Sci Fi Film Season: Days of Fear and Wonder
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From 13 Nov to 18 Dec, the Star And Shadow will be holding a sci-fi extravaganza with no less than ten sci-fi films!
Expect cult masterpieces, under-rated classics, comedies, lesser-known French, Polish, Turkish and Blaxploitation gems.
We'll also transform the atrium of the cinema into a sci fi decor – come and visit it!
Supported by Film Hub North, led by Showroom Workstation. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. Part of the BFI Sci-Fi season. For more information visit bfi.org.uk/scifi
Films in the Sci Fi Film Season: Days Of Fear And Wonder:
13
Film: Solaris (1972)
13 Nov 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Elected number 6 best sci-fi film of all times by the Guardian, this groundbreaking philosophical film is a Russian masterpiece.
16
Film: Thx 1138 (1971)
16 Nov 2014, 7:30 p.m.
First feature film from Star Wars creator George Lucas, this incredible film stars Robert Duvall in a nightmarish future, where people are controlled by android police and by drugs that suppress sexual desire and emotions.
20
Film: Alphaville (1965)
20 Nov 2014, 7:30 p.m.
One of the rare sci fi films made in France, Alphaville's director is one of the fathers of the French New Wave.
27
Film: Sexmission (1984)
27 Nov 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Elected in Poland as one of the best Polish films in the last 30 years, this cult film is set in 2044, in a world where only women have survived, except for 2 men who were part of a scientific experiment.
30
Film: Village Of The Damned (1960)
30 Nov 2014, 7:30 p.m.
This cult British science fiction film is set in the village of Midwich where all the women give birth on the same day to children with "unusual" and "arresting" eyes, after being mysteriously impregnated.
04
Film: The Man Who Saved The World / Turkish Star Wars (1982)
4 Dec 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Did you know that they had made their own Star Wars in Turkey? Well now you do! The film follows two men whose spaceship crashes into a desert planet.
07
Film: The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
7 Dec 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Starring an orange-haired David Bowie and with music composed by the former leader of The Mamas & the Papas, this cult film follows a humanoid alien confronting the weirdness and excesses of American society.
11
Film: Space Is The Place (1974)
11 Dec 2014, 7:30 p.m.
One of the very rare blaxploitation science fiction films, Space is the Place was written by Sun Ra, the multi-talented jazz composer and poet.
14
Film: Brainstorm (1983)
14 Dec 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Starring the always wonderful Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood in her last film, Brainstorm is set in a world where the sensory and emotional feelings of someone can be recorded and felt by someone else. Featuring visions of hell and near-death experiences.
18
Film: Galaxy Quest (1999)
18 Dec 2014, 7:30 p.m.
We’ll finish our Sci Fi extravaganza with this hilarious sci fi parody, starring no less than Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman and Sam Rockwell.