INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS AND TARANTULA!

 CULTIVATE 50'S SCI-FI DOUBLE BILL SPECIAL 

This weeks double bill is a fifties sci-fi special with two classics, first up INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS based on the Jack Finney novel of the same name not the Philip Kaufman remake but the original directed by Don Siegel. The story depicts an extraterrestrial invasion in a small Californian town the extraterrestrials replace the humans by duplicating them physically but lack any kind of human emotions, sounds a little farfetched well not according to the United States National Film Registry who selected it for preservation due to its cultural, historical and aesthetic significance. Next up TARANTULA! The classic creature feature, if there was any film designed to force you to question the nature of animal testing it was this film. When a lab spider packed full of growth hormones escapes from the safety of it Arizona laboratory it can only mean one thing a classic fifties disaster movie and Jack Arnold delivers. 

TOUCH OF EVIL AND THE KILLER INSIDE ME

TOUCH OF EVIL AND THE KILLER INSIDE ME DOUBLE BILL

                                                                                   

PULP NOIR DOUBLE BILL

This weeks double bill screenings are first up the original timeless masterpiece TOUCH OF EVIL directed by and starring Orson Welles this pulp noir classic blew the audience away with the dark brooding cinematography of Russell Metty and masterful direction of Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich and Zsa Zsa Gabor, Based on the pulp novel BADGE OF EVIL by Whitt Masterson this film is an education. Next up is the work of a director very much inspired by TOUCH OF EVIL Michael Winterbottom. His adaptation of Jim Thompson’s pulps novel THE KILLER INSIDE ME has many of Orson Welles touches the two films complement each other perfectly.

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#907) BULLY (2001)

BULLY AND ELEPHANT

ELEPHANT AND BULLY

This weeks double bill kicks off with the stunningly chilling masterpiece ELEPHANT inspired by the tragic events of Columbine High School GUS VAN SANT invites you into the world of the high school kid gliding in and out of the lives of the kids quietly setting the scene for what was to come. The winner of the 2003 Palme DO’r and GUS VAN SANT also collecting the best directors prize went some way to turning this film into an American modern classic. Next up BULLY by LARRY CLARK also based on a true story Larry takes a different route with this provocative disturbing look at life of small town teenage slackers. Two must-sees if you’re a fan of raw filmmaking. 

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"Drive, He Said" Trailer Things to come at CULTIVATE FILM CLUB

MANIAC COP AND DEAD END DRIVE-IN

MANIAC COP AND DEAD END DRIVE-IN

AT JOSHUA BROOKS TONIGHT:

In this weeks double screening we take a trip into the near future with Brian Trenchard-Smith’s DEAD END DRIVE-IN, with an economy in free fall and with no sign of an upturn the social climate reached boiling point the only commodities left are cars and their parts. These cars were fought over by both salvage companies and street gangs, in a vain attempt to control the gangs and avert social collapse the government convert a chain of drive-in theatres into high security holding pens. In order to contain unemployed youth, gangs and anyone deemed undesirable by government services or a threat to public safety. The stark imagery of electrified fences and the security streamed s-roads policed by the not so straight police. This apocalyptic vision of the future is coupled with a new wave sound track gives a bleak view of what lies ahead.  Next up MANIAC COP which needs no introduction starring the king of the B-Movie Bruce Campbell this cheese fest does what it says on the tin and in doing so turned MANIAC COP into a cult viewing must with cameos from JAKE LAMOTTA and SAM RAIMI, not forgetting ROBERT Z’DAR he of TANGO AND CASH fame. So leave you brain at the door and enjoy the ride. 

                                        ROBERT D'ZAR YES IT IS HIS OWN CHIN 

POINTLESS FACT FROM DEAD END DRIVE-IN: Stuntman Guy Norris set a world record for the longest jump by a truck, with a massive jump of 162 feet.

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Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom - Official UK Teaser Trailer (HD) Idris Elba

Lovelace - Official UK Trailer (HD) Amanda Seyfried

UN FLIC AND TOKYO DRIFTER: SUNDAY FROM 7PM

UN FLIC AND TOKYO DRIFTER

This week’s double bill is all about the period from the mid sixties to the mid seventies where the term gangster pop was coined. First up is Suzuki’s sublime TOKYO DRIFTER still considered an art house masterpiece due to its surreal pop art feel running from start to finish. With its dazzling visuals, lavish sets of riotous colour it has got to be one of the most stylised gangster movies of the 60’s replicated by many but never equalled.  Next up is Jean-Pierre Melville’s final film UN FLIC with costume design and styling by Yves Saint Laurent this wonderfully fatalistic look at loss and deception, is a distillation of Melville’s creative interest and his preoccupation with the Japanese Yakuza and their codes of loyalty and honour previously visited in LE SAMOURAI. The two filmmakers take complexly different routes with the crime thriller genre with one common thread creative licence. 

  
SUNDAY FROM 7PM