Jan-Feb 07 programme
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JANUARY PROGRAMME:
Sunday 7th: 3pm Philadelphia Story . 7.30 The Living Corpse
Tuesday 9th: 5pm Funders/volunteers opening party– invite only.
Wednesday 10th: 7.30pm The Weather Underground
Thursday 11th: 6pm Philadelphia Story, 8.10pm Ossessione
Friday 12th: 7pm exhibition opening: House, Tree, Mobile Phone
Saturday 13th: Horror double bill: 8pm Black Sunday 10pm Schramm.
Sunday 14th: 3pm Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . 7.30PM Ossessione
Tuesday 16th: 6pm Les Amants Reguliers
Wednesday 17th : 7.30pm The White Party, + discussion
Thurs 18th: 7.30pm The Secret History of Indian Film.
Sat 20th: 7.30 Les Amants Reguliers
Sun 21st: 3pm The 39 Steps. 7.30 Les Amants Reguliers
Wed 24th: 7.30 The Fourth World War
Thurs 25th: 7.30 The 39 Steps + Burns Night Scottish Punk Rock
Sat 27th: 12pm till late Films without Borders festival
Sun 28th: 11am -8pm Films without Borders festival
Wed 31st: 7.30 pm Dreams of Sparrows
FEBRUARY PROGRAMME:
Thursday 1st: 7.30 Touki Bouki
Friday 2nd: 7.30 A Bit Crack (regular 1st Friday of every month storytelling night)
Saturday 3rd: 11am-5pm – Polytechnic workshop. 8pm-late Datarama night
Sunday 4th: 3pm Mildred Pierce 7.30pm Voyage to Italy
Mon 5th: CANCELLED: butterfly cabinet: – wooden wand and the sky high band
Tuesday 6th: 7.30pm HEXEN 2039 + talk
Wednesday 7th: 7.30pm Learning from the Miners Strike
Thursday 8th: 6pm Mildred Pierce 8.10 Stromboli
Friday 9th: 7.30pm Presenting Filmmakers 1 – Guy Sherwin
Saturday 10th: 3pm - 5pm PRIVATE HIRE - contact is catherine.foster@nova-international.com 0191 226 3214 / 07709 411 416 8pm – No-Fi: Chris Corsano & Mick Flower plus support.
Sunday 11th: 3pm Ninotchka 7.30pm Stromboli
Tuesday 13th: 7.30pm Single Shot film compilation
Wednesday 14th: 7.30pm XXX: Another History of Avant Garde film
Thursday 15th: 7.30pm Southern Indian Film + food night.
Friday 16th: 7pm Exhibition opening – Solito by David Beech plus party.
Saturday 17th: 7.30pm Eyes Wide Open – open submission film night.
Sunday 18th: 3pm The Old Maid 7.30pm I Vitelloni
Wednesday 21st: 7.30pm Bataville + talk
Thursday 22nd: 7.30pm I Vitelloni
Friday 23rd: 7pm–late Halloween Short Film festival
Saturday 24th: 2pm–late Halloween Short Film festival
Sunday 25th: 3pm Arsenic and Old Lace 7.30pm Touki Bouki
Wednesday 28th: 7.30pm The Coconut Revolution + Radical Film forum.
Classic golden era
7 (3pm), 11 (7.30pm) Philadelphia Story G. Cukor, 1940, 112mins, USA, 35mm, PG
Katherine Hepburn, Carry Grant and Jimmy Stewart all in one movie! A bride-to-be's heart, mind and plans are all messed up by the arrival of her ex-husband and a handsome journalist. This is a great screwball comedy about love, sex, class, manners and media intrusion.
14 (3pm) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof R. Brooks, 1958, USA, 108mins, 15, 35mm.
Tensions are high in this claustrophobic, hot drama. 'Brick' (Paul Newman) is an alcoholic ex-football star who spurns the affections and sexual attentions of his wife 'Maggie the Cat' (Elizabeth Taylor). When 'Big Daddy' returns home with news about his health family secrets, lies and frustrations unfold.
21 3pm, 25 Jailhouse Rock/ The Thirty nine Steps. A. Hitchcock, 1935, UK, 86mins, U, 35mmm
‘Handcuffed to the girl who double-crossed him.’ A mysterious woman is murdered in the apartment of a man who tries to help her. Fleering from the police, across Southern Scotland, he embarks on an adventure filled with spies, locals and a girl to whom he is handcuffed. The 25th is Burns Night, so come along and celebrate!
4th (3pm), 8th 7.30pm – Mildred Pierce, M. Curtiz, 1945, USA, 35mm, PG, 111mins.
Joan Crawford is at her best in this classic melodrama. A hard-working, long-suffering, devoted mother makes ultimate sacrifices in life, business, freedom and love for her unpleasant, spoilt daughter.
11 (3pm)– Ninotchka, E. Lubitsch, 1939, 35mm, 110mins, USA, U.
'Garbo laughs…!' An icy Communist commissar's heart is melted by the luxury and romance of the Capitalist West (and a Count, of course!). Greta Garbo is wonderful in this comedy of ideologies clashing in Paris.
18 3pm,– Jezebel. The Old Maid, E Goulding, 1939, 35mm, 95mins, USA, PG.
A ‘soapy’ piece of melodrama full of sacrifice, deception and emotion. Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins star in this weepy “irresistable tosh”. The original play, based on an Edith Wharton novel, won the Pulitzer Prize.
25 3pm, - Arsenic and Old Lace. F. Capra, 1944, USA, PG, 118mins, 35mm
Two sweet old spinster sisters have a habit of 'helping' afflicted old gentlemen. This marvellous black comedy sees Cary Grant returning home with his new bride to discover the insanities of his family.
RADICAL
For 14 seasons the Tyneside Radical Film Festival inspired and informed folk
down at the Side Cinema. To celebrate the transfer the opening of the Star &
Shadow Cinema we will be screening some of the "best of the fest" up until
Christmas. These are some of the best radical documentaries ever made, which
we have managed to get permission to show again.
10 jan – The Weather Underground, Sam Green and Bill Siegel (2003, USA, 92 mins) 7.30pm
‘The Weather Underground' examines the role of 'White America' in the struggle to end the war in Vietnam and challenge the established power structures in the USA during the late sixties and seventies. Green and Siegel's film explores the roots and motivations of the Weathermen themselves and situates their struggle among others across the US and all over the world.
17 jan – Marijuana: Grass (Sphinx Productions, 79 mins) 1999, 7.30pm
With the declassification of 'the weed' to a category C drug, and
Amsterdam-style coffee shops springing up in the UK, we take a closer look
at the way marijuana has been viewed by the US government in the twentieth
century. This well produced film includes public broadcasts that were meant
to scare people off dope, but now look comical. Tyneside Action on Cannabis
will introduce the film.
OR
The White Party (El Retorno Productions, 30 mins) 2005 Colombia.
The White Party explores gang violence, Colombian cocaine cartels and how the subsequent "war on drugs" affects poor neighbourhoods of Medellin. Introduced by human rights workers, Trish Abbott and Clara May Warden, speaking on the effects of UK and US foreign policy. Trish subtitled this production.
24 jan – Fourth World War, Rick Rowley & Jacqueline Soohen (2004, 76 mins)
From the frontlines of conflicts in Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Seattle to Genova, this is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war. The Fourth World War brings together the images and voices of the war on the ground. It is a story of a war without end and of those who resist. The product of over two years of filming on the inside of movements on five continents, The Fourth World War is a film that would have been unimaginable at any other moment in history
7th feb Learning from the miner's strike: Coal Not Dole: Miners' Campaign Tapes, various, 1984, 90mins
This collection of 10 'trigger tapes' vividly show the mass struggles of the 1984 Miners Striker, with footage from various film groups across Britain. The concise but incisive analysis of politics, the role of the media and the police at the time remain as relevant as ever. Dave Douglass, a local miner who appears in the films, will talk about what they mean for our struggles today (tbc).
28 Feb – The Coconut Revolution (Stampede, 2001, 50 mins)
The people of Bougainville, a small island in the Pacific, have a remarkable story of resistance to armed attack from the Papua New Guinea Army and exploitation from mining companies. Their weapons? Coconuts of course! followed by a forum on what political films to show in the future at the Star & Shadow. If you have an idea or an opinion, come along.
12pm-midnight 26, 11am-8pm 27 Jan - Films Without No Borders
A two day festival of independent film and discussion exploring migration, borders and human rights.
Movement. Need. Journeys. Racism. Asylum. Oppression. Freedom. Migration is a complex phenomenon that has always been present in human history. In current times, state governments have placed increasing importance on the development of rigid borders and forceful immigration control. This festival wants to explore the implications of this pull towards the 'fortress' mentality that the West has employed, and its effects on those who migrate whether to seek asylum from persecution or in search of a better life for themselves and their families. We want to understand the reasons why people migrate and why they are being stopped from doing so. We want to reveal how immigration control gives rise to some of the worst violations of human rights. But most of all we want to take action in support of those who are caught in the web of immigration control as it is implemented in Europe. Festival starts with lunch and discussions from 12 noon Saturday and 11am Sunday. Film highlights include Si nos Dejan, (If They Let Us), an excellent documentary mapping the experiences of migrants living in Barcelona, short films made by the Newcastle-based Kooch Cinema group, and Zimbabwean filmmaker Peter Mutando's comprehensive depiction of the journey of an asylum seeker. Workshops and presentations include Teresa Hayter, author of Open Borders, Tyneside Community Action for Refugees and others.
Also, a social without frontiers! From 7pm, Saturday with Caravan gypsy jazz quartet, plus more music, food, dancing + launch of the Star and Shadow World Cinema Club, inviting people of different nationalities to get involved in programming films and events for the cinema.
Pay per film, or full weekend ticket available for £5. Free for asylum seekers. No-one turned away through lack of funds.
For film times and futher info, see separate film festival programme, or Star and Shadow website.
South Asian Programme
18 Jan – The Secret History of Indian Film.
Launching a regular South Asian strand to the programme, it seems fitting to start at the beginning. This programme presents revelatory and rare films from two founding periods of Indian cinema. D.G. Phalke’s fantastic films, like those of George Méliès in France, are the foundations of Indian cinema. Phalke gave magical movement to Indian mythology with Raja Harishchandra the first ever Indian film in 1913. Inventive and playful, these films merge folk theatre with epic literature, myth with modernity. Also showing are films produced under the government’s ‘Films Division’. Founded in 1948, with the aim of documenting independent India, these works reflect the processes of post-colonial nation building. Similar to the British GPO Film Unit, filmmakers were given free reign in the 60s and 70s to explore the possibilities of cinema from animation and impressionistic documentary to subversive collages. We are incredibly fortunate to have live Hindustani Classical music accompanying the early silent films, courtesy of Gurukul. If you are interested in South Asian film please get in touch to help choose the next films.
15 february –
Cinema Of the World
1 feb – TOUKI BOUKI As the first screening for the Cinema of the World club, and fresh from a 'sold out in 15minutes' screening at the Africa in Motion Film Festival in Edinburgh, we are pleased to present Touki Bouki(1973), a classic piece of African Film Art. Young lovers, Mory and Anta, dream of Paris and an escape from the dead-end clutches of Dakar, Senegal. Only when that dream becomes a tantalising reality do they realise that in pursuing their dream, a sacrifice must be made - a sacrifice far greater than either were expecting. The Cinema of the World club is an open invitation to people of different nationalities to get involved in programming films and events for the cinema.
ACE NE surely this isn't the section title? how about Artist Film & Video
6 Feb 7pm Hexen 2039 The Movie S. Treister, UK, 2006, DVD, Uncert., 45 mins.
Set in the late 21st century, HEXEN 2039 charts Brodsky’s (aka Suzanne Treister) para scientific research towards the development of new mind control technologies for the British Military, revealing links between conspiracy theories, occult groups, Chernobyl, witchcraft, the US film industry, British Intelligence agencies, Soviet brainwashing, behaviour control experiments of the US Army and recent practices of its Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (PSYOP) and new research in contemporary neuroscience.
This film contains footage from the archives of HEXEN 2039, a research programme into military-occult based technologies for use in psychological warfare. HEXEN 2039 is complex and layered work which reveals links between conspiracy theories, occult groups, Chernobyl, witchcraft, the US film industry, British Intelligence agencies, Soviet brainwashing, behaviour control experiments of the US Army and recent practices of its Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (PSYOP) and new research in contemporary neuroscience. www.hexen2039.net
Suzanne Treister will be present to introduce the film & discuss the project.
£200 to cover? Or keep some money over instead of Too Much Freedom
21 Feb 7pm Bataville.Italic text N.Pope and K. Guthrie, 2005, UK, 95mins, PG, 35mm Digibeta.
Bata-ville is a bittersweet record of a coach trip to the origins of the Bata shoe empire in Zlín in the Czech Republic. Former employees of the now-closed UK shoe factories in East Tilbury (Essex) and Maryport (Cumbria) are led on a journey that begins as a free holiday but soon becomes an opportunity for a collective imagining of what entrepreneur Tomas Bata’s maxim “We are not afraid of the future” means for them in 21st century Britain. www.bata-ville.com
We are fortunate to have both filmmakers present to discuss their work after the screening.
Fri 23 and Sat 24 feb Halloween Short Film Festival on tour
Star and Shadow welcomes HSFF, hot from their 4th annual stint at the ICA, Curzon Soho and Roxy cinemas in London, charging the filmscene with the rallying cry “Death to Short Film”. Highlights will include a retrospective of rising stars the Blaine Brothers (Free Speech, Hallo Panda), along with screenings offering the best in new shorts, from lo-budget gems, female fronted dramas, stunning cinematography, experimental forays, messy romances and a special late night programme of weird shit. Plus live music in the bar and DJ-ing shenanigans. www.shortfilms.org.uk www.myspace.com/halloweenshortfilmfestival3
Programme: Friday: 7pm - 12am 7pm F*cked Up Love 10pm Lo-Budget Mayhem
Saturday: 2pm - late 2pm Trick of the Light 4pm Daughters of Kaos 6pm Leftfield and Luscious 8pm Retrospective Blaine Brothers 10pm Late Nite Fortean
Full details on screenings available on our website
17 Feb – Eyes Wide Open Eyes Wide Open - This is the night for you to submit your films and for the audience to submit to the films you have submitted. They can of course vocalise their feelings because we run a participatory cinema, so heckling and shouts of approval are encouraged. If your film will slice across the audiences eyes like Un Chien Andalou, or make eyes close through boredom or lack of endurance, we the anti-seletors donmt care, because as long as the film is shorter than 15mins we'll take it. On ythis first EWO at the Star and Shadow, watch out for opportunities to win FREE super 8 and 16mm film and processing. We encourage movie-maker's hollywood attempts and avant-garde ramblings, commonly known as Artist's Film and Video.
screening and sign up to film giveaway - £50 for pocket money, £150 for film giveaway. – Debbie to write copy.
14 feb 'XXX films - Another History of Avant Garde Cinema – .
Starting with Jean Genet's only contribution to cinema, Un Chant D'amour is a steamy glimpse at two male prisoners in complete isolation, separated by thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, who devise a most unusual kind of communication. Carolee Schneeman's 'Fuses' follows, a feminist sex flick. It is certainly graphic, but it shares very little aesthetically with the porn genre. In a very intimate and sensual protrayal, the film features Carolee and her parner 'at it'. Avant-garde valentines! Who would have thought it?
9 feb - Presenting Filmmakers: Guy Sherwin
For the first in our series of 'Presenting Filmmakers' we have the great privelege of hosting Guy Sherwin. Sherwin's experimental films delve deep into the magic of celluloid, focusing on the processes at work in the marriage between film, light, time and chemistry. His work at the historic London Filmmakers Coop, and subsequently while teaching at Middlesex and Wolverhampton Universities, often uses multiple projectors, live performance and a structural approach to film making and viewing. Within these formal approaches, he achieves very poetic results. He will present new and long term projects (ongoing since the early 1970's) with collaborator and partner Lynn Loo.
A Bit Crack
Friday 5th January - A Bit Crack storytellers.
Tales for the Turning Year - Winter. Come and join Storyteller Chris Bostock and Musician Ken Patterson to celebrate the heart of winter with stories and music drawn from different cultures around the world. This family programme is part of a cycle of work celebrating the four seasons. Follow the quiet Swedish Tomten, meet Saint Nicholas in Russia, discover why the stones moved at Plouinec in France and come face to face with the Green Knight who confronted Sir Gwain at the turn of the year. £6/4 conc.
Friday 1 february
Dark Stars and Bright Shadows: Tales of Transformation. The re-Launch of A Bit Crack Storytellers at their new regular storytelling venue The Star And Shadow Cinema. Sound the trumpets! Blast the horns! Our new season in our new venue starts like a shower of shooting stars with an evening of stories about change and transformation. There will also with music and celebration. A Bit Crack Storytellers are Chris Bostock, Malcolm Green, Pascale Konyn and Pat Renton. £6/4 conc.
Art exhibitions –
House, Tree, Mobile Phone, jan 12-feb
a semi interactive show featuring at least 2 pieces that may be ridden: a tiger and a woman. It is an inspired selection of new 3-D work made by hand in the debut show from 12 acclaimed international and local artists brought together for the first time in Newcastle. Preview Friday 12 Jan, 7-9 with live DJ's and free wine. Afterparty until 1am.
David Beech – 9 feb til end of feb 16 FEB- 1ST WK MARCH
SOLITO
David Beech takes a formalist approach towards re-presenting and suggesting ideas about the organic self residing in the architechtural environment. A series of sculptures utilising dress making, d.i.y and basic upholstery techniques in the process of their making.
Polytechnic event...
Horror Night:
Sat 13 – Grindhouse Night
Black Sunday (aka Mask of Satan, La Maschera del Demonio), Mario Bava, 1960, 87 mins. B/W, 16mm, 18
STARE INTO THESE EYES... discover deep within them the unspeakable terrifying secret of BLACK SUNDAY... it will paralyze you with fright! The directorial debut from Italian horror innovator Mario Bava, Black Sunday takes the sex, death and vampire themes of the Hammer horrors of the era, and turns up the darkness euro style. Filmed in bleak black and white and starring the beautifully evil Barbara Steele, this is some fine Halloween indulgence.
SCHRAMM: Jorg Buttgereit, 1993, 65mins. Colour 16mm, 18.
The 4th film by Jorg Buttgereit, of Nekromantik and Der Todesking infamy, Schramm, portrays the last days on earth of Lothar Schramm, the notorious "Lipstick Killer". Lothar is dying, face down in a pool of his own blood. Behind his closed eyes, fractured memories repeat themselves in a neuronal fire. He runs by the sea. He lusts after the whore across the hall. He staggers uncertainly through life. He kills.
The Feature Film
Sat 20th, 7.30, 21st, 7.30, 16TH, 6PM les amants reguliers.
Les Amants Reguliers, aka Regular Lovers, P. Garrell, 2004, 178mins, 35mm
In 1969 a group of parisian youth turn to opium after having experienced the liberating effects of the events of 1968. Winner of the Cinematography prize at Venice in 2005, and one of our favourites at the festival. A very powerful, innovative and evocative film about love in a time of personal and political upheaval. A great filmmaker continuing the legacy of the French New Wave, Garrell made several important experimental works in the 60s and 70s including a series with the legendary Nico.
Left for private hires:
6, 8, 15, 19, 22, 23, 26, 29, 30 jan, 12, 16, 19, 20, 26, 27 feb.
(bold means potentially planned for Guy Sherwin)
ITALIAN NEO REALISM
Ossessione, L. Vischonti, Italy, 1943, 35mm, 140mins, 35mm, PG
"Ossessione", made in 1942 and banned in Italy by Mussolini, is a powerful delineation of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter who arrives by chance at a roadside restaurant and filling station, and Giovanna, the beautiful young wife of the fat old man who owns the place. The two resort to drastic measures to stay together.
Voyage to Italy, R Rosselini, 1954, Italy, 79mins, 35mm, PG
Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle's villa. Ingrid Bergman stars in this influential pre-new wave classic setting a couple on the verge of destruction against the vestiges of ancient Rome.
Stromboli, R Rosselini, 1950, Italy, 107mins, 35mm, PG
A beautiful woman (Ingrid Bergman, desperate to escape her miserbale life in post-war Europe, marries a young Italian soldier - a fisherman from the mediterranean island Stromboli. Upon arrival, she realizes that this decision means leading a life far from the one she was used to. Again, she is desperate to escape... Rosselini, bar the two main actors, uses people indigenous to the island as his cast. Its reception in America prompted then president Edwin C Johnston to exclaim "The degenerate Rosselini has deceived the American people with an idiotic story of a volcano and a pregnant woman. We must protect ourselves against such scourges."
I Vitelloni F. Fellini, 1953, Italy, 103mins, PG
The grandfather of 'slacker' movies,(rough trans. 'The Guys') I Vitelloni (rough trans. 'The Guys') look at their elders, see the sterile results of lives rendered bereft by tradition and "sacrifice", and naturally rebel, searching in easy hedonism for the happiness that has eluded their parents. Fellini's semi-autobiographical, second feature, shares many of the neo-realist traits of his peers, but plays tricks with them too. A bit of a forgotten masterpiece.
Silent movie
The Living Corpse F. Otsep, 1929, Russia, 82mins, PG
In this unusual love story, adapted from a Tolstoy novel, a husband, conscious of his wife's unhappiness in their marriage, does everything he can to free her from her wedding vows. Unfortunately, the powerful Russian Orthodox church works hard to make any such arrangement impossible, and in the end their is only one way he can bring this annulment about... The film will be accompanied LIVE on the recently tuned Star and Shadow Piano, se excellently made use of at the Christmas "Twinkling the Ivories' Festival.
Sat 6 – nothing
Sunday 7 – Philadelphia Story matinee, The Living Corpse (silent)
Monday 8 - nothing
Tuesday 9 – Funders opening – invite only.
Wed 10 – weather underground
Thurs 11 – Philadelphia Story, Ossessione
Fri 12 – exhibition opening:
Sat 13 – horror double bill – black Sunday, schramm
SUNDAY 14 3pm – Cat on a hot tin roof 7.30PM Ossessione
Monday 15 – nothing
Tuesday 16 LES AMANTS REGULIERS – 6PM.
Wednesday 17 – The White Party, Then Gig: Les Cox Sportifs, Chronicity and Woman.
Thurs18 – Secret History of Indian Film.
FRIDAY 19 – NOTHING OR GUY SHERWIN – PARTY?
Sat 20th – yassen's car workshop – daytime L.A.R in eve
Sun 21st – yassen's car workshop 39 steps and L.A.R
Monday 22nd – nothing
Tuesday 23rd – nothing
Wed 24 – 4th world war
Thurs 25 – burns night – launch the scotch, Scottish film, veggie haggis. ILANA to check up on licensing for reheating food. Consider pre-booking. For brochure – leave it for the moment until ILANA has checked.
FRIDAY 26 – GUY SHERWIN? MAYBE NDANIFOR FUNDRAISER
Sat 27 and sun 28 – No Borders
MON and tues nothing
Wed 31st – dreams of sparrows
Thurs 1st – cinema of world c.O.W – Christo to choose
Friday 2 – bit crack
Sat 3 – polytechnic – daytime workshop and evening.
Sun 4 – mildred pierce, PAISA VOYAGE TO ITALY
Mon 5 – butterfly cabinet – wooden wand and the sky high band
Tues 6 – HEXEN 2039 The Movie + talk
Wed 7 – Learning from the Miners Strike
Thurs 8 – mildred + STROMBOLI
Fri 9 – david beech. + party? Instead GUY SHERWIN
SAT 10 – no-fi chris corsano. 6pm
SUNDAY 11 – ninotchka and STROMBOLI
Mon 12 – nothing
Tues 13 – single shot
Wed 14 – History of avant garde xxx
Thurs 15- Tamil film.
Fri 16 – NOTHING
Sat 17 – EYO
Sun 18 – jezebel, THE OLD MAID, I VITELLONI
Mon 19 – GIG - josef organising some noise thing.
Tues 20 – nothing
Wed 21 – Bataville +talk
Thurs 22 – I VITELLONI.
Fri 23 – Halloween fest
Sat 24 – Halloween fest
Sun 25 – Arsenic and Touki Bouki Mon 26 – nothing
Tues 27 – nothing
Wed 28 – Radical + forum.
A.O.B – Piggyback is ok for 6 monthly – march or april for 1st.
