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In the Totalitarian state of Oceania, perpetually at war with one or other of its neighbours, love is a crime. When Winston Smith falls in love with fellow worker Julia, the machinations of the state are targeted against him. Richard Burton delivers a chilling, understated performance as dead-eyed Party inquisitor, O'Brien, torturing John Hurt's Smith after he has dared to express his emotions. 8PM - THE AUDITORIUM - £5/£3. Tickets available from the National Media Museum on 0870 70 10 200 until 6pm on the day, and then on the door if available. Print source: British Film Institute
“A prospector (Hackman) in Canada in the '20s finally strikes it lucky, engulfed in a river of gold; and then the rest of his life, immured in his house ('Eureka') in the Bahamas and wondering what on earth there is left. While the weight of Roeg's success is usually stylistic, this is more of a harkback to the cosmic scale of The Man Who Fell to Earth, with enormous themes streaming through a strange tale. Alongside the bass-line of a man who 'once had it all, and now just owns everything', there are games of knowledge and power (voodoo, cabbalahs, magick), a devouring relationship with his daughter (Russell), and a nebulous running battle with business competitors who want their own share of the planet. The man who raped the earth and lost his demon is finally the victim of 'business interests' in the same way that Jagger was in Performance. It's a great, Kane-like notion – the price we pay for gaining what we want – and overflowing with awkward ideas and strange emotion.” 8PM - THE AUDITORIUM - £5/£3. Tickets available from the National Media Museum on 0870 70 10 200 until 6pm on the day, and then on the door if available. Print source: Park Circus Releasing
High schooler Dawn ‘Wienerdog’ Wiener is the butt of all torment at school and suffers in comparison with her younger 'perfect' sister and older brother. Relationships in Dawn world are shaky at the best of times, so it seems right that Dawn buddies up, at least temporarily, with Brandon, one of her chief tormentors. Todd Solondz's ‘adult’ teen film ekes out every last drop of awkwardness from the ‘ugly duckling’ scenario, playing with the line between winces and chuckles and with our expectations of the teen genre. Dawn’s problem, as it always is, is one of acceptance. The difference this time is that Solondz upsets the applecart, totally undermining the redemptive ending we’re used to with a ‘smart’ entry in the genre. With a brilliant performance from Heather Matarazzo as Dawn, the film is compulsive. Solondz went on to push his rotten sensibility further with the notorious Happiness in 1998, and you can check out brand new his revisiting of those characters in Life During Wartime. 8PM - THE AUDITORIUM - £5/£3 Print source: Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
Six short films, each made on a budget of £1,000, that reflect different aspects of Bradford’s culture, heritage and community. The films start at 8pm - but why not come down beforehand, or stay after, to have a chance to meet some of our inspirational local filmmakers and talk about the issues that come up in their work?
It is May 1988 in Toronto. The school year is coming to a close. The Victoria Day long weekend heralds the beginning of summer. Ben Spektor, 16, attends a Bob Dylan concert with his two closest friends. Though the year is 1988, they exist as if in a time warp, idolising the music and culture of the 1960s. Outside the concert, Ben sees what looks like a routine exchange: two teenagers buying drugs. In a way he could never have predicted, the consequences of this drug deal will alter the course of his summer and, quite possibly, the rest of his life. This one event, barely significant at the time, initiates Ben into love as well as death, and forces him to confront his conscience, his friends, and his family. The film echoes the stories people tell their families about an event in their lives which changed them significantly. Mark Rendall’s performance as a boy in unglamorous transition to adulthood is simply electrifying. 8PM - THE AUDITORIUM - £5/£3. Tickets available from the National Media Museum on 0870 70 10 200 until 6pm on the day, and then on the door if available.
Suddenly, inexplicably, the citizens of an un-named metropolis lose their sight to a contagious, sheer-white blindness. The government quarantines the infected in an old asylum, leaving republicans and royalists to argue the next steps toward imposing order. Playing the wife of doctor Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore is once again a magnetic screen presence. In an adaptation of the Nobel Prize-winningnovel, director Meirelles (City of God) explores a brilliant ‘what-if?’ scenario. 8PM - THE AUDITORIUM - £5/£3. Tickets available from the National Media Museum on 0870 70 10 200 until 6pm on the day, and then on the door if available.
- UK PREMIERE - Argentinean cinema has been one of the cinema success stories of the last decade, largely thanks to slow-paced artistic ventures that have been lapped up by connoisseurs on the film festival circuit. Green Waters is something else: a raucously engaging, genre-mashing tale that announces an exciting new talent. Bold, fresh and vibrant, it's only a tweak or two away from being a fairly mainstream comedy. But in the hands of writer/director Mariano De Rosa, whose first solo feature this is, Green Waters becomes something much more impressive and disturbing. It's a character study of middle-aged dad-of-two Juan (Fiore), a stressed-out sort whose woes and paranoid insecurities reach boiling point during a family holiday to the coast after his wife (Gallo) and teenage daughter (Mora) become friendly with a charismatic young drifter (Cremonesi). What follows owes as much to 1970s thriller cinema as much as classier forebears such as Pasolini's Theorem. Under De Rosa's careful control, the vivid score, kinetic camerawork and detailed sound-design combine for an unusually intense viewing experience. 8PM - THE AUDITORIUM - £5/£3. Tickets available from the National Media Museum on 0870 70 10 200 until 6pm on the day, and then on the door if available. Print source: Mariano de Rosa
This ten-day event features a one-night only performance on the opening night, followed by public access to the installation and films for the duration of the festival. Join Eva Mileusnic and Hatti McKenzie from 7:30pm on the March 18 in their 'pop-up' Picture House where they will perform dual roles of Cheryl (usherette), Beryl (box office), Cyril (projectionist) and Arthur (commissionaire) in a playful attempt to recapture the excitement and exuberance of a 1960's children's Saturday morning film club and engage the audience in the magic of make-believe. The opening night will feature five showings of thirty minutes each, showcasing 90-second films supplied by Depict. Tickets are FREE and only available at the LIFT Box Office, up the cobbled ginnel at the back of the Bradford Playhouse... First performance at 7:30pm.
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