January 2010
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Event: A Bit Of Crack - Stories From The Floor
1 Jan 2010, 7:30 a.m.
Stories from the Floor A Bit Crack's popular Open Nights are for anyone who wants to share a yarn, tell a story, or just enjoy listening to others tell theirs. This is your chance to bring a story to tell or a song to sing to welcome in the New Year - supported by our hosts and encouraged by you, the audience. Open Nights are always fun and full of surprises so join us as a teller or listener. Tickets £4
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No Events Scheduled
2 Jan 2010
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No Events Scheduled
3 Jan 2010
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No Events Scheduled
4 Jan 2010
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5 Jan 2010
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No Events Scheduled
6 Jan 2010
07
Film: Cinema Of The World: Tulpan (2008)
7 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
By a celebrated film-maker, this film has won awards all over the place.
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No Events Scheduled
8 Jan 2010
09
Event: Volunteer Induction And Building Maintenance Day
9 Jan 2010, 11 a.m.
The Star and Shadow Cinema runs on the love and work of a large and ever-growing collective of volunteers. We are always looking for people to work with us to share the work. This is also the time for a general fix up and sort out of the building. If you have the time and skills, or even if you don't, come along and help make the cinema an even greater place.
09
Gig: Gary War Gig - Christo
9 Jan 2010, 8 p.m.
10
Film: Les Demoiselles De Rochefort (1967)
10 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy collaborate directing the charming Catherine Deneuve and Gene Kelly. Its a companion piece to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 using the same magical combination of a Michel Legrand score, immaculate kitsch art direction and a romantic story line to make the heart sing too.
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Meeting: Other Meeting
11 Jan 2010, 6:30 p.m.
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No Events Scheduled
12 Jan 2010
13
Film: Subsonics: Avant-Garde Music Films From Australia (2003)
13 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
SUBSONICS was a documentary series about experimental music that was produced in 2003 for Australian TV channel SBS. Under the editorial eye of musician Oren Ambarchi, it traced an arc from the classical avant-garde of the '50s through to today's laptop generation. Made on a budget of £400 per episode and edited on iMovie, the series featured such key figures as Masonna, Sun Ra, Faust, Harry Partch and Phill Niblock.
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Film: Ted V Mikels Retrospective: The Corpse Grinders (1972)
14 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Outrageous, camp and definitively low-budget,
15
Gig: Little Glitches
15 Jan 2010, 8 a.m.
Beautiful songs infused with jazz piano and beach harmonies to die for. Film projections + other attractions to make it a magical intimate party of epic proportions.
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Event: Hybrid-Making
16 Jan 2010, noon
We will splice together the Star & shadow with some other things, using scissors and prittstick. All welcome - bring a page of your favourite novel/going for growth report/trashy celeb magazine, cut out the words and mix them up with ones from star & shadow programmes. Let's see what hybrid monsters we can create with a bit of cutting-up and sticking-back-together! Bring a bite to eat. Raunchy words welcome.
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Film: Ted V Mikels Retrospective: Blood Orgy Of The She Devils (1972/2008)
17 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
If Ted V Mikels is good enough for John Waters (who described Mikels as the man who "put the 'exploit' in exploitation"), then he's good enough for the Star and Shadow!
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Meeting: General Meeting
18 Jan 2010, 6:30 p.m.
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Film: To Shoot An Elephant (2009)
18 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
To shoot an Elephant , a film by Alberto Arce and Mohammed Rujaila, is an eyewitness account from the Gaza strip during the Israeli embargo. The film shot between December 25 2008 and Jan 16 2009, 21 days of urgent, insomniac dirty shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay in Gaza, embedded with the ambulance workers who pick up the wounded and dead from the streets. The film takes its title form an essay by George Orwell denouncing colonial politics.
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Film: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1967)
19 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.
20
Film: Tales From The Isles (1920s-1960s)
20 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Four films from the Scottish Screen Archive reflecting on life in the Scottish Isles
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Film: Wanda + Dicussion! (1970)
21 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Wanda Barbara Loden (US 1970 100 mins) DVD Barabara Loden Michael Higgins
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Film: Cgi Fridays! King Kong (2005)
22 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Come for the launch of the first in a series of Friday night screenings celebrating the wonder and horrors of computer-generated imagery! Tonight: King Kong, the 2005 remake of the 1933 classic.
23
Gig: The Trash Shack: With The Nuns And Senor Beatnik
23 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
A night dedicated to the glamour and excess of Little Richard, the Ronettes, the MC5, Stooges, New York Dolls and Ramones. We'll be joined by THE NUNS - riot grrrl alumni and the world's only all-female Monks tribute act, and we'll be showing girl biker classic SHE DEVILS ON WHEELS (1967). All this, plus support from Senor Beatnik and tunes from DJ Michael Clunkie Vinyl Junkie. Dress to excess and be prepare to be trashy!
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Film: The King Of Marvin Gardens (1972)
24 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Jack Nicholson’s greatest performance.
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Meeting: Programming Meeting
25 Jan 2010, 5:30 p.m.
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Meeting: Other Meeting
25 Jan 2010, 7 p.m.
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No Events Scheduled
26 Jan 2010
27
Film: Memory Of The Camps + Nuit Et Broulliard (1945 + 1960)
27 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Two films of documentary style depiciting the horrors of the concentration camp system
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Film: The Last Picture Show (1972)
28 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdanovich (1972 USA 118 min 35 min) Tim Buttons, Jeff Bridges
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Film: Zanjeer (1973)
29 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
The second of our new Hindi film night slot.
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Event: Attack Of The 50ft Film Quiz
30 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Think you know your movies? So do we! This is the film trivia night for people who hate trivia nights and we'll have lovely prizes, organic ales, trashy pop and wonderful company. Questions on anything from Japanese monster movies to the French New Wave and everything in between, and from the Golden Age of Hollywood to Lollywood, Bollywood and beyond. Get there early as this is sure to be sold out.
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Film: Boys Don't Cry (1999)
31 Jan 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Transgender, disturbing, great oscar winner.