Film Screening

\+ Q&A WITH DIRECTOR

One of the year’s most dynamic European discoveries, Lola Quivoron’s Rodeo is an action-infused reboot of the French realist tradition – a take-no-prisoners feminist drama about a young woman from the banlieue who wants in on the subculture of illegal motocross racing. Charismatic newcomer Julie Ledru plays Julie, an inexperienced but fearless rider who’s also outrageously effective at acquiring fancy bikes by devious means. Making her own place in the very male ‘rodeo’ world, she joins a racing crew working for an imprisoned gangster, and bonds with his wife (Rodeo’s co-writer Antonia Buresi). With hair-raising action sequences dynamically shot by Raphaël Vandenbussche and a terrific, abrasively characterful non-professional cast, this audacious, emotionally charged drama flies the flag triumphantly for the enduring punk spirit in French cinema.

This is an 18+ event

RODEO Film Screening + Director Q&A

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Film

London

The Castle Cinema

Film Screening -Junior high school student Dawn “Wiener-dog” Wiener is perpetually teased by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, Brandon. All she wants is to be popular and that would certainly help her emerging crush on the lead of her brother’s garage band. Todd (Happiness) Solondz’s celebrated coming-of-age comedy won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and young star Heather Matarazzo was awarded Best Debut Performance at the prestigious Independent Spirit Awards. Perfectly capturing the growing pains of youth and suburbia with startling intensity.

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WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE

TT Liquor Store

THE HORROR WAS FOR LOVE – Do you want another tale of love and violence? This one is for the goths! Drag queen and devoted goth Vee Dagger presents Guillermo del Toro’s intricate gothic romance CRIMSON PEAK, a bloody tale of macabre devotion showing off del Toro’s obsession with monstrosity.

A forbidding mansion, billowing nightgowns, elaborate candelabras – this movie has it all, and buckets of blood too! Treat yourself to a feast of sumptuous melodrama, featuring a drag cabaret of assorted apparitions after the film.

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All Beauty Must Die: A Crimson Peak Screening

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - I Let Love In - 2011 Remastered Version

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - I Let Love In (2011 Remastered Version)

Vee Dagger

Unknown Amazon

Xero Phucse

Betty Rose

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Theatre

Leeds

Sheaf St.

Film - Screening

Deeper Into Movies proudly presents The Scary of Sixty-First The feature film debut of actor and ‘Red Scare’ podcast host Dasha Nekrasova is a wild, wickedly witty and thoroughly creepy tale of haunting and possession set against the real-world backdrop of the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein. Two friends searching for an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side come across what appears to be the perfect space, albeit one that’s suspiciously empty and affordable. When one of the young women finds herself taken over by a presence within the apartment, the other sets out to investigate further and uncovers a psycho-geographical web of secret histories and dark conspiracies.

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THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST 

Eli Keszler - Scary Theme

MOTH Club

Baltimore's cult filmmaker and queer cinema pioneer John Waters, director of "Hairspray" and "Pink Flamingos," is profiled here with an extensive behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Pink Flamingos," as a companion to interviews with Waters' family, friends and colleagues, as well as early footage of the director at work. The true highlights are Waters' parents as they contemplate their peculiar child and his body of work, and the segments devoted to profiling Waters' star, Divine.

This is a film screening.

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JOHN WATERS: DIVINE TRASH

Farr's Dalston

Memoria - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Fantasy, Drama, Sci-FI

From the extraordinary mind of Palme d'Or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 'Memoria' stars Academy Award-winner Tilda Swinton as Jessica Holland, who, after hearing a loud 'bang' at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.

She experiences auditory hallucinations and tries to find the sources of the sounds causing her insomnia. Soon, she begins to confront the unsettling sights and sounds that call her identity into question.

This is a 12+ event

Super Friendz

Dawson's Arthouse presents: Memoria

Gigs

Belgrave Music Hall

**The Menu** - Mark Mylod

Dark Comedy, Thriller

A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

This is a 15+ event

Dawson's Arthouse presents: The Menu

Brandon Cronenberg debut movie.

Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communion - for a price. Syd also supplies illegal samples of these viruses to piracy groups, smuggling them from the clinic in his own body. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.

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ANTIVIRAL 

Jozef Van Wissem Lutenist and avant garde composer and Longtime Jim Jarmusch collaborator performs his haunting new score for seminal 1922 horror classic Nosferatu live.

A landmark in the evolution of horror cinema, F. W. Murnau's hauntingly atmospheric adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" stars an iconic Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws, who remains perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism ever imagined on screen.

Wissem said ‘When I was writing the score I found a Dutch double 7 inch record with sounds of extinct birds on the streets of Rotterdam. I manipulated these found bird sounds by using electronics and added them to the score.

Beginning with a lute solo, his soundtrack incorporates electric guitar and distorted recordings of extinct birds, graduating from subtlety to gothic horror. My soundtrack goes from silence to noise over the course of 90 minutes, he said, culminating in "dense, slow death metal.

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Nosferatu -Live score by Jozef Van Wissem

Jozef Van Wissem - Our Hearts Condemn Us

Josef van Wissem

Rio Cinema

**Film Screening**

Produced by the Safdie brothers, Owen Kline’s directorial debut is a coming-of-age tale about a wannabe cartoonist reaching a crucial point in his life. A scuzzy dark comedy that makes you gag and laugh at the same time.

Robert (Daniel Zolghadri, Eighth Grade) believes that to be an artist is to suffer. So, he gives up on his affluent Princeton upbringing and drops out of high school in favour of life in a stuffy New Jersey apartment to really commit himself to his art. His best friend Miles is a fellow comic enthusiast, and both spend much of their time at the local comic store, obsessing over the work of artists more engaged with everyday life than the antics of superheroes. Their idols are the Robert Crumbs, Daniel Clowes and Harvey Pekars of this world. Robert sustains this lifestyle by working part-time at the comic store, and part-time at the office of a public defender. It is there he first meets Wallace, who, Robert finds out, once worked as colour separator for the legendary Image Comics. Ignoring Wallace’s borderline-deranged personality, Robert becomes besotted, leading him down a chaotic path of misadventures.

Just like the comics Robert and Miles obsess over, Funny Pages captures everyday life through the prism of the absurd. A session with an art teacher turns bizarre and then tragic. There’s a landlord who appears to have an extreme aversion to sunlight. And Wallace’s comic pedigree notwithstanding, he wouldn’t be out of place in an incel therapy session. Writer-director Kline, who played the young lead in Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale (2005) gives his film a grungy aesthetic in keeping with the style of his producers Benny and Josh Safdie (Uncut Gems, Good Time), perfectly capturing Robert’s world and psyche.

This is an 18+ event

FUNNY PAGES

SET Peckham

Are You Seeing This brings their first screening to MOTH Club with curated short films from emerging filmmakers on the theme 'Growing Up - Home Truths'. There will be short film screenings, Q&A's with the directors, and a chance to grab a pint and chat/network afterwards. AYST is run by an award-winning documentary filmmaker, championing new filmmaking: our annual funding applications will open in December 2023. Presenting:

Her Fight (dir. Phoebe Stapleton)

Tildypops (dir. Tiggy Bayley)

Silvering (dir. Eilidh Nicoll)

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LNZRT

Are You Seeing This (Short Film Screenings)

This fantastically entertaining biopic gives a glimpse of the Jewish-French singer and national treasure Serge Gainsbourg’s life from 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris to his 1968 chart-topping success with lover Jane Birkin to his death aged 62. With affairs with Brigitte Bardot and Juliette Greco, and almost constant controversy (and musical success) his heroic journey was anything but dull! This is a film screening.

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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life 

Leonard Cohen is widely regarded as one of the finest and most influential poets and songwriters of his generation, a writer whose artful mélange of love, eros, and despair has earned him a passionate international following and the respect and admiration of artists ranging from R.E.M. to Johnny Cash. In 2005, music producer Hal Wilner staged an all-star tribute concert in Australia in which a handful of major artists offered their interpretations of Cohen's songs, including Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, Rufus Wainwright, Beth Orton, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and many more. Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man includes highlights from this concert and thoughts on Cohen and his work from the participants as well as an extensive interview with Leonard Cohen himself as he talks in detail about his life and his art. The film also includes a special performance of "Tower of Song", in which Cohen is accompanied by U2. Film Screening.

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LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN 

The rarely screened intimate documentary portrait of Corinne Day. The photographer of a generation and the woman credited with launching Kate Moss's career, she spent the 1990s working for magazines such as The Face and Vogue, establishing a raw, documentary-style aesthetic within fashion photography.

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