Adele Hartley heps y'all to...
Cult Weekend at Filmhouse (Edinburgh),Friday 5th to Sunday 7th March 2004
"Cult! invites you to a weekend of genuinely exhilarating, alternative cinema. A short, sharp antidote to all that has become so banal about recent cinema. Largely genre based, these are movies which experiment heavily with generic conventions and finally emerge as utterly unique works. Here, then, are a handful of titles which aggressively push the envelope of filmmaking, embracing the irrational and the extreme, taking us to the outer limits of cinematic experience.
In all these films resides the tangible sense of an irrepressible energy and passion - a determination that each movie had to be made (even though it now seems incredible that some of them do exist). This is visceral cinema. It is also progressive, highly individual and accomplished cinema - full of intelligence, wit, style and intensity. Cult! offers you an extremely rare opportunity to see these handpicked gems on the big screen. Some of these films have not been screened in Britain for at least a decade. Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku, a jaw dropping classic of Japanese horror cinema, has never before been screened in the UK.
The film packages includes: Possession, Punishment Park, Whipped and Abused: A Secret History of American Exploitation Cinema, Liquid Sky, Thundercrack!, La Rupture, Short Night of Glass Dolls Malastrana and Jigoku.
Filmhouse is delighted that film archivist, Jack Stevenson, will be appearing in person to present Whipped & Abused, an introduction to the history of American exploitation cinema told via an outrageous mix of trailers, clips, out-takes, shorts, pseudo-documentary newsreels and home movie erotica."
And while yer at it, check out DEAD BY DAWN.
No comments:
Post a Comment