The Luxbry at Bom-Bane’s The Haunting (1963) (12) £5.55 (advance booking essential) Bom-Bane’s

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Wed 21 Sep 20:00 Lost Property Arts Collective Mama Goema / This is Zamrock! (U) £4 The Rose Hill Thu 22 Sep 21:00 Scalarama Brighton Wings of Desire (35mm) (12) Adult £10.50, Concession £9.50, Member £8.50, Conc. Member £7.50, Balcony £15, Balcony Member £13 Duke of York’s Picture House Fri 23 Sep 20:00 Dreamland Cinema [safe] (15) £6 The Rose Hill Sun 25 Sep 16:00 Diva’s Piccol-Odeon The Illusionist (PG) Adult - £7, child under 14 - £5 Diva’s Piccol-Odeon Sun 25 Sep 20:00 Lost Property Arts Collective We Don’t Care About Music Anyway (U) £4 The Quadrant

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Tue 27 Sep 19:30 Lost Property Arts Collective Virtuoso Listening: Eliane Radigue (U) £5 At The Coach House

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Tue 27 Sep 20:00 Nosferatuesdays A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (15) £5 The Old Market Wed 28 Sep 19:00 The Luxbry at Bom-Bane’s Repulsion (1965) (18) £5.55 (advance booking essential) Bom-Bane’s Wed 28 Sep 19:30 Open Colour Vampir-Cuadecuc £4 advance / £5 on door Friends Meeting House Fri 30 Sep 20:00 Scalarama Brighton Closing Night: Secret Scala Screening Unrated, (18+) £5 Secret Location BRIGHTON VENUES At The Coach House, 22 Walpole Rd, Brighton, BN2 0EA The Bee’s Mouth, 10 Western Road, Hove, BN3 1AE Bom-Bane’s, 24 George Street, Brighton, BN2 1RH Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Church Street, Brighton, BN1 1UE The Brunswick, 1 Holland Road, Hove, BN3 1JF Diva’s Piccol-Odeon, Diva espresso and Sandwich bar 94 St. James’s Street Brighton, BN2 1TP

LONDON

Duke of York’s Picture House, Preston Circus, Brighton, BN1 4NA

Thu 1 Sep 20:30 Genesis Cinema Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick (PG) £8/£7 Genesis Cinema

Dukes @ Komedia, 44-47 Gardner St, Brighton, BN1 1UN Fabrica, 40 Duke Street, Brighton, BN1 1AG

Junkyard Dogs, 142 Edward Street, Brighton, BN2 0JG

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The Quadrant, 12-13 North St, Brighton, BN1 3GJ The Rose Hill, 70-71 Rose Hill Terrace, Brighton, BN1 4JL

The Verdict, 159 Edward Street, Brighton, BN2 0JB

Wed 7 Sep 19:30 Rochester Kino Immersive Cinematic Experience: Trainspotting (18) £5 / £3 students Brook Theatre, 5 The Brook, Old Town Hall, Chatham ME4 4SE Wed 28 Sep 19:30 Rochester Kino Immersive Cinematic Experience: Blue Velvet (18) £5 / £3 students Brook Theatre, 5 The Brook, Old Town Hall, Chatham ME4 4SE

Sat 3 Sep 15:00 Genesis Cinema #DirectedByWomen2016 - A Worldwide Film Viewing Party - Title TBC £9.50/£7 Genesis Cinema

Thu 15 Sep 19:00 Rochester Kino Re-Animator + Intro + Salon Discussion (18) £8/£7 Genesis Cinema Thu 15 Sep 19:30 The BeeKeepers The Magic Christian. A ‘Box Set’ live DVD commentary (15) £5 / £4 concessions The Cinema Museum

Sun 4 Sep 15:00 Genesis Cinema Jack The Ripper Double Bill w/ Kim Newman & Resonance FM (18) £9.50/£7 concessions Genesis Cinema

Secret Location, Queens Rd, Brighton, BN1 3XP

CHATHAM

Tue 13 Sep 19:00 Genesis Cinema Anarchy In The UK - A Documentary on UK Underground Cinema + Shorts £8/£7 Genesis Cinema

Fri 2 Sep 19:30 Genesis Cinema Cafe Society Swing Dance Party (18) Genesis Cinema

Friends Meeting House, Ship St, Brighton, BN1 1AF

The Old Market, 11A Upper Market Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN3 1AS

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Fri 16 Sep 21:00 Phoenix Cinema Interview with the Vampire (18) £11 Phoenix Cinema

Tue 6 Sep 21:00 Genesis Cinema Out Of Print - A Film by Julia Marchese £9.50/£7 concessions Genesis Cinema

Sat 17 Sep 19:00 Genesis Cinema Une Homme Qui Dort w/ Live ReScore performed by Animat (PG) £9.50 Genesis Cinema

Tue 6 Sep 20:00 Tufnell Park Film Club The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, USA, 1999) (15) Free The Star Wed 7 Sep 19:00 Stanley’s Film Club What Ever Happened To Baby Jane (12) £7 / £5 members Stanley Halls Thu 8 Sep 19:30 Genesis Cinema Nick Cave - One More Time With Feeling + Live Performances inspired

by Nick Cave (18) £8/£7 Genesis Cinema Fri 9 Sep 12:00 Genesis Cinema Video Nightmare All-Dayer - VHStival 2016 (18) FREE ENTRY Genesis Cinema Sat 10 Sep 19:30 Reel Good Film Club’s 2nd B'day Party!

FREE ENTRY Buster Mantis Sat 10 Sep 19:00 Genesis Cinema Scared To Dance Film Night with Stuart Murdoch (Belle & Sebastian) £9.50 Genesis Cinema Sun 11 Sep 19:00 Genesis Cinema Nightbirds (1970, Andy Milligan) with Kim Newman & Resonance FM 18 £9.50/£7 concessions Genesis Cinema

Sun 11 Sep 18:00 @wocfilmclub Short Film Sunday with WoC Film Club Twitter

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Sun 18 Sep 18:00 Reel Good Film Club and Genesis Cinema Losing Ground w/ Panel Discussion £6/£4 concessions Genesis Cinema Tue 20 Sep 20:00 Tufnell Park Film Club Orlando (Sally Potter, UK, 1992) (PG) Free The Star Sat 24 Sep 15:00 Genesis Cinema #DirectedByWomen2016 A Worldwide Film Viewing Party Title TBC Genesis Cinema Sat 24 Sep 16:10 The Final Girls Carrie’s Bloody Prom Party - a 40th anniversary celebration (18) Price TBC ICA Sat 24 Sep 21:45 The BeeKeepers Charlie Chaplin Walk Free starts The Cinema Museum Sun 25 Sep 19:00 Genesis Cinema Psychomania (Restored) £9.50/£7 concessions Genesis Cinema

Tue 27 Sep 19:30 Black Decagon Film Club Folk Horror Cinema Club: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) + Robin Ince Introduction (15) £9.50 Genesis Cinema

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LONDON VENUES Buster Mantis, 3 Resolution Way, Deptford SE8 4NT The Cinema Museum,2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road) London SE11 4TH Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Road, London E1 4UJ ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH Phoenix Cinema, 52 High Road, East Finchley, London, N2 9PJ The Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7BY Stanley Halls, 12 South Norwood Hill, London, SE25 6AB The Star, 47 Chester Road, London, N19 5DF

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SCOTLAND / HUNGARY / USA MIDLANDS: Birmingham + Oswestry + Nottingham + Beeston + Cambridge + Royston

BIRMINGHAM Wed 14 Sep 20:30 Viva VHS Hawk Jones - VHS Screening (PG) Price TBC The Electric Cinema, 47-49 Station St, Birmingham B5 4DY

Thu 22 Sep 19:00 Vivid Projects Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures & Pop up Polaroids Vivid Projects, 16 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RS

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GLASGOW

Fri 16 Sep 19:30 The Beeston Film Festival Women In Love (Ken Russell) (18) £5 The White Lion Bar & Kitchen

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Sat 24 Sep 18:00 Nottingham Alternative Film Network Notes on Blindness + Q&A and Food (U) £10 The White Lion Bar & Kitchen, 24 Middle Street, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 1FX

Fri 16 Sep 20:00 Music Video Klub Free Centrala, Unit 4 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, B5 5RT Tue 20 Sep 19:00 Birmingham on Film Paradise Lost: History in the Unmaking Birmingham Open Media, 1 Dudley Street, Birmingham, B5 4EG

BEESTON

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ROYSTON Royston Picture Palace presents Fri 2 Sep 19:30 The Nice Guys (15) Thu 15 Sep 19:30 The Hard Stop - Thoughtful Thursday (15) Sat 17 Sep 19:30 The Elephant Man (PG) Fri 30 Sep 19:30 Jason Bourne (15) £7.50 Full £6.50 Full £6.00 Child Royston Picture Palace, Town Hall, Melbourn Street, Royston, SG8 7DA

Wed 7 Sep 19:00 Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Gladstone’s Bag Presents Silent Films (Family Friendly) Free, Suggested donation £5 Britannia Panopticon Music Hall

Fri 9 Sep 19:30 Film Exchange Bukowski’s Barfly (18) £4 or £3 for Writer’s Studio members Nottingham Writer’s Studio, 25 Hockley, NG1 1FP

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Sun 11 Sep 11:00 Cinema UP Collective Radical Home Cinema - Bildwechsel, women in media, arts and culture (18) Free Fourwalls Tue 13 Sep 18:30 Eatfilm Despicable Me 2 (U) £13.95 Sloans

Ellie’s Living Room, Kelvinbridge Area Fourwalls, Woodlands, Glasgow, G3 6HP GEAR Auctioneers, Barras Market, 72 Moncur Street, G40 2SL Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose St, Glasgow, G3 6RB Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP Marzanna’s living room, Temple District, Glasgow The Old Hairdresser’s, Renfield Lane, Glasgow, G2 6PH The Planetarium at Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1EA Platform - The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Rd, Glasgow, G34 9JW

Tue 20 Sep 18:00 Eatfilm Bridget Jones’ Marathon (15) £17.95 Sloans Wed 21 Sep 06:30 Fantom Cinema Vaghe Stelle Dell’Orsa (AKA Sandra) / Sugar Hill - Double Bill (18) £4 The Old Hairdresser’s

Sloans, 108 Argyle Street 62 Argyle arcade Glasgow G2 8BG

HUNGARY

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Thu 22 Sep 19:30 Matt Ev All That Glitters is a Maresnest (Cardiacs) + Kavus Torabi (No certificate. Some fruity language) Price tbc (but reasonable) The Old Hairdresser’s

Fri 9 Sep 19:30 VHS Trash Fest + Physical Impossibility VHS Triple Bill (18) £4.50 each, with a £10 Trash Trio Ticket The Old Hairdresser’s

Sat 10 Sep 18:30 Cinema UP Collective Radical Home Cinema Welcome Nowhere (18) Free Marzanna’s living room

CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD

Mon 19 Sep 19:00 Blueprint Blueprint B Roll 01: Animation Special £3 The Old Hairdresser’s

Fri 9 Sep 18:30 Cinema UP Collective Radical Home Cinema - Journey (18) Free Anna’s Living Room

NOTTINGHAM

Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, 1st Floor, 113-117 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HD

Sun 18 Sep 19:00 The Planetarium at Glasgow Science Centre Sci-Fi Sundays - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Strictly 18+) £15 The Planetarium at Glasgow Science Centre

Wed 7 Sep 19:00 Something Weird Film Club Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (18) £5 (plus booking fee) The Old Hairdresser’s

Sat 10 Sep 13:30 Britannia Panopticon Music Hall The 1916 Cine-Variety Show (Family Friendly) Free Britannia Panopticon Music Hall

Anna’s Living Room, Bearsden, Glasgow

Thu 15 Sep 19:00 Matchbox Cineclub Pura Sangre (18) £5 CCA

Tue 6 Sep 18:30 Eatfilm Braveheart (15) £13.95 Sloans

Kinokulture Cinema presents Fri 9 Sep 19:30 Un Homme Qui Dort with live rescore

by Animat (PG) Wed 14 Sep 19:30 Arabian Nights Volume 3 - The Enchanted One (15) Tue 27 Sep 19:30 Stalker - Sculpting Time Andrei Tarkovsky Season (PG) Price varies depending on screening Kinokulture Cinema, 9 Arthur Street, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY11 1JN

Thu 8 Sep 20:30 The Loft Movie Theatre & Porlock Press Repo Man (18) £6.20 / 4.50 concessions Savoy Cinema, 233 Derby Road, Nottingham, NG7 1QN

Sat 3 Sep 19:00 Sunder Cinema presents Valley Girl (15) £5 (plus booking fee) CCA Mon 5 Sep 19:00 LightShow Film Club Rotten Kiwis: Sleeping Dogs / Smash Palace Double bill (15+) £4 + £1 booking fee CCA

Thu 29 Sep 21:00 Reel Women Reel Women September (15+) FREE Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrew’s Street Cambridge, CB2 3AR

GLASGOW VENUES

Wed 14 Sep 20:00 Sunder Cinema Santa Sangre (18) £4 The Old Hairdresser’s

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Wed 14 Sep 19:30 Analogue Film Scotland Out of Print (35mm) (Unrated, 18+) £7/£6 concession + booking fee CCA

Three films made in Central Europe by female directors: Hands (2016) and a music video for PontMost,

by Martha Kicsiny and Daisies (1966) directed by Věra Chytilová.

Sat 24 Sep 19:00 Cinema UP Collective Radical Home Cinema - Artful Dodgers (18) Free GEAR Auctioneers, Barras Market

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Tue 27 Sep 18:30 Cinema UP Collective Radical Home Cinema - Reclaim The Streets & Still We Ride (18) Free Ellie’s Living Room Thu 29 Sep – Sun 2 Oct Scottish Queer International Film Festival (includes Queer Horror Retrospective) CCA Cinema, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow Film Theatre Fri 30 Sep 19:00 Matchbox Cineclub DOA: A Rite Of Passage + Scalarama Closing Party (18) £6 The Old Hairdresser’s

Thu 22 Sep 20:00 Filmodüsszea Filmklub Directed by Women: A Short, A Music Video & A Film Free Klubbéla, Bacsó Béla u. 10., Budapest, Hungary, 1084

USA

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Sun 11 Sep 13:00 @wocfilmclub Short Film Sunday with WoC Film Club An online selection of short films written and directed by women of colour from around the globe.

Follow the event on Twitter with @wocfilmclub.

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