April 2007
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Film: Le Quai Des Brumes (1938)
1 Apr 2007, 5:30 p.m.
Double Bill - £4 / £3 for one ticket, £6 / £5 for double bill ticket
01
Film: The Pervert's Guide To Cinema (2006)
1 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
The Pervert's Guide To Cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves.
02
Meeting: General Meeting
2 Apr 2007, 6 p.m.
02
Gig: Loco Foco Present: Theoretical Girl, Mit, Plus Special Guests
2 Apr 2007, 8 p.m.
Tickets £5 Theoretical Girl is the brainchild of Amy, who writes and performs all her songs herself, sometimes with a backing track, and sometimes with the aid of her mates The Equations. NME have called her a "goth-pop genius" and "stone cold brilliant", while Starvox said her live performance is a "fine demonstration of how a solo performer can command a stage without any histrionics or grandstanding." Mit are from Cologne and are absolutely bonkers. Their singer looks about 11, but has the stage presence of about three people, and they make electro indie-punk that makes Klaxons sound like easy listening. We first saw them in Berlin where they played with NME favourites Shitdisco and brought the house down.
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No Events Scheduled
3 Apr 2007
04
Film: The Pervert's Guide To Cinema (2006)
4 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
The Pervert's Guide To Cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves.
05
Film: Tbc - Eritraen Film
5 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
An Eritraen Film In Tigrinean (title TBC) Free with NASS card. With traditional food and music. Come and be enchanted!
06
Event: A Bit Crack
6 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets £6 Adults, £4 Concessions, £2 Under 14s
07
Gig: The Road To Rimini Pasqua Speciale
7 Apr 2007, 8 p.m.
Entry - £5/£6 (non members) - tickets available from Alt.Vinyl and Star and Shadow Box Office - strictly over 18s only!!! Celebrate Easter in style with The Road To Rimini Pasqua Speciale… Watch the Guessmen, Heartbreak and Fiero Fuxx & Friend play live, then dance until the Easter morning to the deejaying delights of the Fratelli Di Rimini, Shemale and Midnight Children!
07
Gig: Road To Rimini And Midnight Children
7 Apr 2007, 8 p.m.
Tickets £4 Mark the end of lent in italo style as the fratelli de rimini present a Road to Rimini easter special to mark their first birthday. Expect live acts, Italian horror, hi-nrg, euro pop tat! and italo disco courtesy of the rimini brethren; midnight children, Shemale, the fishery commission, Dario Aregento, Lucio Fulci and special guests!
08
Film: To Have And Have Not (1944)
8 Apr 2007, 5:30 p.m.
"At last! Bogart makes love to his kind of woman!" This is where Bogie and Bacall first started, in Bacall's debut film based on Ernest Hemingway's novel – what a picture! With the Second World War, the Resistance and steamy relationships, can anyone remain neutral?
08
Film: The Pervert's Guide To Cinema (2006)
8 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
The Pervert's Guide To Cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves.
09
No Events Scheduled
9 Apr 2007
10
Festival: Lafoxe 16mm Extravaganza
10 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Gaëlle Rouard and Etienne Caire play with customized 16mm projectors Atelier MTK - France's most awesome DIY film lab - are presenting their newest work, LEVOX. It's an improvisation playing with all the possibilities of live multi-projection, sound and images. From 16mm sound and visual found footage, images are shot, processed, printed, colored and 'special effected' in their handcraft laboratory. A visceral visual poetry, one that may borrow from the normal cinema, but can never be given back. Star and Shadow
11
Film: Mad Film Night / Testimony (2000)
11 Apr 2007, 6:30 p.m.
Free Entry Including: "Testimony", Mental Media (2000) Length: 24 mins Community care and the closing down of the old asylums brought a whole way of life to an end, and few now remember what it was like for those who passed through the asylum doors as patients. This short film allows people who spent much of their lives in the old asylums to talk about their lives from admission to discharge, including institutional life, treatments, resistance and relationships.
12
Festival: ¡Vamos! Weekender 2007 Launch - Acteal: A Massacre Foretold
12 Apr 2007, 8 p.m.
What does it feel like to know that you are about to be killed? Nearly a decade ago, a terrified village in southern Mexico sought refuge in a small wooden church and awaited their inevitable fate. Until now the full story of the massacre at Acteal has never been told. "Acteal: A Massacre Foretold" is by Nick Higgins, a filmmaker and academic and is the current director of the Cultural Studies programme at Edinburgh University. Star and Shadow
13
Gig: Minotaurs, Lachrymose One, Uncle Monty, The Wooden Spoons
13 Apr 2007, 8 p.m.
Tickets £3 - All proceeds go to charity (Cancer Research this time). Check www.myspace.com/loyalmongrel for more…
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Festival: Eyes Wide Open (Open Submission Night) + Berlin Speziale
14 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
In this day and age of surveillance cameras, mobile phones and electric dreams of sheep are we not ALL filmmakers, editing the ever-increasing footage captured via our optical appendages into our own simulacrum of reality (whatever the hell that is)? No? Yes? Then send your submission in to this open-call film and video night. It just so happens we have a never-before-seen amateur film masterpiece we found in Berlin on super 8 which will honestly make you think about 'how many great filmmakers denied us their work by quitting and becoming teachers or whatever…' Send submissions shorter than 15mins in length, on any format film or video to: Star And Shadow Cinema Stepney Bank Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 2NP Star and Shadow info@starandshadow.org.uk 0191 261 0066
15
Film: The Big Sleep (1946)
15 Apr 2007, 5:30 p.m.
Spend the evening with a Bogie & Bacall double bill!
15
Film: To Have And Have Not (1944)
15 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
"At last! Bogart makes love to his kind of woman!" This is where Bogie and Bacall first started, in Bacall's debut film based on Ernest Hemingway's novel – what a picture! With the Second World War, the Resistance and steamy relationships, can anyone remain neutral?
16
Meeting: Programming Meeting
16 Apr 2007, 6 p.m.
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Meeting: General Meeting
16 Apr 2007, 6 p.m.
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No Events Scheduled
17 Apr 2007
18
Film: Films From The Civic Life Series & Daydream (Various)
18 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
The Civic Life series began in July 2003 and includes seven films, each one shot in a day, that capture different places and communities in daring long takes. Daydream follows on from the Civic Life series and is a half hour film shot over four days using multiple locations.
19
Film: Lone Productions Aka Simone Bennett
19 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Simone Bennett is a filmmaker/video artist from the Netherlands. Since graduating in audio-visual art from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, she has made severals shorts in Berlin and the Netherlands. She'll present and talk about 10 works that combine experimental film with narrative story telling, from 70s gangster movies with women dressed as sleazy men, to 'Trilogy' which uses as source material dark, sensational stories from tabloids.
20
Gig: Rare As A Green Dog
20 Apr 2007, 8 p.m.
Caro Snatch Album launch gig Tyneside's electronic avalanche, Caro Snatch is back on the isle from a spell in Berlin with debut album 'Es muss sein' (phenector in tow). An evening's electronic entertainment with live sets and visuals from a few fellow Toon rare dogs. Tickets £5
21
Event: Share It!
21 Apr 2007, 5 p.m.
An afternoon in which young people from different multicultural projects and groups in Tyneside can share with others their creative work.
22
Film: Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
22 Apr 2007, 5:30 p.m.
This time we see James Cagney and Pat O'Brien teamed up with Humphrey Bogart. A great gangster movie that follows two Hell's Kitchen street kids' lives. 'Always remember: Don't be a sucker!'
22
Film: Bamako (2006)
22 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up… In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes… Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights…
22
Film: Bamako (2006)
22 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up… In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes… Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights…
23
Festival: Polytechnic: Datarama
23 Apr 2007, 8 p.m.
Free! With visiting artist Myron Campbell! Dominic Smith / Sarah Cook (guest) info@starandshadow.org.uk
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No Events Scheduled
24 Apr 2007
25
Film: Coal Not Dole: Miners' Campaign Tapes (1984)
25 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
This collection of 10 'trigger tapes' vividly show the mass struggles of the 1984 Miners Striker, with footage from various film groups across Britain. The concise but incisive analysis of politics, the role of the media and the police at the time remain as relevant as ever.
26
Film: Bamako (2006)
26 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up… In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes… Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights…
27
Film: Bamako (2006)
27 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up… In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes… Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights…
28
Film: Devi (1960)
28 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Devi focuses on a young woman who is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal landlord, envisions her as the Goddess Kali - a great depiction of the crisis faced by people struggling to be modern yet encumbered with the traditional systems and the spectre of having been colonized.
29
Film: The Public Enemy (1931)
29 Apr 2007, 5:30 p.m.
Hey you dirty rats, come see a Jimmy Cagney Double Bill!
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Film: Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
29 Apr 2007, 7:30 p.m.
This time we see James Cagney and Pat O'Brien teamed up with Humphrey Bogart. A great gangster movie that follows two Hell's Kitchen street kids' lives. 'Always remember: Don't be a sucker!'