Films are shown in English without subtitles, unless otherwise indicated.
Key:
TTT = Ticket Tout Tuesday
Films are shown in English without subtitles, unless otherwise indicated.
Key:
TTT = Ticket Tout Tuesday
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20:00 08/02/2010
(Mon 8th to Weds 10th / 8pm / £4/3/2 TTT)
(Jim Jarmusch / 2009 / 116 minutes / USA and Japan / cert 15 / subtitles)
The Limits of Control is the latest from visionary film-maker Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Down by Law). It is a narrative journey with the hypnotic and stunning landscapes of contemporary Spain as one of the main characters (think Antonioni).
The Limits of Control appears to be the story of a mysterious silent hitman on a secret mission, but as the pace slows and the mission remains a mystery to the viewer for much of the film, it takes a secondary focus to the unfolding of the journey itself. The process, the waiting for clues, the discipline and the almost sci-fi-esque characters involved in assisting the him to get to his destination become prominent. It is a series of encounters, of riddles and deft comic touches but more than the sum of the parts of the coolhand existentialist vignettes in Coffee and Cigarettes. More than worth a second viewing...
Isaach De Bankolé stars in the lead role and other familiar collaborators with Jarmusch make appearances - Alex Descas, John Hurt, Youki Kudoh, Bill Murray, and Tilda Swinton with new additions Hiam Abbass, Gael García Bernal, Paz De La Huerta, Jean-François Stévenin, and Luis Tosar joining the acclaimed cast.
(Wed 10th / 11 am / £2, babies free)
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring. We follow the weekly film program so you don't loose out on the latest blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
A regular free rehearsal, we are an improvisational group based at The Cube. Musicians and non-musicians of all standards and backgrounds are welcome. If that sounds scary then come anyway. If you haven't played your instrument for years or you don't think you're very good, rummage it out and come anyway. If you think this isn't for you, you're wrong, come anyway. Bring your instrument, your voice, your noise machines, pots and pans and any ideas you have for Orchestra Cube. It's GREAT skate!
Orchestra cube is a melting pot of musical styles, abilities and ideas. Come along and add your own to the ever-changing mix. The only requirement is a willingness to experiment.
To take part please email orchestra@orchestra.cubecinema.com
http://www.orchestra.cubecinema.com
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20:00 11/02/2010
(Thu 11th / 8pm / £4/3)
(Henri-Georges Clouzot / France / 1955 / 111 minutes / Cert 15)
In this tense double-reverse plot thriller, the wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school's filthy swimming pool... but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his 'killers' up the wall with almost unbearable suspense.
It is a foul and fallen world that the director, Henri-Georges Clouzot (who narrowly beat Hitchcock in a race to buy the rights to the original novel), lays out for contemplation. Les Diaboliques is an atmospheric and wonderfully seedy tale of love, hate and death.
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19:30 12/02/2010
(Fri 12th / 7.30 pm / £6 advance, £7 on door)
Tonight The Cube presents an evening of lovely, pastoral yet altogether modern folk from two female songwriters who, between them have released self recorded albums with handmade sleeves and have played everywhere from a small English Church to a gallery in Japan, a bookshop in France and a basement in London.
First up is 19 year old Alessi Laurent-Marke who fronts a wildly irreverent cadre of musicians as Alessi’s Ark. Being entirely otherworldly; naive yet original, Alessi possesses a voice which is clearly indebted to a certain Ms Newsom yet with it she brings an eccentrically British lyrical style and pronunciation befit with bird-like warbles and coos. Her songwriting is distinctly melancholy but upbeat; Definitively British, yet caught somewhere between the late 70’s California scene and early 90’s bedroom pop. Alessi’s beautiful début album, Notes From The Treehouse, was released in May 2009,
There is something so out of time about Rachael Dadd’s music. Somehow 1970’s and 1870’s at once as if caught by accident in a field on a tape recorder while people are wandering and weaving and talking through it and round it yet the music is always there, appreciated, and the tune comes through, carried on the wave of Rachael’s beautiful voice, Like a slowly babbling brook running through woodland. Tonight we’ll be lucky enough to hear Rachael playing songs from her new album Moth In The Radiator which She entirely composed and played on piano.
Support comes from Adelaide’s Cape. Made up of Duo Sam Taylor and Hannah Richardson, they have recently been described as “Mystical Post-Folk” by Outline Magazine which sounds nice.
http://www.myspace.com/alessisark
http://www.myspace.com/rachaeldadd
http://www.myspace.com/adelaidescape
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20:00 13/02/2010
Sprockets and Dust
(Sat 13th / 5pm till late / £5/4)
Let's have a bicycle powered party and start Bristol's 'Year of the Bike' festivities!!
Back by popular demand Veer on screen at 8.00pm. Zoo-bombers, tallbikes, bike jousting, Ben-hurt chariot racing and a synchronised mini-bike dance team. Veer is a great documentary about bike culture, hot from Portland, one of the world centres of the fastest growing revolution in the world. Viva la velorution!!
plus - The début of the legendary "Les Velobicis" girls on mini-bikes!!! plus - The revamped B-bike-a-Lula with surprise guests, live and pedal powered. plus - Bicycle-powered scalextrix from the Bristol Bike Project.
Celebrate the bicycle renaissance. La bici e libera! Let's make Bristol a bicycle powered city and have a b-bike-a-lula all year long.
keep checking http://bikebeard.blogspot.com for more details, treats and surprises!
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20:00 14/02/2010
with MV & EE + THIS IS THE KIT & JESSE MORNINGSTAR + GOLDEN GHOST FAMILY ELAN + MOUNTAINS OF JESUS + THE DOOZER + KEK-W & ORCHESTRA INTANGIBLE '73 + GEORGE THOMAS & THE OWLS
(SUN 14th FEB / 3pm – 11pm (Extended Version) / £7 adv)
A Sunday afternoon and evening session of windswept and ravishing music from an epic selection of acts. Maximum arousal... so leave your keys in the pot.
Real erotic American guitar song-cycles with MV & EE (Ecstatic Peace), west-country and Parisian folk via This Is The Kit and partner Jesse
Morningstar, bucolic and dreamy trks from Golden Ghost (featuring Viking Moses), and the incredible strings and songs of Family Elan (Locust). They ask “what's in a name”? Well it's Silver Stairs of Ketchikan teaming up with Team Brick in a rare outing as Mountains Of Jesus. Normally The Doozer (Picked Egg) is solo, this time his warped English psych-pop maverick has a partner. Weirder still, Kek-W & Orchestra Intangible '73 might be solo, but then Ice Bird Spiral always channelled multiple spirits. That leaves George Thomas & The Owls but bestiality is illegal on earth as it is in heaven.
Stage times:
3.30 George Thomas & The Owls
4.30 Mountains Of Jesus
5.30 The Doozer
6.30 KEK-W and ORCHESTRA INTANGIBLE ' 73
7.30 Golden Ghost
8.45 MV & EE
10.00 This Is The Kit & Jesse Morningstar
A Qu Junk
www.qujunktions.com
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20:00 15/02/2010
Henri Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Monday 15th - Weds 17th Feb £4/£3/£2 ttt
dir. Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medreas / 2009/ france/ 94 mins/ cert 15 (subtitles)
More revealling than Lost in La Mancha, this documentary uncovers intriguing restored footage of a potential film masterpiece of experimentation that was never finished...L'enfer (Inferno). A 1964 trumpeted masterpiece-to-be by legendary french filmmaker Henri Georges Clouzot (Wages of Fear, Les
Diaboliques). The footage was lost for 40 years and has been carefully contextualised through Bromberg and Medreas' attention to detail and interviews with original cast members.
Henri Georges Clouzot was an acclaimed director of psychological thrillers who provided healthy competition for Hitchcock, both men advancing camera technique, new lens and visual and audio tricks in pursuit of providing emotional intensity and building suspense.
L'enfer was thwarted by spiralling costs and shut down after 3 weeks of production. The documentary reveals that Clouzot was originally promised an unlimited budget and he spent a fortune proir to filming on experimenting with new kaleidescopic and increasingly psycedelic camera tests to capture the claustrophobic descent into madness of a paranoid husband Serge Reggiani (Romy Schneider), jealous of his young bride.
The documentary is a rare insight into the creative process of film making at the dawn of new wave cinema in a time without modern digital effects.
Like many things, the film remains mythical for the fact that we just dont know if it would have been a success or just too way out.
wed 17th/ 11am/ £2
BABYCINEMA PRESENTS Henri Georges Clouzots Inferno
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring. We follow the weekly film program so you don't loose out on the latest blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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20:00 18/02/2010
thurs 18th feb Sons of Heavy Heads £4/3
Frank Vincent Zappa and James Marshall Hendrix need no introduction. They are true colossi of creation that stomped the terra, converting people to the religion of rock left, right and centre whilst riffing unto Kingdom Come as they rode. Being honest desciples at Thee Temple Of Riff Worship the Heavy Heads Collective Cult were duty bound to enquire as to their availability to preach on the Gospel of Guitar at the CUBE in Bristol but were informed by agents of our good LORD that Messrs Zappa and Hendrix are otherwise occupied these days as players in the Heavenly Orchestra of Absolute Rock Bliss. But be bummed ye not! We have assembled the very best musicians and reportage from thee good ol’ days to bring you a tribute that channels the very essence of these prophets of profound rock power. Yea, they may be gone but we sure as hell aren’t. Yet. So be there at the appointed time and date and if you can't make it throw down shapes in celebration of their creation elsewhere.
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20:00 19/02/2010
Slo-mo #4
(Fri 19th / 8pm / £4)
Fourth outing for the night of sumptuous slowness. Slo-mo nights are an experimental immersive cinematic experience with a deft twist on live re- scoring
- the improvising musicians & live film-maker are in the audience with you watching it unfold on the big screen.
Many things can happen, and anything might with this month's slotime themes schemes and dreams with special guests to be announced (watch this space)
Visuals come from artist David Hopkinson ( mr_hopkinson's computer owner ) drawing from his archives of bespoke slow motion footage, with additional slurred wonders from the expert slo-mo djs playing the all right records at all the wrong speeds in the bar.
http://www.youtube.com/slowmotionvideo
http://davidhopkinson.org
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20:00 20/02/2010
(20th FEB / 8pm / £6 adv)
HAPPENINGS AND KILLINGS PRESENTS....
The John E Vistic Experience
The first announced band to play Glastonbury 2010, and winners of the
international Independent Music Award in the alt-country/rock category, JEVE fuse rockabilly, dirty blues and country with a rawness and energy
unparallelled. Fronted by incomparable front man John E Vistic, they have a new album out this month, and are not to be missed in the confines of the cube. Pure hard blues, country and rock. Occasionally featuring a trombone.
Annette Berlin
After being featured on Tom Robinson's BBC6 Introducing show last year, as well as being awarded a Venue award for the Top Act of 2009, coming second only to Zun Zun Egui, Annette Berlin will be storming the stage here at The Cube. Previously best known for key roles in the likes of Big Joan and Male, Annette Berlin's stepped out into solo land with a sound ridiculously fully formed, all R'n'B tight and PJ Harvey forceful.
Can't wait!!
SPECIAL GUEST!!
There will be a special guest at this event. Totally different to the other two acts, but equally as brilliant. You will have to come to find out who. They are good.
Emily Breeze (DJ set)
All of this will be topped off by the brilliant musician Emily Breeze, playing her record collection for your pleasure (DJ)
Nanoplex Presents... Nanoplex Haiti Fundraiser
21 February, Cube Cinema, Bristol
1.30pm – 6pm KIDS KINO CLUB SPECIAL (film + games + fun)
8pm – 11pm KATH BLOOM + SLOW (music)
£8 for joint ticket Kath Bloom and Nanoplex Haiti Fundraiser
£4 per child and adult for only Nanoplex Haiti Fundraiser
Nanoplex presents a children's afternoon cinema and workshops, including short and long films, demonstrations on how to project in public spaces and making film postcards for Haitian children, followed by extraordinary evening gig, Kath Bloom (www.qujunktions.com/asp/main.asp?style=gigs.
We hope to have some special cinema guests at the afternoon event talking about similar programmes and what this project could mean for the children and their families and The Cube itself.
Cake sales, drinks and snacks available.
Buy Tickets:
- BRISTOL TICKET SHOP telephone/internet bookings 0870 4444 400 / 0117 929 9008 www.bristolticketshop.co.uk 26 Union Street Broadmead, Bristol, BS1 2DP - THE HERE SHOP, Stokes Croft
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1.30 pm Azur and Asmar- The Princes Quest
3.30 pm Making digital Postcards and how to project film outside
4.30 guest speaker tbc
5.00 pm The Red Balloon
7.30 pm doors open for Kath Bloom
Azur & Asmar: The Princes’ Quest
Michel Ocelot/ 2006/ France/ 90 mins/ cert U
Azur and Azmar – The Princes Quest is the latest stunningly animated film from the director of Kirikou and the Sorceress and Princes and Princesses, Michel Ocelot.
Once upon a time, one woman brought up two children, Azur, the blonde, blue-eyed son of a nobleman, and Asmar, the dark-skinned and dark-eyed child of a nurse. The boys grew up together, until fate cruelly separated them.
Years later, they meet again and embark on a quest to rescue the legendary Fairy they heard of in their bedtime stories, facing giant birds, magical creatures and a Scarlet Lion along the way.
The Princes Quest is a wonderful spin on the Arabian-nights style story. Join Azur and Asmars journey into the fairytale world of bright, vibrant colours, magical lands and unknown dangers.
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The Red Balloon
Albert Lamorisse/ France/ 1956/ 34 mins/ Cert U
Albert Lamorisse's little wonder tells the story of young Pascal (Lamorisse's own son Pascal), a nine-year-old Parisian boy living an ordinary life in a sketchy but absolutely gorgeous and cinematic Parisian neighbourhood until the day that a large red balloon mysteriously floats into his life… and stays. As he plays with his new acquisition, the boy discovers that the balloon seemingly has a mind of its own. The little red orb follows its new "master" all through the streets of Paris, then dogs the boy's trail into the schoolroom, which drives the teacher to comic distraction. Towards the end, it seems as though boy and balloon will be parted forever....but director Lamorisse has a delightful surprise in store for us.
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20:00 21/02/2010
KATH BLOOM plus guests SLOW
Sun 21st Feb 2010 / 8pm / £8 adv
Listen carefully… make sure you have a seat for tonight’s show featuring one of the great lost folk treasures/voices of the last 40 years and a new highly regarded Bristol band in stripped down duo form.
Kath Bloom is a Connecticut based singer/songwriter who has a special gift…this being her almost supernaturally beautiful, a wavering soprano is one that has to be heard. Her tone like her songs is a fragile one, with a hint of Karen Dalton and Gillian Welch but even they don’t have that clear transparent moonlight quality that Kath Bloom has. Tonight she is joined by her friend Ginny on volin.w ww.myspace.com/kathbloomchapter
Slow are the perfectly invited guest artists who share that special ability to be intimate and epic, their beautiful boy-girl vocal harmonies and sounscapes instrumentation conjure up a spacial sound and measured pace has had them likened to the Red House Painters and Low.
www.myspace.com/slowspace
Kath had made some very very limited edition albums in the 70's and 80's with the amazingly (and equally dreamlike) guitarist Loren Mazzzacane Connors full of songs that float and melt into the ether. Impossiably beautiful. However music was put on the back burner as life changed and she rasied a family, trains problem horses, and taught special music programmes to kids. Just as she was starting to write and release CD-R's again, Richard Linklater decided to ingeniously use one of her songs "Come Here" in his 1995 film Before Sunrise. Life altered but not much, the public conciousness was rightfuly tweaked. Slowly her old recordings and new material have been seeping back into the world. This includes a special tribute album by artists such as Josephine Foster, Bill Callahan, Devendra Banhart, Mark Kozelek and Scout Niblet.
You may have heard whisper of her music, seen the look in a fans eye when they talk of her or maybe even lucky enough to have seen one of her very rare concerts but maybe this is the first time you have heard word about Kath Bloom. No matter..Come Here.
www.myspace.com/kathbloomchapter A Qu Junktions Presentation
Bristol Indymedia Presents: Climate Change Talks - COP15 or COPOUT?
Monday 22nd February 2010, 8pm Entry £3/£4
(but nobody refused entry for a lack of funds.) Following the inability of the so called global leaders to agree on any substantial agreement on climate change at the Copenhagen Summit we have ask 'What Now?' for the fight against climate change. Despite the failure of the of our leaders to agree on any concrete solutions, globally the worlds people (particularly those in developing countries) are proposing realistic solutions to address the problems of climate change, rejecting the paradigm of economic growth as the only way. Unfortunately these people have little strength globally and are at the mercy of the developed world. Also with people attending the COP15 to protest against the inequalities of the impact of climate change, being deported and locked up shows that dissent and criticism are not welcome by those in power who seem to want to push the planet into the abyss. Bristol Indymedia presents short films about the COP15 and discussions on what this means for the climate change movement and the global population as the real implications of global warming begin to be felt over the coming years. Cube Cinema, Dove Street South, Bristol 22nd February 7.45pm / £4 or £3 (but nobody refused for lack of funds).
http://www.bristol.indymedia.org
http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cubewebsite/directions.htmlImage:
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20:00 23/02/2010
A Prophet Tues 23rd to sun 28th feb 8pm £4/£3/£2 ttt
Jaques Audiard/ france/ 155 mins/ 2009/ cert 18 (subtitles)
Audiard's follow up film after The Beat that My Heart Skipped has been widely acclaimed since its screening at Cannes and like that film, A Prophet is both tough brutal and beautiful and thoughtful. The central character no less a man capable of violence yet touchingly we are aware that he is caught up by circumstance.
The protagonist anti-hero is Malik (a riveting Tahar Rahim), a young French- arab who has spent most of his life in detetion centres and finally grows up into a harsh adult prison world where he is forced to find a path between its rival gangs, including Muslim inmates and Corsican gangsters.
Tense, brutal and tender, the film shows Malik's egg-shell education on the rules of prison life. Malik has to play by the rules to survive in a world of violence and inmate hierachy. Despite the cruelty, Audiard keeps us on Malik's side, we believe he is capable of a different life because of the sensitive way we witness his conscience and vulnerability...
wed 24th/ 11am/ £2
BABYCINEMA PRESENTS A PROPHET
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring. We follow the weekly film program so you don't loose out on the latest blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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20:00 24/02/2010
BLUESCREEN - Sweded!
WED 24th/8.00pm/GBP 3/2
This months Bluescreen, something a little different...
In the spirit of Michel Gondry's paean to the home-made film 'Be Kind Rewind', this month we want you to bring your own 'sweded' or home-made versions of your favourite films!
So we throw down a challenge, to do this all in under 20mins! Game? Bring films down on the night, as per usual, on DVDs, Mini DVs etc.
Also the CUBE ORCHESTRA will be in the house to re-score an archived bluescreen Film or two.
And dont forget the Bluescreen Hi-Fi DJ's, spinning old and new tunes in the bar.
Bluescreen has been screening films since 2001 and is Bristols longest running independent OPEN screen Film event, so come down to the Cube and check out the best of Bristols Filmmaking!
FFI: bluescreen@sparror.cubecinema.com
http://www.myspace.com/cubebluescreen
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19:30 26/02/2010
BREAKING ROCKS (15) 7,30pm
Dir. Alan Miles
75mins UK 2009
With intro and live music set
Tickets £12 (proceeds towards Jail Guitar Doors).
This inspiring documentary tells the story of Jail Guitar Doors, an initiative set up by Billy Bragg in commemoration of Clash musician Joe Strummer. The project provides musical instruments to prison inmates to help facilitate rehabilitation and prevent re-offending. The film features performances by 'graduates' from Jail Guitar Doors as well as from many of the artists that have supported the programme including Mick Jones (The Clash), Chris Shiflett (Foo Fighters), Sam Duckworth (Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly) and Billy Bragg himself.
This special fundraising event will include an introduction by Billy Bragg, Q&A with Alan Miles and Billy and live acoustic sets by Billy and the 'graduates' of Jail Guitar Doors.
In association with Sensoria festival of music and film.
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20:00 27/02/2010
+ Freeze Puppy
(Sat 27 February / 8pm / £6 adv)
Qu Junktions is overjoyed to welcome the maverick guitarist Sir Richard Bishop back to the Cube. A dexterous and charismatic performer who draws on exotica, magick and global folk musics to intoxicating effect. He was a founder member of ethnic-improv tricksters Sun City Girls, and also has a history as a rare bookseller, film maker and contributor to the Sublime Frequencies label. A frequent traveller, his guitar explorations reflect the shadow worlds of India, North Africa and other points along the Gypsy trail, as well as his own Middle Eastern heritage as a half-Lebanese American. Performing on Spanish guitar, 12 string or electric, he sythnesises influences like Django Reinhardt, Ali Akbar Khan, Omar Khorshid and Chet Atkins into his own unique and mesmirising style. New album 'The Freak of Araby' is out now on Drag City.
Tonight's special guest is Freeze Puppy, a skilled player in his own right, who steers Surf guitar, Sardinian folk, Zimbabwean mbira and British guitar pop into addictive, perfectly formed miniatures.
www.sirrichardbishop.net
www.freezepuppy.co.uk
www.qujunktions.com
Bristol Indymedia, Bristol Antifa & Bristol Radical History presents; The 43 Group and Britain's Secret War
Monday 1st March 2010, 8pm at the Cube Cinema, Stokes Croft, Bristol
Entry £3/£4 (but nobody refused entry for a lack of funds.)
Bristol Radical History join us for an astounding a talk by author
Morris Beckman about the hidden history of how British Jewish
ex-servicemen fought back against those trying to reconstitute fascist groups after WWII.
The '43 Group' took it's name from the number of people at the founding meeting, one of whom was Morris Beckman (who had
served on a Flower class corvette during the war). The movement grew to include many hundreds of men and women, including a 17-year-old Vidal Sassoon (who would later found the hair-dressing empire)and successfully fought a vicious underground war in the back streets of Britain to stop the rebirth of fascism.
Come and hear group member and author of 'The 43 Group' on this important era in British history and the struggle again fascism.
http://www.brh.org.uk
http://bristolantifa.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43_Group
http://www.bristol.indymedia.org
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20:00 02/03/2010
Tues 2nd Weds 3rd and Thurs 4th March 8pm £4/3/2 (TTT)
dir. Sam Taylor Wood/ 98 mins/ UK/ cert.15
Sam Taylor Wood's debut feature tells the story of John Lennon's teenage years and at the time of going to press is nominated for 8 BAFTA awards...
Starring Aaron Johnson Kristen Scott Tomas and Anne-Marie Duff the story goes beyond the familiar John Lennon myth and is a poignant human portrayal of the reunion of a teenage boy and his mother. It is more an emotionally charged family drama than an irritating biopic. John had a difficult childhood, but it was his mother that introduced him to guitar playing and rock and roll even though she had abandoned him for most of his childhood and the film is about their relationship. Dont forget your hankie.
We will be screening this with Sam Taylor Wood's aclaimed short, Love you More.
Wedn 03rd/11am/ £2
BABYCINEMA PRESENTS NOWHERE BOY WITH LOVE YOU MORE AND DR DOOWAP
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring. We follow the weekly film program so you don't loose out on the latest blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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20:00 05/03/2010
Fri 5th/ 8pm, feature shown at 10pm/ £5/£4
Tell your friends! It's back! For one night only, before it crawls back to the filthy underground vault it calls home, Thundercrack! returns... This time in a slightly earlier screening, for those of you who couldn't quite stay up late enough to catch it last time, would like to see it again, or just plain couldn't make it (how could you?)
Thundercrack! is probably the most unique cult film of the 70s, a delightfully off-the-cuff regurgitation of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and OLD DARK HOUSE fuelled by Tennessee-Williams-on-speed dialogue and imbued with the spirit of sexual anarchy rife in 70s San Francisco, as a group of lost travellers become stranded one dark stormy night in an old prairie mansion and proceed to get it together in various combinations (and positions).
Marion Eaton steals the show as the drunk widow of the house and George Kuchar submits an indescribable performance as a gorilla keeper pursued by his charge. The film achieved success on the Midnight movie circuit into the early 80s and survives today as a psycho-sexual artefact from a very different time. A mainstay at London’s late great Scala cinema, Thundercrack! is an absolute must see for any and all fans of John Waters-esque, bad taste, exploitation cult weirdness.
To complement, we'll be digging deep into our archives of celluloid muck to bring you a full suporting programme and a half of dirty fun, if that's what you desire. Screenings from about 8, our 'main' presentation at 10, and if you're good, further filth after midnight. Dress up like a mid seventies San Fran Freak and we'll let you in cheap, because you know you are.
High pitch melodrama! Special cocktails! Trashy pop music! Permissive society!
"The most dialogue you will ever see in porn and the most porn you will ever see in a melodrama, Thundercrack! is a volatile marriage of genres, fluid sexuality and depraved perversion". - D.A. JOHNSTON
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20:00 06/03/2010
How Come...
raising funds for the
'The Haiti Kids Kino Project'
At The Cube
JOHN PARISH + GET THE BLESSING
+ THE MOLES + MEN DIAMLER
with Dunkit & Bumpy DJS + High n Mighty + Cake Stall + FILMS after 11pm
At The Croft
ZUN ZUN EGUI + SHOGUN KUNITOKI
+AYE AYE +SPIN SPIN THE DOGS
World Beatz co-hosting the bar with World Beatz DJs + Chew Magna + Young Master + Fat Paul + Monkgoose + a very secret special guest
Sat 6th March / £8 adv.
TWO VENUES: The Cube (6-1am) / The Croft (8-3am)
NOTE: As this is a multi-venue show, a ticket does not guarantee you will get into your first venue of choice . No guest list..
The Cube Cinema's 'The Haiti Kids Kino Project' is travelling to the Caribbean and setting up a temporary social cinemas to help with the pain and anguish that the children affected by the Haiti earthquakes are experiencing. A
micro-humanitarian,goodwill project to provide a small opening for fun, escape, community, hope and social occasion. Tonight's two venue, four room line up is to raise funds for the project. All profits direct to the cause.
A special bill with artists from Bedminster to Easton, Finland to Spain, Mauritius to Stoke Newington tonight's special guests come in many forms. There will be cinematic guitar suites from John Parish, ecstatic rock n roll from Zun Zun Egui, close encounters of the Jazz kind from Get The Blessing, haunted organs and beats from Fonal's Shogun Kunitoki, post-rock reverie from Aye Aye, psych pattens from The Moles, intrepid rock from Spin Spin The Dogs . Some local and international special guests will be joining us too. Amongst all this there will be wailing, singing and dancing and periods of reflection and inspiration for the audience.
The Cube's in-house Nanoplex run 'The Haiti Kids Kino Project' is a basic and micro-humanitarian goodwill project that will provide a small opening for fun, escape, community, emotion and social occasion to a people and place the Cube wishes to communicate with, and contribute to rebuilding hope.
Ffi: about the project www.cubecinema.com /
Ffi about the night and the acts www.qujunktions.com
The Haiti Kids Kino Project is organised by The Cube Cinema's Nanoplex
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20:00 07/03/2010
Sun 7th/ 8pm/ £3/£2
Anne Slick and Danielle Bernstein/ Spain/ 2008/ 77mins/ subtitled
When Clouds Clear is an award winning feature-length documentary that delves into one remote community’s radical resistance to a proposed copper mine that would level and destroy their way of life forever.
Set in the isolated cloud forests of the northern Ecuadorian Andes
Mountains, the film is narrated by the founders and children of Junín who depict how the village’s daily life has been affected by copper that was discovered beneath their land. As two invading mining companies become increasingly brazen in their attempts to infiltrate and control the area, the community forms a united resistance in order to survive.
Some side with the wealth that the companies promise, causing irreparable divisions. They find themselves thrust into the dangerous battle against multinational invasion which brings corruption, splintered households, murder and arson as they fight tenaciously to protect their land and
families.
The film will lead into a discussion about the consequences of state and multinational mining operations in Latin America.
Mon 8th/ 7pm/ £4/£3 concession
The film is based on the producers' own experiences of fostering for the University of Kent's pioneering 1970's fostering research project, founding independent foster care, managing a fostering service, training in the public, private and voluntary sectors and writing and documentary film making.
Written and produced by Keith Gorman (MBA Kent Business School) and directed by Andy Kemp; the film stars Pauline McLynn (Shameless, Father Ted), Connor Byrne (London's Burning, Tracy Beaker), Diveen Henry (London River, Grow Your Own) and introducing Keeki Bennetts, the film tells the story of the life of 11 year old Aimee, who is removed from the care of her own mother by well- meaning professionals attempting to protect her from further neglect and abuse. Aimee's heartbreaking journey through five years in the care system challenges policy makers, professionals and the tax paying public. Set against the backdrop of increasing numbers of local authorities being judged as not 'fit for purpose', and in a period of possible political and certain economic change, the timing of Hell's Pavement is particularly relevant.
Having been screened at the Glasgow film festival, The World Fostering conference, and a series of special events in London, a considerable groundswell of interest has been generated. Hell's Pavement is now shortlisted for 'best feature film' at this year's Beloit International Film Festival in the United States.
www.hellspavement.com
Members of the cast and production team will be available for a Q&A session after the screening.
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20:00 09/03/2010
Tues 9th 8pm/ Weds 10th 11am (babycinema)/ £4/£3/£2 (babycinema only) Kent MacKenzie/USA/ 1961/ 72 mins
20th Century Cube presents a cult classic: The Exiles chronicles a
weekend night in the lives of a group of young native Americans living on the boundaries of society in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. The film is based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends - scenes of which were then re-enacted by the original interviewees playing themselves.
As the night hots up the film follows the group of "exiles" who have moved to the city from southwest reservations as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and boogie the night away to jukebox garage rock. The fast paced dialogue and shadowy black ad white footage have influenced and inspired many films (spot the Tarantino references!) MacKenzie manages to capture the hard reality of the standing of the native American population in LA matched against the youthful energy and fiesty attitude of the group towards the society that is marginalising them.
wed 10/ 11am/ £2
BABYCINEMA PRESENTS THE EXILES (1961)
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring. We follow the weekly film program so you don't loose out on the latest blockbusters, foreign language films and classic favourites. The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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20:00 10/03/2010
(Wed 10th / 8pm / £6/5 advance)
The Cube Microplex welcomes back the increasingly in-demand bassist Dominic Lash who stunned audiences last October with the remarkable quartet which featured Tony Bevan, Tony Buck and Joe Morris.
This time he returns to the stage with two more improvising legends, John Butcher (Saxophone) and John Russell (Steel Amplified Guitar), both are among the UK's most internationally respected and innovative musicians. Between them they have worked with everybody from Derek Bailey and Evan Parker to Tony Conrad. They combine intense investigations of their instruments' possibilities with delicately poised interplay. All three players push the possibilities of acoustic instruments to their limits, sometimes resulting in sounds of an almost electronic quality. With three hands on the tiller changes of direction can happen at any moment, keeping alive improvised music as the sound of surprise.
For more information and video clips of this trio performing please go to http://www.studio282.com/dl/butcherlashrussell
Individual Biographies
John Butcher
("The best saxophone player in the world." - Andy Moor, The Wire, June 2009) John Butcher was born in Brighton and has lived in London since the late 1970s. He began playing the saxophone while studying physics at university. Since leaving academia to focus completely on music, he has developed his own style that embraces free improvisation and electronics, often distorting his sound until it is unrecognisable in the traditional sense. Over the years, Butcher has worked with musicians including Chris Burn, Derek Bailey and Phil Minton, as well as with John Stevens in what was the final version of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. His recent Octet composition, Somethingtobesaid, was commissioned by the Huddersfield Festival, broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and released on his own label, Weight of Wax.
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/
John Russell
Radical improvising guitarist John Russell has, since around 1977, concentrated exclusively on acoustic guitars ("Every sound from his steel-amplified guitar thus feels as if it is perceived in stark close-up" - One Final Note). He organises the monthly Mopomoso concerts - the longest running series on the London improvising scene. His current groups include trios with Evan Parker & John Edwards, and with Michel Doneda & Roger Turner. Russell and Butcher have a playing relationship that has lasted a quarter of a century - including duo concerts, a highly regarded trio with Phil Durrant, and larger groups. http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mrussell.html
Dominic Lash
Bassist Dominic Lash ("endless efforts to veer left of every known note or chord" - Newcastle Journal) was born in Cambridge in 1980 and has since 2001 been part of the improvisational scenes in London and Oxford, where he is based. His regular collaborators include Tony Bevan, Pat Thomas, Philipp Wachsmann and Alex Ward. He is a member of The Convergence Quartet with Taylor Ho Bynum, Harris Eisenstadt and Alexander Hawkins, and also performs from time to time with Tony Conrad, Evan Parker and Steve Reid.
http://www.myspace.com/dominiclash
