The Star And Shadow Cinema

July 2009

Wednesday 1st July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Claire’s Knee (Le Genou de Claire) (1971)

Absolute masterpiece and great commercial success, the film tells the story of a man being tempted by a young woman and her knee... More Info

Thursday 2nd July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Ahlaam (2005)

The second in our Reel Iraq season: In 2003 Al-Daradji, after the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein, travelled back to his homeland. There he found heartbreaking chaos with countless psychiatric patients. More Info

Wednesday 8th July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Gig: Jackie-O Motherfucker + Support

JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER + DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER + JAZZFINGER + ONOMA That’s right, this is happening, the incredible Jacki-O Motherfucker are coming to Newcastle. This group doesn’t need many introductions, but for those of you who are not familiar with them, the JOMF collective is one of the earlier, true titans of the American experimental improvisation scene, and have had stuff released on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! Label in the past. More Info

Thursday 9th July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: My Night at Maud’s (ma nuit chez maud) (1969)

Nominated for 2 Oscars and officially selected at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. More Info

Friday 10th July 2009: 8:00 p.m. - Gig: MAN or MACHINE: Star & Shadow PA Fundraiser

An eclectic Extravaganza - blending dub with pop and electronica with funk - Delia Smith would do her nut. Let's be having you! Raising valuable funds to put towards a new PA system for the finest venue in Newcastle. A worthy cause indeed. More Info

Sunday 12th July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Pauline at The Beach (Pauline a la plage) (1983)

Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, "Pauline at the Beach is another rare Rohmer treat.” – The New York Times More Info

Wednesday 15th July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: The Brood (Dir. David Cronenberg) (1979)

Oliver Reed (!!) stars as an unconventional therapist who encourages Samantha Eggar to undergo “psychoplasmic” therapy – whereby mental and emotional trauma takes physical form – and produces scores of deformed, murderous children who prey upon her young (human) daughter. Made after a difficult custody battle between Cronenberg and his former wife, The Brood is perhaps the director’s most cathartic and autobiographical film. More Info

Friday 17th July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Ghost Trace Stellar

Free music at Star and Shadow, Newcastle Artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White are working with independent artists led organisation, Polytechnic and artist Kate Sweeney, along with Urban & Eastern records to develop an evening of free music at Star and Shadow, Newcastle. More Info

Saturday 18th July 2009: 10:00 a.m. - North East Steiner Community AGM; 6:00 p.m. - Gig: Narcfest

Alternative music stage as part of Narcfest. Feat. Kunt, Bong, Peach, Dressed In Wires. Free! More Info

Sunday 19th July 2009: 11:00 a.m. - Art, Craft and Flea Market

20 stalls offering a diverse range of handmade and 2nd hand goods i nthe atrium and bar area. More Info; 2:00 p.m. - Film: UKELEAR MELTDOWN: The Movie (2009)

Featuring the Dulwich Ukulele Club, Molly and Me, Eilidh Macaskill, Cat Green Bike and Staggerin' Jon Lee, UKELEAR MELTDOWN: The Movie looks at the phenomenal success of the second national festival of extreme Ukulele and the big personalities with small instruments. Come and see if you can spot yourself! And due to popular demand (and the permission of director William Preston Robertson) we're showing UM: THE MOVIE as a double bill with ROCK THAT UKE - the film that started it all. More Info; 7:30 p.m. - Film: Existenz (1999)

Cronenberg returns to original-screenplay work with the crafty virtual-reality adventure eXistenZ (1999), which glistened with spinal bioports and sticky-icky “game pods”. Released around the same time as The Matrix, the movie appeared as the smarter, scrappier arthouse cousin to the self-important blockbuster. More Info

Wednesday 22nd July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Mudhoney (1965)

In the first of our series of films from Meyer's Southern Gothic era, an odd job man gets involved with his employer's wife. Featuring a typical pneumatic female lead, a drunken sadist, a preacher with a mysterious past, and a lucrative inheritance, this is Meyer at his darkest. With a full programme of period shorts, newsreels and advertisements. More Info

Thursday 23rd July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Motorpsycho (1965)

Meyer goes motorcycle crazy, as a veterinarian (whose wife is raped by a motorcycle gang led by a sadistic Vietnam veteran) are hunted down and dealt with in suitably Meyeresque style. Presented by Lady K and Lord Leigh Park, the film is supported by a full programme of period road safety and child-kidnapping horror shorts from the San Francisco Police Dept. With a full programme of period shorts, newsreels and advertisements. More Info

Friday 24th July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Scanners (1981)

Very Cult Sci-Fi horror.... More Info

Saturday 25th July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

Period juvenile delinquency films ... go-go dancers ... psych sounds from Leeds freakbeat heroes THE BACCHAE and Sunderland's own surf-guitar legends SENOR BEATNIK ... PLUS Sounds of Seduction DJs Michael Clunkie and Lord Leigh Park ... And framing it all .... Russ Meyer's masterpiece, starring his scariest starlet, Tura Satana. FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! Pussycat is the tale of three thrill-seeking gogo dancers in sports cars who terrorise a backwoods family with a hidden stash of loot. We'll have live bands, gogo dancers and period juvenile delinquency films, so tonight promises to be B-Movie heaven. More Info

Sunday 26th July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Dead Ringers (1988)

What could be better than Jeremy Irons? More Info

Wednesday 29th July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Stereo (1969)

We’ll be ending the season with the master’s first two feature films. More Info; 7:30 p.m. - Film: Crimes of the Future (1970)

We’ll be ending the season with the master’s first two feature films. More Info

Thursday 30th July 2009: 7:30 p.m. - Film: Common Law Cabin (1967)

Because too much Meyer is never enough, we finish with Babette Bardot and Alaina Capri in a broken down tourist trap along the Colorado River. A tale of alcohol, incestuous backwoods couplings and gogo dancing to surf rock and beat music. Presented by Lady K and Lord Leigh Park, with a full supporting bill of period US holiday and travel shorts. More Info

Friday 31st July 2009: 10:00 p.m. - Gig: New York Disco

A night of the finest NY Disco, Post-Punk, leftfield electro and more. If you love Larry Levan, Arthur Russell, David Mancuso, The Tom Tom Club, etc. then come. With a special treat in the form of DJ Patrick Belcher, one of the Fratelli Di Rimini, showing off his sleazier side. More Info