FALL FOR FILM

 FALL for FILM is the Star and Shadow’s autumn schedule of film chosen by an eclectic group of cinema volunteers.  The idea behind our programming is to bring the whole breadth of the Cinema enterprise to our audiences.  We are not a first run Cinema Industry Screen, our resources don’t permit that; what they do permit is to bring to you a wide choice of films that are diverse and inclusive presenting a mixture of the familiar and unfamiliar; asking you come and see films that you may not have heard of, but offer an opportunity to see something you won’t see on a big screen anywhere else.  So take a chance:  we offering the familiar – 2001, Withnail and I, and the less familiar:  Czech new wave films, films by Roy Anderson, films about Tove Jannson, outstanding films from recents festivals....and lots more – check through  to see what’s on.

Here's the programme for Sept to Oct 21.  Not all the films are up on the site but over the next couple of weeks they will appear and you will be able to book tickets. Note that until end Sept we are maintaining social distance protocols in cinema seating.  Booking in advance is advisable and there will be a limited number of seats on sale >  So here goes:

FALL FOR FILM

Thurs 9^th September  Sundance Short Films  7 shorts films from the legendary festival. From documentary to animation, narrative to experimental, the abbreviated form is made for risk-taking, transcending traditional storytelling.

Sun 12^th September  Dark Star  John Carpenter(USA; 1974; A)                                   John Carpenter’s cult sci-fi comedy, started as a student film before expansion to feature length. Join the scout ship Dark Star twenty years into its mission to destroy unstable planets.

Thurs  16 th Sep    Withnail and I     Bruce Robinson(UK; 1987; 15)                                            Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann, two out-of-work actors survive on cigarettes, booze and drugs in their disgusting Camden flat. Escaping to a country cottage for some R and R, things don't go quite as planned

Sat 18 September        Tove     Zaida Bergroth (Fin;  2020; 12A)           “Tove Jansson Celebration Week-end” starting with a lyrical and romantic biopic of artist and writer Tove Jansson - the beloved creator of the Moomins.... 

Sun 19^th September    Haru, Island of Solitary    Kanerva Cederstrom, Riikka Tanner (Doc Fin)          World famous author, Tove Jansson, and graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, spent 25 summers on the island of Klovharu in the Gulf of Finland, doc based on 20h of Super 8 footage.

Sat 25^rd September    Mouthpiece    Patricia Rozema (Can; 2016 ; 15)  Cassandra main character and played by two characters experiences opposing voices rifling through her head as she organises her mothers funeral.                       

Sunday 26^th September  Valerie and Her Week of Wonders    Jaromil Jires (Cz; 1970;15)   Outragiously surreal Czech film, featuring Valerie as an Alice type figure abroad in a world of earings, priests, vampires amd of course blood.   

Thurs 30^th September    Night of the Kings    Philippe Lacote  (Cote d’Iv/ Fr/ Can; 2021; 15)   Set in the notorious Maca Prison, the film takes place over a night of fire terror ecstasy and ritual,  while story teller Roman must spin out his tale until the dawn or face death.   Stunning movie from Africa.  

Sunday 3^rd October  You the Living    Roy Anderson (Swe; 2007;15)                                      This absurd surreal comedy stars an eccentric assortment of characters.  Andersson observes the highs, lows and tragicomic happenings that affect their everyday lives.

Thurs 7^th October  I Am Not Your Negro     Raoul Peck  (USA; 2016; 12)     'I am not your Negro’ is Raoul Peck’s film about James Baldwin, whose insight into the murderous nature of White America echoes back through George Floyd’s last words.

Sunday 10th  October   Letters to Paul Morrissey   Armond Rovira (Sp; 2018; )                  Vampirism, existential crises, drugs and lost melodies mark the lives of several characters: five individual stories connect through Paul Morrissey, collaborator of Andy Warhol's Factory,  exquisitely shot in b&w

Thurs 14th Oct   Lift to the Scaffold       Louis Malle  (Fr; 1958; PG)      Julien, an ex-paratrooper, and his lover Florence plot the murder of Florence’s husband. Classic New Wave with improvised jazz score by trumpeter Miles Davis.

Sunday 17^th October   2001: A Space Odyssey      Stanley Kubrick; script Arthur C Clarke (USA/UK; 1968; U)    See Kubrick’s visual masterpiece on the big screen.  From stone age to space age… 

Thurs 21 October  FIELDS:Farming on Film    New artist/documentary films and showreels of archive film from 1947 onwards from  BFI, NEFA and Museum of English Rural Life. Includes introduction and Q&A.  Free with booking

Fri 22 October   Pressure     Horace Ove  (UK; 1976; 15) Herbert Norville, Oscar James ‘Pressure’ is an angry film about being black. But Horace Ove offers more than anger, a sharp observer of human relations, ‘Pressure’ is seminal in understanding the factors shaping today’s Britain.

Sunday 24^th October   Daisies     Vera Chytilova  (Cz; 1966; 15) 

Two young women, both called Marie, decide that as the world is bad they will be bad!   What follows is a joyous revolt against symbols of wealth and patriarchy.

Thurs 28^th October  Black Milk    Uisenma Borchu (Ger/Mong; 2020 )  

Sun 31^st Oct   Young Frankenstein    Mel Brooks (USA; 1974;15)