January 2010
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Friday 1 January 2010
A Bit Of Crack - Stories From The Floor
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 More »
Saturday 2 January 2010
Closed
Sunday 3 January 2010
Closed
Monday 4 January 2010
Closed
Tuesday 5 January 2010
Closed
Wednesday 6 January 2010
Closed
Thursday 7 January 2010
Cinema Of The World: Tulpan (2008)
7:30 p.m.
By a celebrated film-maker, this film has won awards all over the place.
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Friday 8 January 2010
Closed
Saturday 9 January 2010
Volunteer Induction And Building Maintenance Day
11:00 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. More »
Gary War Gig - Christo
8:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 January 2010
Les Demoiselles De Rochefort (1967)
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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Monday 11 January 2010
Other Meeting
6:30 p.m.
Tuesday 12 January 2010
Closed
Wednesday 13 January 2010
Subsonics: Avant-Garde Music Films From Australia (2003)
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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Thursday 14 January 2010
Ted V Mikels Retrospective: The Corpse Grinders (1972)
7:30 p.m.
Outrageous, camp and definitively low-budget,
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Friday 15 January 2010
Little Glitches
8:00 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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Saturday 16 January 2010
Hybrid-Making
12:00 p.m.
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. More »
Sunday 17 January 2010
Ted V Mikels Retrospective: Blood Orgy Of The She Devils (1972/2008)
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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Monday 18 January 2010
General Meeting
6:30 p.m.
To Shoot An Elephant (2009)
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. More »
Tuesday 19 January 2010
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1967)
7:30 p.m.
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.
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Wednesday 20 January 2010
Tales From The Isles (1920s-1960s)
7:30 p.m.
Four films from the Scottish Screen Archive reflecting on life in the Scottish Isles More »
Thursday 21 January 2010
Wanda + Dicussion! (1970)
7:30 p.m.
Wanda Barbara Loden (US 1970 100 mins) DVD Barabara Loden Michael Higgins
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Friday 22 January 2010
Cgi Fridays! King Kong (2005)
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.
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Saturday 23 January 2010
The Trash Shack: With The Nuns And Senor Beatnik
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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Sunday 24 January 2010
The King Of Marvin Gardens (1972)
7:30 p.m.
Jack Nicholson’s greatest performance.
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Monday 25 January 2010
Programming Meeting
5:30 p.m.
Other Meeting
7:00 p.m.
Tuesday 26 January 2010
Closed
Wednesday 27 January 2010
Memory Of The Camps + Nuit Et Broulliard (1945 + 1960)
7:30 p.m.
Two films of documentary style depiciting the horrors of the concentration camp system More »
Thursday 28 January 2010
The Last Picture Show (1972)
7:30 p.m.
The Last Picture Show Peter Bogdanovich (1972 USA 118 min 35 min) Tim Buttons, Jeff Bridges
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Friday 29 January 2010
Zanjeer (1973)
7:30 p.m.
The second of our new Hindi film night slot.
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Saturday 30 January 2010
Attack Of The 50ft Film Quiz
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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Sunday 31 January 2010
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
7:30 p.m.
Transgender, disturbing, great oscar winner.
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