RUDE BOY & THE FILTH AND THE FURY

40 YEARS OF PUNK DOUBLE BILL 

This week we celebrate 40 years of punk, first up RUDE BOY featuring The Clash. Directed by Jack Hazan and David Mingay filmed as a fictional documentary RUDE BOY follows the band on their ‘Clash on Patrol’ and ‘Sort it Out’ UK tours of 1978 and their headline slot at ROCK AGAINST RACISM carnival, as documentation of a unique period in British music history this film is essential viewing for music fans, with the music of Joe Strummer and Mick Jones you couldn’t ask for more. Next up is THE FILTH AND THE FURY the story of the SEX PISTOLS from suburbia to San Francisco, the make-ups to the final break-up. With the usual free popcorn and rum.   

MIDNIGHT COWBOY & MY WINNIPEG

CLASSICS DOUBLE BILL PART TWO 

This Sunday we take a trip through the underbelly of New York followed by a flight over to Canada to the surreal world of Guy Maddin. First up is the provocative and groundbreaking indie crossover MIDNIGHT COWBOY, a sharp look at the New York underbelly and the lengths two men go to escape their social and economical entrapment, with the now iconic performance of the ultra Sleazy Ratso Rizzo. Te winner of best picture and best screenplay at the 1969 Oscars, this film is a master class in narrative cinema. Followed by MY WINNIPEG a surreal trip into the mind of Guy Maddin as he takes you on a witty, personal, irreverent and enchanting homage to his hometown of Winnipeg described as a piece of docu-fantasia this film is a must see, for documentary filmmakers who don’t want to play by the rules and too artists who want to play with meaning, representation and imagery. With the usual free popcorn and rum.

ROME OPEN CITY & ADUA E LE COMPAGNE

NEO-REALIST DOUBLE BILL 

This Sunday we are off to Italy with ROME OPEN CITY (1946) directed by the great Robert Rossellini and his ephemeral groundbreaking experiment in social-realist filmmaking with a cast of none actors and handheld 16mm film cameras and light predominately with natural light. Based on real events that took place in Nazi-occupied Italy in 1944, Rossellini sort to examine the choices people had been forced to take during wartime situations, as a piece of filmmaking it is a prime example of neo-realist filmmaking which was executed late on by socio-realist filmmaker Peter Watkins in his now Iconic film THE WAR GAME. Next up is ADUA E LE COMPAGNE (ADUA AND COMPANY) by little known Italian director Antonio Pietrangeli. Staying within the neo-realism genera we go from war to prostitution and how four women attempt to rebuild their lives from the ashes of the past. And how it wasn’t going to be an easy transition from street to respectability.    

CULTIVATE FILM ART: THE TENANT & HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER

CULTIVATE FILM ART: THE TENANT & HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER: CULT FILM CLASSICS NIGHT  This Sunday we start a short season of classics, starting with Roman Polanskis’ THE TENANT. A set in an apart...

THE TENANT & HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER

CULT FILM CLASSICS NIGHT 

This Sunday we start a short season of classics, starting with Roman Polanskis’ THE TENANT. A set in an apartment in an imposing building filled with sinister residents Trelkovsky moves into an apartment saturate in an unseemly past, the story plays on the main protagonists neurosis and his disintegrating mental state leaving view not quite knowing what is real and what is imagined. Next up is HENERY PORTRAIT OF A SEIREAL KILLER another film that plays on the views perceptions of what’s real and what’s imagined but from a realist perspective. With the usual free popcorn and rum.

CULTIVATE & CIRCUIT SPRING ART PARTY

CULTIVATE and CIRCUIT have teamed up to produce The Whithworth Young Contemporaries Spring Art Party.

Cultivate collaborates with home grown talent and stars of the future to showcase film, photography, animation and illustration in the grand hall and within the grounds of The Whitworth, Keanu Robson, Leo Macdonald and Sarcus Nervarc make art that reflects the modern urban landscape of Manchester with special screenings by PROJEKTS MCR, come and be inspired.

There will also be live performances from Cave Man and Jason Singh with music from DJ Ruddy and The Music Curators and with Create 'n' Skate work shops it will be a night packed full of creative energy.

PHOTOGRAPHY from Leo Macdonald and Sarcus Nervarc.

ANIMATION + ILLUSTRATION: Sarcus Nervarc

Film screenings in the Grand hall:

A special screening of DOG TOWN AND Z-BOYS

followed by films from PROJEKTS MCR and Keanu Robson

With the photography, illustration and animation exhibited in the grounds of The Whitworth the life size projections will be projected onto the extenal .

DATE: THURSDAY 17th MARCH

TIME: 6pm TILL 9pm

FREE EVENT

LUCA CORDA TALKS SLOW JOY 06/03/2016